Latest Texas Headlines
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NFP Acquires Texas’ Achilles & Associates
Mar 29 2022 // NFP has acquired Achilles & Associates, an Austin, Texas-based P&C broker that provides customized commercial P&C, personal lines P&C, and benefits insurance solutions to individuals, small businesses and...
Texas Department of Insurance Reports Data Breach
Mar 25 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) became aware of a security issue on January 4, 2022 with a TDI web application that manages workers’ compensation information. TDI immediately took the application offline,...
Assurex Global Adds Texas-Based Watkins Insurance Group As Partner
Mar 25 2022 // Assurex Global announced that Austin, Texas-based Watkins Insurance Group has joined the firm. Assurex Global now consists of 97 independent agencies. Watkins Insurance Group was founded in 1949 as R.B. Lewis Agency. In...
Texas Gov. Issues Disaster Declaration, Louisiana Sends National Guard Following Storms
Mar 24 2022 // A tornado that menaced New Orleans flipped a schoolbus, ripped off rooftops and deposited a house with a family inside onto the middle of Prosperity Street. Two people were killed as the storm front blew across the...
Powerful Storm System Leaves 1 Dead, More Than Dozen Injured in Texas, Oklahoma
Mar 23 2022 // One person was killed and more than a dozen were injured when tornadoes tore through parts of Texas and Oklahoma, damaging a school, homes and businesses, officials said. The same storm system was poised to move into...
Crews Make Progress in Containing Texas Wildfire
Mar 23 2022 // Firefighting crews were making progress containing a massive Texas wildfire that was blamed for last week’s death of a deputy, officials said. The Eastland Complex has burned about 85 square miles (220 square...
13-Year Old Behind Wheel of West Texas Crash That Killed 9 People
Mar 23 2022 // Authorities investigating a fiery head-on crash in West Texas don’t know why a 13-year-old boy was driving while his father sat in the passenger seat of a pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and collided...
Storm System Brings Much Needed Rain to Texas areas Scorched by Fires
Mar 22 2022 // Wildfires continued to scorch parts of Texas on March 21, and a storm system moving through could bring much-needed rain but also strong winds, forecasters said. The fires were already blamed for the deaths of two...
Multiple Tornados Hit Texas; Severe Storm Warning Still in Effect For South Central Region
Mar 22 2022 // Multiple tornadoes were reported in central Texas Monday March 21, causing “devastating” property damage according to Gov. Greg Abbott. A tornado touched ground in Red Rock, about 30 miles southeast of Austin,...
Shooting Wounds 4 at Austin, Texas Festival
Mar 21 2022 // Four people were shot and wounded in downtown Austin, Texas, early Sunday as the city hosts the annual South by Southwest festival, police said. The Austin Police Department told people to avoid the area at around 2:50...
Texas Oilfield Company Charged With Workers Safety, Environmental Crimes
Mar 21 2022 // A federal grand jury in Midland, Texas, returned an indictment charging an oilfield company and an executive of the company with worker safety and environmental crimes. According to court documents, Aghorn Operating Inc....
Bus Carrying College Golf Teams Crashes in Texas, Leaving 9 Dead
Mar 17 2022 // A vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest’s golf teams collided head-on with a pickup truck in West Texas, killing nine people, authorities said. The vehicles collided the night of March 15 in...
Texas Refrigerated Trucking Company to Pay $75K Over Disability Discrimination Suit
Mar 15 2022 // Stevens Transport, the largest refrigerated trucking company in Texas, will pay $75,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Texas Biotechnology Producer to Pay $253K Over Alleged Violations of Pesticide Regulations
Mar 14 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) settled with Allied BioScience, Inc. (Allied BioScience) over alleged violations of federal pesticide regulations with the company’s SurfaceWise2 product, a residual...
Inszone Acquires Texas-Based Texstar
Mar 11 2022 // Inszone Insurance Services has acquired San Antonio, Texas-based Texstar Insurance Services Inc. Texstar specializes in auto, home, life and business insurance. Inszone Insurance is expected to announce several...
HUD: Texas Agency Discriminated in Hurricane Harvey Flood Relief Funding
Mar 10 2022 // Texas’ administration of flood relief money from Hurricane Harvey broke federal law by discriminating against Black and Hispanic residents in the Houston area, according to a decision by the federal housing agency...
Chevron Phillips Chemical Agrees to Reduce Air Pollution at 3 Texas Plants
Mar 9 2022 // Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP has agreed to make upgrades and perform compliance measures estimated to cost $118 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Air Act and state air pollution control laws...
Texas Division of Workers’ Comp Seeks Public Comments On Proposed EDI Form Revisions
Mar 9 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is accepting public comments on proposed revisions to a pair of Electronic Data Interchange forms: EDI-01, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)...
Self-Driving Company Kodiak Robotics Hauls Freight For CEVA in Texas, Oklahoma
Mar 9 2022 // Kodiak Robotics on March 9 said it has partnered with France-based CEVA Logistics to transport freight in self-driving trucks across Texas and Oklahoma, marking the latest autonomous trucking partnership in the...
Texas Oil Pipeline Billionaire Sues Beto O’Rourke For Defamation
Mar 9 2022 // A Texas oil pipeline billionaire is suing Beto O’Rourke for defamation after the Democrat criticized his $1 million donation to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign following last year’s deadly winter...
