Latest Texas Headlines
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Keystone Adds Texas’ Boley-Featherson to Network
Apr 13 2022 // Keystone Insurance Group, a participant-owned insurance agency network, has named Wichita Falls, Texas-based Boley-Featherson to its growing network of agencies in the Mid-South region. Boley-Featherson was established in...
Vehicle Collides With Food Truck in Austin, Texas, Injuring 11
Apr 11 2022 // Eleven people were injured in a “major collision” the night of April 8 in Austin, Texas, involving pedestrians and two vehicles, one of which hit a food truck, authorities said. Austin-Travis County Emergency...
Small Plane Crash Kills 2 in Central Texas; FAA, NTSB to Investigate
Apr 8 2022 // Two people were killed April 5 when the small plane they were flying in crashed near a Central Texas airport, officials said. Those aboard the single-engine Cessna TU206H were a man and a woman, according to the Texas...
Texas Judge: NFL QB Watson Must Address History With Therapists
Apr 7 2022 // Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson must say whether he had sex with 18 massage therapists who supported him last year following criminal complaints, a judge in Texas ruled Tuesday. USA Today reported that Watson...
Dean & Draper Acquires Texas’ Baty Worldwide
Apr 7 2022 // Dean & Draper Insurance Agency, L.P. has acquired Houston, Texas-based Baty Worldwide effective April 1, 2022. “This acquisition will increase Dean & Draper’s revenue of commercial, personal, employee...
Severe Storms Kill 1 in Texas
Apr 7 2022 // Violent storms killed one person in Texas on April 5 as hail pelted communities and high winds knocked trees into power poles elsewhere in the South. Authorities issued a flurry of tornado warnings at the start of what...
Report: Texas Dept. of Insurance Data Breach Affected 1.8M People
Apr 6 2022 // A data breach at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) early this year affected approximately 1,800,000 Texans, according to the Data Security Breach Reports from the Office of the Attorney General. TDI announced in...
Lawsuit Settled in Texas Child’s Brain-Eating Amoeba Death
Apr 5 2022 // A Texas city has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a 3-year-old boy who died last September after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a splash pad he’d visited. The Arlington City...
Lawsuit Settled in Texas Child’s Brain-Eating Amoeba Death
Apr 4 2022 // A Texas city has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a 3-year-old boy who died last September after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a splash pad he’d visited. The Arlington City...
Supreme Court Cast Doubt on Texas Immunity Claim in Vet’s Suit
Apr 1 2022 // The Supreme Court on Tuesday cast doubt on Texas’ claim that it can’t be sued by a former state trooper who says he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq. The justices heard...
Texas High Court: Wrongful Death Suit Against Gentlemen’s Club in Hands of Arbitrator
Mar 31 2022 // Three terms in a written contract between a gentlemen’s club and a deceased employee are not so unclear as to nullify the contract’s arbitration agreement, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in a March 18 per curiam...
Texas’ Skyward Specialty Expands D&O Solutions for Non-Standard HOA Market
Mar 30 2022 // Houston, Texas-based Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc. is expanding its Management Liability solutions by offering targeted directors and officers (D&O) coverage to Non-Standard Non-Profit Condominium and...
South Texas Wildfire Destroys 3 Homes; Blaze Only 10% Contained
Mar 29 2022 // A wildfire has burned more an 1,000 acres in South Texas forcing some people to evacuate, destroying three homes and knocking out power to more than 100 others, officials said on March 27. Gov. Greg Abbott declared a...
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...
