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Texas Windstorm Insurer Names Actuarial/Underwriting Committee Members
Sep 12 2019 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has identified appointees to its Actuarial/Underwriting Committee. The committee has historically developed recommendations to the TWIA Board concerning association rate filings,...
Report: Texas Cities Included in Areas with Extreme Risk of Wildfire Damage
Sep 12 2019 // In its 2019 Wildfire Risk report, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, CoreLogic, shows that across the nation nearly 776,000 homes with an associated reconstruction cost value of...
Report: $221B in Western U.S. Homes at Extreme Risk of Wildfire Damage
Sep 12 2019 // Nearly 776,000 homes with a reconstruction cost value of more than $221 billion are at extreme risk of wildfire damage, a new report out Thursday shows. The 2019 CoreLogic Wildfire Risk Report examines single-family and...
Texas Again Has the Most People Without Health Insurance
Sep 11 2019 // The rate of Texans without health insurance rose for the second year in a row, making it once again the most uninsured state in the nation, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2018, 17.7% of...
Harlos Joins Texas Security General Agency as VP, Operations
Sep 11 2019 // Texas Security General Insurance Agency LLC (TSGA), based in San Antonio, Texas, has added Marian Harlos as vice president of Operations. Harlos brings 38 years of insurance industry experience. She began her career in the...
Officials: Half of Texas Local Governments Hit by Ransomware Have Recovered
Sep 10 2019 // Texas authorities say they aren’t aware of any money paid to hackers who used ransomware to target more than 20 communities last month. The Texas Department of Information Resources said in a statement that more than...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Serna Insurance Agency in Texas
Sep 9 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Serna Insurance Agency, based in Humble, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2001 by Pete and Martha Serna, Serna Insurance Agency offers private...
Texas Insurance Department Wants to Know: What Rules Need Changing?
Sep 6 2019 // Texas insurance regulators are now accepting comments from the industry in an effort to identify rules that need to be updated or changed. The Texas Department of Insurance announced earlier this year it would begin...
Former NFL Player, Stutz, Joins Higginbotham in South Texas
Sep 6 2019 // Former NFL athlete turned salesperson, Boone Stutz, has joined the McAllen, Texas, office of Fort Worth-based insurance services firm, Higginbotham, as a commercial property/casualty insurance associate. He brings more...
Accused of Stealing $91K Worth of Texas Cattle, Louisiana Man Arrested Again
Sep 5 2019 // A Rapides Parish, Louisiana, man wanted for livestock theft in Texas has been arrested in Louisiana, according to the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF). Justin G. Thompson of 127 Pilgrim Road,...
Texas Commissioner Emphasizes Growth, Modernization at Insurance Department
Sep 4 2019 // In a letter to stakeholders emphasizing improvements made by the Texas Department of Insurance, Commissioner Kent Sullivan said during the past 10 years there have been significant increases in the numbers of agents and...
8 Texas Counties Added to Drought Declaration
Sep 3 2019 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has added eight counties to a disaster declaration because of ongoing drought in the state. Abbott’s office on Friday released a proclamation in which Abbott added Brooks, Nueces, Jim Wells and...
Texas Company Ordered to Pay $2.1M in Fines, Restitution in North Dakota Oilfield Death
Sep 3 2019 // A Houston company has been found guilty and ordered to pay $2.1 million in fines and restitution in the 2014 death of an Alabama man who died in an explosion while working western North Dakota’s oil patch. C&J...
Putting Municipal Ransomware Attacks— and Cyber Insurance —in Context
Sep 3 2019 // The ransomware attacks on public entities in Texas, Florida, Maryland, Georgia and elsewhere this year have raised questions not only about paying ransoms but also about the role of insurance in helping these targets get...
Business Moves
Sep 2 2019 // National Arch Insurance, Ventus Risk Management Arch Insurance North America has agreed to acquire Ventus Risk Management, a technology and analytics-driven managing general underwriter that specializes in providing...
Texas Still the State with the Most Hail Claims
Sep 2 2019 // Texas ranked as the state with most annual hail claims — by a wide margin — over the past three years, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). The NICB said in a media release that a review of...
Texas Hospital Settles Pregnancy Discrimination Suit for $40K
Aug 30 2019 // San Antonio, Texas-based Nix Hospitals System LLC, doing business as Nix Healthcare System, has agreed to pay $40,000 to settle a federal pregnancy discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Texas’ $77B 10-Year Transportation Plan Targets Roadway Safety, Traffic Congestion
Aug 30 2019 // The Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT’s) 10-year transportation plan that includes more than $77 billion dedicated to improving safety, addressing congestion and connectivity, and preserving roadways...
Texas Insurance Regulators Outline New Workers’ Comp Laws
Aug 29 2019 // The Texas Department of Insurance has issued a bulletin providing summaries of selected bills enacted by the 86th Legislature that affect workers’ compensation and may be relevant to individuals and entities...
Texas’ Fee-Charging Driver Responsibility Program Ends Sept. 1
Aug 28 2019 // After years of failed attempts to eliminate it, the Driver Responsibility Program will end on Sept. 1. A measure signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in June, House Bill 2048, shutters the 16-year-old program that left more...
