All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 16 2023 // Damaging winds and possible tornadoes toppled trees, damaged buildings and blew cars off a highway Wednesday as powerful storms crossed the South from Texas to Georgia.The National Weather Service issued numerous tornado...
Jun 15 2023 // ALKEME announced the acquisition of the Daugherty Insurance Group, a Sugar Land, Texas- based full-service insurance agency. For over three decades, Daugherty Insurance Group has been focused on serving their loyal...
Jun 14 2023 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) awarded three companies the Lone Star Safety Award for their exemplary workplace health and safety programs and low rates of work-related...
Jun 14 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Since Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, it’s faced many challenges, and the newest comes from a court case recently decided by a judge in...
Jun 13 2023 // Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc., and its subsidiaries announced today that it will form a medical stop-loss division through the acquisition of the MGU/Stop-Loss business of American National Group. The acquisition...
Jun 12 2023 // SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas (AP) – Nearly two dozen teenagers from a summer camp were injured when an elevated walkway collapsed Thursday in a beachside city in Texas, with five flown to the hospital by helicopter.None of...
Jun 12 2023 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A Texas appeals court on Friday dismissed a billionaire’s defamation lawsuit against Democrat Beto O’Rouke that was brought after O’Rourke criticized a $1 million campaign...
Jun 8 2023 // In the early hours of Aug. 22, 2020, Hurricane Laura was still just a tropical storm off the coast of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. But effects from the monstrous storm, which would ultimately take at least 81...
Jun 8 2023 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration determined that Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas exposed employees who worked with patients with behavioral health issues...
Jun 7 2023 // DALLAS – Pete’s Car Smart Inc., a car dealership based in Amarillo, Texas, violated federal law by firing a long-time employee based on her age and cardiovascular-related disability, the federal agency announced...
Jun 6 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 6 2023 // Ryan Specialty announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of Point6 Healthcare, LLC (“Point6”), a distributor of medical stop loss insurance, pharmacy solutions, and complex claims...
Jun 6 2023 // A judicial panel on Monday transferred antitrust litigation against Alphabet Inc.’s Google filed by state attorneys general back to a federal court in Texas, citing a law passed by Congress in December.The decision...
Jun 5 2023 // Texas insurance carriers reported nearly 100,000 COVID-19 claims and 472 fatalities to the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), according to a factsheet released this week by...
Jun 5 2023 // G&G Independent Insurance, Robbins Insurance GroupG&G Independent Insurance has acquired Branson, Missouri-based Robbins Insurance Group. G&G has been serving the insurance needs of clients in Missouri and...
Jun 5 2023 // Specialty insurance provider CFC appointed Michael Phillips as Cyber Practice leader. He is based in New York.In this newly created role based out of New York, Phillips will drive CFC’s cyber underwriting strategy...
Jun 2 2023 // During this year’s legislative session, Texas lawmakers allocated part of the state’s historic $32.7 billion surplus toward better protecting the state against droughts and floods — an investment that...
Jun 1 2023 // FRANKLIN, Texas (AP) – One person was killed when a boiler exploded at a southeastern Texas power plant Wednesday morning, according to a spokesperson for Dallas-based Luminant.“A contractor was fatally...
May 30 2023 // Seventeen former field inspectors for a company that provided damage estimates for McClenney Moseley & Associates filed a lawsuit against their former employer, saying they are owed for bonuses that were promised but...
May 30 2023 // A pair of Louisiana parishes lead CoreLogic’s ranking of riskiest U.S. housing markets based on natural-disaster probability.CoreLogic’s Climate Risk Analytics: Composite Risk Score (CRA Composite Risk Score)...