All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 13 2018 // Hurricane Harvey resulted in nearly 670,000 in combined personal and commercial property insurance claims to private insurers, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) and the Texas Fair Access to Insurance...
Feb 13 2018 // More than 3,700 people were killed on Texas roadways last year marking a 10 percent increase in traffic deaths from 2016, according to data from the Texas Department of Transportation.The Insurance Council of Texas reports...
Feb 9 2018 // A report by the University of Texas School of Law has found that Houston’s programs designed to ensure apartment safety are “flawed, fractured and improperly managed.”The 16-month study released Feb. 6 is...
Feb 9 2018 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a nonprofit organization working with the insurance industry to help communities and enrich lives, announced that 650 insurance professionals and industry supporters...
Feb 8 2018 // An appellate court in Texas has ruled that federal law, as opposed to state regulation, prevails when it comes to the amount an air ambulance service may charge insurance companies for its services.The ruling of the Austin...
Feb 8 2018 // The 40-foot wall of water that gushed down Texas’ Blanco River in May 2015, wiping out parts of Wimberley and killing more than a dozen people, was largely a natural phenomenon. But a new study shows that development...
Feb 6 2018 // The field of urban planning is gaining interest as cities around the world, including Houston, are facing increased exposure to weather-related risks and hazards ranging from sea level rise and flooding to temperature...
Feb 5 2018 // Chicago-based global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of IPS Advisors LLP and IPS RIA LLC (IPS Advisors). IPS is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Houston, Austin,...
Feb 5 2018 // While natural weather hazard activity could be largely categorized as “normal” last year, regional exceptions occurred, notably: wildfires in California and hurricane activity in Texas and the...
Feb 5 2018 // Rating Assigned: Pan-American CasualtyA.M. Best assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a” to Pan-American Casualty Co. (PACC) in Richardson, Texas.The...
Feb 5 2018 // Lowe’s Home Centers LLC, a nationwide chain of home improvement and hardware stores, will pay $55,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a manager at one of the company’s stores in...
Feb 5 2018 // Texas is suing a vegetation management company that it alleges caused the 2011 Bastrop County Complex Fire, the most destructive wildfire in Texas history.The lawsuit filed on Jan. 19 by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton...
Feb 5 2018 // A Central Texas town devastated by a 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, many of them emergency personnel, has reached a settlement of its lawsuit for damages caused by the blast.The city council in West...
Feb 2 2018 // Annual reporting for employers without workers’ compensation insurance must be submitted to the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) by April 30.By law, Texas employers that do not provide...
Jan 31 2018 // Despite another year of bad weather, data from the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) shows that justified consumer complaints continued to be low, the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) reports.Out of 6.7 million policies,...
Jan 31 2018 // Atlanta, GA, January 31, 2018 – National Claims Connection (NCC) is hosting the 2018 Adjusters Conference on February 25-27, 2018 at the historic Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. NCC has partnered with sister...
Jan 30 2018 // Lowe’s Home Centers LLC, a nationwide chain of home improvement and hardware stores, will pay $55,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a manager at one of the...
Jan 29 2018 // Record-breaking Hurricane Harvey became the second-costliest storm to hit the U.S. and dropped more rain than any other system ever.Harvey, the strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. since 2005, killed at least 103 people and...
Jan 29 2018 // As Jacob Lerma surveyed the skeletal beams of his suburban Houston home that was flooded during Hurricane Harvey, he kept muttering three words as he wondered if his family would ever be able to move back in: “I...
Jan 26 2018 // A Central Texas town devastated by a 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, many of them emergency personnel, has reached a settlement of its lawsuit for damages caused by the blast.The city council in West...