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Texas Asks Court to Halt Kenvue Tylenol Marketing, Dividend
Nov 7 2025 // Texas officials have asked a state court judge to temporarily block Kenvue Inc. from marketing Tylenol as safe for pregnant women, and from issuing a dividend, escalating the company’s legal woes just days after...
People Moves: Texas Mutual Names Sangal as COO
Nov 6 2025 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, recently announced Prateek Sangal as its chief operating officer, effective October 20. In this role, Sangal will...
Texas Voters Approve $20B Investment in Water Supply
Nov 5 2025 // Texas is poised to make the largest investment in its water supply in the state’s 180-year history after voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 4, which authorizes $20 billion to be spent on water projects over the...
Texas Courier Service to Pay $800K in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Nov 4 2025 // Trinity Couriers Inc., a courier service based in San Antonio, pled guilty to fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation insurance coverage, the Texas Department of Insurance announced. The company agreed to pay...
Judge Dismisses Texas Challenge to New York Abortion Shield Law
Nov 3 2025 // A New York judge dismissed a legal challenge Friday from Texas seeking to enforce a more than $100,000 civil judgment against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman in an early test of the...
People Moves: Texas State Office of Risk Management Names Hays as Executive Director
Oct 31 2025 // The Texas State Office of Risk Management Board of Directors announced Sara Hays as the newly appointed Executive Director. Hays joins the Office after many years of state service, including Chief of Staff for two state...
Wildfire Forces Rural Community in Southern Texas to Evacuate
Oct 31 2025 // Thick smoke blanketed a rural community in southern Texas and many residents were ordered to evacuate as firefighters worked to contain a blaze Wednesday evening, officials said. The Mill Fire in Gregory, Texas, about 150...
Texas Backs Permian Gas-Fired Power Plant With $1.1B Loan as AI Demand Soars
Oct 30 2025 // Texas is backing a proposed Permian Basin power plant fueled by natural gas with a $1.1 billion low-interest loan, the largest such project under a state program aimed to shore up supplies after widespread blackouts in...
Fermi Orders Four Big Nuclear Reactors in Texas
Oct 29 2025 // Fermi Inc. has signed deals to begin production of four big nuclear-power reactors that would be used for a private data center grid campus in the Texas Panhandle. Shares rose as much as 9% after the announcement and a...
Lawsuit Leads to Surrender of Texas Physician’s License over Gender-Affirming Care
Oct 29 2025 // A Dallas pediatrician has surrendered her medical license, a year after becoming the first target of a law that banned providing gender-transitioning hormones to minors. Last October, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton...
Texas Sues Tylenol Makers J&J and Kenvue, Alleging They Hid Drug’s Autism Risks
Oct 28 2025 // The makers of Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N and Kenvue KVUE.N, were sued on Tuesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused them of knowingly hiding the drug’s links to autism and attention deficit...
AM Best Assigns Credit Rating to Texas’ Dallas Specialty
Oct 27 2025 // AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) to Dallas Specialty Insurance Company (Dallas Specialty), based in Dallas, Texas. The...
Cards Against Humanity and SpaceX Reach Settlement in Texas Land Dispute
Oct 22 2025 // SpaceX has settled a lawsuit filed by the maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity over accusations that Elon Musk’s rocket company trespassed and damaged a plot of land the card company owns in...
Plan to Pump Billions of Gallons From East Texas Appears on Hold
Oct 22 2025 // An East Texas groundwater conservation district is negotiating a legal path that would pause a plan to pump billions of gallons of water out of the region. The Neches & Trinity Valleys Groundwater Conservation District...
Texas Residents to Vote on $20B Package to Secure State’s Water Supply
Oct 20 2025 // LONGVIEW — In this part of Texas, residents stock up on bottled water in between boil notices. It’s part of life in a place where water pipes are old, corroded and falling apart. In the High Plains, near Lubbock,...
Meta Building New Gigawatt-Sized Data Center in Texas
Oct 17 2025 // Meta Platforms Inc. is building a new gigawatt-sized data center in Texas to advance its artificial intelligence efforts, the latest in a string of significant investments by the company as it looks to keep pace in the...
Texas Legislature Forms Committees to Investigate July Deadly Floods
Oct 16 2025 // Top Republicans in the Texas Legislature have announced the creation of committees tasked with “getting to the bottom of” the July flooding that killed more than 130 people, including 25 young girls and two...
Texas Ag Commissioner at Odds with USDA Over Screwworm Control Methods
Oct 15 2025 // USDA slaps down Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller over New World Screwworm Kate McGee and Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune October 14, 2025 Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is trading barbs with the...
Alliant Expands Transportation Risk and Cross-Border Expertise in Texas
Oct 15 2025 // Alliant Insurance Services acquired Texas Insurance Agency in Laredo, one of the U.S.’s busiest international trade ports, specializing in cross-border trucking risk and insurance; as well as McAfee Insurance Agency...
Camp Owners in Texas Fear Closure Due to New Safety Regulations
Oct 14 2025 // Texas camp owners on Friday urged the state health agency to give them more time and flexibility on costly new safety requirements, saying they could be forced to close by next summer. “We support the goal of making...
