• America First Insurance
  Welcome to America First Insurance.
  Begin here if you are a homeowner or small to mid-sized business owner looking for competitive insurance coverage.
  Check out our comprehensive business and home insurance products. Read about our exceptional claims services. Then, go to Locate An Agent to get information on how to find one of the Independent Agents who sells our products.
  The Independent Agents who represent us are among the finest in the business. Our strong relationship with them allows us to better meet your insurance needs.
  America First Insurance?Because relationships matter?
  
  America First Insurance
  3400 Waterview Parkway, Suite 200
  Richardson, TX 75080-1484
  972-231-7175
  800-443-2534
   
• Hochheim Prairie Insurance
  Company Overview
  HOCHHEIM PRAIRIE FARM MUTUAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION is striving to be "First In Service To Rural Texans" by being the leading provider of property insurance for towns with population under 10,000 in The State of Texas.
  Our Mission
  HOCHHEIM PRAIRIE INSURANCE provides coverage in the small towns and rural areas of Texas. If you are living in a rural area or not within 1,000 feet of a fire hydrant, we can help you find an agent in your area to contact for information about Hochheim Prairie Farm Mutual Insurance Association.
  Our History
  In 1892, a few people of the Hochheim community near Yoakum, Texas, decided to devise some plan to indemnify property owners in case of fire and storm losses. In those days, the destruction of your property meant the people of the community would collect money, clothing and anything of value to help their unfortunate neighbor. While this was the true sense of mutuality, it also was charity...something the settlers did not want. They met and decided to organize a mutual insurance association.
  
  500 S US Hwy 77A
  Yoakum, TX 77995
  Phone: 1-800-222-4736
  Fax: (361) 293-1079
  evelynm at hochheim.com
  
  
• Texas Department of Insurance
  The Health Coverage Tax Credit - The HCTC is a new federal tax credit program established to help eligible individuals pay for health care coverage for themselves and qualified family members. Eligible individuals primarily consist of certain groups of displaced workers and pension recipients. The HCTC is expected to help an increasing number of eligible Texas individuals and their family members pay for health coverage they might otherwise not be able to afford.
  The recorded history of insurance law in Texas and the predecessors of the Texas Department of Insurance date back to 1876 -- the year Mark Twain published "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and Colorado became the 38th state.
  The constitution of Texas adopted that year authorized the Legislature to create the office of Insurance Commissioner when it deemed it necessary.
  Two years earlier, the state had made its first effort to regulate the insurance business in Texas. The state's economy and population were growing, and wildcat insurance schemes were common. The 14th Legislature in 1874 passed a law regulating the life and health insurance business in the areas of company formation, activities and coverage.
  The Legislature also gave the State Comptroller of Public Accounts supervisory authority over insurance -- one of many duties imposed on him by statute. There was, however, no insurance department in existence at that time.
  In the early days of statehood, practically all insurance business in Texas was written by companies organized in other states and foreign countries. According to State Comptroller's records, out of 61 companies doing business in Texas in 1874, only four were domestic.
  Until the 1876 State Constitution was adopted, Texas insurance corporations were created by special act in the various state legislative sessions. These domestic companies ventured into the business -- mostly fire and marine insurance -- in competition with financially stronger and more experienced out-of-state companies. As a result, most of them either went bankrupt or had to be reinsured and taken over by their out-of-state counterparts.
  
  Texas Department of Insurance
  333 Guadalupe
  Austin, TX 78701
  512 463-6169 o 800 578-4677
  
  
  
  
  

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