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Suit Alleges Services Outsourcing Firm Discriminated Against Blind Employee at Texas Call Center
Sep 24 2024 // The Results Companies, LLC, a services outsourcing firm, violated federal law when it refused to provide a reasonable accommodation for a blind call center employee and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
People Moves: IMA Financial Group Hires Davenport to lead Texas Employee Benefits; Marsh McLennan Agency Appoints Stadler President, Jeatran VP and Bridges to Lead Southwest Region
Sep 24 2024 // IMA Financial Group Hires Davenport to lead Texas Employee Benefits Teniqua Davenport IMA Financial Group, headquartered in Denver, named Teniqua Davenport as Texas market leader, employee benefits on its Dallas-Fort Worth...
Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk’s SpaceX Over Alleged Trespassing in Texas
Sep 23 2024 // The maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity is accusing Elon Musk’s SpaceX of trespassing on and damaging a plot of vacant land the company owns in Texas. In a lawsuit filed this week at a Texas court,...
Jury Deliberates on “Trump Train” Political Intimidation Case in Texas
Sep 23 2024 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A jury in Texas began to deliberate Friday whether the so-called “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus days before the 2020 election in a heated highway encounter...
Study Finds Levels of Hydrogen Sulfide ‘Off the Scales’ in Central Texas
Sep 20 2024 // The first readings Abigail Edgar took of hydrogen sulfide and methane at oilfields in Caldwell County in 2021 were so high that she thought her equipment was malfunctioning. “It was off the scales. Methane was off...
Human Remains Found in Vehicle Involved in Texas Pipeline Fire
Sep 20 2024 // Deer Park, Texas, police confirmed that human remains were recovered from a vehicle that crashed into a natural gas liquids pipeline Monday, triggering a fire that continues to burn. “Medical examiners will now begin...
AM Best Downgrades Credit Ratings of Texas Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co.
Sep 18 2024 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) to “bbb+” (Good) from “a-” (Excellent) of Texas...
Texas Mutual board approves $350 million policyholder dividend distribution
Sep 18 2024 // AUSTIN, Texas September 18, 2024—Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, is announcing today that its board of directors voted unanimously to approve a...
Texas is Close to Adopting Revised Oil and Gas Waste Rules
Sep 13 2024 // Texas is inching closer to adopting revised oil and gas waste management rules for the first time in four decades. The Railroad Commission of Texas announced the draft rule at its Aug. 15 meeting and is now soliciting...
Texas-Based Insurtech Sigo Seguros Raises $5.1M in Pre-Series A Funding
Sep 10 2024 // Sigo Seguros, a Texas-based insurtech company that focuses on providing auto insurance services for immigrant and working-class communities, announced it has raised an additional $5.1 million in its pre-Series A funding...
Strengthening Gulf Storm Could Slam Texas, Louisiana Coasts
Sep 9 2024 // A storm system in the Gulf of Mexico is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane early this week, bringing heavy rain, damaging winds and potentially life-threatening storm surges to parts of the Texas and Louisiana...
Texas Faces Need for Hundreds of Thousands of Homes to Address Housing Shortage
Sep 5 2024 // If Texas wants to rein in its high housing costs, it needs more homes, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s office said Tuesday — the latest sign that the state’s high home prices and rents have become a growing...
SpaceX Faces Concerns Over Environment Damage in South Texas
Sep 4 2024 // BOCA CHICA — It wasn’t just a day at the beach. But it never is on this small strip of sand near the Texas-Mexico border, not since SpaceX began launching rockets here. On this particular Saturday in August, about...
Investigation Underway After Bleacher Collapse at Texas Rodeo Injures 12 People
Sep 3 2024 // Authorities are investigating the weekend collapse of a portion of bleachers at a rodeo arena in Texas, injuring 12 people near San Antonio. Emergency responders arrived at the rodeo arena shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday in...
4 Killed, 10 Injured When Passenger Van Rolls Over in Texas Highway Crash
Aug 30 2024 // ALVORD, Texas (AP) — Four people were killed and 10 were injured when a van rolled multiple times after the driver veered off a Texas highway and then overcorrected Wednesday, authorities said. The crash happened just...
Texas Officials Sued Over Anti-ESG Law Targeting Wall Street
Aug 29 2024 // The American Sustainable Business Council sued Texas officials in an effort to block a law that restricts state investments with certain financial firms because of their energy policies. The lawsuit filed Thursday in...
Texas Lawmakers Consider Regulations to Address Risks of Artificial Intelligence
Aug 28 2024 // A group of state lawmakers began wading through the complex world of artificial intelligence Tuesday, providing an early glimpse at how Texas may seek to regulate the booming technology. During a nearly four-hour hearing,...
Inszone Acquires Texas’ Keith Williams Insurance Agency
Aug 27 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services, a provider commercial, personal and benefits insurance, announced the acquisition of Keith Williams Insurance Agency, Inc. (KWI), a Victoria, Texas-based agency serving individuals and...
Childcare Provider to Pay $43K in Back Wages After Retaliation Against Texas Worker
Aug 27 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered the Southlake, Texas location of a national childcare provider to reinstate an employee and pay $43,295 in back wages and damages after the employer fired them for reporting...
Texas DWC to Hold Brown Bag Series on Dispute Resolution
Aug 26 2024 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation will hold a Brown Bag Series with stakeholders in the workers’ compensation system this fall, with a half dozen meetings scheduled across the...
