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Neighbors Complained About Grass Before Texas Fire Disaster

Jul 28 2022 // Neighbors of an open field from which a grass fire spread into their suburban Dallas subdivision, destroying nine homes, had complained that the field’s owner wouldn’t mow the grass, officials said this...

Charter Spectrum Hit With $7.3B Verdict in Texas over Murder of 83-Year-Old

Jul 27 2022 // Charter Communications was hit with a combined $7.37 billion verdict – including $7 billion meant to punish the company – for systemic safety failures that led to the robbery and stabbing death of an 83-year-old woman...

North Texas Grass Fire Torches 20 Homes

Jul 27 2022 // A grass fire apparently sparked by a mower swept about 300 yards across a tinder-dry open field to a suburban Dallas subdivision Monday, burning through wooden fences and torching as many as 20 homes, officials said.The...

Texas School Mask Mandate Ban Upheld by Federal Appeals Court

Jul 26 2022 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott can maintain his ban on school mask mandates, a federal appeals court ruled.A three-judge panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday said that a group of disabled students failed to...

Alex Jones’ Defamation Trial Set to Begin in Texas

Jul 26 2022 // Jury selection was set for Monday in a trial that will determine for the first time how much Infowars host Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook Elementary School parents for falsely telling his audience that the deadliest...

Texas DWC Seeks Comments on Benefits Forms Changes

Jul 22 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is accepting public comments on revisions to two forms: DWC Form-046, Request to Accelerate Impairment Income Benefits. This form is...

Higginbotham Acquires Texas’ Brown & Company

Jul 21 2022 // Brown & Company Insurance Services, an employee benefits and individual life and health insurance agency in College Station, Texas, has combined with Higginbotham, an insurance, financial and HR services firm ranked as...

Ex-East Texas Deputy Pleads Guilty to Using Excessive Force

Jul 21 2022 // A former East Texas deputy has pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation for punching a restrained detainee in the chest repeatedly with a shock gun, according to court documents.Former Van Zandt County sheriff’s...

People Moves: DOXA Names Robbins to Lead Sales Force in Texas; McGriff Hires Fulbright in Houston

Jul 20 2022 // DOXA Insurance Holdings Names Michael Robbins to Lead Sales Force in TexasDOXA Insurance Holdings announced the appointment of Michael Robbins, CIC, to lead the company’s sales force in Texas as regional sales...

Wildfire Burns Homes Around North Texas Lake

Jul 20 2022 // A wildfire has burned several homes and prompted calls for voluntary evacuations around a lake in north Texas amid sweltering temperatures and dry conditions, authorities said.The fire at Possum Kingdom Lake about 95 miles...

Actuarial Committee Recommends No Change in Texas Windstorm Insurance Rates

Jul 19 2022 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s Actuarial & Underwriting Committee recommended to the board of directors that there should be no change in residential or commercial insurance rates.The Actuarial &...

Texas Jury Hands Fired Southwest Flight Attendant $5.1 Million Verdict

Jul 18 2022 // A former Southwest Airlines flight attendant who was fired after sparring with her union president over abortion and other issues won a $5.1 million jury verdict against the airline and the union.A jury in federal district...

Regulator Bars Texas Plant Restart Over Safety Concerns

Jul 18 2022 // The second-biggest U.S. liquefied natural gas export facility hit by fire in early June will not be allowed to repair or restart operations until it addresses risks to public safety, a pipeline regulator.The June 8 blast...

NTSB: Dad, Not 13-Year-Old, Was Driving Truck That Hit Golfers’ Van in Texas

Jul 15 2022 // A Texas man, not his 13-year-old son, was driving the pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a van carrying New Mexico college golfers, killing nine people, and he had methamphetamine in his system,...

Uvalde, Texas Video Raises More Calls for Police Accountability

Jul 15 2022 // As video taken inside Robb Elementary School puts in full view the bewildering inaction by law enforcement during the May slaughter of 19 children and two teachers, some in Uvalde are shouting: Will police face...

Lawsuit Alleges Texas Officer Paralyzed Man in Jail

Jul 15 2022 // A man filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing a Texas police officer of using excessive force while restraining him in jail and inflicting injuries that left him paralyzed from the chest down.The lawsuit on behalf of Christopher...

Pregnant Texas Woman Pulled Over in HOV Lane Says Unborn Baby Counts as Passenger

Jul 13 2022 // When an officer pulled Brandy Bottone over for driving by herself in a high occupancy vehicle lane in Texas just days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, she pointed to her pregnant belly and told him her...

Texas Power Grid Operator Warns of Rolling Blackouts Amid Record Heat

Jul 11 2022 // \The operator of Texas’s power grid on Sunday called on state residents for the second time this year to conserve energy, warning of potential rolling blackouts amid predictions for record-high temperatures on...

People Moves: Robnett Appointed to Texas Mutual Board of Directors

Jul 8 2022 // Kevin Robnett of Fort Worth has been appointed to the Texas Mutual Insurance Company board of directors by Gov. Greg Abbott. His board term for Texas Mutual, the state’s leading provider of workers’...

Texas Cushion Manufacturer Faces $227,000 Fine For Inadequate Safety Guards

Jul 7 2022 // A federal workplace safety investigation into how an employee suffered serious injuries in January 2022 at a Temple, Texas manufacturing facility operated by Carpenter Co. – one of the nation’s largest cushion...