Latest Texas Headlines
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Applicants Sought for Boards of Texas FAIR Plan, Windstorm Association
Apr 11 2017 // The Texas Department of Insurance is looking for people to serve on the board that governs the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) Plan, which provides residential property insurance in underserved areas where...
TAGA, QBE NA Launch Herbicide/Pesticide Insurance Program in Texas
Apr 10 2017 // Tejas American General Agency (TAGA), a Texas based MGA and wholesale brokerage has launched a new herbicide/pesticide program in Texas, underwritten through QBE North America, an operating division of global insurer QBE...
Texas School Bus Crash Sends 23 Children, 1 Adult to Hospitals
Apr 7 2017 // Twenty-four people — 23 of them fourth-graders — were sent to Southeast Texas hospitals after an accident involving their school bus, a pickup truck and an 18-wheeler. The afternoon crash on Wednesday, April 5 happened...
Baylor Scandal Inspires a Slew of Texas Campus Sex Assault Bills
Apr 7 2017 // Texas lawmakers are pushing for tougher sexual assault reporting requirements on college campuses in response to the ongoing investigations into Baylor University’s handling of sexual assault allegations involving...
Texas MGA MD Jensvold Adds Louisiana Office, New Team Members
Apr 6 2017 // Texas-based full service independent managing general agency and surplus lines broker, MD Jensvold & Co. Inc., has opened a location Shreveport, Louisiana, and added three new members to its team. John Hellyer joins...
Outlook Good for Texting-While-Driving Ban, Texas Lawmakers Say
Apr 5 2017 // Note this article originally appeared in the Texas Tribune. After pushing the issue for nearly a decade, key lawmakers in the Texas Legislature are optimistic that a statewide texting-while-driving ban is within...
Investigators Collect Phone Data in Texas Bus Crash
Apr 5 2017 // A federal investigator said her agency has collected cellphone records from a pickup driver who a witness said admitted to being distracted by texting before he collided with a church bus killing 13 people. National...
Texas Jewelry Chain to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit for $30K
Apr 5 2017 // Zale Delaware Inc., dba Piercing Pagoda, a jewelry retailer based in Irving, Texas, will pay $30,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Commission (EEOC). The EEOC’s...
Storms Kill 2 in Louisiana, Move East
Apr 4 2017 // Powerful storms that killed two in Louisiana took aim at Alabama and other parts of the Southeast on April 3, bringing strong winds and heavy rains to the region. A tornado flipped a mobile home on April 2 in Bruex Bridge,...
Driver of Truck in Texas Bus Crash Admits Texting Behind the Wheel
Apr 3 2017 // A witness says the driver of a pickup truck that collided with a church minibus in rural Texas, killing 13 people, acknowledged he had been texting while driving — highlighting the dangers of sending messages on...
15 Texas Survivors Seek $250M-Plus in Mississippi Train-Bus Crash
Apr 3 2017 // A Houston attorney says 15 tourists from Texas have filed lawsuits asking more than $250 million in total damages over the train-bus crash that killed four people in Biloxi, Miss. Tony Buzbee says in a news release that...
Federal Investigators Probing Crash That Killed 13 in Texas
Mar 31 2017 // Federal officials are investigating a head-on collision between a pickup truck and small church bus in southwest Texas that crumpled the front of the bus and killed 13 senior adults returning from a church retreat. The...
3 Storm Chasers Die in West Texas Crash
Mar 30 2017 // Storms that bore down on Southern Plains states brought powerful winds that upended a tractor-trailer on an Oklahoma interstate, killing the driver, while three storm chasers died in a collision as they raced toward a...
Texas Businesses Divided on High-Priority Insurance Bill
Mar 30 2017 // This article originally appeared in the Texas Tribune. Weeks after major business interests blasted legislation that would make it harder for property owners to sue insurance companies over weather-related damages, other...
Exxon Dealt a Blow as Texas Judge Sends Climate Suit to New York
Mar 30 2017 // Exxon Mobil Corp.’s attempt to derail a multistate fraud probe into whether the company fully disclosed to investors the financial risks of climate change was dealt a major blow after a Texas judge moved the case...
Texas Raises Interest, Discount Rate for Workers’ Comp
Mar 29 2017 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation reports that the workers’ comp discount rate and interest rate for April 1 to June 30, 2017, will be 4.50 percent. The rate is computed by...
Allstate Ranks Collin, Smith as Texas’ Stormiest Counties
Mar 28 2017 // Storms in Texas affected more Allstate insured homes in Collin County than any other part of the state over the past five years, while Smith County saw the highest frequency of lightning, the company says. Allstate...
Supreme Court Weighs Where Patents Lawsuits Can Be Filed
Mar 28 2017 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struggled over whether to upend nearly 30 years of law governing patent lawsuits that critics say allows often-baseless litigants to sue in friendly courts, giving them the upper hand over...
AFL-CIO Chief Vows to Sue If Trump Weakens Overtime Rule
Mar 28 2017 // The AFL-CIO will sue if the Department of Labor tries to water down a boost in overtime eligibility put in place by the Obama administration, the chief of the labor federation said in an interview. “Anything that...
Hailstorms Slam Parts of North Texas
Mar 27 2017 // Thunderstorms, producing up to softball size hail, pounded several cities north of Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex Sunday night causing extensive damage, the Insurance Council of Texas reported. Thousands of homeowner and auto...
