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Texas Judge Orders Houston Attorney to Reimburse Insurer $137,000 for “Frivolous” Lawsuit
Nov 28 2023 // A Texas judge has ordered a Houston plaintiffs’ attorney to reimburse an insurer $137,000 for the legal fees it expended to defend itself against a “frivolous” and “groundless” lawsuit that...
Texas Supreme Court Reverses Sanctions, Finds Carrier Had Right to Medical Records in UIM Case
Nov 22 2023 // The Texas Supreme Court on Friday reversed a Dallas County judge’s decision to sanction an insurer for making an “overbroad” discovery demand, finding that the carrier had a valid interest in the medical...
Texas Manufacturing Company Cited for Willful Safety and Health Violations, Faces $596K in Proposed Penalties
Nov 22 2023 // A U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety inspection at a prominent El Paso, Texas manufacturing company found the employer willfully exposed workers to the risks of amputation and permanent hearing loss and violated...
Texas AG Sues Pfizer Over Quality-Control Lapses in Kids’ ADHD drug
Nov 21 2023 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused Pfizer PFE.N and its supplier Tris Pharma of providing children’s ADHD medicine that it knew might be ineffective to the state’s Medicaid insurance program for...
Texas Court: Immunity Doesn’t Protect Local Governments From Administrative Penalties
Nov 20 2023 // Political subdivisions in Texas can’t use governmental immunity to evade administrative penalties for failing to timely pay workers’ compensation benefits, a state appellate court ruled. A panel of the 3rd...
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Air Pollution Permit for Texas LNG Terminal
Nov 17 2023 // A federal appeals court on Monday struck down a major air pollution permit issued by Texas’s environmental regulator, arguing that the state allowed improperly high emissions limits for Port Arthur LNG, a gas...
Study: Medical Payments to Treat Injured Workers in Texas Stable Over Five-Year Period
Nov 17 2023 // Medical payments to treat injured workers in Texas were stable from 2016 to 2021, according to a new study from the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The study, CompScope Medical Benchmarks for Texas,...
Texas Department of Insurance Proposes Amendments to Benefit Texas Military Forces in Workers’ Comp System
Nov 16 2023 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation’s (DWC) General Counsel notified workers’ compensation system participants that DWC is proposing amendments to the Texas Administrative...
Texas’ Maxwell Insurance Group Joins Risk Services of Louisiana
Nov 16 2023 // Maxwell Insurance Group of Houston, Texas, has affiliated with Risk Services of Louisiana (RSL), a Leavitt Group affiliate based in Shreveport. Leavitt Group is a network of insurance brokers whose collective strength...
Inszone Acquires Texas’ Max Breisse Insurance Agency
Nov 15 2023 // Inszone Insurance Services, a national provider of commercial, personal, and benefits insurance, has acquired Max Breisse Insurance Agency. Based in Katy, Texas, the agency was founded by Max Briesse in September of...
EWG Report Finds Rapidly Rising Crop Payouts As Climate Change Hits U.S. Agriculture
Nov 15 2023 // Drought, heat, hail, rain and freezing temperatures – the five horsemen of crop insurance. A new report from EWG found that crop insurance payouts for the top five weather-related losses totaled over $118.7 billion...
Hotchkiss Insurance Acquires Texas’ InCore Group
Nov 14 2023 // Hotchkiss Insurance has acquired InCore Group, an independent insurance consulting agency serving Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. This move expands Hotchkiss’ footprint for commercial insurance and employee benefits...
5.3 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Remote Area of West Texas
Nov 14 2023 // MENTONE, Texas (AP) – An earthquake struck a sparsely populated and remote area of West Texas last Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, and the temblor could be felt hundreds of miles away. The USGS reports...
Small Plane Overshoots Runway in Texas, Collides with Car During Emergency Landing
Nov 14 2023 // MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) – A small plane overshot the runway while landing at a Texas airport over the weekend and struck a car driving along a nearby road, injuring one person, authorities said. Video shows the propeller...
At SpaceX, Worker Injuries Soar in Elon Musk’s Rush to Mars
Nov 13 2023 // One windy night at Elon Musk’s SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas, Lonnie LeBlanc and his co-workers realized they had a problem. They needed to transport foam insulation to the rocket company’s main hangar but...
Sentry Insurance Opens Regional Office in Plano, Texas
Nov 8 2023 // Sentry Insurance has expanded its presence with a new regional office in Plano, Texas that will service businesses in the South Central region. The new office will occupy 11,400 square feet at the Apex at Legacy, located...
Austin, Texas Becomes Largest US City to Drop Parking-Spot Requirements
Nov 6 2023 // Austin on Thursday became the largest city in the country to stop requiring new developments to have a set amount of parking — a move aimed at both fighting climate change and spurring more housing construction amid the...
Declarations
Nov 6 2023 // Underinsured Cannabis “What I am seeing is that there are insureds that are underinsured. … So, there’s still a lot of insurance to be sold.” — Curtis Prince, CEO and founder of Flux Insurance...
Business Moves
Nov 6 2023 // East World Insurance Associates, Oakwood Insurance Agency World Insurance Associates has acquired the business of Oakwood Insurance Agency LLC, also doing business as Insure Big Rig, of Califon, New Jersey. Oakwood has...
Louisiana Courts Still Tidying Up After Storm of McClenny Moseley Lawsuits
Nov 3 2023 // In December 2022, before much was known about how McClenny Moseley & Associates in Houston was able to set up shop in New Orleans and sign-up thousands of Louisiana clients in less than a year, US District Court Judge...
