Latest Texas Headlines
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Actuarial Committee Recommends No Change in Texas Windstorm Insurance Rates
Jul 19 2022 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s Actuarial & Underwriting Committee recommended to the board of directors that there should be no change in residential or commercial insurance rates. The Actuarial...
Texas Jury Hands Fired Southwest Flight Attendant $5.1 Million Verdict
Jul 18 2022 // A former Southwest Airlines flight attendant who was fired after sparring with her union president over abortion and other issues won a $5.1 million jury verdict against the airline and the union. A jury in federal...
Regulator Bars Texas Plant Restart Over Safety Concerns
Jul 18 2022 // The second-biggest U.S. liquefied natural gas export facility hit by fire in early June will not be allowed to repair or restart operations until it addresses risks to public safety, a pipeline regulator. The June 8 blast...
NTSB: Dad, Not 13-Year-Old, Was Driving Truck That Hit Golfers’ Van in Texas
Jul 15 2022 // A Texas man, not his 13-year-old son, was driving the pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a van carrying New Mexico college golfers, killing nine people, and he had methamphetamine in his system,...
Uvalde, Texas Video Raises More Calls for Police Accountability
Jul 15 2022 // As video taken inside Robb Elementary School puts in full view the bewildering inaction by law enforcement during the May slaughter of 19 children and two teachers, some in Uvalde are shouting: Will police face...
Lawsuit Alleges Texas Officer Paralyzed Man in Jail
Jul 15 2022 // A man filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing a Texas police officer of using excessive force while restraining him in jail and inflicting injuries that left him paralyzed from the chest down. The lawsuit on behalf of...
Pregnant Texas Woman Pulled Over in HOV Lane Says Unborn Baby Counts as Passenger
Jul 13 2022 // When an officer pulled Brandy Bottone over for driving by herself in a high occupancy vehicle lane in Texas just days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, she pointed to her pregnant belly and told him her...
Texas Power Grid Operator Warns of Rolling Blackouts Amid Record Heat
Jul 11 2022 // \The operator of Texas’s power grid on Sunday called on state residents for the second time this year to conserve energy, warning of potential rolling blackouts amid predictions for record-high temperatures on...
People Moves: Robnett Appointed to Texas Mutual Board of Directors
Jul 8 2022 // Kevin Robnett of Fort Worth has been appointed to the Texas Mutual Insurance Company board of directors by Gov. Greg Abbott. His board term for Texas Mutual, the state’s leading provider of workers’...
Texas Cushion Manufacturer Faces $227,000 Fine For Inadequate Safety Guards
Jul 7 2022 // A federal workplace safety investigation into how an employee suffered serious injuries in January 2022 at a Temple, Texas manufacturing facility operated by Carpenter Co. – one of the nation’s largest cushion...
Texas Division of Workers’ Comp Seeks Input on MQRP rule changes
Jul 6 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) said it is accepting public comments on a proposed rule amending 28 Texas Administrative Code §180.62, concerning the Medical Quality Review...
Austin, Texas Officials Report At Least 90 Fires From July 4th Celebrations
Jul 5 2022 // The Austin, Texas fire department reported at least 90 fires the night of July 4th in spite of a fireworks ban ordered by Austin and Travis County officials. Most of the fires were small grass, dumpster and trash fires,...
Texas Manufacturing Company Fined $400,000 Over Worker’s Injuries
Jul 5 2022 // A federal workplace safety investigation found that a temporary worker suffered serious injuries on Jan. 3, 2022, after being struck by a large mold at a Texas concrete polymer manufacturing company. It was determined that...
Texas Division of Workers’ Comp Sets Discount Interest Rate
Jul 4 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation has determined that any interest or discount provided for in the Texas Labor Code shall be at the rate of 6.38%. The rate is effective July 1,...
Regulator Bars Texas Plant Restart Over Safety Concerns
Jul 1 2022 // The second-biggest U.S. liquefied natural gas export facility hit by fire earlier this month will not be allowed to repair or restart operations until it addresses risks to public safety, a pipeline regulator said on...
2 Workers Presumed Dead in Texas Trench Collapse
Jul 1 2022 // Two workers were presumed dead after a trench they were digging for a sewer line in Texas on Tuesday collapsed and buried them, officials said. The workers were digging a 24-foot-deep (7-meter-deep) in new subdivision...
Supreme Court: Vet Who Lost Job as Texas Trooper Can Sue State
Jul 1 2022 // The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a former state trooper to sue Texas over his claim that he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq. The justices ruled for Army veteran Le Roy Torres...
Texas-Based Injury Insurance Startup Spot Raises $33 Million
Jun 30 2022 // Spot, an Austin, Texas-based tech startup offering on-demand injury insurance, announced it has raised $33 million in funding, including $25 million in equity and $8 million in debt. The round was led by Ensemble VC, with...
Texas Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Walmart’s Opioid Sales
Jun 29 2022 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Tuesday he was investigating whether Walmart WMT.N improperly filled prescriptions and failed to report suspicious orders when selling opioid drugs. Paxton said he had opened a...
SURE Launches First Commercial Product for Texas Business Owners
Jun 29 2022 // SureChoice Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange launched its first commercial insurance product for small- and medium-sized businesses in Texas. SURE’s business owners policy combines both property and general liability...
