Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Judge Backs Full $49M Jury Award Against Alex Jones
Nov 28 2022 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A Texas judge said last week she will not lower a nearly $50 million punishment against Alex Jones that a jury handed down earlier this year over the Infowars host spreading false conspiracy theories...
Dept. of Transportation Declares Texas Motor Carriers to be Imminent Hazard to Public Safety
Nov 22 2022 // The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Texas Interstate Express and PAC Express LLC related motor carriers located in the Houston area, to be an...
West Texas Earthquake Causes Damage Hundreds of Miles Away
Nov 21 2022 // MENTONE, Texas (AP) – A strong earthquake that struck a remote area of the West Texas desert caused damage in San Antonio, hundreds of miles from the epicenter, officials said. University Health said last Thursday that...
Regulators Seek More Info on Texas LNG Plant Before Restart
Nov 21 2022 // U.S. federal regulators have told Freeport LNG to provide information needed for the planned restart of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant in Texas, the second-largest U.S. LNG export plant, as soon as possible...
Texas Agency, Lawmakers Aim to Tighten Pollution From Concrete Plants
Nov 18 2022 // ARLINGTON — Deirdre Diamond is frustrated and concerned that another concrete batch plant is coming to her town. Gunter, located about 50 miles north of Dallas, already has 11 permitted concrete batch plants, according...
Risk Strategies Acquires Texas’ Wallace Specialty
Nov 17 2022 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, announced it has acquired Wallace Specialty Insurance Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Based just outside of Dallas in...
Skyward Specialty in Texas Files Registration Statement for IPO
Nov 14 2022 // Skyward Specialty Insurance Group Inc. in Houston, Texas, filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common...
Texas DWC to Hold Quarterly Stakeholder Meetings on Nov. 29
Nov 9 2022 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) will hold its quarterly stakeholder meeting for insurance carriers and medical providers in the Texas workers’ compensation system on Nov. 29. DWC said the...
Texas Public Adjuster Accused of Pocketing Settlement Checks Says No Penalty Warranted
Nov 8 2022 // An attorney for the Texas public adjuster accused of pocketing $7.6 million in insurer settlement checks told an administrative law judge that the case doesn’t warrant any administrative penalties and if any...
Deadly Tornadoes Hit Texas and Oklahoma, Flatten Buildings
Nov 7 2022 // Residents in southeastern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas began assessing weather damage Saturday, working to recover and thankful to have survived after a storm stretching from Dallas to northwest Arkansas spawned...
SageSure to Debut Private Flood Insurance in Texas
Nov 4 2022 // SageSure announced the introduction of a new admitted, proprietary residential flood program initially available in Texas. SageSure will distribute flood insurance through its network of contracted producers while also...
Specialty Program Group Acquires Texas’ Catapult
Nov 3 2022 // Specialty Program Group, an operator of specialty insurance brokerages and underwriting facilities, announced the acquisition of the assets of Catapult Insurance Solutions. Based in Carrollton, Texas, Catapult is a...
U.S. Regulators Seek More Info on Texas Freeport LNG Plant Before Restart
Nov 2 2022 // U.S. federal regulators have told Freeport LNG to provide information needed for the planned restart of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant in Texas, the second-largest U.S. LNG export plant, as soon as possible...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Texas’ Tejas American General Agency
Nov 2 2022 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that its U.S. wholesale brokerage, binding authority and programs division, Risk Placement Services, Inc. (RPS), has acquired Cedar Park, Texas-based Tejas American General Agency,...
Marsh McLennan Acquires Texas-Based Focus
Nov 2 2022 // Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA), a subsidiary of Marsh, announced the acquisition of Focus Insurance, a leading personal insurance brokerage firm based in Houston, Texas. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in...
NTSB: Valve Leak Fueled Texas Pipeline Blast That Killed 2
Nov 2 2022 // FARMERSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A valve leak and a spark of unknown origin combined to cause a North Texas natural gas pipeline explosion last year that killed two workers and injured two others, federal investigators said. A...
Texas Uber Drivers Victimized by Data Breach Receive $4.2M
Oct 26 2022 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that his office has completed its distribution of $4.2 million in redress payments to approximately 42,000 Texans whose personal information was compromised in a 2016 data breach...
Texas Sues Google for Alleged Biometric Privacy Violations
Oct 21 2022 // Texas sued Google over claims that the search-engine giant is illegally capturing the biometric data of users without their consent, the latest in a series of lawsuits by the state against tech companies over online...
Inszone Acquires Texas’ Proctor Insurance
Oct 20 2022 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Proctor Insurance, providing the fifth acquisition in the state of Texas. Based in Houston, Proctor offers business and personal lines and specializes in hotels and...
People Moves: Iroquois Adds Gonzalez in Texas; Lucas to Lead Platinum Construction; Distinguished Programs Hires Fulton
Oct 20 2022 // Iroquois adds Regional Manager Gonzalez in Texas Jo Gonzalez joins Iroquois as a regional manager for Texas, where she will further expand Iroquois’ presence by partnering with independent insurance agencies and...
