Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Regulators Recognize Chaparral Industries for Safety Programs
Jul 21 2016 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation recognized Chaparral Industries for exemplary workplace safety programs and low rates of work-related injuries and illnesses at its Odessa facility. Director of Workplace...
Can States Stop Man-Made Earthquakes?
Jul 21 2016 // Stopping an earthquake before it starts? It sounds like a feat possible only for a superhero. But in Kansas and Oklahoma state policymakers are showing that insofar as humans are causing earthquakes, they can stop them,...
Prosecutors Reduce Counts Against Texas Lawyer in BP Oil Spill Fraud Case
Jul 20 2016 // A Texas lawyer and six co-defendants are now facing a reduced indictment of 73 charges, instead of 95, at federal trial on accusations that they faked more than 40,000 damage claims after the BP oil spill in 2010. Online...
ICT Honors Lawson Posthumously with Raymond Mauk Award
Jul 18 2016 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) posthumously honored Ron Lawson, former vice president at the Republic Group in Dallas, with the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award during the group’s 24th Annual ICT Mid-Year Property...
MetaBank Taps Cunningham and Koenig for AFS/IBEX in Texas
Jul 15 2016 // MetaBank has named Susan Cunningham senior vice president of sales for its premium finance division, AFS/IBEX. She will operate out of the Dallas and lead sales and marketing in Texas and adjoining states. Cunningham has...
Texas Companies Fined $120K for Safety Violations, Workplace Hazards
Jul 13 2016 // Unsafe working conditions have landed combined fines of more than $120,000 for two companies operating in the Texas oil and gas sector. Exterran Energy Solutions LP and South Texas Specialty Welders LLC were cited by...
CoreLogic Pegs Total Damage from Texas Spring Hail Storms at Nearly $700M
Jul 12 2016 // According to new data released by CoreLogic, the 2016 hail season is already one of the most severe in Texas history, with year-to-date results reaching the nine-year average for U.S. hail storm damage. Estimated losses...
Friend or Foe? Texas Open-Carry Law a Challenge for Police
Jul 12 2016 // Gun-rights activists, some of them wearing camouflage and military-style gear and openly toting rifles and handguns, marched alongside the hundreds of people who flocked to downtown Dallas last week to protest police...
Texas Surplus Lines Stamping Office Adds Orellana as Human Resources Director
Jul 12 2016 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLSOT) has appointed Denisse Orellana as director of Human Resources. For the past several years, Orellana has worked in the private sector for a promotional and marketing...
A Financial Army Moves in When a Police Officer Is Killed
Jul 11 2016 // As America absorbed the news of five murdered Dallas police officers, Frederick Frazier grimly signed $2,000 checks, one after another. They were for the families of the slain. “So many people are calling and want to...
Lighthouse Insurance Adds Hernandez as Central Texas Marketing Rep
Jul 11 2016 // Lighthouse Management LLC, a licensed MGA representing Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. (Lighthouse), has appointed Kim Hernandez as the marketing representative for Central Texas. After serving as a sergeant in the...
Texas Insurers Look to Courts for Hope in Stemming Hail-Related Lawsuits
Jul 11 2016 // Following a severe hailstorm in south Texas in 2012, insurers were beset with homeowner property lawsuits – sometimes after claims were paid and repairs were completed, according to an insurer trade group. Since then,...
In Move to Block Campus Carry Law, University of Texas Profs Sue
Jul 8 2016 // Three University of Texas professors have filed suit in federal court, seeking to block the state’s “campus carry” law before it takes effect next month. The July 6 court filing came from sociology...
Workers’ Comp Disability Guidelines Withdrawn from Guidelines.gov
Jul 7 2016 // The Work Loss Data Institute (WLDI) has withdrawn its Official Disability Guidelines from the National Guideline Clearinghouse, a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, operated by the U.S....
Social Services Safety Group Gets $867K Texas Mutual Dividend
Jul 7 2016 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has awarded a dividend of $866,958 to the Social Services Agencies of Texas workers’ compensation safety group. The dividend was earned based on the group members’ dedication to...
Lauve, Insurors Group Board Member, Named IIAT Chair
Jul 7 2016 // Insurors Group LLC, an alliance of independent insurance agents in Texas, announced that members of its board of directors were recognized by the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas at the group’s convention in San...
Citing Texas Cap, Judge Reduces Johnson & Johnson $500M Implant Verdict
Jul 7 2016 // A U.S. judge has slashed a $500 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy unit over allegedly defective metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants to approximately $151 million. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge...
Landscaping Products Company Fined $66K for Safety Violations at Texas Worksite
Jul 6 2016 // L&M Bag and Supply Company Inc., doing business as L&M Supply Company Inc., has been cited by federal safety officials over repeated safety violations at a worksite in San Marcos, Texas. Proposed penalties total...
As Texas Train Wreckage Smolders, BNSF Says Technology May Have Prevented Crash
Jun 30 2016 // Wreckage from a train collision continued to smolder on June 29 in the Texas Panhandle as workers prepared to remove the charred, twisted box cars from the tracks and renew their search for three missing crew...
Assurant Expands Private Flood Insurance to Texas
Jun 30 2016 // Assurant, Inc. has expanded its new private flood insurance to Texas homeowners. Assurant Primary Flood Insurance, introduced in Florida last month, offers structural coverage up to $800,000 and up to $250,000 in contents...
