Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
BXS Insurance Morphing to Cadence After Mississippi-Texas Bank Merger
May 4 2022 // The nation’s second-largest bank-owned insurance brokerage, BXS Insurance, is changing its brand name to Cadence Insurance, the company announced. The BXSI name is changing but the people are not, CEO Markham...
Texan Insurance Acquires Marek in Texas
May 3 2022 // Texan Insurance acquired Marek Insurance effective Jan. 31, 2022 in an all-cash transaction. Crosby, Texas-based Marek is Texan’s second agency purchase in three months and bringing its employee count to 75. The...
Keystone Adds Texas’ Trimble-Batjer to Network
May 3 2022 // Keystone Insurers Group named Trimble-Batjer Insurance Associates, LLP of San Angelo and San Antonio, Texas to its growing network of Texas agencies. Trimble-Batjer focuses on commercial insurance and bonds, including oil...
People Moves: Texas Mutual Names Ziolkowski Regional VP; RHSB Adds Smith, Yoder as Assistant VPs
Apr 29 2022 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company Names James Ziolkowksi as Regional Vice President Texas Mutual Insurance Company recently named James (Jim) Ziolkowski, of Lakeway, Texas as regional vice president for its Austin office. In...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Recognizes Beverage Distributor
Apr 27 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) recognized Tyler Beverages with the Lone Star Safety Program Award for its exemplary workplace health and safety programs and low rates of...
Drinkable Sunscreen Company Ordered to Pay Texas $42,000
Apr 25 2022 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton obtained an agreed judgment against DRINK UVO, a California company that sold a drinkable sunscreen product that was promoted as providing hours of sun protection which misled consumers...
Texas Division of Workers’ Comp Seeks Comments on Income Benefits Form
Apr 25 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is accepting public comments on a proposed new form: DWC Form-033, Request to Reduce Income Benefits Due to Contribution. Adopting this form...
FEMA Invites Public to Comment on Johnson County, Texas Flood Maps
Apr 22 2022 // Preliminary flood risk information and updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps are available for review in Johnson County, Texas, FEMA announced this week. Residents and business owners are encouraged to review the latest...
Risk Strategies Acquires Texas’ Advisor Brokerage Services
Apr 21 2022 // Risk Strategies has acquired full-service insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm Advisor Brokerage Services (ABS). Terms of the deal were not announced. Although well established in the state, ABS is the...
State Farm Awards ICT $40,000 Grant to Promote Education Programs in Texas
Apr 19 2022 // State Farm Insurance has awarded the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) with a $40,000 grant to promote and develop education programs throughout the state. ICT will use the grant to grow its multiple public service and...
Texas Metal Fabricator Cited for Exposing Employees to Hazards
Apr 18 2022 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Texas metal fabricator for repeatedly exposing employees to fall, machine and other safety hazards. OSHA’s most recent...
23 Injured in Texas Storms; More Tornadoes Forecast in US
Apr 14 2022 // Nearly two dozen people were injured when tornadoes swept through central Texas as part of a storm system that was expected to spawn more twisters and damaging winds Wednesday. The storms caused widespread damage Tuesday...
EEOC Sues Paper Company for Disability Discrimination at Texas Location
Apr 13 2022 // International Paper, Co., one of the world’s largest producers of fiber-based products such as packaging materials and fiber pulp, violated federal law by discriminating against an applicant based on his disability,...
Keystone Adds Texas’ Boley-Featherson to Network
Apr 13 2022 // Keystone Insurance Group, a participant-owned insurance agency network, has named Wichita Falls, Texas-based Boley-Featherson to its growing network of agencies in the Mid-South region. Boley-Featherson was established in...
Vehicle Collides With Food Truck in Austin, Texas, Injuring 11
Apr 11 2022 // Eleven people were injured in a “major collision” the night of April 8 in Austin, Texas, involving pedestrians and two vehicles, one of which hit a food truck, authorities said. Austin-Travis County Emergency...
Small Plane Crash Kills 2 in Central Texas; FAA, NTSB to Investigate
Apr 8 2022 // Two people were killed April 5 when the small plane they were flying in crashed near a Central Texas airport, officials said. Those aboard the single-engine Cessna TU206H were a man and a woman, according to the Texas...
Texas Judge: NFL QB Watson Must Address History With Therapists
Apr 7 2022 // Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson must say whether he had sex with 18 massage therapists who supported him last year following criminal complaints, a judge in Texas ruled Tuesday. USA Today reported that Watson...
Dean & Draper Acquires Texas’ Baty Worldwide
Apr 7 2022 // Dean & Draper Insurance Agency, L.P. has acquired Houston, Texas-based Baty Worldwide effective April 1, 2022. “This acquisition will increase Dean & Draper’s revenue of commercial, personal, employee...
Severe Storms Kill 1 in Texas
Apr 7 2022 // Violent storms killed one person in Texas on April 5 as hail pelted communities and high winds knocked trees into power poles elsewhere in the South. Authorities issued a flurry of tornado warnings at the start of what...
Report: Texas Dept. of Insurance Data Breach Affected 1.8M People
Apr 6 2022 // A data breach at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) early this year affected approximately 1,800,000 Texans, according to the Data Security Breach Reports from the Office of the Attorney General. TDI announced in...
