Federal safety officials have levied more than a half a million dollars in penalties against a Texas rubber products company for multiple workplace safety violations. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Custom Rubber Products …
Agents and brokers can now input policy limit information directly into the Surplus Line Stamping Office of Texas’ (SLTX’s) Electronic Filing System (EFS). A new field has been added to the system to allow input of the highest aggregate limit …
Housing sales in Texas would drop, gasoline prices would increase and the state would lose hundreds of billions of dollars in economic output if another major storm struck an unprotected coastline, according to a new study. The joint economic impact …
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready on May 24 issued a bulletin directing insurance companies to keep coverage in effect for storm victims for the next 30 days. The bulletin was issued following severe weather and flooding that swamped Oklahoma last …
A tornado leveled a motel and tore through a mobile home park near Oklahoma City overnight, killing two people and injuring at least 29 others before a second twister raked a suburb of Tulsa more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) …
Texas’ property insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast voted at a May 24, 2019, meeting of its board of directors to withdraw a 10% rate increase filed last year that was subsequently put on …
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. agreed to pay $85 million to settle an Oklahoma lawsuit claiming that illegal marketing of its opioid painkillers contributed to a public health crisis in the state. The deal, announced Sunday, was reached just as the …
Gail Box vividly remembers the day in May 2011 when she first learned her 22-year-old son Austin, a University of Oklahoma linebacker, was abusing opioid painkillers: It was the day he died of an overdose. In a few months he …
The Oklahoma Senate has approved legislation that makes changes to Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system that lawmakers say will preserve and strengthen reforms adopted in 2013. An increase in benefits paid to injured workers is included among the provisions of House …
A major barrier that keeps the Mississippi River in its current path may be opened for just the third time in its history, potentially flooding a large part of rural Louisiana. Concern is growing that heavy rains will cause the …
