All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 9 2021 // Scottish American has acquired Kaliff Insurance of San Antonio, Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Kaliff Insurance was founded by Morris H. Kaliff in 1917. Today, his grandson Mitchell Kaliff is the...
Jul 9 2021 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has begun its annual rate filing process, which will kick off with a July 21 meeting.TWIA’s Actuarial & Underwriting Committee is set to review the rate adequacy analysis...
Jul 8 2021 // A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Air Force is mostly responsible for a former serviceman killing more than two dozen people at a Texas church in 2017 because it failed to submit his criminal history into a database,...
Jul 8 2021 // Texas recorded $947.48 million in surplus lines premium, representing a 24.5% increase in premiums over June 2020, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) reported.SLTX has recorded $4.58 billion in premiums...
Jul 8 2021 // HUB International Ltd. has acquired the operating subsidiaries of TCG Group Holdings LLP, doing business as Trusted Capital Group.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. John Pesce, CEO of TCG, Jeff Montgomery,...
Jul 7 2021 // The Texas Water Development Board on Wednesday approved $41.5 million for water, wastewater, and flood projects.Following is a breakdown of that financial assistance: $35 million to the Green Valley Special Utility...
Jul 6 2021 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has posted its 2021 Rate Adequacy Analysis for public review.The analysis indicates that TWIA’s current rates are inadequate by 39% for residential coverage and 46% for...
Jul 5 2021 // In previous legislative years, Texas lawmakers have attempted to tackle the problems of funding for and management of Texas’ insurer of last resort for wind and hail for seacoast properties. This year, numerous...
Jul 2 2021 // The Texas Department of Insurance issued a notice this week of the availability of a new option to take a certification exam at your home or at an office online for most major insurance agent lines.An off-site monitor will...
Jul 2 2021 // Numerous measures relating to the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association were filed in the Texas Legislature in 2021 and four made it to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk.One, House Bill 769, has only two provisions. Authored...
Jul 1 2021 // Amynta Group has acquired Scion Underwriting Services from Brit.Scion will continue under the leadership of Scott Brock, president of Scion and Michael Hattaway, senior vice president. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
Jun 30 2021 // Two people were killed and three injured in a natural gas pipeline explosion in Texas, officials said.The deadly blast happened around 4 p.m. Monday at an Atmos Energy facility in Collin County near Farmersville, about 35...
Jun 30 2021 // The Texas Department of Insurance is accepting applications for these boards and committees: Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) Plan Governing Committee Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas Board of...
Jun 28 2021 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has extended its mandatory data call to selected insurance carriers seeking certain information related to COVID-19 injuries reported to on...
Jun 25 2021 // The man who gunned down 26 people at a Sutherland Springs church in Texas’ deadliest ever mass shooting should not have been able to buy the assault style weapon he used, but the store that sold it to him can’t...
Jun 25 2021 // Former state Sen. Wendy Davis and others who were traveling on a campaign bus for President Joe Biden in October 2020 when it was surrounded and followed by former President Donald Trump’s supporters on a Texas...
Jun 24 2021 // The Texas Department of Insurance has warned flood-damage vehicles may be hitting the state’s resale market following the heavy rains and flooding that swamped Louisiana and Southeast Texas in May.TDI noted that ccam...
Jun 24 2021 // The U.S. Justice Department has reached a settlement agreement with a physicians group in El Paso over allegations of violating the false claims act.The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas...
Jun 23 2021 // FEMA says new flood maps for Orange County, Texas, have been finalized and become effective Dec. 16, 2021.Residents are encouraged to examine the maps to determine if they are in a low-to-moderate- or high-risk flood zone....
Jun 21 2021 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) recorded $884.75 million in surplus lines insurance premium for May, with a total of $3.63 billion year-to-date.This represents a 14.5% increase in premiums over May 2020,...