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Central Texas Town Hit Hard by Spring Storms
Mar 24 2021 // Springtime storms caused significant damage to buildings in a central Texas city, and forecasters say more stormy weather is expected later in the week for parts of the southern U.S. There were no immediate reports of...
Texas Windstorm Insurer Plans for $4B in Funding for Hurricane Season
Mar 24 2021 // Texas’ wind and hail insurer of last resort for properties in the state’s coastal counties has determined it needs $4.03 billion in funding to prepare for this year’s hurricane season. The board of...
Judge: No Dismissal of Ammo Seller from Suit over Texas School Shooting
Mar 24 2021 // A Tennessee-based online retailer accused of illegally selling ammunition to a student who fatally shot 10 people at a Texas high school in 2018 won’t be dismissed from a lawsuit filed by families of those killed and...
Texas Forest Service: Southern Plains Wildfire Outbreak Possible this Spring
Mar 23 2021 // Texas A&M Forest Service and the National Weather Service have identified an extremely dangerous fire weather phenomena known as a Southern Plains Wildfire Outbreak, or SPWO, and are watching for it to occur in...
Texas Bills Address Workers’ Comp, Other Protections for First Responders
Mar 22 2021 // A Texas legislator has filed a package of bills he says is aimed at protecting injured first responders and their families. Rep. Jared Patterson, a freshman legislator representing District 106 in Denton County, serves on...
Texas House Panel Advances Bill Requiring Power Plants to Prep for Extreme Weather
Mar 19 2021 // Several bills responding to Texas’ February power outages including one mandating that power plants prepare facilities for extreme weather and another reforming the Electric Reliability Council of Texas board —...
More Fallout from February Blackouts: Last Texas Power Regulator Resigns
Mar 18 2021 // The last Texas regulator on the Public Utility Commission at the time of the deadly February blackouts has resigned, Gov. Greg Abbott announced. In a statement issued on March 16, Abbott said he had asked for and accepted...
Wisconsin’s Society Insurance to Enter Texas Hospitality Market
Mar 18 2021 // Wisconsin-based Society Insurance has plans to launch its insurance programs for the hospitality industry in Texas this year. In business for more than 100 years, Society Insurance offers property/casualty coverages,...
At Least 57 People Died in the February Winter Storm in Texas
Mar 17 2021 // At least 57 people died in Texas as a result of the mid-February 2021 winter storm, according to preliminary data the state health department released March 15. The largest number of deaths — at least 25 — occurred in...
Keystone Agency Investors Partners with Texas’ Garrett Insurance Agency
Mar 17 2021 // Pennsylvania’s Keystone Agency Investors (KAI) has partnered with Kerrville, Texas-based Garrett Insurance Agency to facilitate KAI’s entry into that state. Founded in 1918, Garrett Insurance Agency is an...
Pedestrian Deaths Continue to Rise in Texas
Mar 16 2021 // Transportation officials warn that pedestrian deaths are continuing to increase in Texas, and now account for 1 in 5 of all traffic fatalities. Traffic crashes took the lives of 3,150 pedestrians in Texas from 2015 to...
Who Will Pay for the Freeze and Subsequent Meltdown in Texas?
Mar 16 2021 // Today in Texas homes and businesses, the lights are on and clean water flows. But for one week in February, the entire state of Texas was brought to its knees by a massive winter storm creating such a demand for...
Texas Medical Practice to Pay $375K in Religious Discrimination, Retaliation Case
Mar 15 2021 // A Texas-based medical practice that federal officials say subjected employees to religious discrimination and retaliation will pay $375,000 to settle the case following a judgement by a federal court. Tim Shepherd M.D.,...
Tornadoes in Texas Panhandle, No Injuries Reported
Mar 15 2021 // Several suspected tornadoes touched down Saturday afternoon in the Texas Panhandle between Lubbock and Amarillo, according to the National Weather Service, but no injuries or fatalities were reported. Two possible...
Texas-Based BNSF Ordered to Pay $290K in Whistleblower Case
Mar 15 2021 // Federal labor officials have ordered Fort Worth, Texas-based BNSF Railway Co. to pay more than $290,000 in back pay, damages and fees, and reinstate an employee after an investigation found the worker’s rights were...
Hamilton Reappointed as Texas Public Insurance Counsel
Mar 12 2021 // Melissa Hamilton has been reappointed as public counsel for the Texas Office of Public Insurance Counsel (OPIC), which represents insurance consumers in regulatory matters relating to insurance rates, rules and...
Relation Insurance Services Acquires Assets of Texas Agencies, InSource and Shepard
Mar 10 2021 // Relation Insurance Services Inc. (Relation) has entered the Texas market with the acquisition of the assets of InSource Insurance Agency Inc. (InSource), in San Antonio, and Shepard Insurance Agency (Shepard),...
Texas Oil, Gas Interests Left to ‘Self-Regulate’ in Aftermath of Winter Storm
Mar 9 2021 // After being battered by withering criticism of its management of the power grid during February’s winter storm, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) saw several of its board members resign and fired its...
$509M in Surplus Lines Insurance Premium Recorded in Texas in February
Mar 9 2021 // Texas surplus lines insurance premium recorded in Texas in February totaled $509.48 million, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) has reported. With the addition of February premium, the year-to-date total...
Porch Group to Acquire Texas MGA/Insurer, Homeowners of America
Mar 8 2021 // The Porch Group, a software platform focused on home services companies, is acquiring Irving, Texas-based managing general agent and insurance carrier, Homeowners of America (HOA). Under a merger agreement, Porch will...
