All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 30 2004 // Residents along the Gulf Coast of Texas can learn a lot from the experiences of those people in Florida who were victims of Hurricane Charley, according to Jerry Johns, president of Southwestern Insurance Information...
Aug 25 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced it has awarded the CompGroup AGC workers’ compensation purchasing group with $1,430,035 of group dividends.Texas Mutual President Russ Oliver attended the dividend...
Aug 25 2004 // National insurance trade association Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) reported that Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor told the House Insurance Committee that the reforms implemented...
Aug 24 2004 // The Texas Hospital Association (THA) reported that nearly a year after the passage of sweeping medical liability reform, Texas hospitals are seeing a significant drop in their liability costs and using the savings to...
Aug 23 2004 // Attendees at the 12th Annual Mid-Year Property and Casualty Symposium presented in July by the Insurance Council of Texas and the Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT) were treated to a series of...
Aug 23 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Travis County’s 147th District Court grand jury indicted Henry Prince of Houston for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The insurer said Prince allegedly...
Aug 23 2004 // Commercial property issues lead to surprisingly few reported opinions. While they may not result in opinions, many disputes arise over policy interpretation, stemming from the description of the insured premises.Under the...
Aug 23 2004 // Retired police officers Ed and Nancy McCue are thinking about leaving their dream home near the shores of Biscayne Bay because it’s in a prime area for hurricanes.It’s not the storm threat itself that’s...
Aug 23 2004 // Chantelle Burton joined Heath Insurance Brokers in the company’s Houston office as a professional and financial services broker. Prior to joining Heath, Burton was an associate director at Myron Steves Mid-Continent...
Aug 19 2004 // Kyle Stevens, vice president, branch manager of the Dallas branch office of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers, announced the recent new hiring of Khlanie Jackson. Jackson joins the WSS Underwriting Department as...
Aug 18 2004 // Response to Dallas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Agency’s (HIA) newly created Texas Green Industry (TGI) purchasing group has exceeded all expectations, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the group’s...
Aug 18 2004 // Southwestern Insurance Information Service announced that “Legislation, Regulation and Education” is the theme of its 51st Annual Fall Conference, to be held Sept. 19-20, 2004, at the Doral Tesoro Hotel in Fort...
Aug 17 2004 // The Central Texas Chapter of the CPCU Society (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters) announced it has earned the Society’s Gold “Circle of Excellence” for outstanding achievement during the 2003-2004...
Aug 17 2004 // Allstate Texas Lloyds, an affiliate of the Allstate Corporation will issue refunds of 8.75 percent of the premium paid by its Texas home insurance customers for policies with effective dates from Sept. 7, 2003, through...
Aug 17 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported that the Third Court of Appeals in Austin has upheld the constitutionality of TWCC’s rules regarding fees to be paid to Independent Review Organizations...
Aug 17 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that for the third consecutive year its Web site, www.texasmutual.com, took first place in an international communications competition hosted by the American Association of State...
Aug 13 2004 // A Harris County, Texas jury awarded $24.7 million to the family of a woman who died in a crash with a drunken driver four years ago, the Associated Press reported.The civil jury found Jeffrey Lamont Tate responsible for...
Aug 12 2004 // The storm that struck the western portion of Amarillo on June 21 caused $175 million in insured losses making it the sixth costliest wind and hailstorm in Texas history, according to the Insurance Council of...
Aug 11 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission and the International Workers’ Compensation Foundation Inc. are the sponsors of the 14th Annual Texas Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference. The...
Aug 10 2004 // Caliber Collision Centers, an operator of collision repair facilities in California and Texas, has named Tresa Parker as its Director of Client Services for Texas Operations, a new position designed to help strengthen new...