Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Auto Parts Maker, Staffing Firm Cited for Safety Violations
Oct 8 2015 // Federal safety officials have cited a San Marcos, Texas, auto parts maker and its staffing employer for heat, noise and other workplace hazards. Corvac Composites LLC and Priority Personnel Inc. were fined a total of...
Texas Sees Uptick in Fatal Occupational Injuries
Oct 7 2015 // Preliminary data show that there was a 3 percent increase in fatal occupational injuries in Texas in 2014 over the previous year, state workers’ compensation insurance regulators report. The Texas Department of...
Federal Officials Sue Texas Firm for Disability Discrimination
Oct 7 2015 // Federal officials are suing Austin’s FEC, LLC and Austin Entertainment Center LP d/b/a Austin’s Park N Pizza, a Pflugerville, Texas-based amusement park, for violating federal law by firing an employee because...
Texas Weapons Manufacturer Fined $197K for Workplace Hazards
Oct 7 2015 // Federal safety officials have fined a Texas-based weapons manufacturer $197,000 for putting workers at risk. Maverick Arms Inc. in Eagle Pass, Texas, was cited on Sept. 30, 2015, by the U.S. Department of Labor’s...
MHBT’s Henry Elected Chairman of The Council
Oct 7 2015 // The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers reported that Bill Henry of Texas has been elected as the group’s 2016 chairman. Henry is chief executive officer and chairman of Dallas-based MHBT, a Marsh & McLennan...
Texas Tops for Heavy Equipment Thefts in 2014: Report
Oct 6 2015 // A report released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) shows that thefts of heavy equipment increased nationally in 2014 by 1.2 percent over the previous year and that Texas had the highest number of such...
Texas Department of Insurance Actuary Wins National Award
Oct 5 2015 // Mike Boerner, director of the actuarial office for the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), is the 2015 recipient of the Robert J. Myers Public Service Award from the American Academy of Actuaries. The award will be...
Texas Sets Work Comp Discount, Interest Rate at 3.96%
Oct 5 2015 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation has set the workers’ comp interest/discount rate for the fourth quarter of 2015 at 3.96 percent. This rate is computed by using the treasury...
People – South Central
Oct 5 2015 // Jeff Presley has joined Houston-based Securance Corporation Agency as vice president of Marketing and Operations for property/casualty. Presley brings more than 35 years of industry experience to his new role where he will...
Texas a Top State for Watercraft Thefts: NICB
Oct 5 2015 // While the number of watercraft thefts continued on a downward trend in 2014, Texas remains one of the five top states in which such thefts are likely to occur. Texas ranks third for watercraft thefts, behind Florida and...
Texas Hospital Should Forfeit $32M in Ike Funds, Report States
Oct 2 2015 // A federal review says a Houston, Texas hospital should forfeit $32 million in government grants for Hurricane Ike recovery due to misuse of the money. Riverside General Hospital was named in the Office of Inspector General...
Texas DA Suspends Funding Agreement With Texas Mutual
Oct 2 2015 // The Travis County District Attorney’s office in Texas says it is suspending an agreement with a private insurer that had allowed the company to pay prosecutors to pursue its fraud cases. District Attorney Rosemary...
Fed Probe Finds Safety Problems at Texas Dupont Plant Where 4 Died
Oct 1 2015 // A federal investigation into a poisonous gas leak that killed four workers at a Houston, Texas-area chemical plant in November found weaknesses and failures in the facility’s safety planning and procedures, officials...
Liberty Mutual Breaks Ground on 1M Square Foot Texas Campus
Oct 1 2015 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has kicked off construction of its new campus in Plano, Texas. The 1-million-square-foot office is expected to be complete in 2017. Liberty Mutual’s $325 million-plus expansion project is...
Texas County Sues Automaker for $100M Over Doctored Diesels
Sep 30 2015 // The Texas county that includes Houston sued Volkswagen Group of America Inc. for $100 million, claiming the carmaker’s cheating on emission controls worsened pollution in the area. It’s believed to the the...
Watercraft Thefts Down but Texas Still a Top State for Them: NICB
Sep 30 2015 // While the number of watercraft thefts continued on a downward trend in 2014, Texas remains one of the five top states in which such thefts are likely to occur. Texas ranks third for watercraft thefts, behind Florida and...
Surgical Funding Firm Accused of Inflating Claims
Sep 29 2015 // A unit of Johnson & Johnson that makes artificial hips has accused a surgical funding company of seeking excessive profits from financing surgery for patients suing over the devices. The claim by DePuy Orthopaedics...
AmTrust Financial to Buy Texas-Based Insurer, Republic
Sep 28 2015 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc. announced that it has agreed to acquire Republic Companies Inc. and its affiliates (Republic) from Delek Group Ltd. and Republic Insurance Holdings LLC. Republic is based in Dallas. The...
Texas Associates Insurors Adds Peterson as Risk Advisor
Sep 25 2015 // Texas Associates Insurors announced that Erik Peterson has joined the agency as a risk and insurance advisor, specializing in medical device, servicing and malpractice risk. Peterson has experience in the industrial and...
Southwest Louisiana Town Still Struggles a Decade after Hurricane Rita
Sep 24 2015 // Vacant slabs, weed-choked lots and solitary stairs to nowhere permeate Cameron, a tiny town in southwest Louisiana. All that remains of the Klean-N-Kruise car wash is a rusted white sign overlooking an empty, overgrown...
