All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 6 2000 // There are a huge number of lawyers in Texas. Many of them are not very good. For every lawyer there is probably at least one paralegal. Many of them are as proficient as the lawyers they assist, though usually less...
Nov 6 2000 // The Texas Senate Economic Development Committee has approved a staff recommendation for the uniform adoption of state regulations set forth in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act governing the modernization of financial services...
Oct 23 2000 // When Agents Divorce Their Insurance CompanyInsurance companies and insurance brokerage houses (employers) use a variety of devices to try to prevent departing agents from competing against them. Sometimes smaller agencies...
Oct 9 2000 // On June 2, 1944 at 9:30 a.m. in the roof garden of the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, the first meeting of the Insurance Women of Texas was opened by call to order by Mrs. Ruth A. Fredde, president of the Insurance Women of...
Oct 9 2000 // A Kentucky insurance agent and agency have agreed to a $50,000 penalty for selling Texans millions of dollars worth of boat insurance without the special license required for placing business with Lloyd’s of London...
Oct 9 2000 // Q: Our insured has an HO-160 Scheduled Personal Property endorsement on his homeowners policy covering camera equipment and jewelry. While on vacation, the camera, some jewelry and other unscheduled personal property were...
Oct 9 2000 // Q. Our insured has an HO-160 Scheduled Personal Property endorsement on his homeowners policy covering camera equipment and jewelry. While on vacation, the camera, some jewelry and other unscheduled personal property were...
Sep 25 2000 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor ordered a London-based “foundation” to pay a $500,000 fine and to stop offering boat insurance in Texas without a license or other proper authority from the Texas...
Sep 25 2000 // Medical Community Insurance Co. (MCIC) of Houston, a physician-owned company that specialized in major medical insurance for small employers in Texas, has been placed in temporary receivership. Judge John Dietz of the...
Sep 25 2000 // Insurance agencies mediate between insurance companies and policyholders all the time. One of the most important focal points for this kind of activity has to do with forwarding suit papers. An insured gets sued. He hands...
Sep 25 2000 // Former Texas Insurance Commissioner John Osorio, who, in the 1970s, served a 14-month prison sentence stemming from a pension fund scam, stepped forward as the co-winner of a $60 million lottery jackpot Sept. 9.Osorio, who...
Sep 25 2000 // For the second straight time, the Texas Department of Insurance has ordered an overall rate reduction for the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association, the state’s assigned risk plan.Earlier this month,...
Aug 25 2000 // “LearnNothing.com, CEScam.com, and CECertificateMill.com Create Partnership For Online Continuing Education Courses to Insurance Industry.”That was the bogus headline that made its way across the country...
Aug 14 2000 // As Losses Top 66 Percent Will Texas Soon Bench the Benchmark System?Personal auto losses increased last year in 35 of 51 markets across the country, making for an average pure loss ratio of 65.6 percent, the highest level...
Aug 14 2000 // What is the most authoritative source of truthful information in the whole universe? No question about it. It’s Southwest Airlines’ Spirit magazine. You know. The magazine found in the seat pocket right in...
Aug 14 2000 // The Insurance Industry’s Increased Interest in Auto Safety Has Produced Research that Provides Compelling Reasons to Send Our Traffic in CirclesEach year in the United States more than 800 people die and an estimated...
Jul 31 2000 // Mercury General Corp. has reported net operating earnings for the second quarter of 2000 were $25.6 million, or $.47 per diluted share, compared with $33.9 million, or $.62 per diluted share in 1999.For the full six...
Jul 24 2000 // Workers’ compensation benefits and claim costs in Texas differ by nearly 50 percent within the state, even when adjusted for regional differences in industry composition and wages, according to a recent study by the...
Jul 24 2000 // There are a number of sins to which those providing services for money are susceptible: product ignorance, market ignorance, administrative incompetence, disloyalty and betrayal, slothfulness, untruthfulness, and stealing....
Jul 10 2000 // 2001 Legislative session to bring changes to agent licencingIn an effort to comply with the uniformity and reciprocity requirements of financial services reform, the Texas Department of Insurance will likely soon change...