All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 14 2014 // A central Texas official has paid settlements to two Travis County workers after they said his dog bit them.Travis County Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Glenn Bass is running for re-election next month. The Austin...
Oct 14 2014 // Gus Pando lost his mother last year in a crash at an intersection where a county road crossed four lanes of vehicles barreling by at 75 miles an hour. At the same Odessa, Texas, junction in August, a family friend was...
Oct 13 2014 // A Texas healthcare worker has tested positive for Ebola even though she wore full protective gear while caring for a hospitalized patient who later died from the virus, health officials said. If the preliminary diagnosis...
Oct 9 2014 // Confie Seguros, a national provider of personal lines insurance, announced it has acquired the assets of Carallo Insurance Group Inc., an auto insurance agency in Garland, Texas.Huntington Beach, Calif.-based Confie has...
Oct 9 2014 // Hours after Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan died, his family called for an investigation into his care as top infectious disease doctors said he may have survived if his treatment had begun earlier.The family cited...
Oct 8 2014 // Bond insurer MBIA was told two weeks ago about a server breach that compromised the data of thousands of local U.S. government entities, but it did not address the problem until earlier this week, according to the cyber...
Oct 7 2014 // Adopting a state-mandated workers’ compensation prescription drug formulary similar to systems in place in Texas and Washington could reduce California workers’ comp pharmacy payments by between $124 million...
Oct 7 2014 // Potential suits against the Dallas, Texas, hospital that sent home a patient later diagnosed with Ebola face long odds in the face of state medical malpractice laws.Texas tort-reform measures have made it one of the...
Oct 6 2014 // The collapse of a portion of a salt dome that left a 37-acre sinkhole in swampy land west of Baton Rouge has bubbled up into a $50 million dispute between the mine operator and its insurance company.Texas Brine LLC wants...
Oct 6 2014 // The number of auto accidents involving three or more deaths has more than doubled in Texas since 2010, with more fatalities occurring along roads seeing increased traffic because of the oil and gas boom.An investigation by...
Oct 6 2014 // The Insurance Council of Texas’ We’re Out to Alarm Texas program has donated approximately 12,000 smoke alarms to Texas seniors and other citizens throughout the state during its 10 years in existence. The ICT...
Oct 6 2014 // The board of directors of the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLSOT) announced that Philip R. Ballinger is retiring as executive director as of Jan. 2, 2015.Ballinger has been with SLSOT for 22 years and has been...
Oct 6 2014 // The Best in Texas. That is both the goal and the operational philosophy of this year’s winner of Insurance Journal’s Best Agency to Work For: South Central.Fort Worth-based Higginbotham is not only beloved by...
Oct 3 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether people suing for housing discrimination must prove they were victims of intentional bias, in a case that may give long-sought protection to the lending industry.The justices...
Oct 2 2014 // NSM Insurance Group announced the acquisition of Specialty Aviation Underwriters (SAU), located in Addison, Texas.Founded over 20 years ago, SAU specializes in aviation products. NSM Insurance Group underwrites more than...
Oct 2 2014 // A group of mineral royalty owners has sued the city of Denton over its temporary ban on hydraulic fracturing, claiming the ban violates property rights. City leaders halted fracking as they consider making their city the...
Oct 2 2014 // More than 80 people in Dallas are being monitored for symptoms of Ebola after coming into contact with patient Thomas Eric Duncan or others who Duncan had met, health officials said.The people have been asked to report to...
Oct 2 2014 // Insurance availability crises are nothing new. Nor is finger-pointing about what exactly causes them. In Texas, a red state that is nonetheless home to a robust plaintiffs’ bar, sparring in a particularly active...
Oct 1 2014 // The softball coach who was driving a team bus smashed into by an errant truck did everything he could to save four players who died in the accident, a relative said, even as investigators tried to solve the mystery of why...
Oct 1 2014 // Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) announced it has successfully obtained $500 million in funds to assist in paying future catastrophic claims and that the association is now in its best financial position since...