All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 20 2022 // A wildfire in a central Texas state park is no longer growing and no injuries were reported after the blaze, suspected to have been caused by a prescribed burn, charred 1.2 square miles (3.2 square kilometers), officials...
Jan 20 2022 // Alera Group, a national insurance and wealth services firm, has acquired Amarillo, Texas-based Heritage Risk Management, a network of independent risk management agencies which serve clients throughout Texas, Oklahoma,...
Jan 19 2022 // A wildfire burning east of Austin, Texas was likely the resulted of a planned burn, officials said.The Rolling Pines Fire in Bastrop County had burned through more than 780 acres and was 30% contained as of the morning of...
Jan 18 2022 // U.S. and British authorities Monday continued an investigation into the weekend standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended with an armed British national dead and a rabbi crediting past security training for getting him and...
Jan 18 2022 // A Miami judge’s certification of a lawsuit against Florida’s largest utility company as a $10 billion class action, with damage claims from more than 4 million people who lost power in Hurricane Irma, could...
Jan 7 2022 // More than 100 insurance companies are suing the Texas power grid operator and several power-generating companies (PGCs) over losses suffered from 2021 Winter Storm Uri, which resulted in more than 500,000 insurance claims...
Jan 6 2022 // A new report from the Texas Department of State Health Services confirms a final death count from the February 2021 Winter Storm Uri and the subsequent collapse of the Texas electric power grid.The DHS reports 246 winter...
Jan 6 2022 // Last month was the hottest December in Texas since at least 1889, state Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said.Gammon found that temperatures from Dallas through Abilene to Del Rio averaged 5 to 9 degrees above normal,...
Jan 4 2022 // Zurich American Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Group, has completed the acquisition of Special Insurance Services, Inc., a Texas-based program manager that develops, underwrites, distributes and...
Jan 3 2022 // Brown & Brown Lone Star Insurance Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Texas-based Harco Insurance Services. With roots dating back to 1969, Harco is...
Dec 30 2021 // The Executive Liability Division of Great American Insurance Group and the Austin, Texas-based insurtech, Assurely will offer Directors and Officers Liability (D&O) insurance to private companies raising capital via...
Dec 29 2021 // Endo International Plc has agreed to pay $63 million to resolve claims by the state of Texas and local governments that the drugmaker helped fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic, the state’s attorney general said on...
Dec 29 2021 // A magnitude 4.5 earthquake that rattled the Permian basin in Texas on Monday night is likely to add pressure on oil producers in the region to slow or stop underground wastewater injections that regulators believe may...
Dec 28 2021 // Exxon Mobil Corp. said on Monday its Baytown, Texas, refinery continued to operate at reduced rates following a fire on Dec. 23, and the unit involved remained shut down.The company has not yet determined the cause of the...
Dec 27 2021 // Crews extinguished a large fire at a Houston-area refinery that broke out early Dec. 23, injuring four people.The fire started at about 1 a.m. at ExxonMobil’s refinery in Baytown, which is about 25 miles (40...
Dec 22 2021 // World Insurance Associates LLC has acquired Total Coverage Insurance of Irving, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. TCI offers all-encompassing services to their customers. They provide commercial and...
Dec 22 2021 // Three Houston-area pharmacists, a doctor, and a pharmacy technician have been arrested for allegedly running three pharmacies and two clinics as “pill mills;” distributing hydrocodone, oxycodone, and other...
Dec 20 2021 // Texas Department of Insurance Chief Deputy Commissioner Doug Slape is a recipient of this year’s Robert Dineen Award, the highest honor for a state regulator bestowed by the National Association of Insurance...
Dec 20 2021 // A small plane appeared to have clipped treetops before crashing west of Houston, killing both people aboard, federal investigators reported Dec. 17.The Dec. 8 crash of the single-engine Piper PA 28-140 aircraft happened in...
Dec 20 2021 // Regulators of Texas’ oil and gas industry that buckled during February’s deadly freeze moved Nov. 30 toward making some producers more prepared for cold weather, but not in time for this winter as the...