Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Business Moves
Jan 25 2016 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, IHC Risk Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has agreed to buy IHC Risk Solutions and its direct employer stop loss (ESL) business from Independence Holding Co. for $152.5 million in cash. The...
Texas Man Gets Life for 10th Drunk Driving Conviction
Jan 24 2016 // A judge concerned about public safety sentenced a 62-year-old North Texas man to life in prison for his 10th drunken driving conviction since the 1980s. Ivy Ray Eberhardt, of Weatherford, Texas, would be eligible for...
Experts Doubt Involuntary Flight Claim Would Help Texas ‘Affluenza’ Teen
Jan 22 2016 // An argument raised by lawyers for a Texas teenager known for using an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck — that he may have been taken to Mexico against his will — is unlikely to help his...
Texas Supreme Court: Loss-of-Use Damages Allowed in Total Loss Cases
Jan 21 2016 // Are loss-of-use damages, such as lost profits, allowed in Texas when an insured has recovered fair market value on a commercial vehicle that is deemed a total loss after an accident? The Texas Supreme Court thinks so,...
Lloyd’s Appoints Regional Director for South Central U.S.
Jan 21 2016 // Specialist (re)insurer, Lloyd’s, has appointed Enya He as regional director for its newly-established South Central United States region. She will be based in Dallas and be responsible for market development...
1 Worker Dead, 3 Hurt in Explosion at Texas Chemical Plant
Jan 19 2016 // Officials say an explosion at a Houston-area chemical plant has left one worker dead and three hurt. Pasadena police say the tank accident happened Saturday afternoon at the PeroxyChem Bayport Plant. A statement from...
Texas-Based American Underwriting Managers Acquired by U.S. Risk
Jan 15 2016 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., has acquired Southlake, Texas-based managing general agency and wholesale insurance broker, American Underwriting Managers (AUM). For 17 years AUM has served the needs of retail insurance...
Miller Joins Centauri Insurance as Sales Manager in Texas
Jan 14 2016 // Joseph Miller has joined Centauri Insurance as a regional sales manager in Texas. Miller brings more than 17 years of insurance industry experience to Centauri and is charged with helping to expand the company’s...
Workers’ Comp Maintenance Tax Reduced in Texas
Jan 13 2016 // Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Ryan Brannan is lowering the maintenance tax rate paid on premiums collected by workers’ compensation insurance carriers for the third straight year, the Texas...
Blue Bell: Ice Cream Safe Despite Potential Concern
Jan 13 2016 // Blue Bell Creameries is seeking to reassure customers that its ice cream in safe, even as the Texas company tries to determine whether listeria has again been found at one of its plants. Blue Bell is in in the midst of...
Texas Seeking Professionals for Windstorm Model Peer Review
Jan 12 2016 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) is seeking professionals to conduct a peer review of a model developed to determine causes of insured losses on the coast. The model was developed by an expert panel appointed to...
2016 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 11 2016 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s 2016 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Quirk & Company’s Robert C. Quirk
Jan 11 2016 // San Antonio, Texas-based wholesale insurance broker, Quirk & Company, announced the passing of its president and CEO for the past 41 years, Robert (Bob) C. Quirk. Born in 1946, Quirk graduated from the University of...
Robert Zeman
Jan 11 2016 // Allstate Regional Counsel Robert Zeman has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of directors of the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT). His term began Jan. 1. Zeman has served on the ICT board of directors since...
Fatal Auto/Pedestrian Accidents Continue to Rise in Texas
Jan 11 2016 // The number of fatal auto pedestrian accidents in Texas has risen 36 percent since the Texas Department of Transportation began keeping the records in 2010, recently released National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
Preliminary Insured Loss Estimate from Texas Tornadoes: $1.2B
Jan 11 2016 // Texas is dealing with approximately $1.2 billion in insured losses so far from nine confirmed tornadoes that struck the Dallas metro area on Dec. 26, 2015, and killed 11 people, according to preliminary estimates from the...
National Insurance Crime Bureau Warns of Post-Disaster Scams in Texas
Jan 7 2016 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) announced it is working with law enforcement agencies, the Texas Department of Insurance and insurance companies to warn Texas storm victims about post-disaster rebuilding...
Dallas-Area Tornadoes Account for a Big Chunk of December Insured Losses in U.S.
Jan 7 2016 // A recently released report shows that damage estimates from the natural disaster events that occurred in the United States in December 2015 will amount to more than $4 billion. Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model...
Strama Selected as Lead Attorney for Texas Surplus Lines Association
Jan 6 2016 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association has selected the law firm of Beatty, Bangle & Strama to replace longtime TSLA attorney Greg Hooser, who has retired. Keith Strama will be the lead attorney from his firm for...
Insurance Costs for December Weather in U.S. Could Top $2 Billion: Aon
Jan 6 2016 // Total economic losses from the weather events in the U.S. during the month of December will exceed $4 billion, with insured losses likely to approach or exceed $2 billion, according to Aon Benfield’s catastrophe...
