Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Luttrell Elected President of Combined Agents of America
May 24 2012 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), based in Austin, Texas, has a newly elected 2012-13 Management Committee. The new committe includes: President Roger Luttrell, president of Benton-Luttrell-Brown in Van Alstyne, Texas;...
Texas Judge Rules State Parole Officials Can Be Held Liable
May 23 2012 // A federal judge in Texas has ordered that state parole officials can be held personally liable by inmates suing over restrictive sex-offender conditions required of them, even though they were never convicted of a sex...
False Damage Claims Lead to Jail Time for Texas Couple
May 22 2012 // A North Texas couple have been sentenced to prison for their part in a conspiracy to defraud the city of Garland, Texas, of nearly $2 million by filing fraudulent damage claims against the municipality. Kenneth Wayne...
More Texas Land Out of Worst Drought Stage
May 21 2012 // Recent rainfall across much of West Texas has diminished to less than 2 percent the area of the state in the worst drought stage. Records show that hasn’t happened since March 2011. The U.S. Drought Monitor map...
Declarations – South Central
May 21 2012 // No More Cellphones “We really need better rules, regulations and laws, and corporations need to have a no-cellphone policy while operating a vehicle.” —Thomas J. Henry, attorney for a Texas woman who received...
People – South Central
May 21 2012 // Dallas-based property/casualty insurance agency, CoVerica, has hired Jim Bailey as senior vice president. The role will include traditional vice president responsibilities, as well as developing the company’s...
The Health Workers’ Compensation
May 21 2012 // Injured But Still Standing Like the economy, the workers’ compensation market has suffered in recent years. Results for 2011 were no better than 2010. The good news: results for the market were not worse either. The...
Texas Attorney General Fighting State Farm Non-Renewal Plans
May 21 2012 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is taking issue with one of the nation’s largest homeowners insurer’s plan to non-renew thousands of policies for properties along the Gulf Coast. Abbott said his office is...
Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Expanding into Texas, Southeast
May 21 2012 // Another job was the last thing Bill Henry wanted when he was approached to head up a new division of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF). But Henry, chairman and CEO of the Dallas-based brokerage McQueary...
Texas Company Fined $212K Over Safety Hazards
May 20 2012 // Federal regulators have imposed a fine of more than $200,000 against an aluminum products manufacturing facility in Carrollton, Texas, for safety and health violations. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Texas Windpool to Remain Under Administrative Control
May 17 2012 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for wind and hail in coastal counties will remain under the administrative control of state regulators and it will file for a 5 percent rate increase in August to become effective Jan....
Two Workers Hurt in Texas Fracking Tank Site Blast
May 17 2012 // Two workers were hurt in an explosion at a hydraulic fracturing tank site in south Texas early on Wednesday, a sheriff’s dispatcher said. U.S. workplace safety regulators cited the company that owns the site, Vann...
Texas Cabinet Company Fined for Safety, Health Violations
May 16 2012 // Federal regulators recently proposed fines against a Texas-based cabinet manufacturer over safety and health violations. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Zamco...
Naked Unicyclist in Texas Charged with Distracting Drivers
May 16 2012 // Police say a man arrested in a Southeast Texas city for riding his unicycle in the nude was distracting drivers and creating a hazard. Kemah police Chief Greg Rikard says 45-year-old Joseph Glynn Farley was not intoxicated...
Social Media Postings Lead to Firing of Texas Executive
May 15 2012 // Houston-based Francesca’s Holdings Corp. reported it has fired its chief financial officer, saying that he improperly communicated company information through social media. But the women’s clothing retailer...
Texas Windstorm Alternative Eligibility Program Deadline: Aug. 31
May 15 2012 // The Texas Department of Insurance is currently developing a process for obtaining an Alternative Certification for obtaining windstorm insurance in coastal areas. Under the Alternative Eligibility Program, residential...
Officials Strengthen Insurance Fraud Prosecution in Southeast Texas
May 10 2012 // Southeast Texas has a new team dedicated to fighting insurance fraud. Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman and Harris County District Attorney Patricia Lykos announced that the Harris County...
Regulators Propose $105K Fine for Hazards at Texas Facility
May 9 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Houston-based AWC Frac Valves Inc. with one willful, six serious and four other-than-serious violations for exposing workers at...
2 Texas Firms Receive Safety Awards from Work Comp Regulators
May 8 2012 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) has recognized Detex Corp. of New Braunfels and James Avery Craftsman Inc. of Kerrville with the Peer Review Safety Program Award. The...
Texas Investigates Beleaguered Dallas Hospital
May 7 2012 // Texas regulators have launched an investigation into new allegations that a beleaguered public hospital in Dallas fired a social worker after she filed a complaint that her superiors had asked her to violate safety...
