All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 14 2016 // In 2016, Texas suffered through another costly year of weather related losses for homeowners and autos. Looking only at loss information through the end of September, it has been a year of record losses for hailstorms.The...
Dec 13 2016 // Texas is undertaking what state officials say is the nation’s largest effort to track brain injuries among young athletes.The University Interscholastic League, Texas’ governing body for public high school...
Dec 13 2016 // The pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed in Texas in July, killing 16 people, was taking medications that should have precluded him from flying, medical experts testified at a federal hearing on Dec. 9.Experts also...
Dec 9 2016 // Together, three Texas companies are facing federal penalties totaling more than $277,000 for failing to provide safe environments for their employees.During the past two weeks, the federal Occupational Safety and Health...
Dec 8 2016 // Johnson & Johnson will challenge the fairness of a trial that produced a verdict of $1 billion in damages against the company last week over allegations of design flaws in its Pinnacle hip implant.Although legal...
Dec 7 2016 // State Auto’s Western Region has added Bob McCarty as underwriting manager for the Central/Southern Texas area. He is based in Austin. McCarty has 30 years of insurance and management experience. He began his career...
Dec 6 2016 // Officials say one person has been killed and two others hurt when two vehicles fell into a water-filled sinkhole after a sewer line ruptured in San Antonio, Texas, during a rainstorm.San Antonio Fire Department Chief...
Dec 5 2016 // Texas has some of the nation’s most affordable workers’ compensation coverage, the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation reports.A study by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services ranks...
Dec 5 2016 // California and Texas rank first and second for the total number of residential properties at an extreme risk for wildfire damage, according to data provider CoreLogic.The reasons for that include: both states have large...
Dec 5 2016 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11 categories...
Dec 2 2016 // A judge’s ruling that upholds Waller County’s ban on guns in its courthouse keeps the southeast Texas county at odds with the state attorney general.State District Judge Albert McCaig Jr. ruled this week in a...
Dec 2 2016 // Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a Texas jury to pay more than $1 billion to patients who claimed the company hid flaws in its Pinnacle artificial hips that had to be surgically removed, in J&J’s second loss...
Nov 30 2016 // Texas on Nov. 28 reported its first case of Zika virus that likely came from a mosquito bite within the state.Florida is the only other state in the U.S. with locally spread Zika. Health officials say that the woman who...
Nov 29 2016 // A new border security approach promoted by the Texas Department of Public Safety has yielded at least one result: a bumper crop of traffic tickets.Traffic stops in Starr and Hidalgo counties on the Texas-Mexico border...
Nov 29 2016 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLSOT) has appointed Maegan DiLoreto as communications and training coordinator. DiLoreto previously worked as a copy editor and page designer for newspapers in both Alabama and...
Nov 29 2016 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has paid more than $3 million in early qualifier dividends to approximately 4,000 newer policyholders across the state. The payout is the final component of the workers’ compensation...
Nov 28 2016 // The lone survivor of a head-on crash between two freight trains in the Texas Panhandle has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million in damages.The Amarillo Globe-News reported that Derek Schilling filed the lawsuit...
Nov 23 2016 // An Obama administration policy that would have given more white-collar workers overtime starting Dec. 1 was blocked nationwide by a federal judge in Texas.The decision Tuesday is a victory for 21 states and dozens of...
Nov 22 2016 // A white Chevy Suburban with “Railroad Commission of Texas” emblazoned on its side rolled north on Interstate 35. Behind the wheel sat Milton Rister, the commission’s director.Trim and balding, Rister was...
Nov 21 2016 // A federal judge in Texas is giving Exxon Mobil Corp. an unprecedented chance to question a state law-enforcement officer who is investigating whether the energy company hid damaging data about climate change from...