Latest Texas Headlines
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Young Named Associate of the Year by Texas Agent Association
Jul 2 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) named Wes Becknell, business development officer at AFCO in La Vernia, as its Young Associate of the Year. The award recognizes a young associate member of IIAT who...
Lighthouse Enters Texas Homeowners Insurance Market
Jul 2 2015 // Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. (Lighthouse), with headquarters in Florida, began offering homeowners insurance and flood insurance throughout Texas on July 1. Lighthouse also provides coverage to more than 36,000...
Texas AG: State Workers May Deny Gay Marriage Licenses
Jun 30 2015 // Calling the Supreme Court decision giving same-sex couples the right to marry a “lawless ruling,” Texas’ conservative Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton said state workers can cite their religious...
Sammons Named Texas Group’s Young Agent of the Year
Jun 30 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) named Adam Sammons of MHBT in Dallas the André P. Juneau Young Agent of the Year at its annual conference and trade show in San Antonio. Adam Sammons This award is given...
Web Services Turns Hit Ratios Upside Down for Surplus Lines MGA.
Jun 30 2015 // Dallas, TX, June 30 2015–To use a baseball metaphor, Texas All Risk General Agency (TAR) is batting .725 with Atlantic Casualty Insurance Company at the mid-year point. According to TAR VP David Day, “With the All...
Texas Court Denies Insurer’s Reinsurance Tax Break Argument
Jun 29 2015 // A Texas appeals court has ruled that an insurer can’t recoup premium taxes reluctantly paid on reinsurance agreements with two public employee self-insured risk pools on the grounds that the risk pools aren’t...
Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion Leaves 4 Hurt in Texas Town
Jun 29 2015 // A natural gas pipeline explosion and fire in a Texas Panhandle town has left four workers injured, including two in critical condition. The Carson County Sheriff’s Office says the accident happened at night on June...
Kaufman Named Top Insurance Agent by Texas Agents’ Group
Jun 29 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) named Garry Kaufman, president of Galveston Insurance Associates, as the recipient of its Drex Foreman Award at IIAT’s 118th Annual Conference and Trade Show in San...
16 Year-Old Driver Causes $100K Damage at South Texas Dealership
Jun 29 2015 // A 16-year-old driver has been blamed for a wreck that caused more than $100,000 in damage to new trucks and other property at a Texas dealership. Corpus Christi police say the driver suffered minor injuries in the accident...
Phifer Elected to Lead Texas Association of Health Underwriters
Jun 25 2015 // Joe Phifer, senior account executive in the Assurant Employee Benefits’ Dallas sales office, has been elected president of the Texas Association of Health Underwriters. Phifer begins serving his one-year term as...
Redpoint Insurance Acquiring Hallmark Workers’ Comp Business
Jun 25 2015 // Dallas-based Redpoint Insurance Group LLC is purchasing the workers’ compensation business of American Hallmark Insurance Co. of Texas, located in Austin. The acquisition is expected to close effective July 1, 2015....
NFP Property & Casualty Acquires Texas’ AutoGroup Services
Jun 25 2015 // Insurance broker and consultant, NFP, has acquired specialty agency AutoGroup Services (AGS), based in Fort Worth, Texas. Founded in 2000, AGS consults with auto dealerships to help maximize the profitability of their...
Insurers Disappointed as Supreme Court Backs Disparate Impact Claims
Jun 25 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court said people who file housing-discrimination suits don’t have to show they were victims of intentional bias, in a blow to lenders and insurers and a surprise legal victory for the Obama...
Texas-Based TWFG Recognizes Top Producers
Jun 24 2015 // The Woodlands, Texas-based TWFG recognized its outstanding agents from across the nation during the company’s recent national convention. TWFG also introduced its new slogan — “Our Policy is Caring: Our...
Operator of Ruptured Arkansas Gas Pipeline Was Cited in 2011
Jun 24 2015 // Federal inspectors found several violations during their most recent review of Spectra Energy’s Texas Eastern Transmission system, which includes the pipeline that burst in the Arkansas River in May. Spectra Energy...
Damage from South Texas Flood Reaches $12M, Officials Say
Jun 24 2015 // The damage toll has been counted from flash flooding in South Texas on June 19. Edinburg City Manager Ramiro Garza told reporters that about 300 houses and 22 businesses were damaged after up to 6 inches of rainfall over...
Kliewer Elected Chair of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas
Jun 22 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Bill Kliewer, managing partner at BKCW in Killeen, to serve as chairman for 2015-2016. Kliewer has more than 35 years of insurance, financial and management...
Texas Tops in Lightning Damage Claim Amounts
Jun 22 2015 // Lightning damage is the most striking in Texas, at least for the insurance industry. The average claim in the state was $10,671 last year, the Insurance Information Institute said in a statement. That’s the highest...
Denton, Texas Officials Repeal Voter-Approved Fracking Ban
Jun 19 2015 // Leaders of a North Texas university town that was the first in the state to ban hydraulic fracturing repealed the voter-approved measure early on June 17, sounding a tone of capitulation to the state’s powerful oil...
Texas-Based Walker Myers Acquired by The Hilb Group
Jun 18 2015 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Texas-based Walker Myers Insurance & Risk Management LLC. With offices in Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Corpus Christi, Walker Myers presents its clients an array of insurance...
