Latest Texas Headlines
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Lawyer: Texas Paramedic Denies Explosives Charge
May 13 2013 // A Texas paramedic arrested on charges of possessing bomb-making material will plead not guilty and had no connection to a fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, his defense attorney said...
Officials to Launch Criminal Investigation into Texas Fertilizer Explosion
May 10 2013 // Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw has directed the Texas Rangers to join McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara in launching a criminal investigation into the fertilizer plant explosion that...
Texas House OKs School Sports Concussion Insurance Pilot Program
May 9 2013 // The Texas House has approved a public school pilot program allowing parents to purchase supplemental concussion insurance for boys who play football and girls who play soccer. Students participating in sports already have...
Texas Mutual Plans $175M Policyholder Dividend Distribution
May 9 2013 // The policyholder owners of Texas Mutual Insurance Co. will share a $175 million dividend distribution this year, the company’s board of directors announced after a unanimous vote on May 7, 2013. This is the 15th...
Employees of Texas Coastal City OK’d for Guns at Work
May 8 2013 // Employees of a South Texas city who have concealed handgun permits will be allowed to take their weapons to work starting Aug. 1. The Aransas Pass City Council on night amended a ban on weapons for city workers to allow...
Rockwood Decreases Agent E&O Rates in Massachusetts, California, Texas
May 7 2013 // Rockwood Programs has implemented underwriting guideline changes to its P&C Agents E&O program. The modifications will result in a rate decrease in the states of California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Texas. The...
West Fertilizer Investigators: Ammonium Nitrate Detonated in Explosion
May 7 2013 // While the investigation into the origin and cause of the West Fertilizer Plant fire and explosion in West, Texas, is ongoing, investigators say that ammonium nitrate was detonated in the explosion. However, they...
Texas House Approves Guns on Campus, School Marshals Bills
May 6 2013 // The Texas House has approved contentious plans to let college students carry concealed weapons to class and create special marshals for public schools statewide. Both measures were part of what has been unofficially dubbed...
Texas Plant That Blew Up Carried $1M Liability Policy
May 6 2013 // The Texas fertilizer plant that exploded last month, killing 14 people, injuring more than 200 others and causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to the surrounding area had only $1 million in liability coverage,...
Claims, Lawsuits Mount from Texas Fertilizer Blast
May 6 2013 // Insurance claims from the deadly April 17 Central Texas fertilizer facility explosion are expected to reach the $100 million mark excluding any insurance payments that may be triggered by lawsuits that have been filed as a...
Texas Agent Association Annual Conference Set for June 26 – 28
May 3 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) and its Trusted Choice agencies, insurance representatives and other insurance professionals from across the state will gather at the Omni Dallas Hotel, June 26-28, for...
Abused Disabled Iowa Plant Workers Awarded $240M
May 2 2013 // A Texas company has been ordered to pay $240 million in damages to 32 mentally disabled workers who formerly worked at the company’s turkey processing plant in Iowa for what government lawyers described as decades of...
Homeowners not the Only Line of Coverage Affected by Texas Weather
May 2 2013 // It’s well known that Texas has some of the highest homeowners premiums in the nation — in large part due to the state’s vulnerability to violent weather. It may be less known that Texas has some of the...
Authorities Aim to Finish Texas Blast Probe by May 10
May 2 2013 // An investigation should be finished within the next two weeks into what caused a massive explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant that killed 14 people, state authorities said. Texas State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy told...
20 Texas Students Receive Insurance Education Scholarships
May 2 2013 // Twenty insurance and risk management students at five Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $23,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation. The students attend...
Senate Panel to Investigate Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
May 1 2013 // U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer said on Tuesday she plans to investigate the explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant earlier this month that killed 15 people and injured scores more. California’s Boxer, the head of the...
Texas Chiropractic Clinic Owner Convicted of $3M Auto Insurance Fraud
Apr 30 2013 // The owner of a now defunct chiropractic clinic in Bryan has pleaded guilty to engaging in a conspiracy to defraud various automobile insurance companies of more than $3 million, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson said. Marion...
Texas AG: Same-Sex Marriage Benefits Unconstitutional for Public Entities
Apr 30 2013 // Local governments and school districts that offer marriage benefits to same-sex partners are violating the state constitution, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott stated in an opinion on April 29. The cities of Austin, El...
Texas Man Arrested, Charged in $3.5M Staged Accident Fraud Scheme
Apr 30 2013 // A Duncanville, Texas, man faces federal charges in an alleged multi-million dollar staged accident fraud scheme. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas reported that Leroy Nelson was arrested...
Inquiry Into Texas Blast Plagued by Regulatory Gap
Apr 30 2013 // Federal and state officials investigating the April 17 deadly blast at a Central Texas fertilizer company are trying to determine whether a fire at the plant could have ignited a supply of ammonium nitrate. But how much of...
