All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 23 2001 // Environmental pollution policies – they’re not just for oil industry giants and radioactive waste depositories anymore.Even the most seemingly benign businesses may carry the risk of producing, storing or...
Jul 23 2001 // AM-KO Inc., a janitorial company providing services for the City of Dallas, entered a plea of “no contest” to a third degree felony for defrauding the Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund (Texas...
Jul 23 2001 // Court decisions coupled with new state statutes are holding sellers of alcoholic beverages increasingly responsible for damages under liquor liability laws. Nevertheless, liquor liability insurance continues to be a quiet,...
Jul 23 2001 // Three Nolan County, Texas, farmers pleaded guilty in a Lubbock federal court July 12 to filing over $540,000 in fraudulent crop insurance claims with the federal government. According to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the...
Jul 13 2001 // A recent study by Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.-based Weiss Ratings Inc. indicated that just eight large property and casualty insurers provide homeowners coverage to residents in hurricane-prone states. Weiss Ratings, a...
Jul 9 2001 // Congressional efforts to block funding for additional border inspectors and facility improvements in anticipation of the opening of the U.S.-Mexican border under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are a threat...
Jul 9 2001 // An intersection in Frisco, Texas, near Dallas, made State Farm Insurance Company’s list of the 10 most dangerous intersections in the U.S. The intersection at State Highway 121 and Preston Road in Frisco was number...
Jul 9 2001 // Homeowners turned out in force to testify and listen, and to applaud when they agreed with what they heard, at a June 26 Texas Department of Insurance (DOI) public hearing on issues related to toxic mold and insurance...
Jul 9 2001 // While the primary goal of the year’s top agenda item – a revised agency licensing law – for Texas Surplus Lines Association may have been met, much work still remains to be done. Association officials...
Jul 9 2001 // Will E. Watt, chief executive officer of Rust, Ewing, Watt & Haney Inc., Texas City, was named the winner of the 2001 Drex Foreman Award at the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas convention in San Antonio.Watt has...
Jul 9 2001 // A Travis County grand jury has indicted Houston businessman Randall C. Long on charges of defrauding the Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund of some $167,000 in premiums. With the indictment, Long, owner of ST...
Jul 9 2001 // The TDI has set an open meeting for July 17, 1:30 p.m., Room 100, in the TDI office building, Austin, to finalize recommendations revising the homeowners’ and residential property benchmark rates for 2001. The...
Jul 9 2001 // The Insurance Council of Texas announced plans for a series of seminars designed to help the insurance industry navigate through the Texas workers’ compensation system. The seminars will be held in Houston August 1,...
Jul 9 2001 // The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the Texas Fund announced an agreement to provide NFIB members with two new safety groups for lowering the cost of workers’ compensation insurance. The...
Jul 6 2001 // The Board of Directors of the Insurance Legislators Foundation (ILF), a research and educational arm of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), will hold a hearing to address flood-related insurance...
Jun 25 2001 // A recent jury decision should put up red flags for insurers: Take care of toxic mold claims adequately and promptly, or risk being assessed millions of dollars.That warning came in the form of a $32-million award to a...
Jun 18 2001 // GuideOne Insurance announce that the company signed a definitive agreement, effective Aug. 1, 2001, to sell GuideOne Casualty Insurance Company, the organization’s Tulsa, Okla., operation, to the Home State Insurance...
Jun 18 2001 // The Alliance of American Insurers is on record as having asked Texas Gov. Rick Perry to veto two insurance-related bills One of the bills, SB 1654, is also opposed by the Association of Fire and Casualty Companies of...
Jun 18 2001 // Anti-fraud reforms recently passed in Tennessee, Florida and Nevada are a signal that insurance fraud is becoming a top-tier crime around the country, according to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, a national...
Jun 18 2001 // Seven speakers have been announced for the Texas Surplus Lines Association Mid-Year Meeting set for July 19-22 at the Vail Marriott Resort, Vail, Colo.William Kirven, Colorado Insurance Commissioner, is scheduled to...