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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...
Texas Senate Panel Weighs Input on Stronger Storage Tank Regulations
May 2 2019 // Weeks after a massive fire at a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility garnered national attention, a panel of state lawmakers heard dueling testimony Monday night on a bill that would strengthen state oversight of...
Pollution Charges Filed Against Texas Petrochemical Facility That Burned
May 1 2019 // Water pollution charges have been filed against a company that owns a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility where a large fire that burned for days in March caused chemicals to flow into a nearby waterway. The Harris...
Texas Senate Passes School Safety Bill
Apr 30 2019 // The Texas Senate has approved a bill intended to increase security and prevent on-campus incidents of violence at public schools. Senate Bill 11, by state Sen. Larry Taylor of Friendswood, would direct the Texas Education...
Oh Rats! Pests a Problem in Building That Houses Texas Insurance Department
Apr 30 2019 // On Jan. 16, an employee at the Texas Department of Insurance noticed an unwelcome pest in her fifth-floor office in one of the towers of downtown Austin’s William P. Hobby Jr. State Office Building. Her maintenance...
9: The Number of Tornadoes that Hit East Texas, Louisiana Last Week
Apr 29 2019 // The National Weather Service says at least nine tornadoes were formed during a two-day period of severe weather in eastern Texas and Louisiana. Meteorologist Davyon Hill says seven tornadoes were part of the same parent...
Texas Tops the Nation in Traffic Deaths; Filed Bills Aim to Stem the Tide
Apr 29 2019 // At least one person has died on Texas roads every day since Nov. 7, 2000. Despite efforts to End the Streak, as the Texas Department of Transportation puts it, the state still leads the nation in traffic deaths. Fatalities...
30 Texas University Students Receive Insurance Council Scholarships
Apr 26 2019 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation has awarded a total of $40,000 in academic scholarships to 30 students studying insurance and risk management at five Texas universities. The students attend the...
Insurtech, Cover, Now Selling Its Own Auto Policies in Texas
Apr 25 2019 // Cover, a mobile-first insurance brokerage, has begun selling its own auto insurance policies in Texas. The new service — an evolution from the company’s nationally-licensed insurance brokerage — combines a...
Train Cars Carrying Ethanol Derail, Catch Fire in Texas
Apr 25 2019 // At least three horses were killed and several Texas homes evacuated early Wednesday when a train carrying the highly flammable liquid ethanol derailed and caught fire. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the...
