Latest Texas Headlines
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3 Appointed to Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas Board
Apr 12 2016 // Insurance Commissioner David Mattax has appointed three members to serve on the board of directors of the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas for terms to expire Dec. 31, 2018. The board reviews and evaluates the...
Texas Windstorm Insurance Assoc. Expert Panel to Meet April 14
Apr 11 2016 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association expert panel will hold a public meeting this week to inform the public about the progress of the panel’s work, to allow the public to observe the panel discussing its work,...
Texas Mutual Insurance Names Evans VP of Marketing, Customer Engagement
Apr 8 2016 // Workers’ compensation insurance carrier, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., hired Lisa Evans as vice president of marketing and consumer engagement. She oversees the marketing and customer engagement teams, and the Texas...
Fomby Named VP at Texas-Based LevelFirst
Apr 8 2016 // LevelFirst, a wholesale insurance broker and MGA binding facility owned by IIAT Services Co., has appointed Rhonda Fomby as vice president. Fomby will assume the responsibility of underwriting new business opportunities...
Texas Teen’s Air Bag Death Spurs Renewed Call to Fix Recalled Cars
Apr 8 2016 // The brother of a Texas teenager killed by shrapnel from an exploding Takata Corp air bag said that his family never received a recall notice about the defective vehicle safety device. The brother’s comments came as...
Texas Teen’s Death Linked to Faulty Takata Air Bag, 10th in U.S.
Apr 7 2016 // A 10th person has died in a crash in the U.S. involving a ruptured Takata Corp. air-bag inflator, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. A 17-year-old woman died from injuries sustained in a...
Distracted Driving a Problem as Crashes Increase on Texas Roads
Apr 6 2016 // In 2015, the number of vehicle crashes in Texas involving both injuries and fatalities continued an unfortunate trend of increases over past years, an insurer trade group reported. The Insurance Council of Texas says...
Bolls Joins Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas as Finance Director
Apr 6 2016 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLSOT) has appointed Kyle Bolls as director of Finance. Bolls previously worked in financial regulation for the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), recently serving as the...
Farmers Expects More than $250M in Claims from Severe Weather in Texas
Apr 5 2016 // Farmers Insurance expects claims from two recent severe weather systems in the Dallas/Fort Worth area will result in more than $250 million in losses. Intense hail and wind from the storms caused extensive damage to homes...
Affirmative Insurance Ordered into Liquidation
Apr 4 2016 // Affirmative Insurance Company (Affirmative or AIC) was ordered into liquidation in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, on March 24. Acting Illinois Insurance Director Anne Melissa Dowling filed a Complaint for...
Violent Weather Pummels Texas in March; Regulators Call for Data on Claims, Lawsuits
Apr 4 2016 // Hail-packing thunderstorms pummeled North Texas twice in March causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to automobiles and property. Meanwhile, the Texas Department of Insurance is intent on gathering data on...
Federal Appeals Court Sides with Lexington Insurance in Deductible Dispute
Apr 4 2016 // A federal appeals court in Louisiana, in an opinion published March 22, upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of an insurance company in a breach of contract suit brought by a Houston-based oil and gas exploration...
Dunn to Lead Dallas Office of AmWINS Brokerage of Texas
Apr 1 2016 // AmWINS Group Inc. (AmWINS) has selected Craig Dunn to lead the Dallas office of AmWINS Brokerage of Texas. Dunn succeeds Todd Teitell, who is retiring after having served as office president since 1997. Prior to being...
2nd March Hailstorm in North Texas Deemed an Insurance Catastrophe
Apr 1 2016 // The Texas insurance regulators say the weather-related event that occurred March 23 – 24 in Dallas, Tarrant, Denton and Collin Counties is a catastrophe for the purpose of claims processing. Claims resulting directly...
First Robot-Run Insurance Agency Opens for Business
Apr 1 2016 // Goodbye agency principals, producers and customer service reps, hello Roberto Siber, CPCU. Siber is the buff, blue-eyed and bald principal of the Buyonic Insurance Agency in Austin, Texas. This insurance android is more...
Progressive Insurance Snags Texas Uber Drivers Account
Mar 31 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. will use Progressive Insurance to provide coverage for drivers in Texas beginning on Friday, in a pilot that could lead the ride-hailing market leader to diversify its U.S. insurance purchasing from...
Southeast Texas School District Estimates $12M in Flood Damage
Mar 31 2016 // The head of a Southeast Texas school district where flooding swamped an elementary campus with water 5-foot deep estimates $12 million in losses and little insurance. The superintendent of the Deweyville Independent School...
Three Appointed to Texas Life/Health Insurance Guaranty Association Board
Mar 30 2016 // Texas Insurance Commissioner David Mattax has appointed three members to serve on the board of directors of the Texas Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association. The board oversees the association, which helps to...
USGS Report: North Texas Earthquake Risk ‘Elevated’
Mar 29 2016 // A U.S. Geological Survey report concludes the risk of earthquakes for the Dallas-Fort Worth area is higher than it’s ever been. The USGS review incorporates “induced” earthquakes into federal seismic...
Federal Disaster Aid OK’d for 6 More Texas Counties
Mar 28 2016 // Six more Texas counties hard-hit by flooding and severe storms this month are now eligible for federal disaster aid. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that Erath, Gregg, Harrison, Hood, Marion and Parker...
