All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 20 2023 // GALVESTON — The federal government on Thursday announced the first-ever chance for companies to lease areas in the Gulf of Mexico to build wind farms, including two parcels roughly 30 miles off the Texas coast near...
Jul 20 2023 // The Environmental Protection Agency levied a $1.3 million fine on a Texas oil and gas company for excess emissions from tanks, flares and other equipment the EPA using a helicopter equipped with a special infrared camera...
Jul 19 2023 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company has awarded more than $4 million in grants to several Texas nonprofits, part of its commitment in community funding to nonprofit organizations.Texas Mutual has committed funding to nonprofit...
Jul 18 2023 // Galveston, Texas-based American National Insurance Company announced a comprehensive rebranding initiative to modernize its brand, its first significant rebranding update in 50 years.The company unveiled a new logo and...
Jul 18 2023 // Lion Elastomers, LLC, a manufacturing plant in Port Neches, Texas, agreed to pay $175,000 and provide other relief pursuant to a consent decree entered by a federal district court on July 7, resolving a disability...
Jul 17 2023 // Severe weather created when a stationary front trapped warm, humid air over Texas and the Southeast caused an estimated $5.5 billion in insured losses, Karen Clark & Co. said in a briefing in late June.KCC said there...
Jul 17 2023 // “If there were aspects of the design or construction of this vessel that were kept from the passengers or it was knowingly operated despite information that it was not suitable for this dive, that would absolutely go...
Jul 17 2023 // Guy Carpenter, the reinsurance business of Marsh McLennan, announced the expansion of its Cyber team with a series of appointments and promotions.Matthew McCabe has been appointed managing director of cyber broking. He is...
Jul 13 2023 // A federal appellate court, grappling with conflicting decisions from federal courts, is asking the Texas Supreme Court to decide whether attorney fees can be awarded to claimants when insurers pay appraisal awards plus...
Jul 13 2023 // Seven states experienced at least $1 billion in total insured severe weather loss for the first half of 2023, according to an update from BMS Group.Texas led all states with insured severe weather loss of $7.2 billion...
Jul 12 2023 // Maynor Estuardo Álvarez used to stand the Texas heat, but not anymore.Something changed in his body last summer while working as a painter in an apartment in Houston. It was the afternoon, the temperature had surpassed...
Jul 12 2023 // A 2015 Listeria outbreak linked to ice cream sold by Blue Bell Creameries hospitalized 10 people and killed three.While those injuries and deaths were certainly “bodily injuries,” a lawsuit filed by investors...
Jul 11 2023 // More than 9 in 10 injured Texas employees returned to work within one year post-injury and 96% returned to work three years post-injury, according to an analysis of return-to-work (RTW) outcomes for the Texas...
Jul 10 2023 // A massive Houston-area chemical fire that burned for three days in 2019 could have been prevented if proper procedures were in place at the chemical storage facility run by the Intercontinental Terminals Co., according to...
Jul 7 2023 // SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) – Officials in San Marcos, Texas, have named the man charged with intentionally starting a fire five years ago which killed five people and displaced 200 others.Jacobe De Leon O Shea Ferguson, of...
Jul 7 2023 // GILMER, Texas (AP) __ A man was killed and four other people were hurt after officials say a fireworks accident caused a large fire during preparations for an Independence Day event in East Texas.It was one of at least two...
Jul 5 2023 // Liberty Energy, Inc. doing business as Liberty Oilfield Services, LLC, subjected three mechanics to discrimination and harassment at an Odessa, Texas facility, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...
Jul 3 2023 // Acrisure, TEn Insurance Services Ltd., Eleven NetworkAcrisure, a financial technology and insurance company headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has acquired the UK-based insurance broker network TEn Insurance Services...
Jul 3 2023 // A federal workplace safety inspection at another Dollar General store, this time in Lamesa, Texas, found exit routes and walkways blocked and merchandise unsafely stacked, conditions that exposed employees and others to...
Jun 30 2023 // A Texas insurance who previously served as mayor of Elgin pleaded guilty June 20 to theft of property, a third-degree felony.Christopher Cannon, 38, acquired payments from the company Baker’s Backhoe Services between...