All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 24 2013 // “Daddy, are we dead?” Those were the first words from 9-year-old Kaden Anderson after an explosion ripped apart the fertilizer plant in West on April 17. Kaden was riding with his father Bryan who had driven...
Apr 24 2013 // The Travelers Companies Inc. on Tuesday reported $896 million net income for its 2013 first quarter, an increase of 11 percent compared to $806 million income reported during the first quarter of 2012.Travelers said the...
Apr 24 2013 // The driver involved in a fatal North Texas bus crash told authorities he may have blacked out in the moments before the bus careened off the roadway and struck a concrete barrier, according to a report released April 22.A...
Apr 24 2013 // Gov. Rick Perry said that spending more state money on inspections would not have prevented the deadly explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. plant that was last investigated by Texas environmental regulators in 2006.Perry...
Apr 23 2013 // The road to becoming a successful independent insurance agent is not always easy. The economy and often volatile property/casualty insurance market cycle are just two of the potholes agents must maneuver. Young agents in...
Apr 23 2013 // Houston, Texas-based Halliburton says it lost $18 million in the first quarter, pulled down by $637 million in charges related to its role in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.But it made money if unusual items are...
Apr 23 2013 // There were no sprinklers. No firewalls. No water deluge systems. Safety inspections were rare at the fertilizer company in West, Texas, that exploded and killed at least 14 people this week.This is not unusual. Small...
Apr 22 2013 // Stranded families growing weary and frustrated since a deadly Texas fertilizer plant explosion left them barricaded from their battered homes finally began returning Saturday, but only under a curfew and strict warnings to...
Apr 22 2013 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced that Joe Yurkovich has accepted the position of senior vice president of strategic planning.He returns to Texas Mutual after serving as region president for the Southern Region at...
Apr 22 2013 // Three family members from Denton, Texas, have been sentenced on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges.Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that in mid-April Michael T. Douglas pleaded guilty to charges of...
Apr 19 2013 // Despite being located within a short walk of a nursing home, school and residential buildings, West Fertilizer Co. in central Texas had no blast walls and had filed no contingency plan to the Environmental Protection...
Apr 18 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) reports it is working in conjunction with other public agencies in responding to the April 17 fire and explosion at a fertilizer facility in West, Texas, which resulted in...
Apr 18 2013 // A renewed push to make texting while driving illegal in Texas stayed afloat on April 17, but only after narrowly defeating bipartisan resistance to an outright ban over concerns that ranged from racial profiling to...
Apr 18 2013 // A fertilizer facility exploded in the small Central Texas town of West on Wednesday night, killing an estimated 15 people, injuring more than 150 and damaging dozens of homes, according to a report in the Austin American...
Apr 18 2013 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. will host the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds (AASCIF) Annual Conference. The 2013 AASCIF Annual Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas, from...
Apr 18 2013 // Twelve contract workers were hurt on Wednesday morning when a fire broke out at a unit undergoing repairs at Exxon Mobil Corp.’s 344,500 barrel per day (bpd) Beaumont, Texas, refinery, a company spokeswoman said.The...
Apr 16 2013 // Lawmakers in Lousiana are looking to prevent a repeat of the massive Assumption Parish sinkhole that officials say was caused by a collapsed underground salt cavern – and make sure prospective property owners know what...
Apr 15 2013 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced that Michael T. Douglas of Denton, Texas, pleaded guilty to charges of perjury in a workers’ compensation fraud-related case.A Travis County district court sentenced Douglas to...
Apr 12 2013 // Questpro Consultants and Q TEMPS have named new partners for the Dallas-based insurance recruiting and staffing firms, the companies announced. At Questpro, Johnny Park and Jason Simmons have been named the second and...
Apr 12 2013 // Dallas-based U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. announced it has acquired the renewal rights to the book of staffing and employee leasing accounts of CIC Insurance Brokers LLC, based in Abilene, Texas. This business will be...