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A Rival Scorned Haunts Patrick Ryan's Insurance Brokerage Crain's Chicago Business

by Texas Department of Insurance

A rival scorned haunts Patrick Ryan's insurance brokerageCrain's Chicago BusinessBy Steve Daniels February 20, 2012 North Carolina banking giant BB&T Corp. is advancing on a new front in its war against Patrick Ryan, whose talent raid on a BB&T-owned firm nearly two years ago helped launch his own specialty insurance outfit.BB&T banks on slower approach [...]

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Rick Perry's Views on the Constitution Get Closer Scrutiny Los Angeles Times

by Texas Department of Insurance

Los Angeles Times Rick Perry's views on the Constitution get closer scrutinyLos Angeles TimesNow that Texas' governor is a GOP candidate for president, opinions in his book — that Social Security is unconstitutional, for example — move into the spotlight. Texas Gov. Rick Perry with supporters in Austin. (Larry W. Smith, European Pressphoto ... and [...]

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The Starter Round 4 Valero Texas Open PGA Tour

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Reuters The Starter: Round 4, Valero Texas OpenPGA TourSteele is making just his 12th start on the PGA TOUR and his best finish was a T17 earlier this year at the Farmers Insurance Open. He has never led after any round on TOUR. Steele got his card by winning last year's Nationwide Tour Championship, ...Golf's [...]

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Lowcost Insurer Makes Magazine's Top Franchise List Brownsville Herald

by Texas Department of Insurance

Low-cost insurer makes magazine's top franchise listBrownsville HeraldSidney Williams, the company's director of franchising, said the Texas market for affordable auto insurance - a $13 billion industry in the state - is booming. Pronto's business model is aimed largely at the Hispanic market and drivers who have a hard ... Read the full story: Low-cost [...]

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Jeff Wades Into Drought Fracas Santa Fe New Mexican.com

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Jeff wades into drought fracasSanta Fe New Mexican.comTexas gets no rain — but New Mexico, for insurance puposes, does? Some of the cattle guys from our state got Sen. Bingaman on the case. He lost no time making contact with the ag department, letting the folks there know that claims were being denied ...Sen. Wants [...]

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Texas Slow to Move on Healthcare Reforms Houston Chronicle

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Texas slow to move on health-care reformsHouston ChronicleGarnet Coleman, D-Houston, said of the inaction on creating an exchange to help small businesses and individuals buy health insurance. Texas is one of nine states - other than Florida, the others are mostly small, with relatively few uninsured ... and more& » Read the full story: Texas [...]

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Thanks for the Doctors New York New York Post

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Thanks for the doctors, New YorkNew York PostVillalobos' journey to Texas began in 2003, when our Legislature reformed Texas' legal system -- including sweeping medical-malpractice reforms. Back then, doctors in New York and Texas were paying about the same for medical-liability insurance. ...Gov. Rick Perry's Texas medical malpractice law: What it does, doesn't and ...Washington [...]

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Obama's Rules on Contraceptives Adjusted After Furor Austin AmericanStatesman

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Austin American-Statesman Obama's rules on contraceptives adjusted after furorAustin American-StatesmanBut religious universities and hospitals that see contraception as a violation of their faith can refuse to cover it, and insurance companies will then have to step in to do so. In Texas, current law requires that employers be offered the option to ...White House Fact [...]

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Texas AAA to Hold Career Fair KTSM News Channel 9

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Texas AAA To Hold Career FairKTSM News Channel 9... PASO – AAA Texas will hold a career fair Wednesday, Feb. 8 offering immediate openings for field sales agents and travel agents. Field sales agents will assist members with memberships and insurance products including homeowners and renters, auto, ... Read the full story: Texas AAA To [...]

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Texas Legislature Considering Option for 85 MPH Highways KBTX

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Automobile Magazine Texas Legislature Considering Option for 85 MPH HighwaysKBTX... President of Southwest Insurance Information Service. "As far as like West Texas, flat you know just barren land, 85, I mean we do it anyway we all run 90 down there so I think that's totally acceptable," said Matthew Holmes. ...Texas considers highest speed limit [...]

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After Troubles a Storm Insurer Is Remade but Vocal Critics Remain New York Times

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After Troubles, a Storm Insurer Is Remade, but Vocal Critics RemainNew York TimesThe Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, a quasi-public insurer of last resort for Texas coastal residents, has been at the center of a political disaster zone since Hurricane Ike hit in 2008. What was left of the coastline at ... Read the full story: [...]

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Senate Approves Bill to Penalize Insurance Companies That Go to Court to Delay ... Dallas Morning News

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Senate approves bill to penalize insurance companies that go to court to delay ...Dallas Morning NewsEddie Lucio, D-Brownsville, was clearly aimed at the state's largest insurer — State Farm — which has been battling the Texas Department of Insurance for nearly eight years over allegations of excessive charges for homeowners policies. ... Read the full [...]

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How They Voted Oak Park Leaves

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How they votedOak Park LeavesRichard Lugar and Daniel Coats, Republicans, voted last week. STUDYING LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE: The House rejected an amendment sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, to the Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act (HR 1173). and more& » Read the full story: How they voted - Oak Park Leaves Tags: White [...]

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Drivers on Texas 183 in Southwest Fort Worth Can Expect Detours Fort Worth Star Telegram

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Drivers on Texas 183 in southwest Fort Worth can expect detoursFort Worth Star TelegramFriday -- The Insurance Lane bridge over Texas 183 will be closed to complete construction of a main lane detour. The eastbound Texas 183 ramp to Insurance Lane will be closed. Feb. 10 -- Eastbound Texas 183 traffic will be switched to [...]

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Perry Says the Country Can Rebound Austin AmericanStatesman

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ABC News Perry says the country can reboundAustin American-StatesmanBut the Texas record will get a fuller examination. And that examination will reveal that Texas has the country's highest rate of people without health insurance and that, at least as of 2009, the state's high school graduation rate ranks 43rd in the ...COMMENTARY State of denial: [...]

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Federal Government Rejects Texas Insurance Waiver Insurance Journal

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Federal Government Rejects Texas Insurance WaiverInsurance JournalBy Chris Tomlinson | January 30, 2012 The federal government has rejected a request by Texas to be excluded from a new law that limits how much health insurance companies can spend on overhead. The law is part of the Affordable Care Act, changes made ... Read the full [...]

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