Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Medical Supplier to Pay $448K in Back Wages for Racial Hiring Discrimination
Nov 6 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has entered into an agreement with McKesson Medical-Surgical Inc., one of the nation’s largest distributors of medical supplies, to...
Fairgoers Join Lawsuit Against State Fair of Texas and Dallas Over Firearms Ban
Nov 6 2024 // Three fairgoers have joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in suing the State Fair of Texas and the city of Dallas over the fair’s policy banning all firearms from its properties. Monday’s filing is the...
Monarch E&S Acquires Texas’ Professional Insurance Executives
Nov 4 2024 // Monarch E&S Insurance Services (Monarch E&S), a division of Specialty Program Group LLC, announced its strategic acquisition of the assets of Professional Insurance Executives, Inc. (PIE), a leading contract...
Texas Agency Seeks $100M to Tackle Well Blowouts
Nov 4 2024 // Unable to keep up with the growing number of leaking and erupting wells in the state’s oil fields, the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, has asked lawmakers for an...
Texas Jury Orders Bell Helicopter to Pay $16M in Trade-Secrets Case
Nov 4 2024 // FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury ordered Bell Helicopter Textron to pay $16 million to a California company that claims Bell gave proprietary information that the companies developed to a rival supplier of cockpit...
Delta-8 Hemp, Medical Marijuana Industries to Face Off in Texas Legislative Session
Nov 1 2024 // Jack Stinnett got life-changing news in 2020 when he learned the lump that appeared on the side of his neck was tongue and mouth cancer. He and his wife Karen quickly enrolled him at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,...
Texas Pecan Farmers Fight to Save Water Supply
Nov 1 2024 // FORT STOCKTON — Zachary Swick plucked a pecan from one of the 78,000 trees at a sprawling West Texas farm — a rare sight in the desert known for oil rigs and pump jacks. He peeled away the pecan’s layers, leaving...
Texas Assisted Living Facility Fined for Firing Nurse With Sleep Disorder
Nov 1 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination and...
Texas Pharmacy Owner Sentenced in $41M Health Insurance Fraud
Oct 31 2024 // A Dallas pharmacy owner who routinely billed insurance companies for headache sprays, pain creams, and scar creams never dispersed to patients was sentenced last week to 10 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney...
Texas Department of Insurance OKs Porch Group’s Reciprocal Exchange
Oct 28 2024 // The Texas Department of Insurance approved an application from Porch Group Inc. to form and license Porch Insurance Reciprocal Exchange, a homeowners insurance reciprocal exchange. Porch said that forming PIRE is a key...
Texas Manufacturer Faces $257K Fine for Workers’ Injuries
Oct 25 2024 // Federal workplace safety investigators have determined that a Temple, Texas manufacturer and designer of school furnishings could have prevented an employee’s serious and permanent hand and arm injuries by installing...
Texas Grid Chief Says Big Tech Must Pay More for Power Upgrades
Oct 25 2024 // Technology giants developing big artificial intelligence data centers in Texas will need to pay more for electricity infrastructure upgrades to prevent those costs from burdening households and other businesses, according...
South Texas Town Lifts Boil Water Notice After 11 Days
Oct 24 2024 // McALLEN — Laredo residents are free to use their water after an 11-day boil-water notice expired earlier this week. City officials announced the end of the warning and pledged to address the factors believed to have...
Energy Company Seals Well in West Texas 19 Days After it Exploded
Oct 23 2024 // ODESSA — A Houston-based energy company has sealed a hemorrhaging well in West Texas 19 days after it exploded, sending a torrent of water and other chemicals dozens of feet into the air. The company, Kinder Morgan, said...
State Farm Campaign Aims to Provide Smoke Alarms to 1,300+ Texas Homes
Oct 22 2024 // State Farm will provide smoke alarms to more than 1,300 Texas homes during the Out to Alarm Texas 2024 campaign, the Insurance Council of Texas shared. The initiative was created in 2005 as a way mitigate the loss of life...
Texas Reaches $3.5M Settlement With Marriott Over Customer Data Breach
Oct 21 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the state has secured a settlement with Marriott International, Inc., that resolves an investigation into a breach of one of the company’s reservation databases. The breach...
Texas AG Sues Dallas Pediatrician Over Providing Hormone Treatment to Teens
Oct 18 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a Dallas pediatrician, accusing her of violating state law by providing gender-transitioning treatments to at least 21 teenage patients. Thursday’s filing...
Texas Commissioner Rejects TWIA’s Proposed Rate Increase
Oct 16 2024 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Cassie Brown issued an order this week disapproving Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s proposed 10% increase to property and commercial rates. The Department Department of Insurance...
Former Texas Police Chief Convicted of Insurance Fraud
Oct 16 2024 // A federal jury convicted former Castroville Police Chief, Christopher Filline, for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas announced. According to...
South Texas City in Boil-Water Notice After E. coli Traces Found in Water System
Oct 16 2024 // McALLEN — Laredo entered its sixth day of a citywide water boil notice after traces of E. coli were discovered in its public water system. Now officials in this South Texas city are scrambling to repair old water pipes...
