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Texas to Hold Hearings on Workers’ Comp Rates and Relativities
Nov 25 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance has scheduled public hearings to review rates charged by insurers for workers’ compensation insurance in this state, and to consider revised Texas workers’ compensation...
Texas Woman Acquitted in Fiancé’s Death; GM Ignition-Switch Blamed
Nov 25 2014 // A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the death of her fiancé in a 2004 accident involving a since-recalled General Motors Saturn Ion won a reversal of her conviction. Candice Anderson, who was...
Texas Wind Insurer Launches Depopulation Portal
Nov 24 2014 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has initiated a process whereby interested insurance companies may access information on TWIA insured properties in an effort to move policies to private insurers. The...
Small Quake Near Dallas Stirs Fracking Critics
Nov 24 2014 // A light earthquake shook the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of North Texas at night on Nov. 22, leaving no known damage or casualties but stirring concern about the potential of the area’s oil and gas fracking industry to...
Thibodeaux Joins Texas-Based Southwest Risk
Nov 21 2014 // ClearView Risk Holdings LLC, the holding company of Texas-based Southwest Risk LP, announced that Chad Thibodeaux has joined Southwest Risk as a property/inland marine broker. Thibodeaux began his insurance career with...
Texas Man Claims Medical Errors Led to Leg Amputations
Nov 21 2014 // A Texas man intending to undergo a weight-loss operation is seeking $10 million in damages for what he says were a series of medical blunders that led to the amputation of both his legs at the knee. Carlos Saucedo has...
Hospitals Improvise on Safety to Treat Ebola Patients
Nov 21 2014 // What does it take to Ebola-proof a hospital? Over the past few months, U.S. medical centers have spent millions of dollars putting together a plan to treat patients with the scary, but extremely rare disease. To a large...
Texas Mutual Awards $62K Dividend to Construction Supply Safety Group
Nov 20 2014 // Austin-based workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., recently awarded a dividend of $62,147 to the Texas Construction Supply safety group. Texas Mutual said the dividend was earned based on the...
Chemical Leak at DuPont Plant in Texas Spurs Wrongful Death Suit
Nov 20 2014 // The widow of one of four workers killed in a Houston-area DuPont chemical plant leak has filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking more than $1 million. The Houston Chronicle reported that the lawsuit was filed by Michelle...
Texas Chemical Plant Workers Died from Accidental Asphyxiation
Nov 19 2014 // Four workers who died on Nov. 15 at a DuPont and Co. plant in Texas were accidentally asphyxiated by chemicals, the coroner’s office said, another finding that suggests the victims were not wearing full safety...
Texas’ Travis County Getting Serious About Property Crime Backlog
Nov 18 2014 // A fingerprint examiner for the Travis County sheriff’s office in Texas will devote the next six months to clearing a backlog of more than 600 property crime cases that piled up over the past 17 months. Most of the...
4 Workers Dead after Leak at Texas Chemical Plant
Nov 17 2014 // Four workers were killed and one was injured during a hazardous chemical leak at a DuPont industrial plant in suburban Houston, company officials said. The chemical, methyl mercaptan, began leaking from a valve around 4...
Texas Surplus Lines Assoc. Presents Awards, Scholarships
Nov 17 2014 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association (TSLA) presented several awards and scholarships at its annual meeting, held recently in Austin. The “Joe Howse President’s Award” was presented to both Jennifer Mier...
Recreation Safety Group Dividends Texas Mutual Reach $1M-Plus
Nov 17 2014 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. recently paid a dividend of $163,691 to the Texas Recreation Safety Group, bringing the total dividend payout for this group to $1,160,945 since 2009. The dividends earned are based largely on...
People – South Central
Nov 17 2014 // Alain A. Bellet, owner and president of Capstone Underwriters LLC, in Dallas, Texas, has been awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, the highest decoration given by the government of France. The order of...
Creating Alternatives to Workers’ Comp One State at a Time
Nov 17 2014 // Formed in late 2013, the Austin, Texas-based Association for Responsible Alternatives to Workers’ Compensation — or ARAWC — would like to see an expansion of alternatives to state workers’...
Denton, Texas, Rejects Fracking but State to Continue Permits
Nov 17 2014 // A state agency that regulates oil and gas will continue issuing permits to companies seeking to drill in Denton, despite a ban passed by residents to prevent further hydraulic fracturing in the north Texas city. At an...
10 Things to Know About Contractors & Builders
Nov 17 2014 // Some 991,000 total housing starts are forecast for 2014. That’s up 6.6 percent from 930,000 units last year. – National Association of Home Builders Single-family housing production is expected to rise 26 percent...
San Antonio Lab to Conduct Guardrail Crash Tests
Nov 14 2014 // Federal officials say crash tests will show by early 2015 whether guardrails found along many U.S. highways work are safe. The Federal Highway Administration said that crash tests involving guardrails made by Trinity...
Restrepo Elected President of Texas Surplus Lines Association
Nov 14 2014 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. elected officers and directors at its annual meeting in Austin on Nov. 10. Penny Restrepo New officers are: President Penny Restrepo, vice president/director commercial lines at...
