All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 8 2004 // MaximFinancial, headquartered in Dickinson, Texas, appointed Corey Magliolo to the position of executive director of financial services. A Dickinson native, Magliolo has served the organization as a financial advisor for...
Mar 8 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Dr. Catherine Delaney, a Ph.D. therapist from Houston, entered a corporate plea agreement (Delaney and Associates) with the Travis County District Attorney’s office...
Mar 5 2004 // The Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA) announced the election of officers for 2004-2005.The Governing Committee elected Jon Smanz, director, shared markets governance for Allstate insurance Company in...
Mar 4 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas announced that it will accept nominations for the 2004 ACSR of the Year award until March 15. The award will be presented at IIAT’s convention June 10-12 in Dallas. This...
Mar 3 2004 // Vista Insurance Partners, a wholesale insurance broker headquartered in San Antonio, reported the expansion of its successful Select Agent Program to incorporate an additional 100 independent agents. Russell Shults was...
Feb 27 2004 // Acordia RE announced today that Robert F. McGarry has joined the organization as Senior Vice President. Mr. McGarry is responsible for reinsurance production and management of the Dallas, Texas office of Acordia RE.Most...
Feb 23 2004 // Although many complex issues need to be resolved to solve Florida’s nursing home crisis, tighter litigation reforms are reportedly key to solving these problems, according to one insurance industry trade...
Feb 23 2004 // Elliott Flood, vice president of special investigations for Texas Mutual Insurance Company, recently addressed the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud (TCIF) on the topic of workers’ compensation fraud. He was one of...
Feb 23 2004 // “Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Issues,” will be the subject of two upcoming Public Policy Seminars sponsored by Southwestern Insurance Information Service. Each seminar will offer two hours of...
Feb 23 2004 // Managing general agents need retail insurance agents; retail agents need MGAs. That much is true. So, given this reciprocal professional dependence, why are working relationships between these two groups sometimes burdened...
Feb 23 2004 // Louisiana Top 20 Insurers—Ocean Marine The following table shows data from the top 20 ocean marine insurers in Louisiana—based on premium written—as of the end of 2002. There were 83 ocean marine insurers registered...
Feb 17 2004 // The Central Texas Chapter Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) group will hold its February luncheon on Feb. 24. Tyrone Bennet of Chubb will be the guest speaker. Bennet will present “Chubb’s...
Feb 12 2004 // Elliott Flood, vice president of special investigations for Texas Mutual Insurance Company, addressed the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud (TCIF) recently. Flood discussed workers’ compensation fraud, one of...
Feb 12 2004 // A $500 reward has been handed over to a man who called the Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office Arson Hotline to report a case of arson. According to the Insurance Council of Texas, the phone call led to the arrest and...
Feb 11 2004 // Hotchkiss Insurance Agency Inc. (HIA), which provides insurance services to the building industry and related trades in the State of Texas, announced that the Texas Department of Insurance has approved its application to...
Feb 11 2004 // A Dallas jury convicted aviator Michael Lee Harms, of Grapevine, Texas, on federal charges that he defrauded the Office of Workers’ Compensation program.The Associated Press reported that the charges stem from a...
Feb 10 2004 // Independent insurance agents go to conferences and conventions to learn, to network, to meet company reps and, sometimes, just to get away. Opportunities to do all of those things abound this year for agents in Arkansas,...
Feb 9 2004 // “Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Issues,” will be the subject of two upcoming Public Policy Seminars sponsored by Southwestern Insurance Information Service, an industry trade group. According to...
Feb 9 2004 // Presidential politics have been claiming the headlines of late, what with the Democrats holding primaries and President Bush crossing the country giving “non-campaign” campaign speeches. But in Texas a...
Feb 9 2004 // Presidential politics have been claiming the headlines of late, what with the Democrats holding primaries and President Bush crossing the country giving “non-campaign” campaign speeches. But in Texas a...