All the headlines from our Transportation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 2 2021 // A river transportation company will pay $40,000 to resolve a race harassment lawsuit filed in Louisiana, federal authorities say.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said it filed suit alleging employees...
May 21 2021 // A pilot’s failure to control a small airplane when it lost thrust in one of two engines seconds after takeoff in suburban Dallas led to a 2019 crash that killed all 10 people aboard, federal officials said in a...
May 19 2021 // An offshore oil industry boat had begun to lower its legs and was trying to turn to face heavy winds when it flipped in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana last month, according to a preliminary federal report released on May...
May 12 2021 // Home security camera footage shows that the owner of a Tesla got into the driver’s seat of the car shortly before a deadly crash in suburban Houston, according to a new government report.But the preliminary report on...
May 7 2021 // A 2020 fire at a Louisiana shipyard in April 2020 that caused $900,000 in damage was able to start and spread without notice because no one was continually monitoring the vessel while fire detectors were shut off during...
Apr 23 2021 // Two of the six people killed in a massive crash involving about 130 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate in February were fatally struck after getting out of their vehicles, a federal agency reported on April 21.The...
Apr 19 2021 // Commercial auto insurer Lancer Insurance Co. has agreed to merge with another specialty insurer, Core Specialty, where it will operate under its own brand name as Core Specialty’s ninth specialty property/casualty...
Apr 12 2021 // A National Transportation Safety Board investigation found that the erratic steering of a supply vessel led to a 2019 collision resulting in more than 6,000 gallons of diesel oil being dumped into the Sabine Pass, a busy...
Apr 1 2021 // Federal transportation safety officials say one of the vessels involved in the 2019 Houston Ship Channel collision that resulted in the release of more than 11,000 barrels of petrochemicals into Galveston Bay was going too...
Feb 25 2021 // Newly launched specialty lines insurer, Dallas-based Upland Capital Group (Upland), has added an Excess Transportation Liability (XTL) specialty insurance offering targeting fleet sizes up to 250 revenue producing...
Feb 17 2021 // National Transportation Safety Board said it would investigate a massive crash involving more than 130 vehicles on an icy Texas highway that killed six people and injured dozens more.The NTSB said on Twitter that its...
Feb 17 2021 // NTIS Transportation Insurance Services has relocated from Laguna Hills, Calif., to Las Vegas, Nev. The California staff will now work remote. The firm has also added new staff and additional truck insurance markets. NTIS...
Feb 16 2021 // The Progressive Corp. is acquiring Indiana-based trucking industry insurer Protective Insurance Corp. in a move that will increase its stake in the commercial lines insurance market.Progressive has agreed to pay $23.30 per...
Feb 2 2021 // Federal investigators said they’ll focus on the crash of a box truck that killed five bicyclists on a stretch of Nevada highway in December as they consider recommendations to prevent similar fatalities.The National...
Feb 1 2021 // The National Transportation Safety Board has announced that it is investigating a house fire that killed four people, including two firefighters, in the northwestern part of the state.The agency launched the investigation...
Jan 25 2021 // A natural gas explosion at a Dallas home that killed a 12-year-old girl came after an energy company failed to find a damaged line despite two nearby homes being destroyed in gas-related fires on the two previous days,...
Jan 13 2021 // A natural gas explosion at a Dallas home that killed a 12-year-old girl came after an energy company failed to find a damaged line despite two nearby homes being destroyed in gas-related fires on the two previous days,...
Nov 20 2020 // The overturning of a liftboat servicing an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast was the result of an inadequate preload procedure, according to federal report.The National Transportation Safety Board...
Oct 30 2020 // Federal officials released documents this week that provide details about one of the deadliest civil aviation accidents of the past decade, including testimony from people who had varying accounts of the crash...
Oct 30 2020 // Federal and state authorities on Wednesday investigated a crash between a school bus carrying 24 children and a utility vehicle that killed the bus driver and a 7-year-old girl in eastern Tennessee.Eight other children...