All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 13 2018 // Homeowners have filed hundreds of complaints and lawsuits against contractors in Houston and other storm-damaged cities following Hurricane Harvey.The Houston Chronicle reports that the complaints vary from shoddy work and...
Jun 13 2018 // Even after the Trump administration chose not to defend Obamacare’s protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions in court, Republican leaders are hoping the lawsuit doesn’t undo one of the most...
Jun 12 2018 // Karen Clark & Co. has estimated the June 6 hailstorm that pummeled North Texas will generate around $1 billion in insured losses to residential and commercial properties and automobiles.Baseball sized hail was reported...
Jun 12 2018 // The Texas Supreme Court in late May ruled that a party to an insurance contract that mandates arbitration of disputes is not required to enter arbitration in a dispute against another party that is not a signatory to the...
Jun 11 2018 // North Texas-based insurance broker, RHSB, has expanded its Employee Benefits practice with the addition of three experienced professionals: Dirk Hansen, Shannon Hansen and Cindy Gonzales.Dirk Hansen joins as senior vice...
Jun 8 2018 // With the sound off, images from a new advocacy video touting the merits of medical marijuana could blend seamlessly into a commercial for the latest model of pickup — a burly Texan, clad in a cowboy hat, strides past...
Jun 8 2018 // There are about 200,000 new claims in each year in the Texas workers’ compensation system, representing about 2 percent of covered Texas employees. About 40 percent of those new claims involve claimants who have had...
Jun 7 2018 // More than nine months after Hurricane Harvey devastated homes in nearly 50 Texas counties, the state agency charged with overseeing the largest housing recovery in American history is trying to gauge how much devastation...
Jun 6 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has completed the acquisition of Brownsville, Texas-based managing general agency (MGA), broker and claims administrator Pronto Insurance. Pronto’s primary business is the placement of...
Jun 6 2018 // A woman whose body was found 11 days after she made a frantic cellphone call from a Houston hotel elevator as floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey rushed in exited the elevator in the basement only to struggle against a...
Jun 4 2018 // A Texas meatpacker is recalling several tons of smoked sausage over possible contamination by soft plastic, marking the company’s second recall in a month.The U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 31 announced the...
Jun 4 2018 // In an empty lot where Vincent Shields’ Houston home once stood, he points out properties whose owners were driven out after Hurricane Harvey inundated the region last summer.“On this street there’s...
Jun 4 2018 // Doug Slape has been promoted to second-in-command at the Texas Department of Insurance.Slape has been at the agency since 1988 and has served as deputy commissioner for the Financial Regulation Division the past three...
Jun 4 2018 // There’s no denying the robust mergers and acquisition trend among wholesale brokers in the property/casualty insurance industry nationwide, and Texas is no exception.But some Texas wholesale brokers and managing...
Jun 4 2018 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is seeking regulatory approval for a $175 million assessment to TWIA’s insurance company members for Hurricane Harvey losses. Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast on Aug....
Jun 1 2018 // The H-E-B grocery chain has issued a voluntary recall for some ice cream distributed to stores in Texas and Mexico amid concerns about metal possibly in the products.San Antonio-based H-E-B on Wednesday announced the...
Jun 1 2018 // More than 20 workers filed a lawsuit in Houston on Thursday against Valero Energy Corp. seeking damages for injuries sustained in an April 19 explosion at the company’s Texas City, Texas, refinery, the Houston...
Jun 1 2018 // Allen Owen, the mayor of Missouri City, Texas, wants to do more to protect his town from the next disaster. But the city hasn’t gotten any of the roughly $1 million in federal disaster funds he said it’s owed...
May 31 2018 // Texas and Louisiana are among the top three states for potential storm surge losses at the start of the 2018 hurricane season, which begins on June 1.That’s according to Irvine, California-based CoreLogic, a provider...
May 30 2018 // Note: This story originally appeared in The Texas Tribune.Less than two weeks after 10 people were killed in a southeast Texas school shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott laid out a 40-page, 40-strategy plan for preventing future...