https://www.txbyrd.comNews broke on Friday, January 4 that a recent advertisement from the insurance giant AllState, which showed agents helping victims of Hurricane Sandy quickly resolving their claims, is in reality not such a rosy picture.
The United Farmers Agents Association (UFAA) has filed a lawsuit against Farmers Insurance Group (FIG) and five subsidiaries stemming from an alleged breach of contract which left agents at a disadvantage to perform their jobs properly.
Last month, Governor Rick Perry officially rejected the White House’s offer to allow Texas, and other states, to set up its own health care exchange.
Despite the fact that 2012 has gone down as the third-most active hurricane season on record, Houston was spared the worst of this year.
In 2007, Van Peterson Fine Jewelers in Irving, Texas, was broken into. More than $1 million in merchandise was stolen.
An insurance agent in Beaumont told the Houston Chronicle on Monday that he believed the settlements stemming from the Thanksgiving Day I-10 pileup in southeastern Texas could total millions of dollars.
Eleanor Kitzman, the Texas Insurance Commissioner, has called into question the ability of one of the state’s wind insurance companies to pay claims should a major disaster occur.
A report published by Forbes on Tuesday said that Sandy’s costs could be more than $20 billion.
On Monday afternoon in Houston’s Galleria neighborhood, a townhouse caught fire after an elderly resident attempted to start his 1978 Cadillac in the garage.
Based on the tracking models currently circulating in the hype up of Hurricane Sandy’s malice, Houston and southeast Texas will avoid a hit.
