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Storms Leave 15 Dead, Hundreds Injured in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas

May 28 2024 // VALLEY VIEW, Texas (AP) — Powerful storms killed at least 15 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop...

Plans to Spend Billions on a Flood-Prone East Texas Highway May Not Solve the Problem

May 23 2024 // LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Highway 59, a major evacuation route from Houston, has been a problem for East Texas for decades. And as flooding rivaling that of Hurricane Harvey inundated the region in April, the highway...

Texas Manufacturer to Pay $35K for Denying Job to Applicant with Opioid Use Disorder

May 23 2024 // The Modern Group, Ltd. (TMG), headquartered in Beaumont, Texas, and one of its subsidiaries, Dragon Rig Sales and Service, LLC, a manufacturing and service company which builds oilfield service equipment for energy and...

Texas Braces for More Heat, Storms and Floods: Weather Watch

May 23 2024 // Parts of the central US stretching from North Dakota to northern Texas, including Dallas, face an enhanced risk from severe thunderstorms, strong wind, hail and possibly tornadoes on Thursday, the US Storm Prediction...

People Moves: BenefitMall Appoints Wong Benefits Sales Executive for Texas

May 22 2024 // Trent Wong BenefitMall, headquartered in Dallas, hired Trent Wong as a benefits sales executive for Texas. Before joining BenefitMall, Wong was a senior account manager at Energy Insurance Agency and a small group sales...

TWIA Prepares Biennial Report for Texas Legislature; Assoc. Sees Limited Claims From Houston Storm

May 22 2024 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Board’s Legislative & External Affairs Committee met on May 21 to plan the association’s Biennial Report to the Texas Legislature.TWIA submits a biennial report to...

Texas to Face Extreme Heat in New Test for Its Power Grid: Weather Watch

May 22 2024 // Temperatures will soar across Texas this week, increasing demand for energy as people switch on air conditioning to cool down.The heat will also spread across the Midwest and Northeast, with the potential for record warm...

Gallagher Updates Regulation for Artificial Intelligence

May 22 2024 // Gallagher’s Cyber practice remains laser focused on emerging technology and the potential for increased risks as organizations begin to use them. Throughout 2024, we’re concentrated on evolving compliance...

These Texans Aren’t Taking Buyouts Despite Repeated Floods

May 21 2024 // HARRIS COUNTY — After the floodwaters earlier this month just about swallowed two of the six homes that 60-year-old Tom Madigan owns on the San Jacinto River, he didn’t think twice about whether to fix them. He...

Up to 2,000 Gallons of Oil Spilled into Galveston Bay After Barge Accident

May 20 2024 // GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Early estimates indicate up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas,...

Thousands Remain Without Power After Deadly Storms Hit Houston

May 20 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to hundreds of thousands after deadly storms left at least seven people dead, it will do so amid a smog warning and scorching temperatures that could...

Wildfire Risk

May 20 2024 // While the overall number of wildfires per year is declining, the increasing size and intensity of fires have led to more property damage than ever before. The average fire size has tripled over the past 30 years, according...

Texas Attorney Charged with Skimming $2.4M from Settlements

May 20 2024 // A Houston plaintiffs’ attorney known as “Car Wreck Clyde” is awaiting court proceedings after being charged with skimming as much as $2.4 million in client settlement proceeds over the past decade,...

Inszone Acquires Texas’ JHC Insurance Agency

May 17 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of JHC Insurance Agency, Inc., an independent insurance agency serving the Victoria community and beyond. Rooted in the values of independence and client-focused...

Deadly US Oil Blast Exposes Risks of Pushing Profits Over Safety

May 17 2024 // The explosion that rocked Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s Galveston Bay oil refinery one year ago trapped Rigoberto Guillen 75 feet in the air. Stranded on a metal platform, he and a colleague crouched low as black smoke...

Texas Storms Leave 800,000 Without Power While Flights Grounded

May 17 2024 // A line of dangerous storms and flooding rains rolled over the US Gulf Coast, killing at least four people and leaving more than 800,000 customers in Texas — about 6% of the total — without power while grounding...

Flood-Prone Houston Faces a Deluge of More Rain: Weather Watch

May 16 2024 // Heavy rain will sweep across eastern Texas into Louisiana and Mississippi on Thursday, raising flood risks across the Gulf of Mexico states.Flood watches have been posted from Dallas and Houston eastward across Louisiana...

Texas Is Warned of Blackout Risk as Sun Sets This Summer

May 16 2024 // The risk of power failures this summer remains elevated for many parts of North America amid soaring demand and generator shutdowns.The main Texas grid is especially vulnerable at sunset when solar generation plunges and...

Texas Lawmakers Zero In on Exploding Hemp Industry

May 15 2024 // Austin hemp entrepreneur Shayda Torabi is looking at a year filled with uncertainty.For the six years they’ve been in business, Torabi and her two sisters have operated Restart, their hemp dispensary, in a modest...

Decayed, Broken Utility Pole Caused Largest Wildfire in Texas History: Report

May 13 2024 // LUBBOCK — A decayed utility pole that broke, causing power wires to fall on dry grass in the Texas Panhandle, sparked the state’s largest wildfire in history, a Texas House committee confirmed Wednesday.And other...