Latest Texas Headlines

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ALKEME Acquires Texas’ NAPA Insurance Center

Mar 10 2023 // ALKEME announced the acquisition of the NAPA Insurance Center, an Austin, Texas- based insurance agency that provides health and P&C Insurance to NAPA’s independently owned Auto Part Stores and Auto Care Centers...

Texas Gas Market Gets New Calls for Transparency Two Years After Winter Storm Uri

Mar 10 2023 // Texas’s notoriously opaque natural gas market is getting fresh calls for transparency and oversight, two years after the 2021 winter storm that left millions in the dark and more than 200 dead.Texas Representative...

NTSB Investigates Fatal Helicopter Crash Along Texas Gulf Coast

Mar 9 2023 // SEADRIFT, Texas (AP) – A helicopter crash along the Texas Gulf Coast killed two people, according to the local sheriff.The Robinson R44 helicopter was flying from Port O’Connor to the Calhoun County- Port...

Texas DWC Accepting Public Comments on Changes to Medical Exam Form

Mar 7 2023 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is accepting public comments on proposed changes to DWC Form-022, Request for a required medical examination (RME); DWC Form-031, Request to...

Texas Anti-ESG Push Is Coming for Insurers and Pensions in New Bills

Mar 6 2023 // A Texas lawmaker is seeking to broaden the fight against ESG (environmental social governance) policies by imposing further limits on the types of investments state pension managers can make and restricting shareholder...

Former NFL Player Indicted in Texas Following DOI Investigation

Mar 6 2023 // Former NFL player Corey Bradford pleaded guilty to submitting fraudulent health reimbursement claims after an investigation by the Texas Department of Insurance Fraud Unit.The TDI investigation late last month found that...

Cannabis Vote Has Oklahoma Hungry to Rake in Green From Texas

Mar 6 2023 // Tens of thousands of Texans from the bustling Dallas-Fort Worth area routinely drive across the Red River to gamble in glitzy, Las Vegas- style tribal casinos or to relax at cabins or swim and ski in lakes that dot...

Families of Texas School Shooting Settle Suit With Ammo Retailer

Mar 6 2023 // The families of those killed and injured in a 2018 Texas high school shooting have settled a lawsuit they had filed against a Tennessee-based online retailer accused of illegally selling ammunition to the student who...

Texas Utility Regulators Propose Changes to Electricity Market

Mar 1 2023 // The winter storm that hit Texas in February 2021 strained the state’s electricity grid so much that power had to be cut to millions of homes and businesses to prevent the grid’s complete failure. At least 200...

Storm Across Texas and Oklahoma Likely Qualified as a Derecho

Feb 28 2023 // A long line of quick-moving thunderstorms that produced a swath of damaging wind gusts across northern Texas and Oklahoma late Sunday likely qualified the event as a derecho, although that’s not an official...

Texas High Plains Blanketed by Dust Storms

Feb 27 2023 // LUBBOCK — The Texas High Plains is a vast swath of oil-rich soil and farm and ranch land as far as the eye can see — only the peaks of Caprock Canyon break up the endless miles of plains in the region.The picturesque...

Texas Dollar Tree Store Fined $254K for Shortchanging Employee Safety

Feb 24 2023 // Soon after federal workplace safety inspectors arrived at a Dollar Tree store in Mount Pleasant, Texas, they found the national discount retailer again shortchanging employee safety – continuing a pattern of disregard...

Univ. of Texas System Pauses New DEI Policies

Feb 23 2023 // The University of Texas System’s board of regents said Wednesday it has put a pause on all new policies that promote diversity, equity and inclusion at its 13 university and health campuses and asked all school...

Texas Dental Practice to Pay Back Wages to Workers Fired for Raising COVID Concerns

Feb 23 2023 // Two workers at a North Texas dental practice will share $15,706 in back wages to be paid by the dentists who fired them for raising concerns about COVID-19 safety measures in Spring 2020, following a federal whistleblower...

XPT Specialty Acquires Texas’ Craig & Leicht

Feb 22 2023 // XPT Specialty announced the acquisition of Texas-based wholesale agency Craig & Leicht. Founded by Amy Leicht-Craig and former TSLA president Matt Leicht, CIC, CPCU, ASLI, Craig & Leicht has earned a strong...

Austin, Texas City Manager Fired Over Widespread Power Outages

Feb 17 2023 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Austin’s city manager was fired Wednesday in the wake of outrage over a slow and fumbled response to a winter storm power outage that left thousands of people without electricity for a week or...

Holman Acquires Texas’ Park Wood Managers

Feb 15 2023 // Holman, a global automotive services organization, today announced the acquisition of Plano, Texas-based Park Wood Managers, a leading underwriter and insurance provider for commercial trucking fleets. The addition of Park...

Driver in Suspicious Texas Tesla Crash Apparently Moved to Rear Seat

Feb 14 2023 // Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board apparently have solved the mystery of why no one was found behind the steering wheel of a Tesla that crashed in a Texas two years ago, killing two men.The agency...

Families of 2018 Texas School Shooting Settle Suit With Ammo Retailer

Feb 14 2023 // HOUSTON (AP) – The families of those killed and injured in a 2018 Texas high school shooting have settled a lawsuit they had filed against a Tennessee-based online retailer accused of illegally selling ammunition to the...

Texas Judge Rejects Bid to Nullify Boeing Deal Over Max Crashes

Feb 13 2023 // DALLAS (AP) – A federal judge has rejected an effort by families of passengers who died in Boeing 737 Max crashes to reopen an agreement that allowed Boeing to avoid prosecution for fraud in how it won regulatory...