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TWIA Study Showing Rates Inadequate by 26% and 44% Sent to Board
Dec 3 2020 // A study showing rates for Texas’ insurer of last resort for communities along the Texas coast are inadequate by 26% for residential policies and 44% for commercial properties has been forwarded to the board of the...
Texas Warns Agents, Brokers Insurers Against Deceptive, Misleading Health Plan Marketing
Dec 3 2020 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has issued a reminder to insurance companies, agents, and marketers of discount healthcare programs that materially misrepresenting the terms and conditions of an insurance policy or...
Texas County Shuts Down Bars as COVID Hospitalizations Surge
Dec 2 2020 // A Central Texas county has closed its bars after area hospitalizations for COVID-19 exceeded a state mandated limit. Meanwhile in Houston, officials say they are having problems with some bars that have been allowed to...
Liquidation Requested for Texas Nonstandard Auto Insurer, ACCC
Nov 30 2020 // An application for an order of liquidation has been filed in a Travis County, Texas, district court for a Houston-based nonstandard auto insurer now in receivership. With the agreement of its board of directors, ACCC...
Recorded Texas Surplus Lines Premium Rose to $629.53 Million in October
Nov 30 2020 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) recorded $629.53 million in Texas surplus lines premium during the month of October. The premium recorded year to date through October represents a 13.8% increase over the...
Tornado Causes Damage, Injuries in Arlington, Texas
Nov 30 2020 // A pre-Thanksgiving Day tornado swept through parts of the Dallas-area city of Arlington on Nov. 24, damaging several apartment complexes and other buildings, displacing 75 families and causing minor injuries to three...
Texas Proposes Changes to Agent, Adjuster CE Requirements
Nov 25 2020 // Texas is proposing changes to continuing education (CE) requirements for agents and adjusters, and is seeking comments on the proposals. Among the CE changes proposed by the Texas Department of Insurance are: An expanded...
States Prepare Second Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google for December
Nov 24 2020 // A bipartisan group of U.S. states plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google as early as next month, according to two people briefed on the matter, potentially beating a more widely anticipated lawsuit from a...
Texas Reported 925 Traffic Deaths Involving Unbuckled Drivers, Passengers in 2019
Nov 19 2020 // While the majority of Texans, around 91%, use seat belts while driving or riding as a passenger in moving vehicles, too many unbelted people continue to die in traffic accidents, the state’s transportation department...
Texas Officer, City Sued by Family of Black Woman Shot Through Window
Nov 18 2020 // Family members of a Black woman who was killed when a white police officer fired through a window of her mother’s Texas home have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the officer and the city. The federal lawsuit...
Hine Elected President of Texas Surplus Lines Association
Nov 17 2020 // Amicia Hine, executive vice president with Worldwide Facilities LLC, MHI-MGA Division, in San Antonio, has been elected president of the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. Justin Kotrla, senior vice president, Property,...
Texas Issues Call to Insurance Companies for 2019 North Texas Storm Data
Nov 17 2020 // The Texas Department of Insurance has issued a call to insurers licensed to write property/casualty insurance in Texas, including surplus lines and farm mutual insurers for the collection of data about a 2019 storm in...
Texas Automobile Insurance Plan’s 4.8% Commercial Auto Rate Hike Approved
Nov 16 2020 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has approved the request by the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA) for a 4.8% increase in commercial auto rates, with an effective date of March 1, 2021. TAIPA...
Business Moves
Nov 16 2020 // East Griffin Owens Insurance Specialists, Leavitt Group Griffin Owens Insurance Specialists has affiliated with Leavitt Group. Agents and staff will continue to work with clients from their current location following the...
25K Virus-Linked Claims Filed with Texas Workers’ Comp Carriers Through June 30
Nov 13 2020 // As of Sept. 27, workers’ compensation insurance carriers in Texas had reported more than 25,000 COVID-19 claims and 103 fatalities to the state’s regulators. The numbers cover virus-related claims reported to...
Vertafore Reveals Potential Breach of Texas Driver Information
Nov 13 2020 // Denver, Colo.-based insurance information technology company, Vertafore Inc., says a potential breach has occurred of data involving information about anyone who was issued a driver’s license in Texas prior to...
Texas Seeks Comments on Windstorm Insurer Rules, Classification for Oil, Gas
Nov 12 2020 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) seeks comments on an informal draft to improve the structure of Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) rules. These updates do not include revisions to the rule text. Visit the...
Fire, Explosions Shut Down Production at Texas Smoked Turkey Facility
Nov 12 2020 // A company in eastern Texas that sells about 200,000 smoked turkeys every holiday season was forced to shut down after a fire and at least two explosions destroyed part of the facility. Greenberg Smoked Turkey Inc. in...
Two Conservative Supreme Court Justices Appear to Side with Obamacare Supporters
Nov 10 2020 // U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday signaled they are unlikely to strike down the Obamacare healthcare law in a legal challenge brought by Texas and 17 other Republican-governed states and joined by President Donald...
Supreme Court Again Weighs Fate of Affordable Care Act
Nov 10 2020 // The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dives back into politically perilous waters as it hears arguments over a Republican challenge backed by President Donald Trump’s administration aiming to...
