Latest Texas Headlines
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2016 Texas Hail Losses Exceed $5B
Jul 5 2017 // Wind and hail loss information for 2016 released recently by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) show that homeowner losses from hail in Texas were the highest annual losses ever recorded, as they exceeded $5 billion,...
Texas Agencies, Higginbotham, Jeannette Blanton Insurance Merge
Jun 30 2017 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Higginbotham has partnered with the Jeannette Blanton Insurance Agency Inc., a branch office of Dallas-based Independent Insurance Group Inc. Jeannette Blanton Insurance is located in Ennis, Texas....
Perry to Chair State Bar of Texas’ Insurance Law Section
Jun 29 2017 // Meloney Perry, founder of the Dallas-based insurance defense law firm Perry Law P.C., has been elected as the 2017-18 chair of the Insurance Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. The state bar’s Insurance Law...
Texas Stamping Office: Surplus Lines Cyber Growth Keeps Up with Demand
Jun 29 2017 // In Texas and across the nation, the surplus lines insurance market is keeping up with the increase in demand for cyber liability protection, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). Surplus lines...
Watkins Insurance Group Welcomes Scott as VP, Finance
Jun 28 2017 // Austin-based Watkins Insurance Group, one of the largest full-service, locally owned independent insurance agencies in central Texas, has added Chris Scott as vice president of Finance. Scott brings to Watkins Insurance...
Higginbotham, Painter & Johnson Financial Merge Operations
Jun 27 2017 // Fort Worth-based independent insurance broker, Higginbotham, and Painter & Johnson Financial have merged their insurance operations in Central Texas. Painter & Johnson Financial is a broker of insurance, securities...
Texas Ex-Track Coach’s Discrimination Suit to Proceed
Jun 26 2017 // The Texas Supreme Court has refused to block a sex and race discrimination lawsuit filed against the University of Texas by former women’s track coach Bev Kearney, who was forced out after the school learned of a...
Number of Compound Drug Prescriptions Falling in Texas Workers’ Comp System
Jun 26 2017 // A report released in May by the Texas Department of Insurance – Division of Workers’ Compensation shows that while the number of compounded drug prescriptions in the workers’ comp system grew between 2010 and...
Watkins Insurance Group Expanding to Georgetown, Texas
Jun 23 2017 // Watkins Insurance Group announced it is expanding to Georgetown, Texas, and plans to build a new location in the city’s historic downtown. The new building, to be located at 815 South Main Street, will be a two-story...
Texas Mutual Promotes Green-Hinojosa, Scott to VP Positions
Jun 23 2017 // Austin-based workers’ compensation insurance provider Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has promoted Amy Green-Hinojosa to vice president of the project management office and Nathan Scott to vice president of...
Texas Stamping Office: Surplus Lines Insurance Premium Up for 2017
Jun 23 2017 // Data collected by the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) shows that insurance premium amounts recorded in May 2017 are higher than totals recorded in May of 2016 or 2015. The information was presented at the...
Tropical Storm Cindy Bears Down on Gulf Coast
Jun 22 2017 // Tropical Storm Cindy churned slowly on Wednesday across the Gulf of Mexico toward an expected landing on the Texas-Louisiana border, after claiming the life of a vacationing child and threatening to bring flash floods from...
Tropical Storm Cindy Heads Toward Texas/Louisiana Border
Jun 21 2017 // The National Hurricane Center reports that a tropical storm warning is in effect from San Luis Pass Texas to the mouth of the Mississippi River as Tropical Storm Cindy moves closer to the central Gulf Coast. The storm...
Texas Study Links Pollution, Earthquakes to Oil and Gas Drilling
Jun 21 2017 // A new study by a nonprofit science organization says oil and gas drilling in Texas is linked to pollution and earthquakes. The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas study found drilling for oil and gas in...
Texas Governor Signs Law Amending Captive Insurer Rules
Jun 21 2017 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a measure that tweaks Texas law relating to captive insurance companies. Abbot signed House Bill 1944 on June 15. The bill was authored by Jim Murphy (R – Houston) and sponsored in...
Texas Seeks Input on Draft Compound Drug Rule Amendments
Jun 19 2017 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is now accepting comments on informal draft compound drug rule amendments. An informal draft of amendments to 28 Texas Administrative Code...
People
Jun 19 2017 // Dallas-based BenefitMall, a provider of employee benefits, human resources and payroll products and services, has reappointed Michael Gomes as executive vice president, Benefits Sales Division. Gomes will be responsible...
Texas Attorney Indicted in Hail Claims Insurance Fraud Case
Jun 19 2017 // A Texas attorney on June 5 was issued a 16-count indictment on charges of organized criminal activity, legal misconduct and insurance fraud related to hail claims, according to the Texas Department of Insurance. R. Kent...
Texas Ridesharing Bill Signed into Law
Jun 19 2017 // A bill that preempts local regulations for ridesharing companies in Texas and replaces them with statewide standards has been signed by Gov. Greg Abbott. HB 100, sponsored in the Senate by Georgetown Sen. Charles...
NICB Confirms Texas Tops in Hail Damage Claims
Jun 19 2017 // It’s no secret that Texas yearly suffers from an onslaught of all kinds of weather, particularly hailstorms. And from 2014 through 2016 the state topped the list for the number of insurance claims for hail damage,...
