Latest Texas Headlines
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Austin Drops Workers’ Comp Lawsuit Against Firefighter with Cancer
Sep 21 2018 // The city of Austin, Texas, has dropped a lawsuit challenging the determination by state workers’ compensation officials and an appeals panel that a firefighter diagnosed with cancer is eligible for workers’...
Worldwide Facilities to Acquire Texas Insurance Wholesaler McClelland and Hine
Sep 18 2018 // Los Angeles-based Worldwide Facilities LLC announced plans to acquire managing general agent and excess and surplus lines broker, McClelland and Hine Inc. and McClelland & Hine Trucking Underwriters LLC (collectively,...
Hurricane Florence Likely to Expose Gaps in Flood Insurance
Sep 17 2018 // The number of Americans with flood insurance is on the rise, yet Hurricane Florence is likely to make it painfully clear that too many homeowners in the Carolinas and other vulnerable regions remain unprotected. . An...
Insurance Commissioner OKs Fees, Rate Hikes for Texas Fair Plan
Sep 17 2018 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan has approved a request by the Texas Fair Plan Association to raise rates and revise/implement various fees. The commissioner denied, however, the plan’s request to end...
Auto Dealers Safety Group Gets $1M Dividend from Texas Mutual
Sep 17 2018 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company, a policyholder-owned company, recently awarded a dividend of $1,060,313 to the Lone Star Auto Dealers Association (LSADA) safety group, which includes franchised auto, truck, RV, boat and...
Charter Bus Runs Off West Texas Road, Injuring 20
Sep 17 2018 // Twenty people have been taken to El Paso hospitals for treatment after a charter bus ran off a road southeast of the city. Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Elizabeth Carter says the accident happened along an...
Texas Workers’ Comp Claims Go Digital
Sep 17 2018 // Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Cassie Brown has turned in the keys to a secure warehouse that the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has used since 1992 to store injured employee claims. The...
Tort Reform Group: Texas Cat-Related Lawsuits Have Declined
Sep 17 2018 // In the year after the enactment of a Texas law aimed at reducing the volume of lawsuits filed by property owners against insurance companies following natural catastrophes, the number of those types of disputes has...
People
Sep 17 2018 // Sam Siddons and Craig Morelos have joined the property/casualty practice at EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants as principals. Siddons will be responsible for new business development, the design, placement and...
Allstate: Brownsville, Texas, Has the Nation’s Safest Drivers
Sep 17 2018 // Illinois-based insurer, Allstate, has named Brownsville, Texas, the city with America’s safest drivers. In fact, including Brownsville, five of the top 10 cities with the nation’s safest drivers are in...
Email Scams Hit Texas Agents Group, Insurance Department
Sep 14 2018 // Both the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) and the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) report being the subject of phishing scams. TDI said it has received reports of fake emails that appear to be from the...
Texas Windstorm Insurer Activates CAT Plan
Sep 14 2018 // With a tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico and Tropical Depression Isaac located east of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and heading west, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has activated its CAT...
Texas Auto Insurance Residual Plan Files Rate Increases
Sep 14 2018 // The auto insurer of last resort in Texas has filed rate increases for both private passenger and commercial auto coverage. The Texas Department of Insurance reported that the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association has...
Texas Cities to Receive Donated Smoke Alarms
Sep 13 2018 // Spring, Texas, along with more than two dozen cities in the state, will receive smoke alarms from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) courtesy of a program called We’re Out to Alarm Texas. Spring firefighters will...
Texas Heightens Readiness Level With Tropical System in Gulf
Sep 12 2018 // The National Hurricane Center is advising Louisiana and Texas, along with coastal areas of northern Mexico, to monitor a storm system in the Gulf of Mexico that has a 60 percent chance of becoming a tropical...
Texas Working to Finish Hurricane Ike Recovery Projects Before Deadline
Sep 11 2018 // It’s been nearly 10 years since Hurricane Ike devastated Galveston, and government agencies are still working to complete recovery projects before a state-imposed deadline. Thursday marks a decade since Ike made...
Texas State Representative, a Lawyer, Goes to Jail for Soliciting Clients
Sep 11 2018 // Texas State Rep. Ron Reynolds has turned himself in to authorities in Montgomery County to begin serving his year-long jail sentence. Reynolds, a Democrat from Missouri City, was convicted on misdemeanor charges for...
Orange Blob in Gulf Following Harvey’s Path Toward Texas
Sep 11 2018 // While all eyes are on Hurricane Florence churning toward the North Carolina coast, a little orange blob may be much more important for energy traders later this week. A patch of showers and thunderstorms in the western...
Jury Finds Texas Pipeline Company Guilty in 2015 California Oil Spill
Sep 10 2018 // A California jury has found the Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline company guilty on criminal charges of fouling state waters and harming wildlife in a major oil spill three years ago along the Pacific shoreline...
Texas Tort Reform Group Says Post-Cat Lawsuits Have Dropped
Sep 7 2018 // In the year following the enactment of a Texas law aimed at reducing the volume of lawsuits filed by property owners against insurance companies following natural catastrophes, the number of those types of disputes has...
