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Texas Pilot Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud in Gulf of Mexico Crash
Dec 11 2017 // A Texas pilot who survived a 2012 Gulf of Mexico plane crash and used an iPad to record his time in the water acknowledges it was insurance-related fraud. Theodore Robert Wright III pleaded guilty on Dec. 7 in Tyler to...
Harvey-Related Woes Linger on Some Texas Farms
Dec 11 2017 // For days after Hurricane Harvey flooded her Sour Lake, Texas, neighborhood, Deanna Coburn’s farm was silent, without its usual chorus of bleating goats and crowing roosters. The Beaumont Enterprise reports her...
Workers’ Comp Administrators Group Helps Texas DWC Employees Affected by Harvey
Dec 8 2017 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Ryan Brannan has thanked members of the Southern Association of Workers’ Compensation Administrators (SAWCA) for the generosity and goodwill they’ve shown to...
Texas Surplus Lines Premiums Exceed $5B at November’s End
Dec 8 2017 // Surplus lines premium recorded through the end of November rose to $5.04 billion in Texas, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). This total represents a year-to-date increase of 6 percent over the...
Texas’ Harris County OKs Post-Harvey Flood Construction Rules
Dec 7 2017 // Officials in a Texas county devastated by Hurricane Harvey have approved new regulations on building construction in flood-prone locations, rules they touted as the nation’s toughest for a major metropolitan...
Texas Company Earns Safety Award from Workers’ Comp Division
Dec 7 2017 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation has recognized Lauren Concrete for exemplary workplace safety programs and low rates of work-related injuries and illnesses at its Brenham, La Grange, and Waller...
Poll: Many Harvey Victims Say They Still Need Help
Dec 6 2017 // More than three months after Hurricane Harvey walloped Texas, many affected residents say they’re still not getting help they need and President Donald Trump is getting low marks for his handling of the disaster,...
Texas Mutual Builds New Workers’ Comp Health Care Network – WorkWell, TX
Dec 4 2017 // Workers compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., plans to launch of its own health care network for policyholders, called WorkWell, TX. Within this new network, all aspects of claims and care will be managed by...
Researchers Find Dangerous Bacteria in Water Wells Near Texas Fracking Sites
Dec 4 2017 // Two new studies from University of Texas at Arlington researchers show harmful bacteria levels in groundwater near hydraulically fractured gas drilling sites. The studies published in the peer-reviewed journal Science of...
Nearly 894,000 Texans Apply for FEMA Harvey Aid
Dec 4 2017 // Nearly 894,000 people in Texas met this week’s deadline to register for federal disaster assistance to help them recover from Hurricane Harvey, with more than $1.4 billion in funding approved so far, the Federal...
La Nina Adds to Wildfire Threat in South Central, Plains States
Dec 4 2017 // Conditions are ripe for winter wildfires from the mid-South through the Great Plains thanks to a combination of weather factors, including the climate phenomenon known as La Nina, that have left a lot of dry growth. In...
Study: North Texas Quakes Spurred on Faults Dormant for 300M Years
Dec 4 2017 // Earthquakes that have swarmed North Texas in recent years occurred on faults awakened by human activity after they had been dormant since dinosaurs roamed the area, according to a new university study. There have been...
Surplus Lines Premium Up for the Year in Texas
Dec 4 2017 // Texas has recorded $4.6 billion in surplus lines premium through the end of October 2017, a 6 percent increase over the same period in 2016, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). At the annual...
Texas Officials: At Least 1 Roadway Death per Day Since 2000
Dec 4 2017 // At least one person has died on Texas roadways every day since November 2000, state transportation safety officials say. The Texas Department of Transportation reported that from Nov. 7, 2000, through Nov. 7, 2017,...
Rate Increases Approved for Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association
Dec 4 2017 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan has approved changes in the rates for private passenger and commercial automobile insurance provided through the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA), which is the...
Businesses Receive $3M in Texas Mutual Early Qualifier Dividends
Dec 1 2017 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has paid more than $3 million in early qualifier dividends to approximately 4,000 newer policyholder owners across the state. This payout is the final component of the company’s $260...
Harvey Flooding Put Some Texas Christmas Tree Farms Out of Business
Dec 1 2017 // For more than two decades, Deidra Marler and her family piled into pickup trucks after Thanksgiving lunch and headed over to the K&K Evergreen Farm to pick out their annual Christmas tree. The Beaumont Enterprise...
Texas Company Agrees to Pay $545.1K Penalty Following Worker Fatality
Nov 30 2017 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Marshall Pottery Inc. in Marshall, Texas, have reached a settlement agreement including a penalty of $545,160, after the death...
Liberty Mutual Insurance Opens New Campus in North Texas
Nov 30 2017 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Chairman and CEO David H. Long officially opened the company’s one million square foot office complex in Plano, Texas, on Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Texas Governor...
New Sensors Tracking Earthquakes Across Texas
Nov 29 2017 // Note: This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune. Three years ago, a series of quakes rattled North Texas — and some residents’ nerves. Larry Walden, a Parker County commissioner, remembers a public...
