All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 15 2023 // One person was killed and a curfew was imposed after a powerful tornado tore through a community near the southern tip of Texas before dawn Saturday, damaging dozens of residences and knocking down power lines, authorities...
May 15 2023 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced it is awarding $1 million in grants to 10 colleges across Texas to fund workplace safety courses for business owners, employees and the general public. Texas Mutual began its...
May 15 2023 // Texas Attorney General Ken announced a $1.4 million settlement in an environmental enforcement action against a Port Arthur refinery operated by TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc....
May 12 2023 // The units at a Houston-area Shell refinery that caught fire on Friday repeatedly malfunctioned in recent years without action from Texas regulators.Since the start of 2022, the British oil giant reported at least four...
May 11 2023 // McGriff Hires SVP, Director and Producer for its Houston Marine and Energy PracticeMcGriff has added three new members to its growing Houston, Texas-based marine and energy practice. Joe Etzler joins McGriff as managing...
May 11 2023 // Alliant Insurance Services has acquired McAnally Wilkins, LLC, a leading provider of property and casualty (P&C) insurance solutions for the oil and gas service industry. Based in Odessa, Texas, McAnally Wilkins...
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...