Latest Texas Headlines
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More Than 1,000 Flights Canceled as Winter Storm Threatens Heavy Snow, Ice
Feb 2 2022 // Airlines canceled hundreds of flights, governors urged residents to stay off roads and schools closed campuses as a huge swath of the U.S. braced for a major winter storm that was set to put millions of Americans in the...
Winter Storm Likely to Bring Heavy Ice to Texas
Feb 2 2022 // A major winter storm was expected to affect a huge swath of the United States beginning Feb. 1, with heavy snow starting in the Rockies and freezing rain as far south as Texas before it drops snow and ice on the...
Jencap Group Acquires Texas’ Delta General Agency
Feb 2 2022 // Jencap Group LLC has acquired the assets of Delta General Agency Corporation, a full-service specialty wholesale brokerage and managing general agency based in Houston. Delta will operate under the auspices of the Jencap...
BTIS Launches Expanded Workers’ Comp Coverage in California, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada, Texas
Feb 2 2022 // Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services Inc. announced access to an expanded workers’ compensation coverage option, which is now available in California, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada and Texas. BTIS...
Alera Group Acquires Texas’ Heritage Risk Management
Jan 28 2022 // Alera Group has acquired Heritage Risk Management, a Lubbock, Texas-based network of independent risk management agencies serving clients throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico. Heritage Risk...
Relation Acquires Texas’ Davenport
Jan 26 2022 // Relation Insurance Services, Inc has acquired the assets of Wilson R Davenport & Associates LLC, headquartered in McAllen, Texas. Davenport provides employee benefits solutions to clients throughout South Texas. Wilson...
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas Among States With Highest Frozen Pipe Claims
Jan 25 2022 // State Farm paid more than $471 million in claims from frozen pipes in 2021, and more than two/thirds of claims can be rooted back to one state: Texas. The Lone Star State accounted for $343 million of frozen pipes claim...
USI Acquires Texas’ D&H Risk Services
Jan 24 2022 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Longview, Texas-based D&H Risk Services LLC. Founded in 1936, D&H Risk Services is an independent risk management and employee benefits agency serving businesses and individuals...
Insurance Companies Sue Texas Power Grid Operator
Jan 24 2022 // More than 100 insurance companies are suing the Texas power grid operator and several power-generating companies (PGCs) over losses suffered from 2021 Winter Storm Uri, which resulted in more than 500,000 insurance claims...
Texas AG Sues Google Over Local Radio Ads for Its Smartphones
Jan 21 2022 // Texas’ attorney general on Jan. 19 sued Google, alleging the company asked local radio DJs to record personal endorsements for smartphones that they hadn’t used or been provided. In the lawsuit filed in...
Texas Rolling Pines Wildfire 70% Contained, Some Evacuations Lifted
Jan 20 2022 // A wildfire in a central Texas state park is no longer growing and no injuries were reported after the blaze, suspected to have been caused by a prescribed burn, charred 1.2 square miles (3.2 square kilometers), officials...
Alera Group Acquires Texas-Based Heritage Risk Management
Jan 20 2022 // Alera Group, a national insurance and wealth services firm, has acquired Amarillo, Texas-based Heritage Risk Management, a network of independent risk management agencies which serve clients throughout Texas, Oklahoma,...
Controlled Burn Likely Source for Bastrop County, Texas Wildfire
Jan 19 2022 // A wildfire burning east of Austin, Texas was likely the resulted of a planned burn, officials said. The Rolling Pines Fire in Bastrop County had burned through more than 780 acres and was 30% contained as of the morning of...
Texas Rabbi Relied on Security Training in Hostage Standoff
Jan 18 2022 // U.S. and British authorities Monday continued an investigation into the weekend standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended with an armed British national dead and a rabbi crediting past security training for getting him and...
Florida Power & Light Class Action Opens Door to Subrogation, Future Storm Claims
Jan 18 2022 // A Miami judge’s certification of a lawsuit against Florida’s largest utility company as a $10 billion class action, with damage claims from more than 4 million people who lost power in Hurricane Irma, could...
Insurance Companies Sue Texas Power Grid Operator Over 2021 Winter Storm Losses
Jan 7 2022 // More than 100 insurance companies are suing the Texas power grid operator and several power-generating companies (PGCs) over losses suffered from 2021 Winter Storm Uri, which resulted in more than 500,000 insurance claims...
Texas Officials Revise Death Count of 2021 Winter Storm to 246
Jan 6 2022 // A new report from the Texas Department of State Health Services confirms a final death count from the February 2021 Winter Storm Uri and the subsequent collapse of the Texas electric power grid. The DHS reports 246 winter...
Climatologist: Texas Had Hottest December Since 1889
Jan 6 2022 // Last month was the hottest December in Texas since at least 1889, state Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said. Gammon found that temperatures from Dallas through Abilene to Del Rio averaged 5 to 9 degrees above normal,...
Zurich Acquires Texas-Based Special Insurance Services
Jan 4 2022 // Zurich American Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Group, has completed the acquisition of Special Insurance Services, Inc., a Texas-based program manager that develops, underwrites, distributes and...
Brown & Brown Acquires Texas’ Harco Insurance Services
Jan 3 2022 // Brown & Brown Lone Star Insurance Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Texas-based Harco Insurance Services. With roots dating back to 1969, Harco is...
