All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 21 2015 // Texas added jobs for the fourth consecutive month with the addition of 31,400 seasonally adjusted nonagricultural jobs in July, Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) announced. The state has added jobs in 57 of the last 58...
Aug 21 2015 // Lightning strikes have been blamed for a refinery fire near Houston and an oil storage tank blaze along the Gulf of Mexico.Emergency responders say nobody was hurt in either fire Thursday as storms rolled through parts of...
Aug 21 2015 // A new law that becomes effective Sept. 1 in Texas will give the state’s property insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the coast more leeway in a plan to reduce its overall exposure by incenting private...
Aug 20 2015 // Federal health insurance reforms may cause a major disruption in the group insurance market, according to the Texas Association of Health Underwriters, a professional association of insurance agents and brokers who focus...
Aug 19 2015 // TCOR Management, based in New Braunfels, Texas, announced it has formed a new insurance agency, TIA-TCOR LLC, dba Texas Insurance Agency.With Ben Reedy as principal, San Antonio-based TIA-TCOR provides insurance, risk...
Aug 19 2015 // Texas-based independent insurance firm Higginbotham has hired Jonathan Sakulenzki as an employee benefits producer in McAllen, Texas.Sakulenzki joins the McAllen office’s two commercial property/casualty insurance...
Aug 19 2015 // The Texas Department of Insurance is extending its deadline for accepting applications for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association board to September 1. The original deadline for applications was Aug. 15.The board is...
Aug 18 2015 // Oil platform operator Black Elk Energy is facing federal criminal charges in connection with a November 2012 explosion off Louisiana’s coast that left three workers dead and others badly injured.Multiple media...
Aug 17 2015 // A series of explosions rocked an oil field chemical supply company north of Houston on Aug. 14, setting off a fire that sent a broad, dense column of thick, black smoke towering into the otherwise blue skies.DrillChem said...
Aug 17 2015 // Doug Hutchison wears a badge and carries a gun but his most effective weapon in the pursuit of livestock thieves in the nation’s largest cattle-producing territory may be his smartphone.With it, Hutchison, one of 30...
Aug 17 2015 // Insurance broker Lockton added Jay Chappell in its Dallas/Ft. Worth operations as chief operating officer for its property/casualty business.Chappell will provide leadership and oversight for client service in...
Aug 12 2015 // The Texas Department of Insurance is accepting applications for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association board of directors after the makeup of the board was changed by the 84th Legislature. The deadline for applications...
Aug 10 2015 // Federal officials have sued a Texas-based company for violating the whistleblower provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.The lawsuit against Continental Alloys and Services Inc. in Spring, Texas, maintains an...
Aug 10 2015 // The rise of rampant claims litigation against property insurers following hailstorms in Texas has created a “cottage industry” that not only threatens the financial health of the state’s property...
Aug 7 2015 // Brenham, Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries can resume production and sale of ice cream manufactured at its Alabama plant, the Alabama Department of Public Health announced.A state inspection found that Blue Bell’s...
Aug 7 2015 // Renewed hunts for oil in sensitive Florida ecosystems have environmental groups raising questions about the state’s regulation of the oil and gas industry.A Miami company, Kanter Real Estate LLC, has submitted a...
Aug 6 2015 // The family of a black woman found dead in a Texas jail three days after a confrontation with a white state trooper filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on Aug. 4 against the officer and other officials, saying it was a last...
Aug 6 2015 // Authorities say the explosion of a natural gas pipeline near the small South Texas town of Falfurrias injured two people and prompted the evacuation about 150 homes. An official with the Brooks County sheriff’s...
Aug 4 2015 // The Texas Department of Insurance is seeking public comment on drafts of rules for implementing legislation that alters funding mechanisms for the state’s property insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the...
Aug 4 2015 // With the aim of helping member agents boost their revenues, Texas Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) is partnering with EFG Cos. to offer ancillary consumer protection products.Texas PIA selected the Simplicity Division...