All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2016 // Health officials on Feb. 2 reported that a person in Texas has become infected with the Zika virus through sex in the first case of the illness being transmitted within the United States amid the current outbreak in Latin...
Feb 3 2016 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Gerald Ladner, Sr. and reappointed Rosemary Gammon for terms set to expire on Feb. 1, 2021, to the board of the State Office of Risk Management. Dr. Lloyd Garland was named as...
Feb 2 2016 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced a grace period for employers without workers’ compensation insurance coverage or that terminated their coverage...
Feb 2 2016 // An official says a wildfire destroyed seven homes in a rural area near the West Texas town of Eula. Meanwhile, a wildfire burned almost 3 square miles of ranch land north of Amarillo.The fires, which both started on Jan....
Feb 2 2016 // Aspen Managing General Agency (MGA) announced it is entering the Texas private passenger auto market on March 1, 2016, led by industry veteran Paul Harrison. Aspen MGA is a division of Allstar Financial Group, an...
Feb 1 2016 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Looking at the big picture, 2015 was a quiet year in terms of natural hazard activity. Overall, the trend of fewer natural hazard events and decreased damage totals that...
Jan 31 2016 // Federal safety officials have cited a Texas construction company for exposing workers to trenching hazards at a site in Katy. Proposed penalties total $86,240.Five citations were issued by the federal Occupational Safety...
Jan 29 2016 // Dozens of Texas plants similar to a fertilizer facility that exploded in the town of West in 2013, one of Texas’ worst industrial accidents, are still operating near schools, hospitals and residential neighborhoods,...
Jan 28 2016 // It was a relatively quiet year for natural disasters – except for those living in the Western U.S.Property data provider CoreLogic today released its annual Natural Hazard Risk Summary and Analysis. The report shows...
Jan 28 2016 // Named a “severe violator” by federal safety officials, a frozen seafood distributor operating a plant in Brownsville, Texas, has been hit with $155,000 in fines over workplace safety hazards.The federal...
Jan 28 2016 // Gov. Greg Abbott has requested a federal disaster declaration for some Texas counties after deadly late-December blizzards and tornadoes.Abbott on Jan. 26 announced the request for individual assistance for people in...
Jan 26 2016 // Tornadoes, hailstorms and fires took their toll on Texas last year with insured losses well over $3 billion, according to an insurer trade groupThe state had over three times as many claims and almost three times the...
Jan 26 2016 // Federal safety regulators cited a Texas flooring company for workplace hazards after a worker required hospitalization due to workplace injuries.Subfloor Systems Inc. of Hurst, Texas, was fined $66,990 by the U.S....
Jan 25 2016 // Collectively, the surplus lines insurance service/stamping offices across the country processed a record-breaking $25 billion in premium in 2015, exhibiting 3.6 percent growth over the $24.2 billion in premium processed...
Jan 25 2016 // The surplus lines stamping fee rate in Texas increased at the beginning of year to 0.15 percent of the gross premium amount of surplus lines insurance policies. It’s the first change in the stamping fee for many...
Jan 25 2016 // Dallas-based risk management consulting and insurance agency, Dexter & Company, has promoted Royce DeRouen and David Rambie to executive roles.In his new role as senior vice president, DeRouen oversees the Risk...
Jan 25 2016 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, IHC RiskSwiss Re Corporate Solutions has agreed to buy IHC Risk Solutions and its direct employer stop loss (ESL) business from Independence Holding Co. for $152.5 million in cash. The...
Jan 24 2016 // A judge concerned about public safety sentenced a 62-year-old North Texas man to life in prison for his 10th drunken driving conviction since the 1980s.Ivy Ray Eberhardt, of Weatherford, Texas, would be eligible for parole...
Jan 22 2016 // An argument raised by lawyers for a Texas teenager known for using an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck — that he may have been taken to Mexico against his will — is unlikely to help his...
Jan 21 2016 // Are loss-of-use damages, such as lost profits, allowed in Texas when an insured has recovered fair market value on a commercial vehicle that is deemed a total loss after an accident? The Texas Supreme Court thinks so,...