All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 11 2019 // A San Antonio woman pleaded guilty to fraud after a Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) investigation found she pocketed money from clients who thought they were buying home policies.Cynthia Olague, a former insurance...
Mar 8 2019 // Dallas-based CRC Group, a distributor of wholesale and specialty insurance products, has launched a new brand name for its exclusive products — Insurisk.Additionally, CRC Group has entered into an exclusive partnership...
Mar 8 2019 // The U.S. Justice Department and Exxon Mobil Corp have reached a settlement resolving Clean Air Act violations stemming from a 2013 fire at the company’s Beaumont, Texas, refinery that killed two employees and injured...
Mar 7 2019 // A Spring, Texas, insurance adjuster has been sentenced for stealing nearly $100,000 from the insurance company where he worked, the Texas Department of Insurance announced.Allen Castillo pleaded guilty after an...
Mar 7 2019 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage headquartered in Chicago, has acquired the assets of Peak Financial Group LLC (Peak Financial Group) in Houston, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not...
Mar 6 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Bruce Foods Corp. – a Mexican food manufacturer based in El Paso, Texas – after an employee suffered an amputation....
Mar 5 2019 // Long after the rains stopped and floodwaters receded, thousands of Texans whose homes were flooded by Hurricane Harvey tried to participate in buyout programs that would help diminish the property damage of future...
Mar 5 2019 // Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group LLC has acquired the assets and operations of Myron F. Steves & Co. (Myron Steves), an independently owned wholesale insurance brokerage headquartered in Houston, Texas, with...
Mar 5 2019 // A former pharmaceutical representative has pleaded guilty in Texas to a role in an $8 million health care fraud scheme that netted her over $1 million, according to U.S. Attorney John Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge...
Mar 4 2019 // Family members of victims of a Texas church shooting are suing a sporting goods chain that sold the weapons used in the 2017 massacre. The lawsuit filed in state district court in San Antonio alleges Academy Sports &...
Mar 4 2019 // A new report shows the impact of the insurance industry in Texas and the contributions it makes to the state.In addition to providing financial security and helping manage risk for Texans in all walks of life, insurance...
Mar 4 2019 // Searchers combing a shallow Texas bay have recovered the second of two flight recorders from a cargo plane hauling Amazon packages that crashed last week, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday, two days...
Mar 4 2019 // Medical Cannabis“There is incredible medicinal value associated with cannabis.” — Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, on supporting the legalization of medical marijuana in the state. After losing a nephew to a...
Mar 4 2019 // Texas independent insurance agents might want to warn their homeowner insurance customers that premium hikes and/or increases in deductibles could be on the horizon this year.Homeowners insurers have been filing for rate...
Feb 28 2019 // A Texas state representative has filed a bill that would require proof of citizenship in order to purchase personal auto insurance. Rep. Bill Zedler, a Republican from Arlington (District 96), has filed HB 2648, which...
Feb 27 2019 // A Plano, Texas, woman pleaded guilty to insurance fraud for faking cancer claims to get more than $300,000 in insurance payments over two years, the Texas Department of Insurance announced. Karissa White Coleman, a former...
Feb 27 2019 // Authorities have been searching a bay off southeast Texas for clues about what caused a Boeing 767 cargo plane carrying Amazon packages to nose-dive into the shallow water, killing all three men on board.A north wind aided...
Feb 26 2019 // Property/casualty insurance trade group, the Insurance Council of Texas, is seeing candidate nominations for its annual industry leadership award.Since 1998, has awarded its Raymond Mauk Leadership Award to an individual...
Feb 26 2019 // FedNat Holding Co. has agreed to purchase substantially all of 1347 Property Insurance Holdings homeowners’ insurance operations, consisting of Maison Insurance Co., Maison Managers and ClaimCor in a 50/50 cash and...
Feb 25 2019 // The county home to Houston is in line to receive a $320,000 federal grant to evaluate a flood protection strategy that involves building deep underground tunnels to move stormwater to the city’s ship channel.The...