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More States Adopting Professional Standards for Public Adjusters
May 16 2023 // A movement to establish professional standards for public adjusters gained ground this year, with lawmakers in five states passing bills that impose new controls over a trade that already requires a license in 46...
More States Adopted Professional Standards for Public Adjusters This Year
May 16 2023 // A movement to establish professional standards for public adjusters gained ground this year, with lawmakers in five states passing bills that impose new controls over a trade that already requires a license in 46...
Texas Windstorm Insurance Group Getting Update on Cat Funding for 2023 Season
May 15 2023 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Board of Directors will meet at the Austin Marriott South on May 23 at 9 a.m. In addition to the TWIA board’s consideration of routine association updates, the board will...
Tornado Hit South Texas Near The Gulf Coast, Damaging Dozens of Homes
May 15 2023 // One person was killed and a curfew was imposed after a powerful tornado tore through a community near the southern tip of Texas before dawn Saturday, damaging dozens of residences and knocking down power lines, authorities...
Texas Mutual Awards $1M in Grants to 10 Colleges
May 15 2023 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced it is awarding $1 million in grants to 10 colleges across Texas to fund workplace safety courses for business owners, employees and the general public. Texas Mutual began its...
Port Arthur, Texas Refinery to Pay $1.4M Settlement Over Clean Air Act Violation
May 15 2023 // Texas Attorney General Ken announced a $1.4 million settlement in an environmental enforcement action against a Port Arthur refinery operated by TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc....
Texas Shell Refinery Unit Had History of Malfunctions Before Fire
May 12 2023 // The units at a Houston-area Shell refinery that caught fire on Friday repeatedly malfunctioned in recent years without action from Texas regulators. Since the start of 2022, the British oil giant reported at least four...
People Moves: McGriff Hires Marine and Energy Practice Leadership; IMA hires Chappell as Central Region Sales Leader
May 11 2023 // McGriff Hires SVP, Director and Producer for its Houston Marine and Energy Practice McGriff has added three new members to its growing Houston, Texas-based marine and energy practice. Joe Etzler joins McGriff as managing...
Alliant Acquires Texas’ McAnally Wilkins
May 11 2023 // Alliant Insurance Services has acquired McAnally Wilkins, LLC, a leading provider of property and casualty (P&C) insurance solutions for the oil and gas service industry. Based in Odessa, Texas, McAnally Wilkins...
Alera Group Acquires Texas-Based Sheridan
May 10 2023 // Alera Group, a national insurance and wealth services firm, announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Sheridan Insurance Group, a team of experienced professional liability specialists helping meet the insurance and...
Stalled Gun Bill Advances in Texas After Recent Mass Shootings
May 10 2023 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Facing new pressure over gun violence in Texas after two more mass shootings, Republicans on Monday unexpectedly allowed a bill that would raise the purchase age for semiautomatic rifles from 18...
Texas Dental Practice Provider to Pay $25K Over Sex-Based Retaliation Lawsuit
May 9 2023 // SAN ANTONIO, Texas –Dental Health Products, Inc. (DHP), a nationwide provider of supplies and equipment to dental practices, will pay $25,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle a federal sex-based retaliation lawsuit...
Light Duty or Scheme to Avoid Workers’ Comp Claim? Florida Appeals Court to Decide
May 9 2023 // Most people will be familiar with the posters at workplaces noting the number of days since a lost-time work injury. Well, there’s a dirty little secret behind that, one that helps employers avoid higher experience...
Texas Mutual board approves $340 million policyholder dividend distribution
May 9 2023 // May 9, 2023, AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, announced today that its board of directors voted unanimously to approve a $340...
Texas Court: Exxon Covered by Contractor’s Excess Insurers
May 8 2023 // Two excess insurers may be liable for the more than $20 million that ExxonMobil Corp. paid to settle lawsuits filed by a contractor’s employees who were badly burned while working at an Exxon refinery, the Texas...
Keystone Adds Texas’ Perkins to Network
May 3 2023 // Keystone, the fourth largest participant-owned insurance agency network in the nation, added Perkins Insurance Agencies, LLC, based in Abilene, Texas, to its growing network of agencies in the state. A second-generation...
Chubb: No Duty to Defend Texas Subway Franchise in Killing Case
May 3 2023 // ACE American Insurance Company (Chubb) says it has no duty to defend a Texas Subway franchise sued by the family of a former worker killed on site by an ex-boyfriend. In a complaint for declaratory relief filed last week...
Texas Mutual Approves $340M Dividend Distribution
May 2 2023 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, announced today that its board of directors voted unanimously to approve a $340 million dividend distribution in...
Suit Over Texas Woman’s Jail Death Settles for $7M
Apr 28 2023 // DALLAS (AP) – A private company that ran a Texas jail where a woman allegedly went blind following days of medical neglect before her 2019 death has agreed to a $7 million lawsuit settlement along with other...
Texas Contractor Fined $257K After Fatal Trench Collapse
Apr 27 2023 // A Houston-area contractor’s repeated failure to follow federal workplace safety procedures during excavation operations contributed to a worker’s death near Manvel in October 2022, a federal workplace safety...
