All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 6 2021 // The parents of a 3-year-old boy who died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a Texas splash pad he’d visited sued the city that operated it for negligence.Tariq Williams and Kayla...
Oct 6 2021 // Texas surplus lines premium recorded during September totaled $699.8 million, bringing the state’s year-to-date premium up to $6.88 billion.The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) said the year-to-date...
Oct 5 2021 // The U.S. Justice Department said five subsidiaries of West Texas Gas Inc. will spend $8 million on fines and compliance measures to settle alleged Clean Air Act violations and claims resulting from fatal chemical...
Oct 1 2021 // Federal officials allege in a lawsuit that a Texas-based company unlawfully fired disabled workers because of their inability to pass an essential functions test.The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a...
Sep 29 2021 // In a committee hearing on Sept. 28, Texas state senators were furious that natural gas companies won’t have to better prepare their facilities for extreme weather before this winter and rebuked the Texas Railroad...
Sep 28 2021 // Federal officials filed two lawsuits in Texas courts, alleging that a pharmacy in Fabens and a coffeehouse in Ft. Worth both discriminated against employees with disabilities that rendered them vulnerable to serious...
Sep 27 2021 // Federal officials made more than two dozen recommendations aimed at further safeguarding power plants and natural gas supplies to prevent a repeat of the February blackouts that caused more than 200 deaths in Texas.Staff...
Sep 24 2021 // A recently released report from the state’s insurance department shows more claims and higher average claim costs resulting from the severe and prolonged winter storm that enveloped Texas in mid-February than were...
Sep 23 2021 // Biggs Joins Oklahoma Workers’ Comp CommissionThe Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) added Scott Biggs as its newest commissioner. The WCC and its three commissioners are tasked with carrying out...
Sep 21 2021 // GlobalPro, a multidisciplinary insurance services firm that helps clients manage the risks to a financial recovery following a loss caused by wind, water, fire, theft or another calamity, opened an office in Dallas.The...
Sep 21 2021 // A military training jet crashed Sept. 19 in a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes but not seriously hurting anyone on the ground, authorities said.Both pilots managed to...
Sep 17 2021 // The Texas Department of Insurance eliminated a backlog of consumer complaints and reduced processing times by 80% as part of the agency’s ongoing modernization initiative, the regulatory agency says.“Customer...
Sep 16 2021 // A plastics company will pay $2.85 million in civil penalties to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations at its petrochemical manufacturing plant in Point Comfort, Texas, federal environmental protection officials...
Sep 14 2021 // Nicholas made landfall as a hurricane, packing 75-mph winds, on the coast of Texas on Monday night, and AccuWeather forecasters say the slow-moving storm will unleash life-threatening flooding along the Texas Gulf Coast,...
Sep 14 2021 // HOUSTON — Heavy rains lashed Texas and Louisiana on Tuesday as hurricane Nicholas weakened into a tropical storm, bringing the threat of widespread floods and power outages as it swept down the U.S. Gulf Coast.It is the...
Sep 13 2021 // With Tropical Storm Nicholas beginning to hammer the state’s coastline, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 13 issued a state disaster declaration for 17 counties, and Gov. John Bel Edwards requested a pre-landfall...
Sep 13 2021 // Tropical Storm Nicholas will pass near or just offshore the coasts of northeastern Mexico and south Texas this morning, and move onshore along the coast of south or central Texas late this afternoon or evening, the...
Sep 13 2021 // A Texas company agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by federal employment officials that alleged the firm’s owner subjected a female employee to sexist comments, then fired her for complaining about the owner’s...
Sep 9 2021 // Surplus lines premium recorded in Texas during August totaled $767.1 million, bringing the year to date total to $6.18 billion, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX).This results in a 6.9% (or $49...
Sep 7 2021 // Cassie Brown has been appointed Texas Commissioner of Insurance by Gov. Greg Abbott for a term that expires on Feb. 1, 2023.Brown has served as Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation since 2018, succeeding Ryan...