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Texas Department of Workers’ Comp Adopts Claim Electronic Data Interchange
Aug 2 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) adopted the Texas claim EDI release 3.1.4 standard on March 9, 2022. As a result, DWC’s designated data collection agent, Insurance...
Texas Claims Adjuster Ordered to Cease Business in Louisiana for Allegedly Withholding Payments
Jul 29 2022 // Investigators from the Office of Insurance Fraud and Enforcement at the Louisiana Department of Insurance on July 22 issued non-resident public adjuster Kade Austen Mitchell and his agency a cease-and-desist order and...
People Moves: RSL Insurance in Texas Adds Colville; FIRST Names Riolo Relationship Manager
Jul 28 2022 // Houston, Texas-based RSL Insurance added Ryan Colville as an insurance advisor on the commercial business team. Colville will serve the insurance needs of business owners in the West Texas region. He previously worked in...
Neighbors Complained About Grass Before Texas Fire Disaster
Jul 28 2022 // Neighbors of an open field from which a grass fire spread into their suburban Dallas subdivision, destroying nine homes, had complained that the field’s owner wouldn’t mow the grass, officials said this...
Charter Spectrum Hit With $7.3B Verdict in Texas over Murder of 83-Year-Old
Jul 27 2022 // Charter Communications was hit with a combined $7.37 billion verdict – including $7 billion meant to punish the company – for systemic safety failures that led to the robbery and stabbing death of an 83-year-old woman...
North Texas Grass Fire Torches 20 Homes
Jul 27 2022 // A grass fire apparently sparked by a mower swept about 300 yards across a tinder-dry open field to a suburban Dallas subdivision Monday, burning through wooden fences and torching as many as 20 homes, officials said. The...
Texas School Mask Mandate Ban Upheld by Federal Appeals Court
Jul 26 2022 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott can maintain his ban on school mask mandates, a federal appeals court ruled. A three-judge panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday said that a group of disabled students failed to...
Alex Jones’ Defamation Trial Set to Begin in Texas
Jul 26 2022 // Jury selection was set for Monday in a trial that will determine for the first time how much Infowars host Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook Elementary School parents for falsely telling his audience that the deadliest...
Texas DWC Seeks Comments on Benefits Forms Changes
Jul 22 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is accepting public comments on revisions to two forms: DWC Form-046, Request to Accelerate Impairment Income Benefits. This form is...
Higginbotham Acquires Texas’ Brown & Company
Jul 21 2022 // Brown & Company Insurance Services, an employee benefits and individual life and health insurance agency in College Station, Texas, has combined with Higginbotham, an insurance, financial and HR services firm ranked as...
Ex-East Texas Deputy Pleads Guilty to Using Excessive Force
Jul 21 2022 // A former East Texas deputy has pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation for punching a restrained detainee in the chest repeatedly with a shock gun, according to court documents. Former Van Zandt County sheriff’s...
People Moves: DOXA Names Robbins to Lead Sales Force in Texas; McGriff Hires Fulbright in Houston
Jul 20 2022 // DOXA Insurance Holdings Names Michael Robbins to Lead Sales Force in Texas DOXA Insurance Holdings announced the appointment of Michael Robbins, CIC, to lead the company’s sales force in Texas as regional sales...
Wildfire Burns Homes Around North Texas Lake
Jul 20 2022 // A wildfire has burned several homes and prompted calls for voluntary evacuations around a lake in north Texas amid sweltering temperatures and dry conditions, authorities said. The fire at Possum Kingdom Lake about 95...
Actuarial Committee Recommends No Change in Texas Windstorm Insurance Rates
Jul 19 2022 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s Actuarial & Underwriting Committee recommended to the board of directors that there should be no change in residential or commercial insurance rates. The Actuarial...
Texas Jury Hands Fired Southwest Flight Attendant $5.1 Million Verdict
Jul 18 2022 // A former Southwest Airlines flight attendant who was fired after sparring with her union president over abortion and other issues won a $5.1 million jury verdict against the airline and the union. A jury in federal...
Regulator Bars Texas Plant Restart Over Safety Concerns
Jul 18 2022 // The second-biggest U.S. liquefied natural gas export facility hit by fire in early June will not be allowed to repair or restart operations until it addresses risks to public safety, a pipeline regulator. The June 8 blast...
NTSB: Dad, Not 13-Year-Old, Was Driving Truck That Hit Golfers’ Van in Texas
Jul 15 2022 // A Texas man, not his 13-year-old son, was driving the pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a van carrying New Mexico college golfers, killing nine people, and he had methamphetamine in his system,...
Uvalde, Texas Video Raises More Calls for Police Accountability
Jul 15 2022 // As video taken inside Robb Elementary School puts in full view the bewildering inaction by law enforcement during the May slaughter of 19 children and two teachers, some in Uvalde are shouting: Will police face...
Lawsuit Alleges Texas Officer Paralyzed Man in Jail
Jul 15 2022 // A man filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing a Texas police officer of using excessive force while restraining him in jail and inflicting injuries that left him paralyzed from the chest down. The lawsuit on behalf of...
Pregnant Texas Woman Pulled Over in HOV Lane Says Unborn Baby Counts as Passenger
Jul 13 2022 // When an officer pulled Brandy Bottone over for driving by herself in a high occupancy vehicle lane in Texas just days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, she pointed to her pregnant belly and told him her...
