Latest Texas Headlines

All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.

SAFECO Launches High-Risk Auto Program in Texas

Apr 10 2000 // SAFECO has launched a new high-risk auto product in Texas called insurQuest, offering agents a multi-tiered compensation program including fee commissions.“With insurQuest, SAFECO’s agents who sell customers...

Who Wants Workers’ Comp’

Apr 10 2000 // Employees covered under traditional workers’ comp waive their right to sue for on-the-job injuries. Two Amarillo court cases extend the waiver to non-subscriber companies. Could this change the worker’ comp...

PEOs Change Focus by Courting Agents as Partners, not Customers

Apr 10 2000 // As much as 10 years ago, independent insurance agents were being courted by professional employer organizations (PEOs), which viewed the small structure of agents’ offices as ripe for their human resources...

Managed Care Organizations Aim to Send Workers Back to Work

Apr 10 2000 // When managed care was introduced to the workers’ comp arena in the 1980s, it promised to be the cure-all for a system suffering astronomical costs and premiums.Today, the atmosphere of workers’ comp in Texas...

Negligent Misrepresentation-Part I

Apr 10 2000 // A primer on how negligence differs from fraud, what constitutes negligence and how Texas law appliesFor a century and half, or so, tort law was divided into business torts and personal injury. Business torts includes such...

Grand Jury Reports on Charges Against Farmers Insurance

Feb 3 2000 // SAN MARCOS, Texas, Feb. 3- A Hays County Grand Jury has found reason to continue a criminal investigation of Endangerment to a Child charges involving Farmers Insurance Company, as reported today by PR Newswire.After a...

TDI Issues Licensing Guidelines To Comply with Gramm-Leach-Bliley Bill

Feb 2 2000 // Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor issued interim guidelines on January 18 that address licensing of financial institutions as insurance agents. The guidelines pave the way for implementation of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley...

Non-Profit Nursing Homes Receive TDI Assistance

Feb 2 2000 // Non-profit nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Texas will soon be admitted into the state’s Medical Liability Insurance Underwriting Association for the first time since 1982, with for-profit facilities...

Elgin Residents Aided by Montemayor’s Intervention

Feb 2 2000 // When Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor first read of the plight a group of Elgin landowners had stumbled into, he immediately compared it to a tornado “coming out of nowhere” and devastating the...