Latest Texas Headlines
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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...
Lawsuit Settled in Texas Child’s Brain-Eating Amoeba Death
Apr 5 2022 // A Texas city has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a 3-year-old boy who died last September after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a splash pad he’d visited. The Arlington City...
Lawsuit Settled in Texas Child’s Brain-Eating Amoeba Death
Apr 4 2022 // A Texas city has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a 3-year-old boy who died last September after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a splash pad he’d visited. The Arlington City...
Supreme Court Cast Doubt on Texas Immunity Claim in Vet’s Suit
Apr 1 2022 // The Supreme Court on Tuesday cast doubt on Texas’ claim that it can’t be sued by a former state trooper who says he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq. The justices heard...
Texas High Court: Wrongful Death Suit Against Gentlemen’s Club in Hands of Arbitrator
Mar 31 2022 // Three terms in a written contract between a gentlemen’s club and a deceased employee are not so unclear as to nullify the contract’s arbitration agreement, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in a March 18 per curiam...
Texas’ Skyward Specialty Expands D&O Solutions for Non-Standard HOA Market
Mar 30 2022 // Houston, Texas-based Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc. is expanding its Management Liability solutions by offering targeted directors and officers (D&O) coverage to Non-Standard Non-Profit Condominium and...
South Texas Wildfire Destroys 3 Homes; Blaze Only 10% Contained
Mar 29 2022 // A wildfire has burned more an 1,000 acres in South Texas forcing some people to evacuate, destroying three homes and knocking out power to more than 100 others, officials said on March 27. Gov. Greg Abbott declared a...
NFP Acquires Texas’ Achilles & Associates
Mar 29 2022 // NFP has acquired Achilles & Associates, an Austin, Texas-based P&C broker that provides customized commercial P&C, personal lines P&C, and benefits insurance solutions to individuals, small businesses and...
Texas Department of Insurance Reports Data Breach
Mar 25 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) became aware of a security issue on January 4, 2022 with a TDI web application that manages workers’ compensation information. TDI immediately took the application offline,...
Assurex Global Adds Texas-Based Watkins Insurance Group As Partner
Mar 25 2022 // Assurex Global announced that Austin, Texas-based Watkins Insurance Group has joined the firm. Assurex Global now consists of 97 independent agencies. Watkins Insurance Group was founded in 1949 as R.B. Lewis Agency. In...
Texas Gov. Issues Disaster Declaration, Louisiana Sends National Guard Following Storms
Mar 24 2022 // A tornado that menaced New Orleans flipped a schoolbus, ripped off rooftops and deposited a house with a family inside onto the middle of Prosperity Street. Two people were killed as the storm front blew across the...
Powerful Storm System Leaves 1 Dead, More Than Dozen Injured in Texas, Oklahoma
Mar 23 2022 // One person was killed and more than a dozen were injured when tornadoes tore through parts of Texas and Oklahoma, damaging a school, homes and businesses, officials said. The same storm system was poised to move into...
Crews Make Progress in Containing Texas Wildfire
Mar 23 2022 // Firefighting crews were making progress containing a massive Texas wildfire that was blamed for last week’s death of a deputy, officials said. The Eastland Complex has burned about 85 square miles (220 square...
13-Year Old Behind Wheel of West Texas Crash That Killed 9 People
Mar 23 2022 // Authorities investigating a fiery head-on crash in West Texas don’t know why a 13-year-old boy was driving while his father sat in the passenger seat of a pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and collided...
Storm System Brings Much Needed Rain to Texas areas Scorched by Fires
Mar 22 2022 // Wildfires continued to scorch parts of Texas on March 21, and a storm system moving through could bring much-needed rain but also strong winds, forecasters said. The fires were already blamed for the deaths of two...
Multiple Tornados Hit Texas; Severe Storm Warning Still in Effect For South Central Region
Mar 22 2022 // Multiple tornadoes were reported in central Texas Monday March 21, causing “devastating” property damage according to Gov. Greg Abbott. A tornado touched ground in Red Rock, about 30 miles southeast of Austin,...
Shooting Wounds 4 at Austin, Texas Festival
Mar 21 2022 // Four people were shot and wounded in downtown Austin, Texas, early Sunday as the city hosts the annual South by Southwest festival, police said. The Austin Police Department told people to avoid the area at around 2:50...
Texas Oilfield Company Charged With Workers Safety, Environmental Crimes
Mar 21 2022 // A federal grand jury in Midland, Texas, returned an indictment charging an oilfield company and an executive of the company with worker safety and environmental crimes. According to court documents, Aghorn Operating Inc....
Bus Carrying College Golf Teams Crashes in Texas, Leaving 9 Dead
Mar 17 2022 // A vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest’s golf teams collided head-on with a pickup truck in West Texas, killing nine people, authorities said. The vehicles collided the night of March 15 in...
Texas Refrigerated Trucking Company to Pay $75K Over Disability Discrimination Suit
Mar 15 2022 // Stevens Transport, the largest refrigerated trucking company in Texas, will pay $75,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
