Latest Texas Headlines
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Rise in Texas Crop Insurance Payouts Driven by Drought
Jun 6 2024 // The financial costs of drought in Texas have risen rapidly over recent decades, according to a new analysis of federal crop insurance data. The nonprofit Environmental Working Group, a longtime critic of the federal crop...
Louisiana Gun Bill Risks Roiling Wall Street’s Muni Business
Jun 5 2024 // Louisiana could soon bar banks that “discriminate” against firearm entities from working on government contracts, after lawmakers advanced legislation that’s similar to a Texas statute that has whipsawed...
Texas Faces New Heat Advisories With Temperatures Above 100F
Jun 4 2024 // Parts of Texas and the western US are being warned of high temperatures on Tuesday, putting electric grids to the test as residents turn to air conditioning to stay cool. Heat advisories are up across central and southern...
Insurance Council of Texas Offers Tips for Hurricane Preparation
Jun 3 2024 // With June marking the start of 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season, the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) is reminding residents of steps to take to prepare for hurricanes. The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration...
Business Moves
Jun 3 2024 // National Neptune Flood, Charles River Data Private flood insurer Neptune Flood reported it acquired Charles River Data, a Boston-based data science consulting group. Charles River Data was founded by data scientists from...
Marsh McLennan Acquires Texas’ Perkins Insurance Agencies
May 31 2024 // Marsh McLennan Agency, a subsidiary of Marsh, announced the acquisition of Perkins Insurance Agencies, an Abilene, Texas-based independent agency. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 1977, Perkins...
Inszone Acquires Texas’ T Blackwell Insurance Group
May 31 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of T Blackwell Insurance Group, an agency based in Garden Ridge, Texas. Founded by Tracey Blackwell in 2012, T Blackwell Insurance Group has carved a niche in personal...
Latest Texas Storms Bring Damaging Winds, Baseball-Sized Hail
May 30 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving one person dead and about 1 million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe...
Texas Panhandle Braces for Damaging Hail and Wind: Weather Watch
May 30 2024 // Severe thunderstorms are set to sweep across Texas Panhandle, including Lubbock and Amarillo on Thursday. The risk will drop on Friday and Saturday but destructive systems will still be possible, the US Storm Prediction...
More Than 5 Million Texans Live in Flood-Prone Areas According to State Flood Plan
May 29 2024 // More than 5 million Texans, or one in six people in the state, live or work in an area susceptible to flooding, according to a draft of the state’s first-ever flood plan. The plan by the Texas Water Development Board...
Texas Storm Leaves Thousands of Homes Without Power: Weather Watch
May 29 2024 // Across parts of Texas, and mostly in the east, 500,789 customers reportedly had outages at 4:45 am EDT, according to PowerOutage.us. On Tuesday, 1,161 flights into and around the US were canceled with the majority of those...
Bayer Fights for Survival as Roundup Lawsuits Burn Cash
May 29 2024 // Bayer AG Chief Executive Officer Bill Anderson said the wave of lawsuits over its Roundup weedkiller is an “existential” threat to the company and farmers, ratcheting up the stakes as it considers a...
Texas Panhandle Prepares for State’s Next Big Wildfire
May 28 2024 // LUBBOCK — Spring rains have revived much of the green grass covering stretches of plains in the Texas Panhandle — the same land that, just three months ago, was black from fire and ash after wildfires burned more than...
Uvalde Families Sue Meta and Call of Duty Maker
May 28 2024 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Families in Uvalde took more legal action Friday on the second anniversary of the Robb Elementary School attack, suing Meta Platforms, which owns Instagram, and the maker of the video game Call of...
Storms Leave 15 Dead, Hundreds Injured in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas
May 28 2024 // VALLEY VIEW, Texas (AP) — Powerful storms killed at least 15 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop...
Plans to Spend Billions on a Flood-Prone East Texas Highway May Not Solve the Problem
May 23 2024 // LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Highway 59, a major evacuation route from Houston, has been a problem for East Texas for decades. And as flooding rivaling that of Hurricane Harvey inundated the region in April, the highway...
Texas Manufacturer to Pay $35K for Denying Job to Applicant with Opioid Use Disorder
May 23 2024 // The Modern Group, Ltd. (TMG), headquartered in Beaumont, Texas, and one of its subsidiaries, Dragon Rig Sales and Service, LLC, a manufacturing and service company which builds oilfield service equipment for energy and...
Texas Braces for More Heat, Storms and Floods: Weather Watch
May 23 2024 // Parts of the central US stretching from North Dakota to northern Texas, including Dallas, face an enhanced risk from severe thunderstorms, strong wind, hail and possibly tornadoes on Thursday, the US Storm Prediction...
People Moves: BenefitMall Appoints Wong Benefits Sales Executive for Texas
May 22 2024 // Trent Wong BenefitMall, headquartered in Dallas, hired Trent Wong as a benefits sales executive for Texas. Before joining BenefitMall, Wong was a senior account manager at Energy Insurance Agency and a small group sales...
TWIA Prepares Biennial Report for Texas Legislature; Assoc. Sees Limited Claims From Houston Storm
May 22 2024 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Board’s Legislative & External Affairs Committee met on May 21 to plan the association’s Biennial Report to the Texas Legislature. TWIA submits a biennial report to...
