All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 2 2022 // SAN ANTONIO (AP) – A massive fire broke out at a San Antonio truck stop early Thursday, engulfing the convenience store in flames and sending a large plume of smoke into the air. Firefighters first received a call at...
Dec 1 2022 // Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Wednesday unveiled a list of 21 legislative priorities including property tax relief, improving the reliability of the electric grid and continuing to spend money on border security funding.Patrick,...
Nov 30 2022 // Texas Department of Insurance DWC announces executive staff changesThe Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), headquartered in Austin Texas, has announced several executive staff...
Nov 29 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) informally proposes amendments to 28 Texas Administrative Code (TAC) Chapter 133, General Medical Provisions and 28 TAC Chapter 134,...
Nov 28 2022 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A Texas judge said last week she will not lower a nearly $50 million punishment against Alex Jones that a jury handed down earlier this year over the Infowars host spreading false conspiracy theories...
Nov 22 2022 // The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Texas Interstate Express and PAC Express LLC related motor carriers located in the Houston area, to be an...
Nov 21 2022 // MENTONE, Texas (AP) – A strong earthquake that struck a remote area of the West Texas desert caused damage in San Antonio, hundreds of miles from the epicenter, officials said.University Health said last Thursday that...
Nov 21 2022 // U.S. federal regulators have told Freeport LNG to provide information needed for the planned restart of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant in Texas, the second-largest U.S. LNG export plant, as soon as possible...
Nov 18 2022 // ARLINGTON — Deirdre Diamond is frustrated and concerned that another concrete batch plant is coming to her town. Gunter, located about 50 miles north of Dallas, already has 11 permitted concrete batch plants, according...
Nov 17 2022 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, announced it has acquired Wallace Specialty Insurance Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Based just outside of Dallas in...
Nov 14 2022 // Skyward Specialty Insurance Group Inc. in Houston, Texas, filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common...
Nov 9 2022 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) will hold its quarterly stakeholder meeting for insurance carriers and medical providers in the Texas workers’ compensation system on Nov. 29. DWC said the...
Nov 8 2022 // An attorney for the Texas public adjuster accused of pocketing $7.6 million in insurer settlement checks told an administrative law judge that the case doesn’t warrant any administrative penalties and if any...
Nov 7 2022 // Residents in southeastern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas began assessing weather damage Saturday, working to recover and thankful to have survived after a storm stretching from Dallas to northwest Arkansas spawned...
Nov 4 2022 // SageSure announced the introduction of a new admitted, proprietary residential flood program initially available in Texas. SageSure will distribute flood insurance through its network of contracted producers while also...
Nov 3 2022 // Specialty Program Group, an operator of specialty insurance brokerages and underwriting facilities, announced the acquisition of the assets of Catapult Insurance Solutions. Based in Carrollton, Texas, Catapult is a...
Nov 2 2022 // U.S. federal regulators have told Freeport LNG to provide information needed for the planned restart of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant in Texas, the second-largest U.S. LNG export plant, as soon as possible...
Nov 2 2022 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that its U.S. wholesale brokerage, binding authority and programs division, Risk Placement Services, Inc. (RPS), has acquired Cedar Park, Texas-based Tejas American General Agency,...
Nov 2 2022 // Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA), a subsidiary of Marsh, announced the acquisition of Focus Insurance, a leading personal insurance brokerage firm based in Houston, Texas. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in...
Nov 2 2022 // FARMERSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A valve leak and a spark of unknown origin combined to cause a North Texas natural gas pipeline explosion last year that killed two workers and injured two others, federal investigators said.A...