Latest Texas Headlines
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Maine Plane Crash Victims Worked for Luxury Travel Startup Led by Texas Lawyer
Feb 5 2026 // The six people killed in a fiery plane crash in Maine were flying to France’s Champagne region to scope out the next travel destination for high-net-worth clients when their small jet flipped on the runway during...
Texas Anti-ESG Law Declared Unconstitutional by US Judge
Feb 5 2026 // A federal judge declared unconstitutional a 2021 Texas law restricting state investments in companies seeking to rely less on fossil fuels or boycott that industry. In a decision made public on Wednesday, U.S. District...
Lawyer for Prominent Texas Law Firm Among Victims ID’d in Maine Plane Crash
Feb 5 2026 // Six people aboard a private business jet registered to the same address as a prominent Houston law firm were killed on Jan. 25 when the jet crashed on takeoff in Bangor, Maine. Local officials on Tuesday named four...
Texas Cattle Ranchers Fear the Return of a Flesh-Eating Pest
Feb 4 2026 // Chris Womack is one of a dwindling number of Texas ranchers who can remember fighting the New World screwworm, a once-vanquished pest threatening to make an unwanted encore in the US after its recent return to northern...
Texas Grid Shows How Batteries Can Help Avoid Winter Blackouts
Feb 4 2026 // Last month’s sprawling winter storm from Texas to New England was one of the first multi-grid tests in the US for big batteries. They passed. Texas in particular benefited from energy storage, which helped cushion...
Accounting and Commission Automation for Multi-Carrier MGAs in Texas
Feb 4 2026 // If you’re running a multi-carrier MGA in Texas, chances are your accounting and commissions workflow looks like this: Multiple carrier commission structures Split payments across brokers, sub-agents, and...
Texas Data Centers to Rely on Gas Power Plants
Feb 3 2026 // Texas’ environmental regulator last week issued the largest air pollution permit in the country to an enormous planned complex of gas power plants and data centers near the oilfields of the Permian Basin, according...
Novacore Acquires Texas’ CP Insurance Associates
Feb 2 2026 // Novacore, the specialty insurance managing general agent (MGA) formerly the U.S. commercial division of NSM Insurance Group, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CP Insurance Associates, a...
Cannabis Is Here to Stay, Texas Lawmakers Say
Feb 2 2026 // Cannabis is here to stay in Texas, lawmakers and industry leaders said last week, as efforts to ban consumable hemp are losing steam. However, figuring out how to regulate the market remains a glaring problem that...
Texas Data Centers, Crypto Miners Reduced Power During Storm
Jan 30 2026 // Electric Reliability Council of Texas Chairman Bill Flores said Thursday that some data centers and cryptocurrency miners voluntarily curtailed power use during the recent winter storm that strained the state’s grid...
AM Best Revises Outlook to Positive for Texas’ Aventus
Jan 29 2026 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb+” (Good) of Aventus Insurance Company based in Fort...
It’s Getting More Expensive to Live in Texas, Census Finds
Jan 29 2026 // It’s getting harder to afford living in Texas — even as incomes and educational attainment grow and poverty declines. Despite the state’s robust economic growth since the start of the decade, incomes in Texas...
People Moves: Texas Mutual Names Cullison as SVP of Talent and Brand Strategy; Brown & Riding Adds Herbert to National Casualty Practice
Jan 28 2026 // Texas Mutual Names Cullison as SVP of Talent and Brand Strategy Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, recently announced Brittany Cullison as its...
Kin Moves Into Florida and Texas With Home-Auto Bundle Products
Jan 27 2026 // Kin, a direct-to-consumer digital personal lines insurer, announced the launch of auto insurance in Florida and Texas. The auto insurance is currently available as part of a bundle or as a standalone product. Home...
US Deep Freeze Wreaks Havoc on Texas Oil Producers and Refiners
Jan 26 2026 // A massive winter storm that swept the US over the weekend crippled oil and gas producers and the industrial plants that refine the raw commodities into everything from gasoline to plastics. Refinery flares lit up the...
Texas House GOP Races to Center on Tort Battle
Jan 26 2026 // In 2024, the Texas House Republican primaries were a bloodbath. The cutthroat cycle saw historic levels of campaign ad spending, including the usual cash influx from West Texas oil billionaires Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks...
Texas Deep Freeze Shutters Some Energy-Consuming Industry Sites
Jan 26 2026 // The winter storm sweeping the US has begun disrupting the operations of industrial oil and gas consumers on Texas’ Gulf Coast, including refiners, chemical plants and manufacturers. With almost 10% of US natural gas...
Texas Officials Say State Is Ready for Winter Storm
Jan 22 2026 // Nearly five years after Winter Storm Uri sparked widespread power outages and killed hundreds of Texans, officials and residents are once more girding for a round of severe winter weather that will blanket large parts of...
Texas Power Grid Faces Major Test From Season’s Biggest Storm
Jan 22 2026 // A powerful winter storm descending on Texas on Friday will be one of the toughest tests of the state’s electric grid since the system collapsed during a deadly 2021 freeze. Ice is predicted for the Dallas area, the...
Forecasters Warn of ‘Potentially Catastrophic’ Storm From Texas to the Carolinas
Jan 22 2026 // With many Americans still recovering from multiple blasts of snow and unrelenting freezing temperatures in the nation’s northern tier, a new storm is set to emerge this weekend that could coat roads, trees and power...
