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$1B Class-Action Suit Filed Against Texas Wholesale Electricity Provider, Griddy
Feb 23 2021 // A Chambers County, Texas, resident has filed a class-action lawsuit against electricity retailer Griddy, accusing the provider of price gouging customers during last week’s freeze. She is seeking $1 billion in relief...
Texas Ranchers Scrambled to Keep Animals Alive in Extreme Cold
Feb 22 2021 // Texas ranchers worked overtime to haul water and hay to cattle to keep them alive during a freak winter storm, but some cows succumbed to unusual icy temperatures that also killed chickens, idled meat plants and threatened...
Mother of 11-Year-Old Who Died in Texas Freeze Sues Power Companies for $100M
Feb 22 2021 // The mother of an 11-year-old boy who died after they lost electricity and heat in their Texas mobile home during last week’s freeze has filed a $100 million lawsuit against two power companies for gross...
Bursting Pipes, Sagging Roofs Strain Texas Adjusters, Contractors
Feb 22 2021 // After the big freeze in Texas comes the big thaw — and the big demand for workers to repair the broken pipes and sagging roofs the retreating ice and snow will reveal. It could take months for contractors to fix the...
Tesla to Offer Auto Insurance Program in Texas
Feb 22 2021 // Not only is Tesla moving some manufacturing operations to Austin, Texas, its founder, Elon Musk, is said to be relocating there, and the electric car company will soon be offering its own brand of car insurance in the Lone...
Insurance Losses From Texas Storm May Set First Quarter Record: A.M. Best
Feb 21 2021 // Insurers could suffer record first-quarter catastrophe losses after the historic Texas winter storm, which crippled the state’s electrical grid and caused extensive property damage including collapsed roofs and...
Insurers Expect ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Claims from Texas Storm
Feb 19 2021 // U.S. property insurers are bracing for claims for damage from collapsing roofs, bursting pipes and lost business as Texas takes stock of its losses from a winter storm that has crippled its electrical grid. Insurers’...
Texas Leaders Failed to Heed Warnings About Vulnerability of Power Grid, Experts Say
Feb 18 2021 // Millions of Texans have gone days without power or heat in subfreezing temperatures brought on by snow and ice storms. Limited regulations on companies that generate power and a history of isolating Texas from federal...
NTSB Will Investigate Deadly 130 Vehicle-Plus Crash in Texas
Feb 17 2021 // National Transportation Safety Board said it would investigate a massive crash involving more than 130 vehicles on an icy Texas highway that killed six people and injured dozens more. The NTSB said on Twitter that its...
In Texas’s Black-Swan Blackout, Everything Went Wrong at Once
Feb 17 2021 // The finger-pointing began immediately: It was the frozen wind turbines that foolishly replaced traditional sources. No, fossil fuels were at fault. No, Texas’s deregulated power market, unique in the country, had...
Texas Ag Industry, Food Supply at Risk from Severe Weather, Official Says
Feb 17 2021 // Farmers and ranchers across Texas are seeing devastating effects from the cold weather on livestock, feed and agriculture products, Texas’ top agriculture official says. In a media release, Texas Agriculture...
Citrus Crop Losses Expected in Texas After Deep Freeze
Feb 16 2021 // The historic cold snap that has frozen Texas this week with brutal winter weather and brought snow all the way to beaches along the Gulf of Mexico is also bringing headaches for citrus growers at the southern tip of the...
Freeze Slams Texas; Power Could Be Out for Days
Feb 16 2021 // The deep freeze that has forced the shutdown of U.S. refineries, oil wells and meat plants, disrupted shipments of soybeans and corn, and is still leaving more than 3 million customers without electricity could continue to...
Brown Reappointed as Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner
Feb 16 2021 // Cassie Brown has been reappointed by Gov. Greg Abbott as Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) for a term set to expire on Feb. 1, 2023. Brown has led the Division of...
At Least 6 Killed in Massive Crash on Icy North Texas Interstate
Feb 12 2021 // At least six people were killed Feb. 11 in a massive crash involving at least 133 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate, police said, as a winter storm dropped freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the U.S. The number of...
Robles Joins XPT Partners in Texas as VP, Senior Transportation Broker
Feb 12 2021 // XPT Partners, a national specialty insurance distribution company, has added excess transportation expert Alex Robles as vice president and senior broker in its Plano, Texas, office. Robles will concentrate on excess...
Texas Woman Faces Charges After Dog Attacks 3-Year-Old Girl
Feb 10 2021 // The owner of a dog that attacked a 3-year-old girl at a suburban Houston restaurant in January has been charged with injury to a child and tampering with evidence. Jennifer Romano, 46, has been charged in the Jan. 9 attack...
Arsonist Charged in Texas Courthouse Fire Suspected in Additional Blaze
Feb 10 2021 // The suspect in a fire that destroyed all but the outer rock walls of a 111-year-old Texas courthouse is being held on arson charges, authorities say. Nicholas Miller, who remained jailed on Feb. 9, was arrested on Feb. 5...
Barta Reappointed as Texas Injured Employee Public Counsel
Feb 10 2021 // Jessica Barta has been reappointed as Texas’ Injured Employee Public Counsel, a role in which she has served since October 2014. Her current term would expire on Feb. 1 2023. The Public Counsel helps injured...
Texas Bill Would Mandate Business Interruption Cover for Pandemic Losses
Feb 10 2021 // A bill filed in Texas would require business interruption insurance policies to cover losses from a pandemic. Under SB 249, filed by Sen. Charles Schwertner, business interruption insurance would be required to...
