All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 27 2015 // Thousands of Texans are in the process of repairing vehicles and cleaning homes of flood water and debris after massive rainstorms inundated many parts of the state.Insurance adjusters are meeting with homeowners to assess...
May 26 2015 // Massive storm systems that pushed through the South Central United States and northern Mexico over the Memorial Day weekend have left behind a path of devastation and destruction.A tornado raged through a Mexico border...
May 26 2015 // The Texas Senate has voted to bar law enforcement from giving the media the names of people involved in traffic accidents.The move came on a bill to protect accident victims from being harassed by lawyers seeking to file...
May 22 2015 // Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a prohibition on cities and towns imposing local ordinances preventing fracking and other potentially environmentally harmful oil and natural gas activities.The...
May 22 2015 // Southwest Risk, LP has named Jennifer Flake vice president and broker of transportation. Flake will work out of Southwest Risk’s new Fort Worth, Texas office. Flake began her insurance career in 1997 starting with a...
May 21 2015 // Tornadoes roared across North Texas, spreading widespread damage but leaving no immediate reports of injuries. What storm spotters reported as at least one tornado inflicted heavy damage late Tuesday night to houses and...
May 21 2015 // An ex-Houston , Texas resident who says he contracted listeria-related meningitis after eating Blue Bell ice cream has sued the company.David Philip Shockley seeks unspecified damages in the negligence lawsuit filed in...
May 21 2015 // Workers’ compensation claims in Texas grew more slowly than in most of the other states, according to a Workers Compensation Research Institute report out Thursday that studied 17 states.The total average cost per...
May 21 2015 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s attempt to replace a patchwork of local rules in Texas with a state law regulating its car-booking business is headed for defeat because lawmakers have yet to act on a key measure with only...
May 20 2015 // The Insurance Council of Texas has joined the Tomball Police Department in a crime prevention campaign aimed at preventing auto thefts and burglaries.The program involves the creation and distribution of signs that read,...
May 19 2015 // Texas’ governor has signed a bill that blocks municipalities and other local governments from regulating most oil and gas production activities within their jurisdictionsGov. Greg Abbott on May 18 signed House Bill...
May 19 2015 // Property/casualty insurer, 1347 Property Insurance Holdings Inc., which writes business in Louisiana through its subsidiary, Maison Insurance Co., announced it has been granted a Certificate of Authority to write P/C...
May 18 2015 // Recent heavy rains have helped Texas emerge from the worst of the years-long drought.The U.S. Drought Monitor indicated Texas, for the first time since mid-2012, is no longer in the “exceptional drought”...
May 18 2015 // An emergency official says a deadly tornado that blasted an East Texas town left behind about $40 million in damage.Van Zandt County emergency management coordinator Chuck Allen provided the damage estimate as recovery...
May 18 2015 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. named Brian Edwards a senior broker in the Dallas office of U.S. Risk Brokers Inc.Edwards has more than 12 years of experience in the insurance industry. He specializes in brokerage of excess...
May 18 2015 // The Texas Senate on April 30 passed a bill aimed at stemming the onslaught of property claim litigation that has been occurring with increasing frequency in the state following natural catastrophes.Advocates of Senate Bill...
May 18 2015 // A Texas bill banning its own cities from imposing prohibitions on hydraulic fracturing and other potentially environmentally harmful oil and natural gas drilling activities within their boundaries has been sent to Gov....
May 15 2015 // The Sally Beauty chain, headquartered in Denton, Texas, has confirmed that it has suffered its second data breach in just over two years.The beauty products seller notified customers earlier this month that it was...
May 14 2015 // Texas Department of Public Safety says investigators are still trying to determine what caused a tractor-trailer to strike a partially constructed bridge over Interstate 35 in March, leading to the death of a...
May 13 2015 // Workers compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., recently awarded a dividend of $2,159,751 to the Texas Construction Association safety group.The dividend was earned based on the group members’ dedication to...