Latest Texas Headlines
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Covid-19 Led to 20% Increase in Texas Workers’ Comp Claims
Jun 1 2022 // The number of workers’ compensation claims reported to the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) increased 20% during the first 27 months of the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2020...
Keystone Adds Texas’ Milam Felker Insurance Services
May 31 2022 // Keystone, a participant-owned insurance agency network, added Milam Felker Insurance Services, Inc. of Odessa, Texas, to its growing network of Texas agencies. Jack Milam originally founded the agency in 1965. The agency...
Texas Mutual to Award $1.1M in Safety Education Grants to 11 Texas Colleges
May 27 2022 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company is awarding $1.1 million in grants to 11 colleges across Texas to fund workplace safety courses for employers, workers and the general public. Texas Mutual—the state’s leading...
Inszone Acquires Texas’ Caleb Insurance and Financial Services
May 26 2022 // Inszone Insurance Services, a full-service insurance brokerage firm which provides a broad array of property & casualty insurance, along with employee benefits solution, acquired Caleb Insurance and Financial Services,...
Texas AG Announces $19.2M Multistate Settlement with Ford Motor Company
May 25 2022 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a $19.2 million multistate settlement with Ford Motor Company, with Texas receiving a $1.7 million share of that amount. The settlement between 40 attorneys general and Ford...
Texas Dept. of Insurance Security Issue Exposed Data for Nearly 3 Years
May 24 2022 // A data breach at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) exposed confidential information of 1.8 million Texans for nearly three years, according to a brief from the Texas State Auditor’s Office (SAO). The audit...
Texas Mutual Board Approves $330 Million Policyholder Dividend Distribution
May 24 2022 // Austin, TX., May 20, 2022 – 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 $330...
People Moves: Alliant Adds Chenoweth in Texas; Stonetrust Names Contreras, Boman to Underwriting Team
May 23 2022 // Alliant Insurance Services Adds James Chenoweth to Mergers & Acquisitions Group Alliant Insurance Services added James Chenoweth in the company’s mergers & acquisitions group. Chenoweth will specialize in...
Texas Division of Workers’ Comp Accepting Public Comment on 3 Forms
May 23 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced it is accepting public comments on three proposed new forms: DWC Form-003, Employer’s Wage Statement. This form is necessary...
Texas AG Lawsuit Claims Google ‘Private Browsing’ Mode Not Really Private
May 20 2022 // The Google search engine collects data on users who think they can be anonymous if they use a “private browsing” mode, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed on Thursday, filing an amended privacy lawsuit...
Texas Man Sentenced for Hotel Investment Fraud Scheme
May 19 2022 // An Austin, Texas man was sentenced to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay $5,052,366.92 in restitution for his role in a fraud scheme. According to court documents, from 2012 until June 2018, Jason Michael Schubert, 47,...
Texas Division of Workers’ Comp Adopts Income Benefits Form
May 19 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) said it has adopted a new form: DWC Form-033, Request to Reduce Income Benefits Due to Contribution (DWC Form-033), effective immediately....
Texas Jury: American Airlines Not at Fault in Alleged Assault of Flight Attendant
May 18 2022 // Jurors in a civil lawsuit decided last week that American Airlines did not bear responsibility for an alleged sexual assault against a flight attendant by a celebrity chef who was hired by the airline as an independent...
BXS Insurance Acquires Texas’ Wall 2 Wall
May 11 2022 // BXS Insurance, Inc. (BXSI), a subsidiary of Cadence Bank acquired the assets of Wall 2 Wall Benefit Services (Wall 2 Wall) which is headquartered in Stafford, Texas, a city within the Houston metropolitan statistical...
Texas Coffee Chain to Pay $70,000 in Disability Discrimination Suit
May 10 2022 // North Richland Hills, Texas-based 151 Coffee will pay $70,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency...
Drought in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas Opens Loans for Farmers
May 9 2022 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture says drought during the growing season has made farmers in most of Texas, all of Louisiana and parts of Arkansas and Mississippi eligible to apply for federal aid. The department’s...
Texas DWC Seeks Comments on Amendments to Death Benefits Rule
May 6 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced May 5 plans to amend 28 Texas Administrative Code §132.17, concerning Denial, Dispute, and Payment of Death Benefits. The...
Tornadoes Hit Texas, Oklahoma; More Storms in Forecast
May 6 2022 // A springtime storm system spawned several tornadoes that whipped through areas of Texas and Oklahoma, causing damage to a school, a marijuana farm and other structures. There were no reports of serious injuries following...
Florida Governor Said to Be Eyeing Texas-Style Litigation Law for Special Session
May 6 2022 // With Florida lawmakers set to convene in less than three weeks to face the swirling winds of the state’s property insurance crisis, Gov. Ron DeSantis has yet to unveil a draft of the reform legislation he would like...
Insurtech Honeycomb to Write Property Policies in Texas
May 4 2022 // The Texas Office of the Commissioner of Insurance has given insurtech startup Honeycomb approval to write policies statewide. The digital insurer has built proprietary technology specifically for the estimated hundreds of...
