Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Workers’ Comp Division Adopts Data Collection Amendments
Mar 1 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced on Feb. 23 that it has adopted amendments to the Texas Administrative Code to update and enhance its data collection methods....
Brown & Brown Acquires Texas’ CrossCover
Feb 28 2022 // Brown & Brown, Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire CrossCover Insurance Services. The transaction is expected to close before April 2022, subject to certain closing conditions. CrossCover provides E&S...
Texas Supreme Court Affirms Governmental Immunity in Pair of Decisions
Feb 25 2022 // The Texas Supreme Court recently delivered rulings on a pair of cases challenging the City of San Antonio’s governmental immunity, and in both instances the court affirmed that the Texas Torts Claim Act protects a...
Texas MGA Sensa to Debut Personal Auto Insurance Offering
Feb 24 2022 // Austin Texas-based MGA Sensa has partnered with Incline P&C Group to provide their personal auto insurance offering. Sensa will act as an MGA to offer its product through a network of appointed retail brokers and...
Texas’ Dents.co Launches App That Measures Auto Body Damage
Feb 23 2022 // Dents.co, a new software company based in Longview, Texas, has launched a mobile app that measures auto body damage and provides reporting that repairers can share with insurers partners to speed negotiation repair...
COVID Underscores Lack of Whistleblower Protections
Feb 22 2022 // Originally posted on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Inside a partially completed Amazon warehouse here, workers last summer walked on conveyor belts four stories high without safety harnesses,...
Business Moves
Feb 21 2022 // East Truist Insurance, Kensington Vanguard Charlotte, North Carolina-based Insurance broker Truist Insurance Holdings Inc. agreed to acquire the national title insurance agency Kensington Vanguard National Land Services....
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Releases Health Care Provider Oversight Results for 2021
Feb 18 2022 // This week the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) released the 2021 Health Care Provider Performance Based Oversight (PBO) assessment. Health care providers were assessed on their...
Texas Power Company Says Hartford Has Duty to Defend Uri Suits
Feb 18 2022 // A Texas generation and transmission cooperative is suing its insurer for failing to defend the company against multiple lawsuits stemming from 2021 Winter Storm Uri. Golden Spread Electric, a G&T cooperative based in...
Texas Supreme Court Allows For Exception to 8-Corners Rule
Feb 17 2022 // For more than 50 years, insurers have known that their duty to defend a Texas policyholder from a lawsuit must be decided based only on the language of the insurance contract and the allegations made by the plaintiff. The...
People Moves: Madigan Joins Alliant in Arkansas; BXS Adds Breaux in Texas
Feb 16 2022 // Alliant Adds James Madigan as Senior Vice President Within Employee Benefits Group Alliant has added James “Jimmy” Madigan as senior vice president within its employee benefits group. Based in Fayetteville,...
Texas Sues Facebook Parent Meta Over Facial Recognition
Feb 16 2022 // The Texas Attorney General is suing Facebook parent Meta, saying the company has unlawfully collected biometric data on Texans for commercial purposes, without their informed consent. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the...
Higginbotham Acquires HR Services Firm WhitneySmith in Texas
Feb 15 2022 // Higginbotham has acquired Fort Worth, Texas-based WhitneySmith Company, a provider of HR advisory services. WhitneySmith will expand the service capacity of Higginbotham’s HR Services division while giving...
Texas Supreme Court Rules Golf Cart Accident Isn’t Covered in District’s Auto Liability Policy
Feb 14 2022 // The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled that injuries suffered in a golf cart at a school isn’t covered in an auto liability policy held by the school district. In Pharr–San Juan–Alamo Independent School District,...
Texas Judge Drops Two of Six Boeing Max Test Fraud Counts Against Pilot
Feb 14 2022 // A judge has tossed two of six fraud counts against a former Boeing pilot involved in evaluating the troubled Boeing 737 Max jetliner. A federal judge in Fort Worth last week dismissed, on technical grounds, counts that...
People Moves: McGriff Adds Feighl as Commercial Marketing Account Exec; Harris Joins Alliant in Texas
Feb 11 2022 // McGriff Adds Mike Feighl as Commercial Marketing Account Executive McGriff has hired Mike Feighl as a senior vice president and marketing executive in its Houston-based Commercial Division. Mike Feight Feighl comes to...
Relation Insurance Acquires Sleeper Sewell Insurance in Texas
Feb 10 2022 // Relation Insurance Services, a national insurance agency based in California, has acquired the assets of Dallas, Texas-based Sleeper Sewell Insurance, the company announced Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
Earthquakes in Texas Doubled in 2021. Scientists Cite Years of Oil Companies Injecting Sludgy Water Underground.
Feb 9 2022 // MIDLAND — One local said it sounded like a pickup truck had rammed into the side of their house. Another said it sounded like the air conditioner fell off the roof. A third compared the experience to getting off of a...
Woman Falls to Death From Mast of Historic Ship at Texas Museum
Feb 8 2022 // A woman fell to her death from a mast on a historic ship that’s featured at a Texas museum after her safety harness somehow came unclipped, police said. The 58-year-old woman died Feb. 6 after falling from a mast on...
Boil Water Notice in Effect For Austin, Texas After Issue at Treatment Plant
Feb 8 2022 // A boil water notice has been issued for residents in Austin after a problem at a water treatment plant, officials said. When the city issued the boil water notice the evening of Feb. 5, Mayor Steve Adler said it appeared...
