A federal appellate court ruled on Aug. 4 that the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation may not enforce a law that regulates fees charged by air ambulance companies that transport injured workers from accident scenes. The panel …
Noting the passage in the 87th Legislature of Senate Bill 1367, which made changes to certain lines of insurance, the Texas Department of Insurance has outlined the changes that are effective for an insurance policy that is delivered, issued for …
Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Plano, Texas-based wholesale brokerage and general agency Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers (WSS), an XPT Partners company, hired Blake Brininstool as a broker and underwriter specializing in excess and surplus (E&S) insurance. Blake will be …
The amount of money that insurers expect to pay for the 2020 hurricanes continues to grow, albeit more slowly, as Louisiana gets further away from last year’s historic storm season. According to the Louisiana Department of Insurance, insurance companies have …
The question of whether lawsuits blaming big oil companies for loss of vulnerable Louisiana coastal wetlands will be tried in state courts, as local parish governments want, or in federal courts, as the oil companies want, has been revived by …
Texas surplus lines premium for July 2021 reached $836.1 million, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) reported. The number brings the year-to-date total up to $5.42 billion as of the end of July, a 16.1% increase in premiums …
Texas nurse Jenna Price gets half a dozen solicitations a day from hospitals and staffing agencies that want to pay her four times her current salary to leave her job at a suburban Central Texas emergency room and take a …
An overloaded van carrying about 25 passengers crashed Aug. 3 on a remote South Texas highway, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than a dozen others, authorities said. The crash happened shortly after 4 p.m. on U.S. 281 …
A Texas water park says a chemical exposure that sent dozens of people to hospitals was caused by “improper installation” of a water filtration system. Six Flags officials said a third-party service company improperly installed the system at Hurricane Harbor …
The property insurer of last resort for wind and hail in counties along the Texas coast will file for a 5% rate hike for both residential and commercial properties in its required annual filing with the Texas Department of Insurance. …
