Latest Texas Headlines

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CSB: 27,000 Pounds of Toxic Gas Released in Texas Hydrogen Sulfide Release

Nov 21 2024 // The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released an investigation update into a fatal hydrogen sulfide release at PEMEX Deer Park Refinery in Texas. The incident occurred on October 10, 2024, and killed two workers and injured 13...

Texas Medical Center Settles Racial Hiring Discrimination Case

Nov 19 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have entered into a conciliation agreement in which the federal contractor will pay $900,000 in back wages and interest to resolve...

Inszone Acquires LIA of Texas

Nov 18 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of LIA Texas, LLC, an agency based in Dallas, Texas. This strategic acquisition enhances Inszone’s footprint in Texas, enhancing the company’s ability to...

Texas Pharmacy Owner Sentenced in $41M Health Insurance Fraud

Nov 18 2024 // A Dallas pharmacy owner who routinely billed insurance companies for headache sprays, pain creams, and scar creams never dispersed to patients was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the...

Texas Assisted Living Facility Fined for Firing Nurse With Sleep Disorder

Nov 18 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination and...

Texas DWC Seeks Comments on Employer Forms

Nov 14 2024 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is accepting public comments on revised static forms: DWC Form-005, Non-Subscriber Notice to Division of Workers’ Compensation. DWC...

Texas Workers’ Comp is Growing, Profitable, Adding Doctors

Nov 14 2024 // Texas’s worker’s compensation market is stable and steadily growing.The workers’ compensation market is one of the few consistently profitable lines in the state, according to the Worker’s...

World Insurance Associates Expands in Louisiana, Texas With 5 Acquisitions

Nov 12 2024 // World Insurance Associates LLC (“World”), announced today that it acquired the business of five entities with locations across Louisiana and Texas on August 1, 2024. The agencies are The Firm of Louisiana...

Hub Acquires Texas’ ANCO Insurance

Nov 12 2024 // Hub International Limited announced that it has acquired the assets of ANCO Insurance Managers, Inc. (ANCO Insurance). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Bryan, Texas with six additional offices,...

Judge Says NY Can’t Use ‘Unconstitutional’ Law to Block Migrant Buses From Texas

Nov 12 2024 // New York City can’t use an unconstitutional, two-century-old “anti-pauper” law to block the state of Texas from offering migrants free bus rides to the city from the southern border, a state judge has...

AI Thermostats Pitched for Texas Homes to Relieve Stressed Grid

Nov 8 2024 // Three of the biggest names in US home energy automation are coming together to offer some relief to the beleaguered Texas electrical grid.Power supplier NRG Energy Inc. is partnering with Renew Home LLC to distribute about...

Texas Medical Supplier to Pay $448K in Back Wages for Racial Hiring Discrimination

Nov 6 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has entered into an agreement with McKesson Medical-Surgical Inc., one of the nation’s largest distributors of medical supplies, to...

Fairgoers Join Lawsuit Against State Fair of Texas and Dallas Over Firearms Ban

Nov 6 2024 // Three fairgoers have joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in suing the State Fair of Texas and the city of Dallas over the fair’s policy banning all firearms from its properties.Monday’s filing is the...

Monarch E&S Acquires Texas’ Professional Insurance Executives

Nov 4 2024 // Monarch E&S Insurance Services (Monarch E&S), a division of Specialty Program Group LLC, announced its strategic acquisition of the assets of Professional Insurance Executives, Inc. (PIE), a leading contract...

Texas Agency Seeks $100M to Tackle Well Blowouts

Nov 4 2024 // Unable to keep up with the growing number of leaking and erupting wells in the state’s oil fields, the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, has asked lawmakers for an...

Texas Jury Orders Bell Helicopter to Pay $16M in Trade-Secrets Case

Nov 4 2024 // FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) โ€” A Texas jury ordered Bell Helicopter Textron to pay $16 million to a California company that claims Bell gave proprietary information that the companies developed to a rival supplier of cockpit...

Delta-8 Hemp, Medical Marijuana Industries to Face Off in Texas Legislative Session

Nov 1 2024 // Jack Stinnett got life-changing news in 2020 when he learned the lump that appeared on the side of his neck was tongue and mouth cancer. He and his wife Karen quickly enrolled him at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,...

Texas Pecan Farmers Fight to Save Water Supply

Nov 1 2024 // FORT STOCKTON โ€” Zachary Swick plucked a pecan from one of the 78,000 trees at a sprawling West Texas farm โ€” a rare sight in the desert known for oil rigs and pump jacks. He peeled away the pecan’s layers, leaving...

Texas Assisted Living Facility Fined for Firing Nurse With Sleep Disorder

Nov 1 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination and...

Texas Pharmacy Owner Sentenced in $41M Health Insurance Fraud

Oct 31 2024 // A Dallas pharmacy owner who routinely billed insurance companies for headache sprays, pain creams, and scar creams never dispersed to patients was sentenced last week to 10 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney...