All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 9 2019 // Emergency responders in Texas rescued numerous people from rising floodwaters Tuesday as a strong storm battered the Houston area with heavy rain, inundating homes and leaving motorists stranded just two years Hurricane...
May 9 2019 // Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced plans to distribute $330 million in dividends to policyholders in 2019.The dividends will be distributed to over 55,000 business owners, who are...
May 9 2019 // A suburban Dallas bartender is accused of continuing to serve drinks to a drunken man who later went to his estranged wife’s home and killed her and seven other people while they were watching a Dallas Cowboys game...
May 8 2019 // Nearly a year after a mass shooting at a Texas high school in which eight students and two substitute teachers were killed, lawmakers in the gun-friendly state are close to passing new measures that they say would harden...
May 8 2019 // The Nitsche Group, based in Giddings, Texas, has appointed Richard Weinstein as insurance sales producer for the Central Texas region. Weinstein has worked in the insurance industry for 27 years. He specializes in employee...
May 7 2019 // A meat packing plant in San Angelo, Texas, has been cited for exposing workers to highly hazardous chemicals and faces more than $615,000 in penalties.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
May 7 2019 // Fort Wayne, Indiana-based K&K Insurance Group Inc. has purchased the book of business of Pullen Insurance Services Inc., headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.Specializing in the placement of insurance coverage for...
May 6 2019 // The Leavitt Group’s Risk Services – Leavitt Insurance Agencies (RSL) is opening a new location in Corpus Christi, Texas, and a group of the company’s employees are transferring from a sister agency to...
May 6 2019 // The Texas agency responsible for regulating insurance business in the state has been on a mission to modernize, increase efficiency, strengthen consumer protections and generally make the organization more...
May 6 2019 // The use of telemedicine may be in its nascent stages within the workers’ compensation system, but the starting line has definitely been crossed with employers and workers’ comp insurers embracing the ability to...
May 2 2019 // Weeks after a massive fire at a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility garnered national attention, a panel of state lawmakers heard dueling testimony Monday night on a bill that would strengthen state oversight of...
May 1 2019 // Water pollution charges have been filed against a company that owns a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility where a large fire that burned for days in March caused chemicals to flow into a nearby waterway.The Harris...
Apr 30 2019 // The Texas Senate has approved a bill intended to increase security and prevent on-campus incidents of violence at public schools.Senate Bill 11, by state Sen. Larry Taylor of Friendswood, would direct the Texas Education...
Apr 30 2019 // On Jan. 16, an employee at the Texas Department of Insurance noticed an unwelcome pest in her fifth-floor office in one of the towers of downtown Austin’s William P. Hobby Jr. State Office Building.Her maintenance...
Apr 29 2019 // The National Weather Service says at least nine tornadoes were formed during a two-day period of severe weather in eastern Texas and Louisiana.Meteorologist Davyon Hill says seven tornadoes were part of the same parent...
Apr 29 2019 // At least one person has died on Texas roads every day since Nov. 7, 2000. Despite efforts to End the Streak, as the Texas Department of Transportation puts it, the state still leads the nation in traffic deaths.Fatalities...
Apr 26 2019 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation has awarded a total of $40,000 in academic scholarships to 30 students studying insurance and risk management at five Texas universities.The students attend the...
Apr 25 2019 // Cover, a mobile-first insurance brokerage, has begun selling its own auto insurance policies in Texas.The new service — an evolution from the company’s nationally-licensed insurance brokerage — combines a...
Apr 25 2019 // At least three horses were killed and several Texas homes evacuated early Wednesday when a train carrying the highly flammable liquid ethanol derailed and caught fire.It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the Union...
Apr 24 2019 // Storms that pummeled North Texas overnight are being blamed for stranding motorists in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and for flooding underground parking lots at a Dallas airport.Dozens of vehicles were submerged in nearly...