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)epar(ment lowers insurance
;osts, offers more payment time
AUSTIN (AP) —/exans who make monthly install-
ient payments o/car insurance will get lower down
ayments and moe time to pay balances under a rule
pproved by Insuince Commissioner Elton Bomer on
hursday.
Bomer said e6ensive down payments and sizable
loathly paymdts contribute to the problem of too
any uninsure/d rivers.
The rule mans that for a $600 six-month policy,
lemaximumiiitial down payment would go from
10 to $200.
“We’re thirtng for some families this has been a
iajor hurtle ad we’re making it easier for them,” said
avid Durdeifdeputy insurance director for property
id casualty hes. The insurance department did not
ave numbtii of how many people chose monthly
ayments o\jr single payment options.
Consumi/advocates and insurance company rep-
sentativedriticized the rule as ineffective and said it
lay cause foblems.
It takes (feet Jan. 1.
Under tie rule, insurers may require down pay-
fints of utto 16.67 percent of the annual premium for
12-monti policy, and 33.33 percent for a six-month
ilicy. Thy currently can charge down payments up
40 peroht on a six-month policy and 25 percent on
-montl|f>olicies.
The nw rule also requires insurers to spread bal
ances over five months for six-month plans and 11
months for 12-month policies.
Balances currently can be collected in three months
for six-month policies and eight months for 12-month
policies.
Insurance companies will not have to change if their
installment plans were a better deal than the depart
ment’s new plan.
DJ. Powers, head of The Center for Economic Jus
tice, said the rule ignores people who have no access to
insurance. The center has accused major insurance
companies of refusing to offer insurance in certain
parts of the state, a practice called “redlining.”
“We’re thinking for some families this has
been a major hurdle and we’re making it
easier for them.”
DAVID DURDEN
DEPUTY INSURANCE DIRECTOR FOR
PROPERTY AND CASUALTY LINES
“Redlining should be the highest priority for the in
surance commission,” said Powers. “While in theory
(the rule) is a good thing, it is not even a band-aid for
consumers who can’t get insurance.”
Suspect in deep-freeze murder
indicted on homicide, theft counts
l (ARTHAGE, Texas (AP) — A 39-
yealold East Texas man has been
indbted in the death of his long-
tinp companion, an 81-year-old
walthy banker’s widow whose
ksy was found in a deep freeze.
k Panola County grand jury in
dited Bernhardt Tiede Wednes-
dy on charges of murder and
tjeft in the death of Marjorie Nu-
|nt. The lay minister and former
Ineral director lived with the
jt'idow of Carthage banker Rod
Migent and served as her book-
ieeper and escort since 1990.
Tiede was arrested Aug. 18 after
Mrs. Nugent’s body was found in
the chest-type freezer at her home.
Ihe Longview News-Journal re-
ported that Tiede gave a statement
R) a Texas Ranger and a Panola
County sheriff’s deputy admitting
that he killed Mrs. Nugent.
Tiede also was accused of tak
ing large amounts of money from
Mrs. Nugent’s bank accounts
since her death. Investigators say
the money could have totaled mil
lions of dollars.
A preliminary autopsy showed
that Mrs. Nugent was shot in the
back several times. Sheriff’s
deputies said they believe she was
killed with a .22-caliber rifle found
in her home.
Since Mrs. Nugent’s Novem
ber disappearance, Tiede had
told friends and law enforcement
officials that she was ill, hospi
talized or out of town, the News-
Journal reported.
Tiede was in the Panola Coun
ty Detention Center on Thursday
in lieu of nearly $2.7 million bond.
The federal government is pur
suing its own charges against
Tiede, The Times of Shreveport,
La., reported Thursday.
The Internal Revenue Service
has seized Tiede’s property, and
the U.S. attorney’s office in
Longview is investigating Tiede on
charges of money laundering.
Prosecutors are expected to pre
sent their case to a federal grand
jury within the next six months.
Tiede has spent “extensive
and extremely substantial”
amounts of Mrs. Nugent’s mon
ey since her death, according to
documents filed by the Internal
Revenue Service.
Checks drawn on one of her
accounts since her death indi
cate the transfer of $250,000 to
Tiede in a dozen transactions,
most of them in amounts of
more than $10,000, federal doc
uments state.
In another instance, “Tiede ap
pears to have cashed almost
$400,000 in checks” on Mrs. Nu
gent’s account at another bank,
according to the documents.
“Tiede also appears to have
made such transfers not only for his
own use, but also for his friends,”
the document states. “For example,
he appears to have given or loaned
money to several individuals to
purchase personal vehicles.”
opless clubs drop lawsuit to block ordinance
HOUSTON (AP) — Lawyers for three topless clubs
ve stopped trying to convince a judge to block en-
:cement of Harris County’s sexually oriented busi-
ss ordinance.
Attorneys for St. James Restaurant & Club, Texas
iwgirls Cabaret and Houston Dolls dropped the
cond of their two state lawsuits against the county
idSheriff Tommy Thomas on Tuesday, a day before
ite District Judge David Medina was to have ruled.
A decision is expected soon in a similar lawsuit
tiding in federal court.
Judges Medina and Katie Kennedy refused requests
block enforcement that were filed in April and May,
ompting the clubs’ attorneys to concentrate on their
leral lawsuit.
Harris County Commissioners Court adopted the
revised regulations for sexually oriented businesses a
year ago. Employees of such businesses are now re
quired to apply for an annual permit from the sheriff’s
department.
Texas Cowgirls club was burned in a fire Tuesday
night, but the ordinance remains in effect for the oth
er two clubs in unincorporated Harris County, said as
sistant county attorney Jay Aldis.
The city of Houston is facing its own opposition to
an aggressive sexually oriented business ordinance
passed in January that imposed wide-ranging re
forms within city limits. Enforcement has been de
layed as the city and business owners dispute the
matter.
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