Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Landscaper to Pay $400K in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Apr 16 2018 // A Pflugerville, Texas, landscape company pleaded guilty March 21 to misrepresenting its payroll so it could pay less for workers’ compensation coverage, according to the Texas Department of Insurance. Jammers...
Texas County to Urge Flood Insurance Purchase via Billboards
Apr 13 2018 // Houston-area officials are planning a campaign to put up two dozen billboards encouraging residents to buy flood insurance after Hurricane Harvey. The Harris County Flood Control District estimates more than 80 percent of...
Houston-Area Officials Say They Didn’t Know About Reservoir Flood Risks Pre-Harvey
Apr 13 2018 // Houston-area officials said during a congressional hearing that they weren’t aware of forecasts by federal authorities regarding flooding risks from local reservoirs that ended up inundating thousands of homes during...
Texas Developers’ Use of Fill for Flood Resilience Scrutinized Post-Harvey
Apr 11 2018 // Texas home developers’ practice of using dirt to raise homes above a flood plain is drawing increased scrutiny as experts question flood resilience measures after Hurricane Harvey. Some experts argued using dirt, or...
Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner to Leave Post May 1
Apr 9 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Ryan Brannan will leave his position effective May 1. Brannan was appointed to lead the Texas Department of Insurance’s,...
Texas Surplus Lines Stamping Office Adds 3 New Board Members
Apr 9 2018 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) has appointed three new members to its board of directors. Rosemarie Marshall serves as executive vice president for AmWINS Group in Dallas, Texas, where she manages the...
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas Facing Dual Threats: Tornadoes, Wildfires
Apr 9 2018 // Emergency officials in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas are bracing for two types of disasters as spring gets into full swing: The start of what’s historically the most active time of year for tornadoes plus wildfire...
Koncaba Appointed to Texas Mutual Board; Swanson Reappointed
Apr 6 2018 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Kristi Koncaba, president and chief operating officer at Texan Bank, to the board of directors for workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co. Koncaba has 15 years...
City Council Approves Changes to Houston’s Floodplain Regulations
Apr 5 2018 // More than seven months after Hurricane Harvey’s destructive floods damaged hundreds of thousands of homes across a wide swath of southeast Texas, the Houston City Council on April 4 approved the first overhaul to...
Texas Bar to Pay $24K to Settle ‘Hot Pants’ Pregnancy Discrimination Suit
Apr 4 2018 // A sports bar in Rowlett, Texas will pay a $24,000 penalty for not allowing a pregnant bartender to wear capri pants and a long top instead of hot pants and tight shirt, federal officials say. In addition to the fine, Off...
Designer of Deadly Kansas Water Slide Arrested in Texas
Apr 4 2018 // One of the designers of a massive Kansas water park slide that decapitated a 10-year-old boy has been arrested in Texas, federal authorities said. Trent Touchstone, chief deputy with the U.S. Marshals Service in Dallas,...
Georgia-Based Auto Insurer Access Insurance To Be Liquidated
Apr 4 2018 // Insurance regulators in the Southeast are notifying policyholders in their states of a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that is to be liquidated after being placed in...
Lawsuits over Arkema Chemical Disaster in Texas Add Up
Apr 3 2018 // Note: This story originally ran in The Texas Tribune. Most of the houses along Crosby Eastgate Road in Southeast Texas and its neighboring streets are one-story outfits on sprawling green lots. In their driveways are spare...
Texas Landscaper Must Pay $400K in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Apr 3 2018 // A Pflugerville, Texas, landscape company pleaded guilty March 21 to misrepresenting its payroll so it could pay less for workers’ compensation coverage, according to the Texas Department of Insurance. Jammers...
Liquidation Order Issued for Auto Insurer with More Than 42K Policies in Pennsylvania
Apr 2 2018 // A Texas court has issued an order of liquidation for Access Insurance Company, an auto insurer that has 42,785 policies in Pennsylvania. This means Pennsylvanians that currently have auto insurance through Access Insurance...
Texas Moves to Liquidate ‘Impaired’ Access Insurance
Apr 2 2018 // Stephanie K. JonesTexas insurance regulators placed into receivership and started the process of liquidating a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that the insurance...
Georgia-Based Auto Insurer Access Insurance To Be Liquidated
Apr 2 2018 // Insurance regulators in the Southeast are notifying policyholders in their states of a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that is to be liquidated after being placed in...
‘Impaired’ Non-Standard Auto Insurer, Access, to Be Liquidated
Apr 2 2018 // Texas insurance regulators placed into receivership and started the process of liquidating a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that the insurance department says is...
Texas’ Galveston County Looking to Elevate 200 Flood-Prone Homes
Mar 29 2018 // Preliminary estimates indicate that a hurricane recovery program in southeast Texas could elevate as many as 200 homes that have been repeatedly flooded. The Daily News reports that Galveston County commissioners received...
Third Person Charged in Waterslide Death of Kansas Boy
Mar 29 2018 // A man involved in the design of the world’s tallest waterslide into has been indicted along with two others in connection with the death of a 10-year-old boy at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City,...
