Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Governor Names Ladner Chair, Appoints Houston To Risk Management Board
Feb 22 2024 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Jeffrey Houston to the Risk Management Board for a term set to expire on February 1, 2025. Additionally, the Governor named Gerald Ladner, Sr. chair of the board. The Board...
Resilience Acquires Texas-Based BreachQuest
Feb 21 2024 // Resilience, a risk management firm, has strategically expanded its capabilities through the acquisition of BreachQuest, an incident response technology solution. This move is set against the backdrop of an evolving digital...
Texas Jury Finds LSD Did Not Cause Spinal Injury, Requires Occidental to Pay HO Limits
Feb 21 2024 // When does a hallucinogenic drug become the direct cause of a catastrophic injury, triggering a homeowners’ policy exclusion? Not when a young man falls out of bed and is later moved by his comrades, potentially...
Texas Car Dealership Settles Discrimination Lawsuit for $145K
Feb 20 2024 // An Amarillo, Texas-based car dealership will pay $145,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age and disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency...
Referral Fees: A Multi-State Overview
Feb 19 2024 // No matter the business, customer referrals are always a welcome way to expand client bases and build trust within the marketplace. This is certainly true within the insurance space, where it is common practice for...
West Texas Has More Fatal Crashes Than State Average, Report Finds
Feb 16 2024 // ODESSA — Severe and fatal vehicle crashes occur at a higher rate in the Permian Basin than the rest of Texas, a new report released Wednesday by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute found. Commissioned by the...
Police Investigate How Texas Church Shooter Obtained Rifle Despite Mental Illness
Feb 15 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — The shooter who opened fire at a Houston megachurch before being gunned down by security officers used an AR-style rifle that police say she legally purchased despite a years-long criminal record, a...
Vehicle Crashes Into Austin, Texas Emergency Room, Killing 1
Feb 15 2024 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A car crashed into a Texas hospital’s emergency room Tuesday, killing the driver and injuring five other people, including a child with life-threatening injuries, authorities said. The car...
Texas Housekeeping Provider to Pay $520K Over Disability Discrimination Suit
Feb 15 2024 // Hospital Housekeeping Systems, LLC (HHS), a provider of housekeeping, food and facilities support to numerous industries, based in Dripping Springs, Texas, will pay $520,000 as part of the settlement of a disability...
People Moves: Hysell Joins Alliant Insurance Services’ Texas Benefits Team
Feb 14 2024 // Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, named Gary Hysell as vice president within its employee benefits group. Based in Austin, Texas, Hysell joins Alliant with over 25 years of industry...
Police Investigate Motive Behind Shooting at Joel Osteen’s Megachurch
Feb 14 2024 // Several law enforcement agencies are actively investigating the motives behind a Sunday shooting at pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, which has one of the nation’s largest congregations. The...
Woman Killed After She Opened Fire in Joel Osteen’s Megachurch
Feb 13 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — A woman in a trenchcoat opened fire with a long gun Sunday inside celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Texas, sending worshippers rushing to find safety while two off-duty officers confronted...
People Moves: JM Wilson Makes New Hires and Promotions Nationwide
Feb 13 2024 // JM Wilson, headquartered in Portage, Michigan, made several new hires and promotions in offices across the country. Katie Priester Bird joined the company as a property and casualty underwriter. Bird previously held roles...
Texas Nursing Care Facility Settles Sex Discrimination Lawsuit for $50K
Feb 13 2024 // Paramount Healthcare Consultants, LLC, which operates nursing care facilities across Texas and Louisiana, will pay $50,000 to settle a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Ten Texas Counties Have Soot Levels Above EPA Standards
Feb 12 2024 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized a long-anticipated rule aimed at reducing the level of air pollution known as particulate matter — microscopic particles that can penetrate deep into the...
Texas Supreme Court Rules to Cut Out Attorney’s Fees in First-Party Appraisals
Feb 12 2024 // The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled that when an insurance company pays an appraisal award plus any statutory interest in a weather-related first-party property case, there is no liability for attorney’s fees. The...
Court Orders Texas Adjuster to Cease Using Lloyd’s Trademarked Names
Feb 9 2024 // A Texas public adjuster committed willful infringement when he formed a corporation and a limited liability company with the names “Certain Underwriters at Lloyds London, Inc.” and “Certain Underwriters...
Lubbock, Texas to Vote on Marijuana Despite Attorney General Lawsuit
Feb 8 2024 // LUBBOCK — An effort to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in Lubbock is moving forward, despite Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suing five cities this week for doing the same. Lubbock Compact, the...
Texas Got Early Warnings About Costly Grid Policy, Records Show
Feb 7 2024 // Texas grid officials received repeated warnings last summer that their efforts to shore up the state’s increasingly strained electric grid risked driving up power prices, records show. Concerns first arose just days...
Creators of Biden Audio Deepfake Face Potential Charges
Feb 7 2024 // An AI-generated cloned audio message of President Joe Biden that attempted to dissuade registered Democrats from voting in the New Hampshire primary election was traced to a Texas company and its owner. Attorney General...
