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Texas’ Combined Agents of America Adds 3 New Agencies
Feb 23 2018 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC, has added three new partner agencies to its network. The latest additions are: Patterson & Associates Insurance in Richardson, Texas; NP Dodge Insurance in Omaha,...
Texas Appeals Court Upholds $351M Award Against Credit Suisse
Feb 23 2018 // Credit Suisse said it would fight on after a Texas appeals court upheld a $351 million award against the Swiss bank over its role in a Las Vegas resort project whose finances collapsed a decade ago. The Texas Court of...
Midwest Battered by Deadly, Damaging Storms
Feb 22 2018 // Sandbags were holding back floodwaters in parts of Michigan as a storm system moved across several Midwest and Great Plains states on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain, snow and ice to the region. The weather has already been...
Texas Mutual Hires Redpoint’s Siddons as VP, Business Development
Feb 20 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...
TDI: Nearly 670K Property Insurance Claims Generated in Texas by Hurricane Harvey
Feb 19 2018 // Hurricane Harvey resulted in nearly 670,000 in combined personal and commercial property insurance claims to private insurers, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) and the Texas Fair Access to Insurance...
Texas Appeals Court: Federal Law Preempts State on Air Ambulance Fees
Feb 19 2018 // A Texas appeals court has ruled that federal law, as opposed to state regulation, prevails when it comes to the amount an air ambulance service may charge insurance companies for its services. The Austin Court of...
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Feb 19 2018 // Wholesale insurance broker and program manager, Midlands Management Corp., has added insurance professional Lori Covey to its team in Dallas. A 25-year veteran of the industry, Covey started her career on the retail side...
Houston’s Apartment Safety Programs Are Flawed, Study Finds
Feb 19 2018 // A report by the University of Texas School of Law has found that Houston’s programs designed to ensure apartment safety are “flawed, fractured and improperly managed.” The 16-month study released Feb. 6...
Texas Petro-Chemical Contractor Sued for Disability Discrimination
Feb 16 2018 // A blood disorder led to the unlawful firing of three laborers at a Texas-based petro-chemical contractor, federal officials say. the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has charged in a lawsuit that...
Former Texas Agent Gets Life Sentence for Insurance Scam
Feb 16 2018 // A former Lubbock, Texas, insurance agent has been sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay back $810,000 to his victims, the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) reported. Officers with the Texas Department of...
Federal Suit Alleges Texas Coach Helped Student Accused of Sexual Assault
Feb 15 2018 // A federal lawsuit alleges a Prairie View A&M University coach helped a male student accused of sexual assault flee Texas to avoid arrest. An unidentified female athlete filed the lawsuit in Houston. It accuses the...
Texas Family Awarded $8M for Body Missing from Funeral Home
Feb 15 2018 // A jury has awarded a couple $8 million after finding a San Antonio funeral home was negligent in the loss of their daughter’s body before she was to be cremated. Sharlotte and Timothy Mott were given $1.5 million...
Coastal Communities Hit by Harvey to Get $1B for Hazard Mitigation
Feb 14 2018 // Texas communities slammed by Hurricane Harvey can now apply for a share of a half-billion dollars in federal money that will cover everything from buying out flood-prone homes to building new seawalls and restoring sand...
Nearly 670K Property Insurance Claims in Texas from Hurricane Harvey: TDI
Feb 13 2018 // Hurricane Harvey resulted in nearly 670,000 in combined personal and commercial property insurance claims to private insurers, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) and the Texas Fair Access to Insurance...
Texas Sees Increase in Auto Fatalities in 2017
Feb 13 2018 // More than 3,700 people were killed on Texas roadways last year marking a 10 percent increase in traffic deaths from 2016, according to data from the Texas Department of Transportation. The Insurance Council of Texas...
Study Finds Houston’s Apartment Safety Programs Are Flawed
Feb 9 2018 // A report by the University of Texas School of Law has found that Houston’s programs designed to ensure apartment safety are “flawed, fractured and improperly managed.” The 16-month study released Feb. 6...
IICF Raises Over $900K for Nonprofits in Texas and the Region
Feb 9 2018 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a nonprofit organization working with the insurance industry to help communities and enrich lives, announced that 650 insurance professionals and industry supporters...
Texas Appeals Court Says Federal Law Preempts State on Air Ambulance Fees
Feb 8 2018 // An appellate court in Texas has ruled that federal law, as opposed to state regulation, prevails when it comes to the amount an air ambulance service may charge insurance companies for its services. The ruling of the...
Study: Urbanization Contributed to Deadly 2015 Wimberley, Texas Flood
Feb 8 2018 // The 40-foot wall of water that gushed down Texas’ Blanco River in May 2015, wiping out parts of Wimberley and killing more than a dozen people, was largely a natural phenomenon. But a new study shows that development...
Texas A&M Study: Better Science, Urban Planning Needed in Coastal Cities
Feb 6 2018 // The field of urban planning is gaining interest as cities around the world, including Houston, are facing increased exposure to weather-related risks and hazards ranging from sea level rise and flooding to temperature...
