All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 21 2020 // A Massachusetts company has pleaded guilty in a Travis County, Texas, district court to workers’ compensation fraud, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Co.Texas Mutual says EME International Inc. (EME) of...
Jan 21 2020 // IMA Inc., a national insurance brokerage firm with offices in Dallas, is expanding to Fort Worth with the addition of two insurance veterans, Trey Schuler and Gavin Wallace.Schuler and Wallace will work in tandem. The pair...
Jan 21 2020 // The Texas Department of Insurance is accepting applications for a number of boards and committees, including for the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) board of directors and the Texas Windstorm Insurance...
Jan 17 2020 // Brown & Brown Inc. through its subsidiary, Hull & Company LLC, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Dallas-based Texas All Risk, a managing general agent (MGA) placing a wide range of property/ casualty...
Jan 17 2020 // Catapult Insurance Solutions, a privately held managing general insurance agency and wholesale brokerage based in Dallas, has promoted Becky King to vice president of Underwriting and product manager, and added Steve...
Jan 16 2020 // Singer and actor Meat Loaf has filed a lawsuit against a hotel at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and organizers of a horror convention held there, blaming them for negligence when he fell from a stage while...
Jan 15 2020 // Two Florida-based homeowners insurers, Anchor Property & Casualty and Anchor Specialty Insurance, have succumbed to market pressures in the state and will be acquired by other companies.Tampa, Fla.-based HCI Group has...
Jan 14 2020 // National insurance brokerage and risk management firm, Risk Strategies, has acquired Academic HealthPlans Inc. (AHP), a Grapevine, Texas-based provider of health insurance plans that colleges and universities make...
Jan 13 2020 // Seventeen employees at the University of Texas at Austin, including three faculty members and one research fellow, were found to have violated the flagship’s sexual misconduct policies between November 2017 and...
Jan 13 2020 // Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain...
Jan 13 2020 // Wells Fargo & Co. was told to pay $102.8 million after a federal jury in Texas said in infringed United Services Automobile Association’s patents for a mobile deposit system.It’s the second trial Wells...
Jan 13 2020 // The Texas Department of Insurance reported that according to federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data there are more workers in shopping malls and retail outlets that get sick and injured than in any other private...
Jan 9 2020 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) reports that excess and surplus lines premium (E&S) in Texas reached $6.95 billion in 2019, a 14.36% increase over 2018’s premium total of $6.08 billion. The past...
Jan 8 2020 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the coast says new terms and conditions for policies with an effective date on or after January 1, 2020, are now in place.The updated coverages, terms, and...
Jan 8 2020 // Gov. Greg Abbott is warning Texans to be “particularly vigilant” regarding potential cyber terrorism from Iran, suggesting that heightened tensions with the country have caused an increase in attempted attacks...
Jan 8 2020 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has hired Tara Mitchell as a director.Mitchell will lead IIAT’s technology initiatives to innovate and streamline business practices and bring greater value to IIAT...
Jan 8 2020 // A team of lawyers filed a lawsuit this week in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking to establish the nation’s capital as a venue for men across the U.S. to sue the Boy Scouts of America for allegedly failing to...
Jan 6 2020 // The Texas Department of Insurance says its Independent Dispute Resolution portal for medical billing disputes went live on January 1.Employees and authorized representatives for health care providers and health plans can...
Jan 3 2020 // In late December, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) released the 2019 Health Care Provider Performance Based Oversight (PBO) assessment.For 2019, health care providers were...
Jan 3 2020 // The Texas Department of Insurance reported that federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data shows there are more workers in shopping malls and retail outlets that get sick and injured than in any other private industry...