Pennsylvania AG sues Texas Firm Over Lost Health Insurance
Pennsylvania's attorney general has sued a Texas company that allegedly stopped paying employees' health insurance premiums for five months before its insurer retroactively canceled coverage, …
Texas-based Firm Named PIA’s Managing General Agency of the Year
The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents has named Empower Insurance Group MGA Inc., headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, as recipient of its 2009 Managing General Agency of the …
Loss Control Leads to $801K Dividend for Texas Auto Dealers
Workers' compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced an $801,625 dividend to the Lone Star Auto Dealers (LSA) purchasing group. LSA has earned nearly $4 million in dividends …
Insurance Network of America Adds Swinney to Serve North Texas
Insurance Network of America, based in Austin, Texas, announced it continues to strengthen its law firm insurance and risk mitigation presence with the addition of Steve Swinney, who has joined …
Texas Woman Sentenced in Distracted Driving Case
A state district judge in Texas has sentenced a woman to 30 days in jail, 10 years probation and ordered her to pay a $10,000 fine for criminally negligent homicide in connection with a case of …
Berkley Forms Domestic Energy Industry Insurance Unit
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California Environmental Extremist Arrested for 2006 Arson
Three years after the discovery of a failed incendiary device at a suburban Pasadena real estate construction site, FBI agents have used DNA analysis to arrest a man in Texas in a case they …
Houston Area Insurance Agent Indicted for Misapplication of Premiums
The Texas Department of Insurance reported that Darryl W. Golter, owner of the Golter Insurance Agency, formerly located in Pasadena, Texas, was indicted by a Harris County Grand Jury in Houston …
Texas Publishes 3rd Annual Workers’ Comp Network Report Card
The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Workers' Compensation Research and Evaluation Group has published an annual report card on the performance of Workers' Compensation Health Care Networks as …
Texas Apartment Association Program Earns $395K Comp Dividend
The Texas Apartment Association Workers' Compensation Program has earned a 14 percent, or $395,000, dividend from Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Program administrators Michael Whorton and …
Texas Sets Workers’ Comp Discount, Interest Rate for 4th Quarter
The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers' Compensation has set the rate for any interest or discount provided for in state workers' comp statutes at 3.88 percent for the period …
Six Texas Cities to Receive Smoke Alarms
Firefighters in six Texas cities will be installing smoke alarms into the homes of low income and elderly residents thanks to this year's “We're Out to Alarm Texas” smoke alarm campaign. The …
Perr&Knight Adds Texas Actuary
California-based insurance support services firm Perr&Knight announced that James Vallee has joined the firm as a consulting actuary in the company's Fort Worth, Texas, office With the addition …
Damage From El Paso, Texas, Hail Storm Tops $150M
The east side of El Paso, Texas, was pounded by a violent hailstorm Sept 16, racking up insured losses of more than $150 million, the Insurance Council of Texas reported.
Texas-based Aggressive Insurance Unveils New Aircraft Program
Aggressive Insurance, based in Irving, Texas, has announced a new aircraft insurance program. Aggressive is initially introducing the program in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma …
The Woodlands Financial Group Opens 3 New Offices
The Woodlands Financial Group Inc. (TWFG), a retail and managing general agency based in The Woodlands, Texas, has opened three new branch locations. Steve Lovecchio has opened a new branch in …
Sinking Texas Gulf Coast Condos to be Demolished
Touted as the Texas Gulf Coast's most luxurious tower and later ridiculed as the “leaning tower of Padre Island,'' an incomplete 31-story condominium project on South Padre Island will be …
Texas Sets Workers’ Comp Weekly Benefit Rates
The Texas Department of Insurance has announced the weekly benefit rates for workers' compensation insurance for Oct. 1, 2009, through Sept. 30, 2010
London American Expands Underwriting Division in Dallas
London American Risk Specialists Inc. is expanding its Dallas, Texas, underwriting division and has created an underwriting/binding authority department in the Dallas office. The department will …
Tieman Joins Higginbotham’s Life Sciences Insurance Unit
Higginbotham & Associates, a national independent insurance brokerage firm with Texas statewide offices, appointed Kay Kirk Tieman senior account executive for its Life Sciences Risk and Insurance …
Some Texas Windstorm Policyholders Must Buy Flood Coverage
Some property owners in Texas coastal counties that seek wind insurance coverage from the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association will be required to buy flood insurance equal to at least 90 percent …
Texas Releases Performance Results for Workers’ Comp Carriers
The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers' Compensation has posted on its Web site the 2009 Performance-Based Oversight (PBO) Results for workers' compensation insurance carriers and …
Beacon Hill Associates Opens South Central Regional Office in Texas
Beacon Hill Associates Inc. has opened a new regional office in Plano, Texas, and has added Brett Amick as assistant vice president. The company serves agents in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and …
Central Texas MGA Adds New Carriers for Various Product Lines
Tejas American General Agency (TAGA), an independent privately-owned managing general agency based in the Austin, Texas, area, has recently added three new markets – Insurors Indemnity, Gotham …
USAA to Lower Homeowners Rates for Most Policyholders in Texas
San Antonio, Texas-based USAA has announced it has filed a plan with the Texas Department of Insurance to reduce its homeowners insurance rates in the state by an average of 6 percent. The …
Texas’ Specialty Insurance Managers Names New Vice Presidents
Texas-based Specialty Insurance Managers Inc. recently appointed several new vice presidents.
Iowa, Minnesota Get ‘A’, 9 States ‘F’ in Best, Worst States for Workers’ Comp
Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Utah and Virginia do the best job handling workers' compensation injuries, while Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas and Wyoming perform the …
Seatbelts, Cellphones, Handguns Addressed in New Texas Traffic Laws
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has issued a summary of new traffic laws passed by the Texas Legislature that are set to become effective Sept. 1, 2009.
Texas Windstorm Pool Reports Waiver Surcharge Commission Change
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) reported that HB 4409 passed by the 81st Legislature, requires several changes for TWIA policies. TWIA issued a bulletin to agents as a …
Texas Agency Spending Some Hurricane Recovery Money
A Texas agency that was questioned for not spending much of the money it received to help 2005 hurricane victims has improved but still has spent only 31 percent of the funds, a state auditor's …
