March 12, 2014
Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that Howard Douglas Whiddon of Dripping Springs pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges in a Travis County district court. The court sentenced Whiddon to 10 years’ deferred adjudication and 160 hours of community service, …
March 12, 2014
Ryan McPhetridge has joined Houston, Texas-based independent insurance agency Brady, Chapman, Holland & Associates Inc. as retirement plan advisor. Prior to joining BCH, McPhetridge managed more than 100 clients for a Texas based financial institution. McPhetridge has almost a decade …
March 12, 2014
Federal and state officials are having trouble collecting the multimillion-dollar judgment a Texas company was ordered to pay for mistreating 32 mentally disabled workers at an Iowa labor camp. The Des Moines Register reports Henry’s Turkey Service of Goldthwaite, Texas, …
March 11, 2014
A new $4 million study will look at two ideas that have been proposed as ways to protect the Houston area from hurricane storm surges that could cause billions of dollars in damage and wreak havoc on the largest petrochemical …
March 10, 2014
A Southern Methodist University student who says she was raped on the Texas campus is suing both the school and her alleged attacker, seeking damages of more than $1 million. The Dallas Morning News reported the lawsuit comes after the …
March 6, 2014
Florida-based workers’ compensation insurance provider, Patriot National Insurance Group Inc., appointed Colin B. Williams as Texas regional vice president. Williams will oversee all marketing and underwriting responsibilities for the company’s Texas region, and will be based at Patriot’s Texas regional …
March 6, 2014
A Texas appeals court has temporarily blocked an arbitration panel from reviewing $12 million in bonuses paid to Lance Armstrong by a company that wants its money back, stopping efforts to force him to give new sworn testimony about his …
March 5, 2014
Mercury Insurance announced it is reducing auto insurance rates for Texas drivers by an average of 10 percent. The reduction immediately applies to new customers and policy renewals, and will save Mercury policyholders an average of nearly $150 a year. …
March 5, 2014
Higginbotham hired Robert C. White Jr. as a producer to expand the life insurance department at the insurance firm’s Fort Worth, Texas, office. White is former owner of a locally based long term care insurance brokerage firm, and he has …
March 4, 2014
MNH Tullis named Mike Tullis president of MNH Tullis, a Little Rock, Ark.-based company that partners with Mullis Newby Hurst (MNH) in Addison, Texas. Tullis began his career with MNH Tullis after opening the organization’s Little Rock office in 2010. …