Latest Texas Headlines
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Study Finds Houston’s Apartment Safety Programs Are Flawed
Feb 9 2018 // A report by the University of Texas School of Law has found that Houston’s programs designed to ensure apartment safety are “flawed, fractured and improperly managed.” The 16-month study released Feb. 6...
IICF Raises Over $900K for Nonprofits in Texas and the Region
Feb 9 2018 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a nonprofit organization working with the insurance industry to help communities and enrich lives, announced that 650 insurance professionals and industry supporters...
Texas Appeals Court Says Federal Law Preempts State on Air Ambulance Fees
Feb 8 2018 // An appellate court in Texas has ruled that federal law, as opposed to state regulation, prevails when it comes to the amount an air ambulance service may charge insurance companies for its services. The ruling of the...
Study: Urbanization Contributed to Deadly 2015 Wimberley, Texas Flood
Feb 8 2018 // The 40-foot wall of water that gushed down Texas’ Blanco River in May 2015, wiping out parts of Wimberley and killing more than a dozen people, was largely a natural phenomenon. But a new study shows that development...
Texas A&M Study: Better Science, Urban Planning Needed in Coastal Cities
Feb 6 2018 // The field of urban planning is gaining interest as cities around the world, including Houston, are facing increased exposure to weather-related risks and hazards ranging from sea level rise and flooding to temperature...
Hub International Acquires Texas-Based IPS Advisors
Feb 5 2018 // Chicago-based global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of IPS Advisors LLP and IPS RIA LLC (IPS Advisors). IPS is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Houston, Austin,...
CoreLogic: Harvey an Exception to a Relatively ‘Normal’ Hazard Activity Year
Feb 5 2018 // While natural weather hazard activity could be largely categorized as “normal” last year, regional exceptions occurred, notably: wildfires in California and hurricane activity in Texas and the...
A.M. Best Ratings Recap
Feb 5 2018 // Rating Assigned: Pan-American Casualty A.M. Best assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a” to Pan-American Casualty Co. (PACC) in Richardson, Texas.The...
Lowe’s to Pay $55K to Settle Charges of Discrimination at Texas Store
Feb 5 2018 // Lowe’s Home Centers LLC, a nationwide chain of home improvement and hardware stores, will pay $55,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a manager at one of the company’s stores in...
Texas AG Sues Tree Company Over Deadly, Damaging 2011 Wildfire
Feb 5 2018 // Texas is suing a vegetation management company that it alleges caused the 2011 Bastrop County Complex Fire, the most destructive wildfire in Texas history. The lawsuit filed on Jan. 19 by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton...
Texas Town Reaches $10.4M Settlement in 2013 Fertilizer Plant Blast Suit
Feb 5 2018 // A Central Texas town devastated by a 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, many of them emergency personnel, has reached a settlement of its lawsuit for damages caused by the blast. The city council in...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division: Nonsubscriber Annual Reports Are Due
Feb 2 2018 // Annual reporting for employers without workers’ compensation insurance must be submitted to the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) by April 30. By law, Texas employers that do not provide...
Insurance Council of Texas: Justified Consumer Complaints Minimal in 2017
Jan 31 2018 // Despite another year of bad weather, data from the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) shows that justified consumer complaints continued to be low, the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) reports. Out of 6.7 million...
NCC Difference Makers Adjusters Conference 2018 to be Held in San Antonio, Texas
Jan 31 2018 // Atlanta, GA, January 31, 2018 – National Claims Connection (NCC) is hosting the 2018 Adjusters Conference on February 25-27, 2018 at the historic Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. NCC has partnered with sister...
Lowe’s to Pay $55K for to Settle Charges of Discrimination at Texas Store
Jan 30 2018 // Lowe’s Home Centers LLC, a nationwide chain of home improvement and hardware stores, will pay $55,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a manager at one of the...
National Hurricane Center: Harvey’s Rains Make It Second-Costliest U.S. Hurricane
Jan 29 2018 // Record-breaking Hurricane Harvey became the second-costliest storm to hit the U.S. and dropped more rain than any other system ever. Harvey, the strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. since 2005, killed at least 103 people...
Foreclosure Fears Rise in Texas with Jump in Late Mortgages After Harvey
Jan 29 2018 // As Jacob Lerma surveyed the skeletal beams of his suburban Houston home that was flooded during Hurricane Harvey, he kept muttering three words as he wondered if his family would ever be able to move back in: “I...
West, Texas, Accepts $10.4M Settlement in 2013 Fertilizer Plant Blast Suit
Jan 26 2018 // A Central Texas town devastated by a 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, many of them emergency personnel, has reached a settlement of its lawsuit for damages caused by the blast. The city council in...
Startup Neptune Offering Digital Private Flood Product to Agents, Carriers in Nationwide Expansion
Jan 25 2018 // A digital startup private flood insurance provider, Neptune Flood, has secured $2 million in seed round funding and has plans to “aggressively expand” nationwide by offering its platform to carriers, agencies...
2017’s Natural Hazards and the Destruction They Brought: CoreLogic
Jan 25 2018 // CoreLogic’s annual Natural Hazard Risk Summary and Analysis shows that 2017 was a year of relatively average activity for most U.S. natural hazards with the exception of wildfires in California and flooding from...
