Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas-Based Premium Finance Group to Be Sold to South Dakota’s MetaBank
Oct 15 2014 // Cecil Y. Ray Jr., chairman of AFS/IBEX and former chairman of The Rigg Group, has announced the sale of substantially all of the loan portfolio and related assets of Dallas-based AFS/IBEX Financial Services Inc. –...
Copper Theft Leads to 10 Year Sentence for Texas Man
Oct 15 2014 // A San Antonio man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing copper in a ring that investigators say targeted Central Texas communication towers. Ricky Thatcher must also pay more than $163,000 to victims,...
Judge Halts Disposal in Louisiana of Texas Ebola-Tainted Ash
Oct 15 2014 // A state judge signed an order temporarily blocking ash from the incineration of a Texas Ebola victim’s belongings to be disposed of at a southwest Louisiana site. Attorney General Buddy Caldwell had sought the order...
Second Healthcare Worker Tests Positive for Ebola at Texas Hospital
Oct 15 2014 // A second healthcare worker in Texas tested positive for Ebola after caring for a patient with the deadly viral illness, adding to concern that infection controls at U.S. hospitals aren’t strong enough. The worker at...
Storms Hammer Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas
Oct 14 2014 // A powerful storm system swept across Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma late on Sunday and early Monday, killing at least one person and injuring four others, emergency officials said, as millions of people were in the path of...
Texas Official’s Dog Bites Twice; Cases Settled for $11,600
Oct 14 2014 // A central Texas official has paid settlements to two Travis County workers after they said his dog bit them. Travis County Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Glenn Bass is running for re-election next month. The Austin...
Texas Leads U.S. in Road Fatalities, Needs Transportation Funding
Oct 14 2014 // Gus Pando lost his mother last year in a crash at an intersection where a county road crossed four lanes of vehicles barreling by at 75 miles an hour. At the same Odessa, Texas, junction in August, a family friend was...
Texas Healthcare Worker Tests Positive for Ebola
Oct 13 2014 // A Texas healthcare worker has tested positive for Ebola even though she wore full protective gear while caring for a hospitalized patient who later died from the virus, health officials said. If the preliminary diagnosis...
Confie Seguros Acquires North Texas Auto Insurance Agency
Oct 9 2014 // Confie Seguros, a national provider of personal lines insurance, announced it has acquired the assets of Carallo Insurance Group Inc., an auto insurance agency in Garland, Texas. Huntington Beach, Calif.-based Confie has...
Dallas Hospital’s Care of Deceased U.S. Ebola Patient Questioned
Oct 9 2014 // Hours after Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan died, his family called for an investigation into his care as top infectious disease doctors said he may have survived if his treatment had begun earlier. The family cited...
Local Governments May Be Affected by Breach at Bond Insurer MBIA
Oct 8 2014 // Bond insurer MBIA was told two weeks ago about a server breach that compromised the data of thousands of local U.S. government entities, but it did not address the problem until earlier this week, according to the cyber...
Study: Formulary Could Save California Workers’ Comp $124M-$420M
Oct 7 2014 // Adopting a state-mandated workers’ compensation prescription drug formulary similar to systems in place in Texas and Washington could reduce California workers’ comp pharmacy payments by between $124 million...
Success of Ebola Lawsuits in Texas Would Have Long Odds
Oct 7 2014 // Potential suits against the Dallas, Texas, hospital that sent home a patient later diagnosed with Ebola face long odds in the face of state medical malpractice laws. Texas tort-reform measures have made it one of the...
Louisiana’s 37-acre Sinkhole Spawns Insurance Fight
Oct 6 2014 // The collapse of a portion of a salt dome that left a 37-acre sinkhole in swampy land west of Baton Rouge has bubbled up into a $50 million dispute between the mine operator and its insurance company. Texas Brine LLC wants...
Auto Wrecks with 3 or More Fatalities Rise in Texas
Oct 6 2014 // The number of auto accidents involving three or more deaths has more than doubled in Texas since 2010, with more fatalities occurring along roads seeing increased traffic because of the oil and gas boom. An investigation...
10 Years, 12,000 Smoke Alarms
Oct 6 2014 // The Insurance Council of Texas’ We’re Out to Alarm Texas program has donated approximately 12,000 smoke alarms to Texas seniors and other citizens throughout the state during its 10 years in existence. The ICT...
People – South Central
Oct 6 2014 // The board of directors of the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLSOT) announced that Philip R. Ballinger is retiring as executive director as of Jan. 2, 2015. Ballinger has been with SLSOT for 22 years and has been...
Best Agency to Work For – South Central
Oct 6 2014 // All About the People Higginbotham – Fort Worth, Texas Higginbotham board of directors (left to right): Mary Russell, Chris Rooker, Michael Parks, Rusty Reid, Jim Hubbard, Morgan Woodruff and Jim Krause The Best in Texas....
Supreme Court to Hear ‘Disparate Impact’ Housing Case
Oct 3 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether people suing for housing discrimination must prove they were victims of intentional bias, in a case that may give long-sought protection to the lending industry. The justices...
NSM Insurance Group Acquires Texas-Based Specialty Aviation Underwriters
Oct 2 2014 // NSM Insurance Group announced the acquisition of Specialty Aviation Underwriters (SAU), located in Addison, Texas. Founded over 20 years ago, SAU specializes in aviation products. NSM Insurance Group underwrites more than...
