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Alera Group Acquires Texas-Based Sheridan

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...

Stalled Gun Bill Advances in Texas After Recent Mass Shootings

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...

Texas Dental Practice Provider to Pay $25K Over Sex-Based Retaliation Lawsuit

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...

Light Duty or Scheme to Avoid Workers’ Comp Claim? Florida Appeals Court to Decide

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...

Texas Mutual board approves $340 million policyholder dividend distribution

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...

Texas Court: Exxon Covered by Contractor’s Excess Insurers

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...

Keystone Adds Texas’ Perkins to Network

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...

Chubb: No Duty to Defend Texas Subway Franchise in Killing Case

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...

Texas Mutual Approves $340M Dividend Distribution

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...

Suit Over Texas Woman’s Jail Death Settles for $7M

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...

Texas Contractor Fined $257K After Fatal Trench Collapse

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...

Disaster Declaration Approved for Texas Counties With Damage From Winter Ice Storms

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,...

Newly Active Sinkhole in Southeast Texas Town Has Some Residents in Fear

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...

Texas Court: Exxon Covered by Contractor’s Excess Insurers

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...

Texas Freight Train Collision Injures 2

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...

Officials: Crews Failed to De-Ice Road Before Massive Texas Crash

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...

Dairy Farm Fire Kills 18,000 Cows in Texas Panhandle

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...

Dollar General Stores in Texas, Wisconsin Cited for Blocked Exits

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...

Texas House Advances Bill That Would Expand Medical Marijuana

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...

Texas Property Management Company Pays $85K Over Harassment Suit

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...