All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 16 2003 // A Houston landscaping company recently entered a plea of guilty to workers’ compensation fraud charges before the 131st Travis County District Court. According to Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the court...
Oct 16 2003 // The Adam Corporation/Group (“TAC”), a privately owned holding company, announced today it has completed the acquisition of all of the outstanding stock of Reliable Reports, Inc. (“Reliable”), an...
Oct 15 2003 // The Insurance Council of Texas announced its 2003 Texas workers’ compensation seminar series will take place Oct. 29, Nov. 4 and Nov. 12.Planned sessions include an update on legislation passed in the 78th Texas...
Oct 14 2003 // The Insurance Council of Texas announced that the State Fire Marshal’s arson hotline, which debuted May 1, 2000, has already landed several people in jail for deliberately setting fires to their cars, homes and...
Oct 13 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas reported that the IIAT Young Agents Committee was recognized by the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers at the IIABA Conference and InfoXchange in Las Vegas, for the Texas...
Oct 9 2003 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that Insurance Commissioner José Montemayor has adopted Commissioner’s Order No. 03-0942, containing new and/or adjusted 2002 and 2003 model private passenger automobile...
Oct 8 2003 // Wood & Company of Texas Inc. announced that Jackie Graves has joined the firm as office manager in Dallas. She will be in charge of administration, human resources, systems and other non-production operations. Graves...
Oct 7 2003 // Combined Group (www.combinedgroup.com), a Carrollton, Texas-based managing general agency, announced a new Texas nonsubsription facility. This program features an admitted high limits Comprehensive Employers Indemnity...
Oct 6 2003 // In response to congressional pressure to more effectively regulate insurance at the state level or face federalization, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) unanimously passed its revised statement of...
Oct 6 2003 // Insurance Journal, published in California since 1923 and Texas since 1995, is going national. Joining the West and Texas/South Central editions will be three new regional editions—Northeast, Midwest and...
Oct 6 2003 // Wells Publishing Inc., publisher of the Insurance Journal, recently announced a groundbreaking decision to take the magazine national and publish five “regional” editions encompassing the entire U.S., from the...
Oct 6 2003 // Contributed by the Automobile Insurance Agents of TexasThe Automobile Insurance Agents of Texas (AIAT), which has long been a proponent of devising legislation that attempts to decrease the number of uninsured motorists on...
Oct 6 2003 // In 2002 Texas recorded the lowest number of occupational fatalities since data collection began in 1990, according to the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission. A total of 417 fatal occupational injuries occurred, a...
Oct 6 2003 // In response to congressional pressure to more effectively regulate insurance at the state level or face federalization, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) unanimously passed its revised statement of...
Oct 6 2003 // The Texas Department of Insurance has begun implementing the directives in Senate Bill 14 to bring balance, stability, fair pricing and a dynamic homeowners insurance market to Texas. Its first step toward that goal...
Sep 26 2003 // The Central Texas Chapter of the CPCU Society (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters) congratulates the following property and casualty insurance professionals on obtaining the CPCU designation: James Beene, Texas...
Sep 22 2003 // Rapidly rising construction costs, home remodeling and increasingly expensive natural disasters are expected to push the cost of homeowners insurance up by 8 percent in 2004, according to a report by the Insurance...
Sep 22 2003 // The Texas Department of Insurance completed its second and final round of reviews of Texas homeowners’ insurance company rates, in which 29 companies were reviewed and five insurers were ordered to reduce rates from...
Sep 22 2003 // The Republic Group of Insurance Companies, of Dallas, lost its president and chief executive officer, Bruce Robert Milligan on August 30, 2003. Milligan, 47, was at home when he unexpectedly passed away.He was a member of...
Sep 22 2003 // In 2002 Texas recorded the lowest number of occupational fatalities since data collection began in 1990, according to the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission.A total of 417 fatal occupational injuries occurred,...