Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas DOT Report: Crashed Oklahoma School Bus Was Traveling Too Fast
Oct 17 2018 // An Oklahoma school bus that hydroplaned on a wet road and crashed in Central Texas last month, injuring nearly everyone on board, was traveling at an unsafe speed for the conditions, according to a Texas Department of...
Texas Pilot Who Crashed Plane for Insurance Sentenced to Prison for Fraud Scheme
Oct 17 2018 // A 33-year-old pilot, formerly of Kemah, Texas, was sentenced in early October to more than five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in an insurance fraud-related case. Theodore Robert Wright III...
West Texas Pipeline to Resume on Schedule After Spill, Company Says
Oct 15 2018 // Energy Transfer Partners LP said on Monday that a West Texas pipeline would resume operations on Saturday as planned after the pipeline spilled water with nontoxic green dye and residual crude oil near Abilene, Texas. The...
Health Officials Confirm Man Likely Got ‘Brain-Eating Amoeba’ at Texas Resort
Oct 15 2018 // A New Jersey man who died from a rare “brain-eating amoeba” was likely exposed to it during his visit to a Texas water resort last month, health officials said. The Waco-McLennan County Public Health District...
Federal Report Criticizes Tactics Used in Fatal Texas Shopping Mall Blaze
Oct 15 2018 // A report by a federal agency says some of the tactics used by the San Antonio fire department to battle a shopping center blaze last year that killed one firefighter made conditions worse inside the structure. The San...
New Markets
Oct 15 2018 // Solar Extended Warranty OEM, VAR & Servicer Solution Market Detail: Personal Safeguards Group LLC (www.personalsafeguardsgroup.com) provides an insured method for a Solar Manfacturer, VAR & Servicer to add a...
Texas Coastal Lawmakers Urge Denial of Windstorm Insurer’s Filed 10% Rate Hike
Oct 15 2018 // More than 20 state legislators have signed a letter addressed to Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan requesting that a 10 percent rate increase filed by the state’s property insurer of last resort for wind and...
Texas to See More Frequent 100-Year Rain Events, Study Says
Oct 15 2018 // Decades of additional weather data have led federal officials to reconsider rainfall totals in Texas that define 100-year weather events and caution that extreme rainstorms will strike the state more frequently. The...
Texas Supreme Court Says Family Can Sue City for Man’s Wrongful Death
Oct 15 2018 // The family of a Fort Worth man who died after they say officers needlessly choked, kicked and shot him with a stun gun during a 2013 drug raid can proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit against two officers and the city,...
Texas Governor Extends Time for Ruling on Windstorm Rate Increase Filing
Oct 12 2018 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has effectively extended until June 16, 2019, the deadline for approval or disapproval of a recent rate increase filed by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. The governor did so by suspending...
Texas Fines Humana $700K for Network Inadequacy
Oct 12 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance has fined Humana $700,000 for putting consumers at risk of paying higher bills because of an inadequate number of anesthesiologists in Harris, Bexar and Travis counties. The problem meant...
Nguyen Promoted to Personal Lines Manager at Texas All Risk, Select General Agencies
Oct 11 2018 // Dallas-based Texas All Risk General Agency Inc. and Select General Agency LLC have promoted Binh Nguyen to personal lines manager. Nguyen will oversee underwriting and customer service for Texas All Risk homeowner’s...
Knight Named a Deputy Commissioner at Texas Workers’ Comp Division
Oct 11 2018 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Cassie Brown has appointed Debra Knight as the new deputy commissioner of Compliance and Investigations. This program area at the Division of Workers’ Compensation...
4 Small Tornadoes Confirmed in Oklahoma, 2 in Texas
Oct 10 2018 // The National Weather Service reported that six small tornadoes from a single storm system hit Texas and Oklahoma, including one that forced the closure of a state highway in northeastern Oklahoma for more than six...
Myron Steves in Texas Adds Thomson to Executive Leadership
Oct 10 2018 // Myron Steves has named Becky Thomson to its executive team. As director of healthcare, Thompson provides oversight to the healthcare and educators liability departments. She has been responsible for managing account and...
Insgroup Acquires Fred Brown Companies in Texas
Oct 8 2018 // Insgroup Inc. has acquired Houston, Texas-based Fred Brown Insurance Brokerage to enhance its Employee Benefits offering to large employer groups. Insgroup also acquired Fred Brown Property Casualty. Terms of the deal were...
Midlands Adds Reynolds to Transportation Unit in Texas
Oct 5 2018 // Midlands Management Corp. has named Joshua Reynolds a broker in its transportation unit in Dallas, Texas. Reynolds has 19 years of insurance underwriting experience. He was previously a senior transportation underwriter...
Army Corps Preparing its Own Hurricane Protection Plan for Houston
Oct 4 2018 // Later this month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will recommend a multi-billion-dollar plan to help protect the Texas coast — the Houston area in particular — from hurricanes. When it will become a reality, however,...
Texas Survivor’s Lawsuit Accuses Facebook of Enabling Human Traffickers
Oct 4 2018 // A human trafficking survivor from Texas sued Facebook this week, alleging the social media platform provides human traffickers an unrestricted way to “stalk, exploit, recruit, groom … and extort children into...
Texas Supreme Court: Family Can Sue City for Man’s Wrongful Death
Oct 4 2018 // The family of a Fort Worth man who died after they say officers needlessly choked, kicked and shot with a stun gun during a 2013 drug raid can proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit against two officers and the city, the...
