Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Mutual Distributes $1.1M in Grants for Workforce Development
Dec 11 2019 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has distributed $1.1 million in grants to 16 organizations across the state to fund workforce development programs. “The Texas workforce is one of the strongest in the country, and...
Texas Windstorm Insurer to Assess Members $90M for Harvey, Defer Action on Rates
Dec 10 2019 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association board of directors voted today to assess member insurance companies $90 million based on losses from Hurricane Harvey and voted to defer further consideration of action regarding...
Special Report: America’s Best Independent Insurance Agencies to Work For
Dec 10 2019 // The votes have been tallied and the results are in for the 2019 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For survey by Insurance Journal. The winners have been chosen by employees. Employees of the Best Agencies to Work...
Report Shows Fire at Texas Facility Caused by Equipment Failure
Dec 9 2019 // A fire at a Houston, Texas-area petrochemical storage facility that burned for days in March was accidental and caused by equipment failure at a storage tank, according to a report released Friday by local and federal...
Plastics Manufacturer Settles Retired Texas Shrimper’s Lawsuit for $50M
Dec 9 2019 // A federal judge has approved a historic settlement agreement between Taiwan-based plastics manufacturer Formosa and an environmental activist represented by indigent legal services nonprofit Texas Rio Grande Legal...
Texas Woman, Man Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud in Separate Cases
Dec 6 2019 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that two Texans have been convicted of workers’ compensation fraud in two separate cases. The workers’ compensation insurer said Sharon Boachie of Arlington and Larry Toliver...
Texas City Again Issues Voluntary Evacuation Order over Chemical Plant Blast
Dec 6 2019 // Concerns over air quality have prompted a voluntary evacuation order that was in effect on Dec. 5 for a Texas Gulf Coast city where a pair of chemical plant explosions occurred last week. Port Neches issued the voluntary...
SLTX: Texas’ E&S Premium Amount Reaches Record High in November
Dec 5 2019 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) says it recorded $513.68 million in Texas excess and surplus lines insurance premium in November 2019. This total continues the year’s trend of each month in 2019...
Texas Chemical Plant Shut by Explosions, Fire to Be Rebuilt, Company Says
Dec 5 2019 // Petrochemical maker TPC Group Inc will rebuild the Texas plant shut last week by devastating explosions that ignited fires that burned for six days, a spokeswoman said on Dec. 4. The last fire at the Port Neches plant was...
Sutton Joins RHSB’s Public Entities Practice Group in Texas
Dec 5 2019 // Dallas-based Roach Howard Smith & Barton (RHSB) has added Cathilina Sutton to its Public Entities Practice Group. She will be serving as a senior account manager working closely with Allison Nixon, vice president, and...
County Official: No Plans to Sue over Texas Chemical Plant Fire
Dec 4 2019 // The top official of an east Texas county that evacuated 60,000 residents last week after a petrochemical plant exploded and caught fire said on Dec. 3 he does not plan to sue the company, and will leave potential...
World Insurance Associates Acquires Texas’ McMillan Insurance Group
Dec 4 2019 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired McMillan Insurance Group of Fort Worth, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2011, McMillan Insurance Group provides customized commercial...
FedNat Completes Acquisition of 1347 Property Insurance Homeowners Operations
Dec 4 2019 // FedNat Holding Company (FNHC), an insurance holding company, has completed its acquisition of the homeowners insurance operations of 1347 Property Insurance Holdings, Inc. (PIH), consisting of Maison Insurance Co., Maison...
Texas Plant Rocked by Explosions Was Declared High Priority Violator by EPA
Dec 3 2019 // The Port Neches, Texas, chemical plant where two explosions and a fire prompted widespread mandatory evacuations on Nov. 27 has a years-long history of state and federal environmental violations. The facility owned by...
3 Hurt At Texas Chemical Plant Hit By Two Massive Explosions
Dec 2 2019 // Two massive explosions 13 hours apart tore through a Texas chemical plant last week, and one left three workers injured. The blasts blew out windows and doors of nearby homes and prompted a mandatory evacuation of a 4-mile...
Texas Mutual Distributes $3.5M in Early Qualifier Dividends
Dec 2 2019 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. recently paid $3.5 million in early qualifier dividends to approximately 3,200 newer policyholder owners across the state. This payout is the final component of the company’s $330 million...
5% Rate Hike Recommended for Texas Windstorm Insurer
Dec 2 2019 // When the board of directors of Texas’ property insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast meets in December, its members will be considering a recommendation by the organization’s actuarial...
More Storms. Less Damage. But 2019’s Slow Hurricanes Leave Sense of Foreboding.
Nov 30 2019 // The Atlantic Ocean has spawned lots of storms this season while doing much less damage than prior years. But warming waters promise trouble ahead. The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Nov. 30, has been the eighth...
Texas Chemical Plant Fire Brought Under Control
Nov 29 2019 // AUSTIN, Texas , NOV. 29 —Officials lifted evacuation orders Friday for around 50,000 people on the Texas Gulf Coast, determining a massive fire was finally under control at a chemical plant rocked by two major explosions...
Texas Orthopedic Surgeon to Pay $300K to Settle False Claims, Kickback Case
Nov 27 2019 // The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma reported that a Texas surgeon has agreed to resolve False Claims Act allegations that he accepted illegal kickback payments from OK Compounding LLC for...
