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Texas Landscaper Must Pay $400K in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Apr 3 2018 // A Pflugerville, Texas, landscape company pleaded guilty March 21 to misrepresenting its payroll so it could pay less for workers’ compensation coverage, according to the Texas Department of Insurance. Jammers...
Liquidation Order Issued for Auto Insurer with More Than 42K Policies in Pennsylvania
Apr 2 2018 // A Texas court has issued an order of liquidation for Access Insurance Company, an auto insurer that has 42,785 policies in Pennsylvania. This means Pennsylvanians that currently have auto insurance through Access Insurance...
Texas Moves to Liquidate ‘Impaired’ Access Insurance
Apr 2 2018 // Stephanie K. JonesTexas insurance regulators placed into receivership and started the process of liquidating a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that the insurance...
Georgia-Based Auto Insurer Access Insurance To Be Liquidated
Apr 2 2018 // Insurance regulators in the Southeast are notifying policyholders in their states of a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that is to be liquidated after being placed in...
‘Impaired’ Non-Standard Auto Insurer, Access, to Be Liquidated
Apr 2 2018 // Texas insurance regulators placed into receivership and started the process of liquidating a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that the insurance department says is...
Texas’ Galveston County Looking to Elevate 200 Flood-Prone Homes
Mar 29 2018 // Preliminary estimates indicate that a hurricane recovery program in southeast Texas could elevate as many as 200 homes that have been repeatedly flooded. The Daily News reports that Galveston County commissioners received...
Third Person Charged in Waterslide Death of Kansas Boy
Mar 29 2018 // A man involved in the design of the world’s tallest waterslide into has been indicted along with two others in connection with the death of a 10-year-old boy at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City,...
Texas Sets Workers’ Comp Discount, Interest Rate at 5.58%
Mar 28 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation has set the workers’ comp interest/discount rate for April 1 through June 30, 2018, at 5.58 percent. This rate is computed by using the...
Schlitterbahn Co-Owner Arrested, Added to Kansas Waterslide Death Indictment
Mar 28 2018 // A water park company’s co-owner was being held in a Texas jail on murder and other charges on March 27 in connection to a Kansas criminal case in the death of a 10-year-old boy on what was promoted as the...
Texas Oil Field Service Company Settles Oklahoma Pollution Lawsuit
Mar 27 2018 // A Texas-based oil field service company has settled a lawsuit with more than 100 southern Oklahoma residents who allege their homes and businesses were damaged by groundwater contamination caused by the...
Fate of Houston Flood-Control Projects Unclear 7 Months After Harvey
Mar 27 2018 // Large-scale projects long considered essential to easing Houston’s flooding woes went to the top of the area’s to-do list after Hurricane Harvey inundated large swaths of the nation’s fourth-largest...
Texas Insurance Department Seeking Candidates for Boards, Committees
Mar 26 2018 // The Texas Insurance Department is seeking candidates for vacancies on various boards and Committees and boards with members appointed by the Texas Insurance Commissioner include: Standard Request Form for Prior...
Toxic Impact of Hurricane Harvey Deeper than Public Told
Mar 26 2018 // A toxic onslaught from the nation’s petrochemical hub was largely overshadowed by the record-shattering deluge of Hurricane Harvey as residents and first responders struggled to save lives and property. More than a...
Liquidation Order Issued for Auto Insurer with More Than 42K Policies in Pennsylvania
Mar 23 2018 // A Texas court has issued an order of liquidation for Access Insurance Company, an auto insurer that has 42,785 policies in Pennsylvania. This means Pennsylvanians that currently have auto insurance through Access Insurance...
Brown, Keith Promoted at TDECU Insurance Agency in Texas
Mar 22 2018 // TDECU Insurance Agency LLC, based in Lake Jackson, Texas, has promoted Brooke Brown and Toni Keith. With more than 16 years of experience, including four years with TDECU Insurance Agency, Brown will now serve as the...
Amarillo Hospital-Area Fire Causes Smoke Damage but no Buildings Burned
Mar 20 2018 // A wildfire that burned around 500 acres inside the city limits of Amarillo, Texas, has been contained but not before threatening the city’s regional medical center. The fire was one of several that have plagued the...
Service Insurance Holdings Acquires Oklahoma’s American Healthcare Indemnity
Mar 20 2018 // Service Insurance Holdings Inc. (SIHI), parent of Texas-based workers’ compensation insurer, Service Lloyds Insurance Co., has acquired American Healthcare Indemnity Co. (AHIC), an Oklahoma-based insurer. The new...
Texas Moves to Liquidate Non-Standard Auto Insurer, Access
Mar 19 2018 // Texas insurance regulators placed into receivership and started the process of liquidating a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that the insurance department says is...
Barred Video Leads Texas High Court to Toss Finding in Workers’ Comp Suit
Mar 19 2018 // Disagreeing 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, the Texas Supreme Court reversed the...
Missing Worker Presumed Dead After Texas Chemical Plant Explosion
Mar 18 2018 // The search for a man missing since a North Texas chemical plant exploded and caught fire on March 15 has been postponed because of dangerous site conditions. Cresson Mayor and Assistant Fire Chief Bob Cornett said Saturday...
