All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 9 2020 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Mark Bridges of INSURICA in Amarillo to serve as vice chair for 2020-2021.Bridges was elected to the post during IIAT’s annual business meeting on June 10,...
Jul 9 2020 // The Republican Party of Texas’ in-person convention has been canceled, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said on July 8.The news came after Turner directed the city’s legal department to work with the Houston...
Jul 9 2020 // Missouri leaders knew the risk of convening thousands of kids at summer camps across the state during a pandemic, the state’s top health official said, and insisted that camp organizers have plans in place to keep an...
Jul 8 2020 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Russell Luttrell of Benton-Luttrell Insurance in Van Alstyne as the André P. Juneau ELITExan of the Year.Luttrell was presented with the award during IIAT’s...
Jul 6 2020 // Leaders in two of Texas’ biggest cities are calling on the governor to empower local governments to order residents to stay home as the state’s continued surge in coronavirus cases tests hospital...
Jul 6 2020 // A new team at the Texas Department of Insurance has been established to identify and quickly resolve issues involving health insurers in the state.Michael Nored, previously special counsel to the commissioner, was tapped...
Jul 6 2020 // Chicago-based global insurance brokerage, HUB International Limited (Hub), has acquired the assets of GBC Benefits Ltd., d/b/a Gus Bates Insurance & Investments (Gus Bates I&I), located in Fort Worth, Texas.Terms...
Jul 6 2020 // Zurich North America has appointed Alexander Wells as U.S. head of Middle Market. He will be responsible for the strategic management and development of Zurich’s Middle Market business.Wells, who is new to Zurich,...
Jul 6 2020 // Tropical Storm Imelda hit the Texas Gulf Coast on Sept. 17, 2019, as a fairly low-level tropical storm but that doesn’t mean it was an inexpensive one in terms of property damage, especially with regard to...
Jul 6 2020 // The amount of surplus lines premium reported in Texas continued its upward swing in May, coming in at nearly $100 million higher than reported in the same month last year, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of...
Jul 2 2020 // Austin City Limits has joined the ranks of major music festivals to be canceled because of the coronavirus.Festival organizers said in a statement on July 1 that scrapping the three-day October event was “the only...
Jul 2 2020 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Karla Stoffle of Upshaw Insurance in Amarillo as Account Manager of the Year.The Account Manager of the Year award is given annually to an account manager in Texas...
Jul 2 2020 // Three Texas healthcare providers will face trial for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and mail fraud, according to the Texas Department of Insurance – Division of Workers’ Compensation.On June 17,...
Jun 30 2020 // Hoping to block Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision ordering Texas bars to close due to a rise in coronavirus cases, more than 30 bar owners filed a lawsuit on June 29 challenging Abbott’s emergency order.The lawsuit,...
Jun 30 2020 // The Texas Office of Public Insurance Counsel (OPIC) has asked the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) to conduct a special data call of the top 10 auto insurance groups in the state to gather information about personal...
Jun 29 2020 // A woman burned down her $1.6 million suburban Fort Worth mansion while trying to destroy documents from her husband’s health care clinic as authorities were investigating the couple for fraud, prosecutors allege.A...
Jun 26 2020 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has installed Gaylon Brown of TexCap Insurance in Dallas as the group’s chair-elect for 2020-2021.Brown was named to the post during IIAT’s annual business...
Jun 26 2020 // Gov. Greg Abbott has taken his most drastic action yet to respond to the post-reopening coronavirus surge in Texas, shutting bars back down and scaling back restaurant capacity to 50%.He also shut down river-rafting trips,...
Jun 25 2020 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) says some elements of its new online filing system, SMART, were released on June 12.Surplus lines agents and brokers who file policies with SLTX using automated filing now...
Jun 25 2020 // AM Best has revised the outlook to positive from stable for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term ICR of “bbb” of...