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Fire Damages, Destroys 5 Texas School Buses, Foul Play Not Suspected
Mar 16 2018 // Investigators are trying to determine what sparked a fire that damaged or destroyed five Texas school buses parked in a transportation lot during spring break. A statement from the Coldspring-Oakhurst Independent School...
Ropes, Phone Lights Used in Rescue after Deadly Bus Plunge
Mar 16 2018 // Lulled asleep by the humming of their Texas-bound charter bus following a trip to Disney World, members of a high school band were jarred awake before dawn Tuesday when the rig ran off a highway and plunged into a deep...
Texas Appeals Court Backs Arbitration Agreement in Dram Shop Case
Mar 15 2018 // An appeals court in Dallas has reversed a lower court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a dispute between a night club and its contracted entertainer. In Dallas Food & Beverage LLC d/b/a Buck’s...
Some Houstonians Spend Huge Sums to Elevate Their Homes After Harvey
Mar 14 2018 // This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune. When Marni Axelrad and her family moved to Houston’s Meyerland neighborhood in 2015, they planned to stay there for years to come. They loved the community, and...
Texas Accepting Input on Amendments to Agent Licensing Rules
Mar 12 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) published proposed updates to Chapter 19 of the Texas Administrative Code, regarding agent and adjuster licensing and continuing education requirements on March 9 and is accepting...
Feds Sue Compass Group USA for Sex Discrimination, Retaliation at Texas Workplace
Mar 9 2018 // Federal officials say Morrison Management Specialists Inc., a division of Compass Group USA Inc., unlawfully denied a promotion a female employee to an open sous chef position because of her gender. The Equal Employment...
Texas Towing Company Owner Convicted of Insurance Fraud
Mar 9 2018 // The former owner of towing company was convicted of fraud in Houston after buying insurance coverage after a wreck and then filing a claim with the wrong date, the Texas Department of Insurance announced. Mohamad Awad, the...
Barred Video Leads Texas Court to Reverse Jury Finding in Workers’ Comp Suit
Mar 8 2018 // The Texas Supreme Court has disagreed with the decision of a lower court to exclude, without having watched it, a company’s surveillance video of an injured employee in a workers’ compensation case. Because it...
Texas Agencies TCOR, Legacy, MS&B Merge
Mar 6 2018 // New Braunfels, Texas-based TCOR Management announced a merger with Legacy Insurors Group LLC, and MS&B Bonds and Insurance Services LLC, effective March 1. The operations of these two entities will continue under TCOR...
Chemical Industry Calls for $14B Gulf Coast Storm Barrier
Mar 6 2018 // Chemical companies are pressing federal officials to spend billions of dollars on a coastal flood control system near Houston to protect petrochemical plants, oil refineries and shipping infrastructure from the next...
Managing Time Expectation for Claims Key to Keeping Homeowners Happy
Mar 6 2018 // Overall customer satisfaction among homeowners filing property insurance claims has reached a new all-time high, despite record-high property losses following a spate of hurricanes, earthquakes and fires in North America....
Zoning Changes Post-Harvey a Concern for Some Texas Homeowners
Mar 5 2018 // Some Southeast Texas homeowners have raised concerns about houses in neighborhoods flooded by Hurricane Harvey being changed from residential to commercial zones. Several displaced residents in Dickinson worry that...
Business Moves
Mar 5 2018 // Paragon Insurance Holdings, Edgewood Partners Insurance Center, Oak Hill Capital Partners Avon, Conn.-based Paragon Insurance Holdings LLC announced that Edgewood Partners Insurance Center and Oak Hill Capital Partners...
NFP Focusing on Organic Growth in Central Texas Expansion
Mar 5 2018 // Employee benefits and property/casualty insurance broker and consultant NFP traditionally has grown through acquisitions but as the global organization targets Central Texas for expansion it plans to use another strategy...
People
Mar 5 2018 // Austin-based workers’ comp insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., has added Benjamin A. Siddons as vice president of business development. Siddons joins Texas Mutual with more than 15 years of experience in the...
TWFG Expands Flood Offerings in Texas via Lloyds of London Syndicate
Mar 2 2018 // The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG) has expanded flood insurance products to the state of Texas in partnership with syndicated members of Lloyds of London, the agency announced. The “FloodPlus” insurance...
Harvey Survivors Critical of Texas Governor/FEMA’s Disaster Response Plan
Mar 1 2018 // This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2018/02/27/texans-left-limbo-gov-abbott-fema-use-harvey-reinvent-disaster-respons/. In the weeks immediately after Hurricane Harvey,...
Allstate: Collin County Is Texas’ Stormiest
Mar 1 2018 // Texas storms affected more Allstate insured homes in Collin County than any other part of the state over the past ten years. Allstate tallied the top 25 Texas counties affected by severe weather, identifying areas with...
Texas Stamping Office Now Accepting Online Payments; Announces Move
Mar 1 2018 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) announced that as of March 1 it is accepting electronic invoice payments. Payments may be made via credit card or Automated Clearing House (ACH) through the SLTX online...
6 Months After Storm, Texas Launches Harvey Recovery Funds Tracker
Feb 28 2018 // Texas has launched a public online tool to track incoming and outgoing funds for Hurricane Harvey recovery, six months after the storm hit and two months after The Associated Press reported that it did not have one. Gov....
