All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2022 // Johnson & Johnson created a plan last year to limit the financial bleeding from billions of dollars in jury awards to plaintiffs who alleged the company’s Baby Powder and other talc products caused deadly...
Feb 7 2022 // Texas’ attorney general on Jan. 19 sued Google, alleging the company asked local radio DJs to record personal endorsements for smartphones that they hadn’t used or been provided.In the lawsuit filed in...
Feb 7 2022 // Marsh McLennan, Affinity AgencyAssociation Member Benefits Advisors, a national affinity-based membership and marketing insurance agency, has agreed to acquire the associations business of Mercer, a business of Marsh...
Feb 4 2022 // An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration into fatal injuries suffered by an 86-year-old worker at a Henderson, Texas sawmill and pallet manufacturer found the...
Feb 4 2022 // Wellpath, LLC, a provider of health services in correctional facilities, will pay $75,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a religious discrimination suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Feb 2 2022 // Airlines canceled hundreds of flights, governors urged residents to stay off roads and schools closed campuses as a huge swath of the U.S. braced for a major winter storm that was set to put millions of Americans in the...
Feb 2 2022 // A major winter storm was expected to affect a huge swath of the United States beginning Feb. 1, with heavy snow starting in the Rockies and freezing rain as far south as Texas before it drops snow and ice on the...
Feb 2 2022 // Jencap Group LLC has acquired the assets of Delta General Agency Corporation, a full-service specialty wholesale brokerage and managing general agency based in Houston. Delta will operate under the auspices of the Jencap...
Feb 2 2022 // Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services Inc. announced access to an expanded workers’ compensation coverage option, which is now available in California, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada and Texas.BTIS...
Jan 28 2022 // Alera Group has acquired Heritage Risk Management, a Lubbock, Texas-based network of independent risk management agencies serving clients throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico. Heritage Risk...
Jan 26 2022 // Relation Insurance Services, Inc has acquired the assets of Wilson R Davenport & Associates LLC, headquartered in McAllen, Texas.Davenport provides employee benefits solutions to clients throughout South Texas. Wilson...
Jan 25 2022 // State Farm paid more than $471 million in claims from frozen pipes in 2021, and more than two/thirds of claims can be rooted back to one state: Texas.The Lone Star State accounted for $343 million of frozen pipes claim...
Jan 24 2022 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Longview, Texas-based D&H Risk Services LLC. Founded in 1936, D&H Risk Services is an independent risk management and employee benefits agency serving businesses and individuals...
Jan 24 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 21 2022 // Texas’ attorney general on Jan. 19 sued Google, alleging the company asked local radio DJs to record personal endorsements for smartphones that they hadn’t used or been provided.In the lawsuit filed in...
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...