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TWIA Committee to Consider General Manager Candidates at Upcoming Meeting

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association announced that its Board of Directors will meet on Wednesday, September 14 at 10:00 a.m. CT to discuss candidate interviews and potential action on a hiring decision for its General Manager position. The TWIA Board’s …

Federal Lawsuit Challenges Oklahoma Anti-Trans Bathroom Law

Civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of three transgender Oklahoma schoolchildren, arguing the state’s new law requiring students use only the bathroom of the sex listed on their birth certificate is unconstitutional. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in …

Texas DWC Proposed Agenda to be Published September 9

The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation has proposed the Fiscal Year 2023 Research Agenda of the Workers’ Compensation Research and Evaluation Group (REG). Texas Labor Code Section 405.0026 requires the REG to prepare a research agenda each …

EPA Denies Request to Exempt 2 Gulf Coast Plants From Air Pollution Rule

The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday denied a request by Cheniere Energy, a leading U.S. producer of liquefied natural gas, to exempt two Gulf Coast plants from a federal air pollution rule. An EPA spokesman says the agency on Tuesday …

Keystone Adds Allbright & Duncan in Texas

Keystone Insurers Group added Texas agency Allbright & Duncan to its growing network of agencies in the state. Based in Odessa, Allbright & Duncan’s specialties include general liability, auto, workers’ compensation, property, equipment, umbrella, builder’s risk, and more. Allbright & …

Jury Awards $48.5M to Baylor Medical College for COVID Business-Interruption Claim

A Texas jury awarded the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston $48,529,961 for damages caused by COVID-19 in what appears to be the first jury verdict in a lawsuit that sought insurance coverage for lost business income and other damages …

People Moves: Jenkins Joins OGA; NavSav Names Walters CEO

Summer Jenkins Joins OGA Summer Jenkins recently joined One General Agency (OGA) as the Executive Director of Cannabis Insurance Wholesalers (CIW). CIW is a specialty division of the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, agency. Jenkins has worked for some of the country’s …

Alera Group Acquires Texas’ Greenhill

Alera Group, a top independent national insurance and wealth services firm, today announced the acquisition of Houston, Texas-based Greenhill Insurance Services, a managing general underwriter and program manager with binding authority to underwrite professional liability programs throughout the country for …

Texas Safellite Autoglass Location Sued for Sex Discrimination

Safelite AutoGlass, a vehicle glass repair and replacement business, violated federal law by refusing to hire a qualified applicant because she is a woman, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed. According to the EEOC’s …

Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Fatal Crash of Oklahoma Officer

The family of an Oklahoma police officer killed when a truck struck the motorcycle he was riding while on duty is suing the driver and his employer. The wrongful death lawsuit, dated last Friday, on behalf of Edmond Officer C.J. …

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