All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 16 2016 // Recognizing the complex nature of keeping up with rules promulgated by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual, has provided guidance on one of...
Dec 15 2016 // Texas Commissioner of Insurance David Mattax has been elected secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), and Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak was elected vice chair of...
Dec 15 2016 // A Texas Panhandle woman and man must serve five-year prison terms for seeking to have her estranged husband killed in a failed $1 million insurance plot. Brandi Nicole Blanco of Dalhart and Randy Exavier Greene, who lived...
Dec 15 2016 // Oklahoma City-based INSURICA and Amarillo, Texas-based DFB Insurance Group have combined to form INSURICA DFB Insurance Services LLC.The new entity will be jointly owned by INSURICA and DFB. The transaction, effective Jan....
Dec 14 2016 // The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is highly unpopular in both Texas and Arkansas, but the sharply different approaches the states have taken is evident in the availability and cost of health care — in the span of a...
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...