All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 17 2023 // A federal appeals court on Monday struck down a major air pollution permit issued by Texas’s environmental regulator, arguing that the state allowed improperly high emissions limits for Port Arthur LNG, a gas...
Nov 17 2023 // Medical payments to treat injured workers in Texas were stable from 2016 to 2021, according to a new study from the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI).The study, CompScope Medical Benchmarks for Texas,...
Nov 16 2023 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation’s (DWC) General Counsel notified workers’ compensation system participants that DWC is proposing amendments to the Texas Administrative...
Nov 16 2023 // Maxwell Insurance Group of Houston, Texas, has affiliated with Risk Services of Louisiana (RSL), a Leavitt Group affiliate based in Shreveport. Leavitt Group is a network of insurance brokers whose collective strength...
Nov 15 2023 // Inszone Insurance Services, a national provider of commercial, personal, and benefits insurance, has acquired Max Breisse Insurance Agency. Based in Katy, Texas, the agency was founded by Max Briesse in September of...
Nov 15 2023 // Drought, heat, hail, rain and freezing temperatures – the five horsemen of crop insurance.A new report from EWG found that crop insurance payouts for the top five weather-related losses totaled over $118.7 billion...
Nov 14 2023 // Hotchkiss Insurance has acquired InCore Group, an independent insurance consulting agency serving Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. This move expands Hotchkiss’ footprint for commercial insurance and employee benefits...
Nov 14 2023 // MENTONE, Texas (AP) – An earthquake struck a sparsely populated and remote area of West Texas last Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, and the temblor could be felt hundreds of miles away.The USGS reports the...
Nov 14 2023 // MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) – A small plane overshot the runway while landing at a Texas airport over the weekend and struck a car driving along a nearby road, injuring one person, authorities said.Video shows the propeller...
Nov 13 2023 // One windy night at Elon Musk’s SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas, Lonnie LeBlanc and his co-workers realized they had a problem.They needed to transport foam insulation to the rocket company’s main hangar but...
Nov 8 2023 // Sentry Insurance has expanded its presence with a new regional office in Plano, Texas that will service businesses in the South Central region. The new office will occupy 11,400 square feet at the Apex at Legacy, located...
Nov 6 2023 // Austin on Thursday became the largest city in the country to stop requiring new developments to have a set amount of parking — a move aimed at both fighting climate change and spurring more housing construction amid the...
Nov 6 2023 // “What I am seeing is that there are insureds that are underinsured. … So, there’s still a lot of insurance to be sold.” — Curtis Prince, CEO and founder of Flux Insurance Services, said during...
Nov 6 2023 // World Insurance Associates, Oakwood Insurance AgencyWorld Insurance Associates has acquired the business of Oakwood Insurance Agency LLC, also doing business as Insure Big Rig, of Califon, New Jersey. Oakwood has been...
Nov 3 2023 // In December 2022, before much was known about how McClenny Moseley & Associates in Houston was able to set up shop in New Orleans and sign-up thousands of Louisiana clients in less than a year, US District Court Judge...
Nov 2 2023 // Political subdivisions in Texas can’t use governmental immunity to evade administrative penalties for failing to timely pay workers’ compensation benefits, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday.A panel of the...
Oct 30 2023 // Insurers and the Texas Department of Insurance hope to persuade the state Supreme Court to block a constitutional challenge to a law that prohibits roofing contractors from acting as public adjusters on their...
Oct 27 2023 // Ashli Streeter entered truck driving school with high hopes of the open road and a well-paying job.The 27-year-old from Killeen took out a $7,000 loan for school and received her commercial driver’s license in May....
Oct 26 2023 // Flights were delayed and canceled this week at Houston`s William P. Hobby Airport as crews cleaned up after two private jets clipped wings when they were moving on the airfield, officials said.No injuries were reported and...
Oct 25 2023 // QuoteWell, a tech-enabled commercial insurance wholesale brokerage that is at the forefront of innovating the distribution side of insurance, announced the launch of its brokerage operations to serve independent retail...