All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 10 2023 // Alera Group, a national insurance and wealth services firm, announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Sheridan Insurance Group, a team of experienced professional liability specialists helping meet the insurance and...
May 10 2023 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Facing new pressure over gun violence in Texas after two more mass shootings, Republicans on Monday unexpectedly allowed a bill that would raise the purchase age for semiautomatic rifles from 18...
May 9 2023 // SAN ANTONIO, Texas –Dental Health Products, Inc. (DHP), a nationwide provider of supplies and equipment to dental practices, will pay $25,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle a federal sex-based retaliation lawsuit...
May 9 2023 // Most people will be familiar with the posters at workplaces noting the number of days since a lost-time work injury.Well, there’s a dirty little secret behind that, one that helps employers avoid higher experience...
May 9 2023 // May 9, 2023, AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, announced today that its board of directors voted unanimously to approve a $340...
May 8 2023 // Two excess insurers may be liable for the more than $20 million that ExxonMobil Corp. paid to settle lawsuits filed by a contractor’s employees who were badly burned while working at an Exxon refinery, the Texas...
May 3 2023 // Keystone, the fourth largest participant-owned insurance agency network in the nation, added Perkins Insurance Agencies, LLC, based in Abilene, Texas, to its growing network of agencies in the state. A second-generation...
May 3 2023 // ACE American Insurance Company (Chubb) says it has no duty to defend a Texas Subway franchise sued by the family of a former worker killed on site by an ex-boyfriend.In a complaint for declaratory relief filed last week in...
May 2 2023 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, announced today that its board of directors voted unanimously to approve a $340 million dividend distribution in...
Apr 28 2023 // DALLAS (AP) – A private company that ran a Texas jail where a woman allegedly went blind following days of medical neglect before her 2019 death has agreed to a $7 million lawsuit settlement along with other...
Apr 27 2023 // A Houston-area contractor’s repeated failure to follow federal workplace safety procedures during excavation operations contributed to a worker’s death near Manvel in October 2022, a federal workplace safety...
Apr 25 2023 // President Joe Biden issued a disaster declaration Saturday for 13 Texas counties, freeing federal relief for areas damaged in last winter’s crippling ice storms.Disaster relief will be available for state agencies,...
Apr 20 2023 // DAISETTA, Texas (AP) – When the massive sinkhole first appeared in Daisetta in May 2008, some residents had feared it might engulf their small Southeast Texas town.But after growing to 900 feet (274 m) across and 260...
Apr 18 2023 // Two excess insurers may be liable for the more than $20 million that ExxonMobil Corp. paid to settle lawsuits filed by a contractor’s employees who were badly burned while working at an Exxon refinery, the Texas...
Apr 18 2023 // CHICO, Texas (AP) – A train collision and subsequent derailment injured two rail employees in Texas, according to a company official.A Union Pacific freight train collided with an unoccupied train that was parked on...
Apr 17 2023 // The company responsible for maintaining a Texas interstate where 130 vehicles crashed in icy conditions two years ago, killing six and injuring dozens, failed to address the deteriorating road conditions, federal officials...
Apr 14 2023 // LUBBOCK — More than 18,000 cows died and one farm worker is in critical condition following a dairy farm fire in the Texas Panhandle.The fire started Monday night at South Fork Dairy Farm in Dimmitt, about 66 miles south...
Apr 14 2023 // At Dollar General stores near Houston and Green Bay, federal workplace safety inspectors found exit routes and walkways blocked — unsafe conditions that make safe and quick emergency evacuation difficult or impossible...
Apr 12 2023 // Texans who suffer from chronic pain and potentially other debilitating conditions would be able to access the state’s medical marijuana program under a bill advanced by the Texas House on Tuesday.The bipartisan...
Apr 11 2023 // Alden Short and Hinson Jennings, a Dallas-based property management company, will pay $85,000 and furnish other relief to settle a national origin harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...