All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 28 2002 // As the 2003 legislative season dawns, insurance scoring is the lead issue for the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), followed closely by regulatory reform. Insurance coverage for mold is also a major...
Oct 28 2002 // Be prepared.” Personal lines agents would do well to take that time-tested Scout motto to heart during these troubled times in the Texas homeowners market. Already inundated with calls from folks who are having a...
Oct 28 2002 // Be prepared.” Personal lines agents would do well to take that time-tested Scout motto to heart during these troubled times in the Texas homeowners market. Already inundated with calls from folks who are having a...
Oct 28 2002 // Workers’ compensation, affected both by the capacity shortage across commercial lines after Sept. 11 and ever-increasing health insurance costs, remains an extremely difficult cover to place, and is likely to stay...
Oct 25 2002 // A representative from the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) spoke in opposition to proposed regulation prohibiting the use of prior water damage claims in the underwriting or rating of residential...
Oct 23 2002 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas named William Wade director of Insurance Programs. Wade will be responsible for strategic planning, implementation and management of IIAT’s wide variety of quality insurance...
Oct 16 2002 // A Travis County (Texas) Grand Jury indicted Stan and Cynthia Doze, operators of Doze Construction Co. Inc., on a second-degree felony charge related to workers’ compensation premium fraud. The Doze Construction Co....
Oct 15 2002 // Angry agents from Farmers Insurance Group confronted Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor during a recent public hearing on Texas Department of Insurance proposals designed to increase the availability of homeowners...
Oct 14 2002 // Tell them what they want to hear or offer true solutions? That is the question facing the candidates who are running for offices in California and Texas this Nov. 5. Two of the races—the race for insurance commissioner...
Oct 14 2002 // Tell them what they want to hear or offer true solutions?That is the question facing the candidates who are running for offices in California and Texas this Nov. 5. Two of the races—the race for insurance commissioner in...
Oct 14 2002 // Negotiations continued in early October between state officials and senior executives of Farmers Insurance Group of Companies in the effort to find a solution that would entice the insurer to continue to provide homeowners...
Oct 14 2002 // A Travis County Grand Jury handed down indictments to a Texas couple alleging that the two stole over $1 million from Colonial Casualty Insurance Company, a workers compensation insurance company based in Dallas. The...
Oct 14 2002 // In response to Farmers’ notification that it won’t be renewing homeowners polices for its Texas customers, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher issued an announcement clarifying that consumers in his...
Oct 14 2002 // The Texas homeowners insurance market—like many around the nation—is experiencing rising premiums, controversy over mold claims and debate over the use of credit scoring.Texans purchase 3.9 million homeowners insurance...
Oct 14 2002 // The 2001 premium and loss data for Texas verifies everything you heard from the insurance companies — it was a really bad year. Here are the highlights in review: • Texas accounts for 7 percent of the national premium...
Oct 11 2002 // Given the increasingly complex situation created by Farmers Insurance Group’s recent announcement to leave the Texas homeowners insurance market, the American Insurance Association (AIA) supports the efforts of the...
Oct 11 2002 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) announced that seven people who were arrested in the Houston-area in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud insurance companies by intentionally flooding homes and filing bogus...
Oct 11 2002 // In testimony before the Texas Department of Insurance (Docket No. 2535) on the departments’ plans to implement stopgap measures to help prevent a homeowners insurance market meltdown, Joe Woods, Southwest regional...
Oct 9 2002 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor issued an emergency cease-and-desist order to shut down an unlicensed Houston-based entity that provides back-up coverage for questionable health plans that cover the employees...
Oct 8 2002 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength ratings of B+ (Very Good) for two separately rated subsidiaries of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, State Farm General Insurance Company (both of...