All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 15 2018 // The family of a Fort Worth man who died after they say officers needlessly choked, kicked and shot him with a stun gun during a 2013 drug raid can proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit against two officers and the city,...
Oct 12 2018 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has effectively extended until June 16, 2019, the deadline for approval or disapproval of a recent rate increase filed by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association.The governor did so by suspending a...
Oct 12 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance has fined Humana $700,000 for putting consumers at risk of paying higher bills because of an inadequate number of anesthesiologists in Harris, Bexar and Travis counties. The problem meant...
Oct 11 2018 // Dallas-based Texas All Risk General Agency Inc. and Select General Agency LLC have promoted Binh Nguyen to personal lines manager.Nguyen will oversee underwriting and customer service for Texas All Risk homeowner’s...
Oct 11 2018 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Cassie Brown has appointed Debra Knight as the new deputy commissioner of Compliance and Investigations.This program area at the Division of Workers’ Compensation...
Oct 10 2018 // The National Weather Service reported that six small tornadoes from a single storm system hit Texas and Oklahoma, including one that forced the closure of a state highway in northeastern Oklahoma for more than six...
Oct 10 2018 // Myron Steves has named Becky Thomson to its executive team.As director of healthcare, Thompson provides oversight to the healthcare and educators liability departments. She has been responsible for managing account and...
Oct 8 2018 // Insgroup Inc. has acquired Houston, Texas-based Fred Brown Insurance Brokerage to enhance its Employee Benefits offering to large employer groups. Insgroup also acquired Fred Brown Property Casualty. Terms of the deal were...
Oct 5 2018 // Midlands Management Corp. has named Joshua Reynolds a broker in its transportation unit in Dallas, Texas. Reynolds has 19 years of insurance underwriting experience. He was previously a senior transportation underwriter...
Oct 4 2018 // Later this month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will recommend a multi-billion-dollar plan to help protect the Texas coast — the Houston area in particular — from hurricanes. When it will become a reality, however,...
Oct 4 2018 // A human trafficking survivor from Texas sued Facebook this week, alleging the social media platform provides human traffickers an unrestricted way to “stalk, exploit, recruit, groom … and extort children into...
Oct 4 2018 // The family of a Fort Worth man who died after they say officers needlessly choked, kicked and shot with a stun gun during a 2013 drug raid can proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit against two officers and the city, the...
Oct 2 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is accepting comment on the proposed Fiscal Year 2019 Research Agenda of the Workers’ Compensation Research and Evaluation Group...
Oct 2 2018 // Multiple injuries were reported Saturday when a school bus carrying students from Oklahoma rolled over along a central Texas highway.Lampasas Police Department Assistant Chief Jody Cummings said the crash occurred about...
Oct 2 2018 // A landlocked surf resort in Central Texas closed on Sept. 23 after a man who visited died from what is commonly known to as a “brain-eating amoeba.”The Waco Tribune-Herald reports Centers for Disease Control...
Oct 2 2018 // For years, Spyros Panos seemed like a successful orthopedic surgeon, seeing dozens of patients a day and bringing in millions of dollars in fees for his suburban New York medical group.In fact, he was inflating charges and...
Oct 1 2018 // More than 20 state legislators have signed a letter addressed to Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan requesting that a 10 percent rate increase filed by the state’s property insurer of last resort for wind and...
Oct 1 2018 // Decades of additional weather data have led federal officials to reconsider rainfall totals in Texas that define 100-year weather events and caution that extreme rainstorms will strike the state more frequently.The...
Oct 1 2018 // From 2005 to 2017, the number of workers’ compensation claims in Texas fell by 20 percent, resulting in a 24 percent decrease in the number of patients per participating doctor in Texas.That’s one of the...
Oct 1 2018 // Marsh & McLennan, JLTMarsh & McLennan Inc. agreed to buy Jardine Lloyd Thompson for about $5.7 billion to expand its global offering of reinsurance and consulting services. New York-based Marsh said the purchase of...