Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Biotechnology Producer to Pay $253K Over Alleged Violations of Pesticide Regulations
Mar 14 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) settled with Allied BioScience, Inc. (Allied BioScience) over alleged violations of federal pesticide regulations with the company’s SurfaceWise2 product, a residual...
Inszone Acquires Texas-Based Texstar
Mar 11 2022 // Inszone Insurance Services has acquired San Antonio, Texas-based Texstar Insurance Services Inc. Texstar specializes in auto, home, life and business insurance. Inszone Insurance is expected to announce several...
HUD: Texas Agency Discriminated in Hurricane Harvey Flood Relief Funding
Mar 10 2022 // Texas’ administration of flood relief money from Hurricane Harvey broke federal law by discriminating against Black and Hispanic residents in the Houston area, according to a decision by the federal housing agency...
Chevron Phillips Chemical Agrees to Reduce Air Pollution at 3 Texas Plants
Mar 9 2022 // Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP has agreed to make upgrades and perform compliance measures estimated to cost $118 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Air Act and state air pollution control laws...
Texas Division of Workers’ Comp Seeks Public Comments On Proposed EDI Form Revisions
Mar 9 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is accepting public comments on proposed revisions to a pair of Electronic Data Interchange forms: EDI-01, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)...
Self-Driving Company Kodiak Robotics Hauls Freight For CEVA in Texas, Oklahoma
Mar 9 2022 // Kodiak Robotics on March 9 said it has partnered with France-based CEVA Logistics to transport freight in self-driving trucks across Texas and Oklahoma, marking the latest autonomous trucking partnership in the...
Texas Oil Pipeline Billionaire Sues Beto O’Rourke For Defamation
Mar 9 2022 // A Texas oil pipeline billionaire is suing Beto O’Rourke for defamation after the Democrat criticized his $1 million donation to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign following last year’s deadly winter...
Texas Oilfield Company Charged With Workers Safety, Environmental Crimes
Mar 9 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....
FMCSA Declares Texas Motor Carrier to be an Imminent Hazard to Public Safety Following Fatal Crash
Mar 8 2022 // The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Koboat Trucking LLC, USDOT No. 3273682, a Houston-based motor carrier, to be an “imminent hazard”...
Texas Supreme Court: Anti-Indemnity Act Doesn’t Cover Crane Operator
Mar 8 2022 // The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a Texas Workers’ Compensation Act (TWCA) provision for what constitutes an employee does not affect the enforceability of an additional-insured provision under the Texas...
UN Report Details Extent of Climate Change on Gulf Coast
Mar 7 2022 // Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain on parts of the Texas coast in 2017. Then in 2020, ferocious winds from Hurricane Laura destroyed homes across coastal Louisiana. Hurricane Ida hit in 2021, leaving the...
Texas Supreme Court Allows For Exception to 8-Corners Rule
Mar 7 2022 // For more than 50 years, insurers have known that their duty to defend a Texas policyholder from a lawsuit must be decided based only on the language of the insurance contract and the allegations made by the plaintiff. The...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Reports 78K COVID-19 Claims
Mar 4 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) reported more than 78,000 COVID claims and 422 fatalities as of Feb. 6, 2022. DWC’s March report, “COVID-19 In The Texas...
Texas Man Convicted For Threatening to Extort Insurance Contract
Mar 4 2022 // A 48-year-old Sullivan City, Texas man has admitted to threatening to cancel a contract if he did not receive increased monetary payments, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Oscar Salinas aka “Coach”...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Adopts Data Collection Amendments
Mar 1 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced on Feb. 23 that it has adopted amendments to the Texas Administrative Code to update and enhance its data collection methods....
Brown & Brown Acquires Texas’ CrossCover
Feb 28 2022 // Brown & Brown, Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire CrossCover Insurance Services. The transaction is expected to close before April 2022, subject to certain closing conditions. CrossCover provides E&S...
Texas Supreme Court Affirms Governmental Immunity in Pair of Decisions
Feb 25 2022 // The Texas Supreme Court recently delivered rulings on a pair of cases challenging the City of San Antonio’s governmental immunity, and in both instances the court affirmed that the Texas Torts Claim Act protects a...
Texas MGA Sensa to Debut Personal Auto Insurance Offering
Feb 24 2022 // Austin Texas-based MGA Sensa has partnered with Incline P&C Group to provide their personal auto insurance offering. Sensa will act as an MGA to offer its product through a network of appointed retail brokers and...
Texas’ Dents.co Launches App That Measures Auto Body Damage
Feb 23 2022 // Dents.co, a new software company based in Longview, Texas, has launched a mobile app that measures auto body damage and provides reporting that repairers can share with insurers partners to speed negotiation repair...
COVID Underscores Lack of Whistleblower Protections
Feb 22 2022 // Originally posted on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Inside a partially completed Amazon warehouse here, workers last summer walked on conveyor belts four stories high without safety harnesses,...
