All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 27 2003 // A new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute shows that workers’ compensation costs per claim in Texas continued to increase at double digit rates during recent years.According to WCRI, workers’...
Jan 27 2003 // Gov. Rick Perry officially designated homeowners insurance and medical malpractice reform as emergency issues for the 78th Texas Legislature. The governor’s designation allows state lawmakers to begin work on these...
Jan 27 2003 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor has officially launched the Texas FAIR (Fair Access to Insurance Requirements) Plan Association’s homeowners insurance market-of-last-resort in Texas. As of Jan. 8, the...
Jan 23 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers announced its opposition to HB 329, a bill introduced into the Texas House of Representatives that would create the Mold Assessors and Remediators Act. The act would establish regulations...
Jan 23 2003 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (Commission) has issued Advisory 2003-02, that provides notice of an extension of the Commission’s exemption from Preauthorization and Concurrent Review for work...
Jan 23 2003 // The Texas Coalition for Affordable Insurance Solutions (TCAIS) announced the release of a timely and informative booklet titled: “Insurance 101: A guide to understanding auto and home insurance in the Lone Star...
Jan 22 2003 // The consumer group Texas Watch unveiled a new Web site designed to help consumers participate in the legislative debate on insurance reform. Through the Web site at www.fixtexasinsurance.org, the group will provide...
Jan 21 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) and Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT) have filed an amicus brief asking the Texas Supreme Court to review and reverse a 9th Texas Court of...
Jan 21 2003 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission will hold a scheduled public meeting in Austin at 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 22. Included on the agenda are: 1. Discussion, consideration and possible action on re-adoption of rules...
Jan 20 2003 // Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced the initiation of a new Pharmacy Benefit Manager program. The program should help offset the rising costs of health care in the Texas...
Jan 17 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services affirmed its “Bpi” counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Home State County Mutual Insurance Co., which has its headquarters in Waco, Texas An...
Jan 14 2003 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced he will reappoint Jose Montemayor to a new two-year term as the state’s Commissioner of Insurance. Montemayor has served as commissioner since 1999, overseeing the Texas Department of...
Jan 13 2003 // A quick browse through the Web sites of state insurance commissioners across the country on any given day in any given year is bound to turn up at least one account of regulators cracking down on an insurance agent for a...
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently.According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
Jan 13 2003 // Will medical malpractice problems initiate the industry’s crisis for 2003 in the way that mold mania swept Texas and many other states in 2002, creating havoc in the homeowners insurance market? If you read the...
Jan 13 2003 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor recently submitted the Biennial Report, required under Section 32.022 of the Insurance Code, to Texas legislators suggesting needed changes in laws relating to insurance...
Jan 13 2003 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) sent letters in December to the top 10 companies writing homeowners insurance in Texas asking them to voluntarily file their rates by January 2, 2003. TDI also requested that the...
Jan 13 2003 // An investigation by Texas Mutual Insurance Co. revealed a man employed to pick up roadside trash has trouble with his knee because of the shotgun pellets embedded in it, not because of an accident in which a woman’s...
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently.According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
Jan 13 2003 // A quick browse through the Web sites of state insurance commissioners across the country on any given day in any given year, is bound to turn up at least one account of regulators cracking down on an insurance agent for a...