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Florida, Texas Grab Bigger Chunk of Paychecks as NY Fades
Mar 11 2024 // Southern US states have enjoyed some of the strongest job growth in the pandemic era, as well as some of the biggest wage increases — and they’re luring Americans from elsewhere in the country. Add those things...
Texas Utility Rules Didn’t Prevent Panhandle Wildfires
Mar 8 2024 // Before it burned to a pile of ashes, Melanie McQuiddy’s house on the outskirts of Canadian was her family’s home base. Her daughter and grandchildren flocked there for holidays. At Christmastime, she put a tree...
Huge Texas Blaze Shows Power-Line Fires Are a Widespread Threat
Mar 8 2024 // Massive wildfires sparked by power lines used to be a California problem, one many utility executives considered safely confined to the Golden State. No more. Texas officials on Thursday blamed the state’s...
Xcel Energy Acknowledges Role in Texas Panhandle Wildfire
Mar 7 2024 // Xcel Energy on Thursday acknowledged its involvement in the Smokehouse Creek Fire, which started last week and quickly became the largest wildfire in state history, burning more than 1 million acres. “Based on...
Texas Fire Chief Dies While Fighting House Fire in City Hit Hard by Wildfires
Mar 7 2024 // A Texas fire chief whose small town was among the hardest hit last week by historic blazes sweeping across the Panhandle died Tuesday while fighting a house fire, authorities said. The house fire that Fritch Fire Chief Zeb...
Texas Panhandle Ranchers Look to Rebuild After Wildfires
Mar 6 2024 // CANADIAN — Farmers and ranchers in the Panhandle lost livestock, buildings and infrastructure in the wildfires still raging through the region. Now they’re looking to rebuild. More than 100 people packed a room at...
Brown & Brown Acquires Texas’ Hillco Insurance
Mar 6 2024 // Brown & Brown announced that it has acquired the assets of Hillco Insurance. Hillco was established by Hunter Hill in the Dallas metropolitan area to serve the personal and commercial insurance needs of the expansive...
SpaceX Bid to Keep Labor Suit in Texas Denied by 5th Circuit
Mar 5 2024 // SpaceX’s bid to keep its lawsuit against the US National Labor Relations Board in Texas was denied by a federal appeals court, a setback for Elon Musk’s aerospace company in its battle against the agency. The...
Many Texas Panhandle Homes Burned in Wildfires Weren’t Insured
Mar 5 2024 // FRITCH — Many Panhandle residents whose dwellings and possessions burned in the region’s ongoing wildfires may never financially recover for one simple reason: Their homes weren’t insured. “A lot of the...
Infernos Rage From Texas to Australia as Wildfire Season Kicks Off Early
Mar 4 2024 // After a year of deadly wildfires around the globe, the world is burning again from Texas to Australia — and in some regions, the blazes are igniting early. Canada’s Alberta province said last month that wildfire...
Xcel Energy Utility Equipment Started Texas Wildfire, Homeowner Claims in Lawsuit
Mar 4 2024 // March 1 (Reuters) – A Texas homeowner whose house was destroyed by a massive wildfire raging northeast of Amarillo sued electric utility Xcel Energy XEL.O on Friday, alleging that a splintered power pole owned by the...
Declarations
Mar 4 2024 // Identified Threat Actors “Independent of whether there’s any violation of the law or any violation of terms of service, we just don’t want those actors that we’ve identified – that we track and...
Business Moves
Mar 4 2024 // East Webster Bank, Ametros Financial Corp. Connecticut-based Webster Bank completed its acquisition of Ametros Financial Corp., a firm that administers medical claims settlements. Ametros provides post-settlement medical...
Texas Court Rules to Cut Attorney’s Fees in First-Party Appraisals
Mar 4 2024 // The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled that when an insurance company pays an appraisal award plus any statutory interest in a weather-related first-party property case, there is no liability for attorney’s fees. The...
Texas Fires Trigger Drop for Xcel With Law Firm Alleging Link
Mar 1 2024 // The worst-ever Texas wildfire sent shares of Xcel Energy Inc. plunging after a law firm said it might be linked to the disaster, the latest sign that potential ties between power companies and blazes are triggering...
Firefighters Race to Subdue Texas Wildfire Before Dangerous Weekend Conditions
Mar 1 2024 // FRITCH — A blanket of snow and rain that descended over the Texas Panhandle on Thursday helped firefighters to quell the spread of the largest wildfire in the state’s history, which has engulfed more than 1 million...
Insurers Offer Tips for Residents to Navigate Texas Wildfires
Feb 29 2024 // The Smokehouse Creek Fire has grown to more than 1 million acres in the Texas Panhandle, making it the second-largest wildfire in state history. The fire is 3% contained as of Thursday morning according to officials with...
Texas Wildfire Conditions Seen Worsening After Brief Respite
Feb 29 2024 // Dry, windy weather that’s been fanning the worst Texas wildfire in almost two decades will return later this week after a brief respite of rain and snow. Fires raging across the Texas Panhandle have scorched homes...
Texas Firefighters Face ‘Another Tricky Day’ Battling Blazes
Feb 28 2024 // Texas firefighters are facing “another tricky day” battling flames fanned by dry winds across the Great Plains, although threats to towns and ranches may ease overnight amid forecasts for rain and...
Wildfires Forces Texas Panhandle Residents to Shelter in Place
Feb 28 2024 // Officials have ordered nearly 5,000 residents in the Panhandle cities of Canadian, Fritch and Glazier to shelter in place Tuesday as four separate wildfires engulfed the region, burning more than 280,000 acres. Residents...
