Rates for most FAIR Plan policyholders will increase effective Aug, 1, based on rate filings approved by Chief Deputy Insurance Commissioner Doug Slape on April 22. Despite the FAIR Plan Association noting overall rate deficiencies of 15 percent or more across several...

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association dodged the full wrath of coastal lawmakers in the legislative session that ended May 31. Still, the session ended with the legislature passing four bills directly affecting TWIA. Senate Bill 1448, HB 2920, HB 769 and HB 3564...

Twenty years into providing technical assistance to agents through continuing education, agency training, telephone or email questions and answers, and more recently subbing as Ask Regina for the late Regina Anderson, Jim Gavin, 70, is retiring from the Independent...

Two Texans, whose insurance licenses came in jeopardy in April by default order, appealed to the Texas Department of Insurance to reconsider the action. El Paso agent Salvador Villarreal Jr.’s case was reopened; Texarkana resident Tyrone T. Johnson did not fare as...

Jill Duggan Hale moved up to president of the Austin Association of Insurance Professionals even though her current role is less directly thought of as insurance. Now on the benefits side, Hale is in partnership development at Magnolia Hospice, where she works...

The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas is now nearly 30 months into collecting policy limits as part of the required data entry by surplus lines agents filing policies with the office. Compliance with the requirement got off to a slow start, with about 77.7...

By GENE A. WEISBERG Consumers have accidents every day, and insurers are there to protect them from the unexpected perils of everyday life. Laws have been enacted to protect our identities – including everything from credit card fraud to hacking our computers. But did...