Latest Texas Headlines
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Burns & Wilcox Hires Garcia as Marketing Director in Texas
May 16 2019 // Wholesale insurance broker and underwriting manager, Burns & Wilcox, has added Saul Garcia to its management team as director of Marketing in Texas. The new role was created to support the company’s recent growth...
Gymnasts to Texas Lawmakers: Allow Sex Abuse Victims to Sue Institutions
May 16 2019 // Former U.S. national team gymnasts backing a Texas bill that would allow victims of sexual abuse more time to sue in civil court on Monday urged the state’s lawmakers to restore a key provision allowing those...
Wreckage Removed, Houston Ship Channel Reopened to Two-Way Traffic
May 15 2019 // The Houston Ship Channel reopened on Wednesday to two-way traffic after salvage crews removed two gasoline barges damaged in a weekend collision with a deep-draft vessel, officials said. About 11,280 barrels of gasoline...
Texas Officials Warn Against Eating Fish From Bays After Ship Channel Crash
May 15 2019 // Texas health officials have advised people not to fish or eat seafood from parts of some Houston-area bays as cleanup continues following last week’s tanker and barges accident and toxic leak. An official with the...
Official: Houston Ship Channel Restrictions Could Continue All Week
May 14 2019 // The Houston Ship Channel could remain under one-way travel restrictions all week following a collision between a deep-draft ship and a barge that spilled petrochemicals into the waterway, according to an official. About...
Texas Wind Turbine Maker Settles with Board Over Labor Practices
May 13 2019 // A Texas-based wind turbine manufacturer has reached a settlement with federal officials over alleged violations of U.S. labor laws. GRI Texas Towers Inc. f/k/a Gestamp Wind Steel US Inc. (GRI), based in Amarillo, entered...
Texas Lawmakers Question FAA Delay on Hot-Air Balloon Regulations
May 13 2019 // The Federal Aviation Administration has not passed a new safety regulation that legislators say would fortify supervision of the hot-air balloon industry and help avoid fatal crashes similar to a Texas crash that killed 16...
Texas Moves Closer to Boosting Private Flood Market
May 12 2019 // The nation’s second-largest market for flood insurance may soon join more than a dozen other states in waiving requirements that insureds first search the admitted market before placing a private flood insurance...
Texas Insurance Bills on the Move; Commercial Property Measure Heads to Governor
May 10 2019 // The Insurance Council of Texas has reported several insurance bills of interest are moving in the Texas Legislature as the end of the session draws closer. SB 590/HB 1411, which addresses amendments, cancellations and...
Flash Flooding in Texas Leaves 1 Dead in Austin
May 10 2019 // Recent heavy rains caused flash flooding in numerous parts of northern, central and western Texas, causing one death in Austin. The body of a man was recovered Wednesday afternoon from Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin...
Heavy Rains Cause Houston-Area Flooding, Prompt Evacuations, Rescues
May 9 2019 // Emergency responders in Texas rescued numerous people from rising floodwaters Tuesday as a strong storm battered the Houston area with heavy rain, inundating homes and leaving motorists stranded just two years Hurricane...
Texas Mutual to Distribute $330M in Policyholder Dividends
May 9 2019 // Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced plans to distribute $330 million in dividends to policyholders in 2019. The dividends will be distributed to over 55,000 business owners, who are...
Police Say Texas Bartender Over-Served Man Prior to Deadly Attack
May 9 2019 // A suburban Dallas bartender is accused of continuing to serve drinks to a drunken man who later went to his estranged wife’s home and killed her and seven other people while they were watching a Dallas Cowboys game...
Texas Legislation Would Allow More Armed School Personnel
May 8 2019 // Nearly a year after a mass shooting at a Texas high school in which eight students and two substitute teachers were killed, lawmakers in the gun-friendly state are close to passing new measures that they say would harden...
Weinstein Joins The Nitsche Group as Sales Producer for Central Texas
May 8 2019 // The Nitsche Group, based in Giddings, Texas, has appointed Richard Weinstein as insurance sales producer for the Central Texas region. Weinstein has worked in the insurance industry for 27 years. He specializes in employee...
Texas Meat Packing Plant Faces $615.6K in Penalties for Safety Violations
May 7 2019 // A meat packing plant in San Angelo, Texas, has been cited for exposing workers to highly hazardous chemicals and faces more than $615,000 in penalties. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
K&K Insurance Buys Client Portfolio of Texas’ Pullen Insurance Services
May 7 2019 // Fort Wayne, Indiana-based K&K Insurance Group Inc. has purchased the book of business of Pullen Insurance Services Inc., headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. Specializing in the placement of insurance coverage for...
Risk Services – Leavitt Insurance Agencies Opening New Texas Location
May 6 2019 // The Leavitt Group’s Risk Services – Leavitt Insurance Agencies (RSL) is opening a new location in Corpus Christi, Texas, and a group of the company’s employees are transferring from a sister agency to...
Texas Revamps Insurance Licensing Process, Call Center Response in Modernization Effort
May 6 2019 // The Texas agency responsible for regulating insurance business in the state has been on a mission to modernize, increase efficiency, strengthen consumer protections and generally make the organization more...
Telemedicine Takes Workers’ Comp Into the Future
May 6 2019 // The use of telemedicine may be in its nascent stages within the workers’ compensation system, but the starting line has definitely been crossed with employers and workers’ comp insurers embracing the ability to...
