Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nguyen Promoted to Personal Lines Manager at Texas All Risk, Select General Agencies
Oct 11 2018 // Dallas-based Texas All Risk General Agency Inc. and Select General Agency LLC have promoted Binh Nguyen to personal lines manager. Nguyen will oversee underwriting and customer service for Texas All Risk homeowner’s...
Knight Named a Deputy Commissioner at Texas Workers’ Comp Division
Oct 11 2018 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Cassie Brown has appointed Debra Knight as the new deputy commissioner of Compliance and Investigations. This program area at the Division of Workers’ Compensation...
4 Small Tornadoes Confirmed in Oklahoma, 2 in Texas
Oct 10 2018 // The National Weather Service reported that six small tornadoes from a single storm system hit Texas and Oklahoma, including one that forced the closure of a state highway in northeastern Oklahoma for more than six...
Myron Steves in Texas Adds Thomson to Executive Leadership
Oct 10 2018 // Myron Steves has named Becky Thomson to its executive team. As director of healthcare, Thompson provides oversight to the healthcare and educators liability departments. She has been responsible for managing account and...
Insgroup Acquires Fred Brown Companies in Texas
Oct 8 2018 // Insgroup Inc. has acquired Houston, Texas-based Fred Brown Insurance Brokerage to enhance its Employee Benefits offering to large employer groups. Insgroup also acquired Fred Brown Property Casualty. Terms of the deal were...
Midlands Adds Reynolds to Transportation Unit in Texas
Oct 5 2018 // Midlands Management Corp. has named Joshua Reynolds a broker in its transportation unit in Dallas, Texas. Reynolds has 19 years of insurance underwriting experience. He was previously a senior transportation underwriter...
Army Corps Preparing its Own Hurricane Protection Plan for Houston
Oct 4 2018 // Later this month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will recommend a multi-billion-dollar plan to help protect the Texas coast — the Houston area in particular — from hurricanes. When it will become a reality, however,...
Texas Survivor’s Lawsuit Accuses Facebook of Enabling Human Traffickers
Oct 4 2018 // A human trafficking survivor from Texas sued Facebook this week, alleging the social media platform provides human traffickers an unrestricted way to “stalk, exploit, recruit, groom … and extort children into...
Texas Supreme Court: Family Can Sue City for Man’s Wrongful Death
Oct 4 2018 // The family of a Fort Worth man who died after they say officers needlessly choked, kicked and shot with a stun gun during a 2013 drug raid can proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit against two officers and the city, the...
Texas Accepting Comments on 2019 Workers’ Comp Research Agenda
Oct 2 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is accepting comment on the proposed Fiscal Year 2019 Research Agenda of the Workers’ Compensation Research and Evaluation Group...
Oklahoma Students Injured When Bus Rolls Over in Central Texas
Oct 2 2018 // Multiple injuries were reported Saturday when a school bus carrying students from Oklahoma rolled over along a central Texas highway. Lampasas Police Department Assistant Chief Jody Cummings said the crash occurred about...
After ‘Brain-Eating Amoeba’ Death, Texas Surf Resort Closed for Testing
Oct 2 2018 // A landlocked surf resort in Central Texas closed on Sept. 23 after a man who visited died from what is commonly known to as a “brain-eating amoeba.” The Waco Tribune-Herald reports Centers for Disease Control...
Doctor’s Alleged Fraud Scheme Throws Medical Claims Review Process into Doubt
Oct 2 2018 // For years, Spyros Panos seemed like a successful orthopedic surgeon, seeing dozens of patients a day and bringing in millions of dollars in fees for his suburban New York medical group. In fact, he was inflating charges...
Texas Coastal Lawmakers Urge Denial of Windstorm Insurer’s 10% Rate Increase Request
Oct 1 2018 // More than 20 state legislators have signed a letter addressed to Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan requesting that a 10 percent rate increase filed by the state’s property insurer of last resort for wind and...
Study: Texas to See More Frequent 100-Year Rain Events
Oct 1 2018 // Decades of additional weather data have led federal officials to reconsider rainfall totals in Texas that define 100-year weather events and caution that extreme rainstorms will strike the state more frequently. The...
Access to Medical Care in Texas Workers’ Comp System Improving, Study Finds
Oct 1 2018 // From 2005 to 2017, the number of workers’ compensation claims in Texas fell by 20 percent, resulting in a 24 percent decrease in the number of patients per participating doctor in Texas. That’s one of the...
Business Moves
Oct 1 2018 // Marsh & McLennan, JLT Marsh & McLennan Inc. agreed to buy Jardine Lloyd Thompson for about $5.7 billion to expand its global offering of reinsurance and consulting services. New York-based Marsh said the purchase...
Report: Dozens of Texas Gas Leak Explosions Since 2006
Oct 1 2018 // More than two dozen homes in north and central Texas have blown up since 2006 along a network of pipelines operated by one of the largest natural gas companies in the U.S, leading to nine deaths and badly injuring at least...
Rate Hikes, Fees Approved for Texas Fair Plan
Oct 1 2018 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan approved a request by the Texas Fair Plan Association (TFPA) to raise rates and revise/implement various fees. The commissioner denied, however, the plan’s request to end...
EEOC Sues Operator of a Texas McDonald’s Franchise for Sexual Harassment
Sep 28 2018 // A Texas company that does business as a McDonald’s franchise has been sued over the alleged sexual harassment of four females in the workplace. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has alleged in a...
