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Policy Counts for States’ Property Insurers of Last Resort Grew 17% in 2011: III
Jul 10 2012 // A record-high 3.31 million residential and commercial policies were offered through state-run property insurers of last resort in the United States in 2011, a 17 percent increase over the previous record of 2.84 million in...
Tyner Receives Customer Service Award from Independent Insurance Agents of Texas
Jul 10 2012 // Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced that Susan Tyner, commercial marketing account executive for Allred Thompson Mason Daugherty, a division of Higginbotham & Assocs. in Wichita Falls, was awarded...
Texas Governor Refuses to Implement Insurance Exchange, Expand Medicaid
Jul 10 2012 // Texas won’t be working on the implementation of a health insurance exchange, one of the key provisions of the federal healthcare reform law that was recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, any time soon. In a...
TDI’s Report on Insurance Rates: You Need to Go Beyond the Statutes
Jul 9 2012 // Sometime around mid-afternoon on July 10th, Texas Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman will sit down at a witness table before the Texas Senate’s Business and Commerce Committee and launch into a discussion based...
Builder Agent Network Adds Hankins as Program Underwriter
Jul 9 2012 // Texas-based Builder Agent Network LLC announced that Debbie Hankins has joined the company as a program underwriter. Hankins will underwrite General Liability, Package, and Builders’ Risk for the MGA and will be...
Independent Insurance Agents of Texas Names Webb Young Agent of the Year
Jul 6 2012 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced that Andy Webb of Watkins Insurance Group in Austin was named the André P. Juneau Young Agent of the Year at IIAT’s 115th Annual Conference and Trade Show...
Texas City Hit With Police Sex Discrimination Suit
Jul 5 2012 // The Justice Department sued the city of Corpus Christi on Tuesday, alleging the Police Department discriminated in hiring women by using a physical ability test few female applicants have been able to pass. Federal...
Texas Counties Struggle to Repair Road Damage
Jul 5 2012 // Oil and natural gas production trucks are tearing up local roads in Texas, but the industries aren’t providing enough money to pay for the damage, according to members of a local task force expected to suggest ways...
Number of Uninsured Drivers on Texas Roads Drops
Jul 5 2012 // The number of uninsured drivers in Texas has dropped more than 38 percent from a year ago, state statistics show, and officials attribute the decline to a program focused on getting those drivers either insured or off the...
Neal Honored with Texas Agent Association’s Drex Foreman Award
Jul 5 2012 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) honored former Corpus Christi independent insurance agent Loyd Neal with the Drex Foreman Award presented at IIAT’s 115th Annual Conference and Trade Show in San...
Federal Regulators Settle Whistleblower Case with Texas-Based Pilgrim’s Pride
Jul 5 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into a settlement agreement with Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. in Mount Pleasant, Texas, to resolve allegations that the company terminated an employee who raised environmental...
CBIZ Acquires Texas-Based Stolz and Co.
Jul 3 2012 // Ohio-based professional business services firm, CBIZ Inc., announced it has acquired the assets of insurance firm Stoltz and Co. LTD., L.L.P., of Midland, Texas, effective July 1, 2012. With operations in Midland, San...
Chief Justice Roberts Viewed Differently After Healthcare Opinion
Jul 3 2012 // Chief Justice John Roberts could have taken down the entire, massive healthcare law that his fellow Republicans deride as “Obamacare.” He could have prevented the Supreme Court decision that largely disabled...
Whitaker Named President-Elect, Arthur to Serve as VP of Texas Agents Association
Jul 3 2012 // Don Whitaker, president and owner of Whitaker Insurance Associates Inc. in San Antonio, has been named president-elect of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) for 2012-201. The association elected Pat Arthur,...
Phillips Elected to Texas Mutual Board of Directors
Jul 2 2012 // Danny Phillips, a Colleyville, Texas, resident and owner of the Diamond P Longhorn Ranch in Lindale, was elected to the board of directors of workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Co. Phillips was...
People – South Central
Jul 2 2012 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Patrick Watkins, president of Watkins Insurance Group in Austin, to serve as president for 2012-2013. Beginning Sept. 1, Watkins will be responsible for helping...
Some P/C Agencies See Potential in Dynamic Health, Benefits Market
Jul 2 2012 // Alignment of Resources Essential for Success The South Central region of the country, particularly Texas, has been a hotbed of activity when it comes to mergers and acquisitions of smaller health and benefit agencies. The...
Dallas Hailstorm Loss Estimated at Nearly $1B
Jul 2 2012 // Insured losses from violent hailstorm in Dallas in mid-June should be just under $1 billion, a trade group for Texas insurers said. That amount is sharply less than what another industry trade group previously...
Texas Regulators Fine Auto Insurer for Improper Ads
Jul 2 2012 // Texas regulators have fined Loya Insurance Co. $300,000 for what investigators call unfair and deceptive business practices. The Department of Insurance also says Loya failed to file accurate information on rates for its...
Texas Governor Derides Supreme Court Ruling on Health Care
Jun 29 2012 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry is calling the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the vast majority of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul a “stomach punch to the American economy.” Perry said...
