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Texas Woman Sentenced for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jan 17 2024 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company recently reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Ruth Castilleja of Baytown, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Castilleja reported an on-the-job...
Inszone Acquires Texas’ Jacque Pirtle Insurance
Jan 17 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced its recent acquisition of Jacque Pirtle Insurance, an insurance agency with nearly three decades of commitment to serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Founded in June 1994 by Jacque...
Zuckerberg to Be Deposed by Texas Over Meta Facial Scanning
Jan 17 2024 // Mark Zuckerberg can’t avoid being called for a deposition in Texas’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit alleging that Meta Platforms Inc. profits from facial recognition technology without user consent, a state...
Texas Power Grid Operator Issues Conservation Request as Winter Storm Engulfs State
Jan 16 2024 // The Texas power grid operator asked residents to conserve power a second time this week as a blast of cold weather plummeted temperatures well below freezing for much of the state. This new conservation request is from 6...
Gas Leak Suspected in Texas Hotel Explosion That Injured Over 20 People
Jan 11 2024 // Fire investigators said they have still not determined what caused an explosion at a historic Texas hotel that plunged two stories of debris into the basement, blew out windows and doors onto the streets of downtown Fort...
Texas Regulators Suspend Well Permits to Address Rising Earthquake Frequency
Jan 11 2024 // The state’s oil and gas regulatory agency last month suspended nearly two dozen permits that let companies inject saltwater water into the ground, a routine industry practice that regulators said has contributed to...
Explosion at Historic Texas Hotel in Fort Worth Injures 21, Investigation Underway
Jan 10 2024 // An explosion at a historic Texas hotel in Fort Worth on Monday blew out windows, littered downtown streets with large sections of debris from the building and injured 21 people, including one who was in critical condition,...
ALKEME Acquires Texas’ Flor Insurance Group
Jan 9 2024 // ALKEME, announced the acquisition of Flor Insurance Group, a multi-line independent insurance agency located in El Paso, Texas and serving the entire United States. Founded in 2010, Flor Insurance Group is focused on...
Insured Price Tag for Natural Disasters Was $95B in 2023 With Economic Cost of $250B
Jan 9 2024 // Natural catastrophes in 2023 caused global economic losses of US$250 billion, with insurers and reinsurers paying US$95 billion of that amount, according to Munich Re. Last year’s insured losses of US$95 billion are...
Houston Yet to Allocate $200 Million in Federal Relief Funds to Hurricane Harvey Victims
Jan 8 2024 // More than six years after Hurricane Harvey flooded thousands of homes and killed more than 80 people on the Texas Coast, the city of Houston has yet to allocate $200 million in federal relief funds to victims, according to...
Driverless Truck Companies Plan to Ditch Human Copilots in 2024
Jan 5 2024 // Driverless trucks with no humans on board will soon cruise Texas highways if three startup firms have their way, despite objections from critics who say financial pressures, not safety, is behind the timetable. After years...
Family Says Medical Neglect Caused Texas Congresswoman’s Death
Jan 5 2024 // Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson died a “terrible, painful death” from an infection caused by negligence at her Dallas recovery facility following a September back surgery, according to a statement Thursday...
New York City Sues 17 Bus Companies for Transporting Migrants From Texas
Jan 5 2024 // New York City on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing 17 bus companies of illegally transporting more than 33,000 migrants to the city from Texas as part of a campaign by the state’s Republican governor to expel people...
Sex Abuse Lawsuit Against Former Southern Baptist Convention Leader Settled
Jan 4 2024 // The Southern Baptist Convention and others have reached a confidential settlement in a high-profile lawsuit that accused a former leader of sexual assault, ending a six-year legal drama that helped prompt a broader...
Former MMA Attorney Suspended; Texas Judge Approves Temporary Restraining Order Against Law Firm
Jan 3 2024 // A former attorney for McClenny Moseley & Associates, who was accused of dishonesty while participating in his law firm’s filing of hundreds of hurricane-damage lawsuits, agreed last month to a nine-month...
ReSource Pro Acquires Texas-Based Helix Agency Services
Jan 2 2024 // ReSource Pro, an operations provider to insurance organizations, announced its acquisition of Texas-based Helix Agency Services LLC, a provider of managed technology services for insurance agencies and brokers in the...
‘Smash-and-Grab’ Robberies Fuel New Laws, but Critics Question the Need
Jan 2 2024 // Even before Virginia lawmakers passed a tough new law against organized retail crime earlier this year, Bradley Haywood, a public defender in Arlington, Virginia, challenged the rationale. The idea that retailers in the...
Top South Central Insurance Journal Stories of 2023
Dec 29 2023 // Efforts to curb Louisiana’s property insurance crisis made for some of the most-read Insurance Journal South Central stories of 2023. Readers also delved into Texas court rulings, a profile of Fort-Worth based...
Fatal Occupational Injuries in Texas Increased by 8% in 2022
Dec 28 2023 // Fatal occupational injuries in Texas rose by 8% in 2022. A report from the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) shows there were 578 workplace fatalities in private and...
New York Governor Vetoes Bill Seeking to Make It Easier to Challenge Convictions
Dec 28 2023 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill days before Christmas that would have made it easier for people who have pleaded guilty to crimes to challenge their convictions, a measure that was favored by criminal justice...
