Latest Texas Headlines
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Houston Nurse Ordered to Return Nearly $40K to Texas Mutual
Sep 11 2014 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Raj Dhingra of Houston for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Dhingra was sentenced to deferred adjudication and ordered to...
Texas Sees Decrease in Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2013
Sep 11 2014 // In 2013, there were 493 fatal occupational injuries in Texas, an 8 percent decrease from 536 in 2012, the Texas Department of Insurance reported. The figures are based on preliminary data released release by the U.S....
Dewhurst to Lawmakers: How About Shutting Down Texas Windstorm Insurer?
Sep 11 2014 // Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has asked state lawmakers to consider shutting down a windstorm insurance provider for coastal Texans. Dewhurst asked a state Senate committee to look at phasing out the Texas Windstorm...
Supreme Court May Get ‘Disparate Impact’ Housing Case
Sep 8 2014 // It’s not easy to prevent the Supreme Court from deciding an issue once the justices have agreed to hear a case. But over the past two years, civil rights advocates have managed to do just that by coaxing settlements...
Fertilizer Makers Place Blame on City in West, Texas, Explosion
Sep 8 2014 // Two fertilizer companies that sued following a deadly Texas explosion have cited the Texas State Fire Marshal’s report on the West, Texas, explosion in an effort to place blame on the city for failing to properly...
People – South Central
Sep 8 2014 // The board of directors of the Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced that David VanDelinder, president and executive director, is retiring from the association effective Dec. 31. VanDelinder has been with IIAT for 32...
Texas Woman Pleads Guilty in Crash Staging Case
Sep 8 2014 // A 32-year-old Port Arthur, Texas, woman entered a guilty plea in a case involving staged auto crashes and fraudulent insurance claims, according to U.S. Attorney John M. Bales for the Eastern District of Texas. Shawnta...
Texas Bugatti Owner Destroys Vehicle in Insurance Fraud Scheme
Sep 8 2014 // A Lufkin, Texas, man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney John M. Bales. According to information presented in court, in October 2009,...
Prevention, Improved Response Stressed in West Explosion Report
Sep 8 2014 // Improvements in the response to large, complex fires was just one of the suggestions in a state fire marshal report on the fire and deadly explosion of a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, early in the evening on April 17,...
Texas Mutual Wins Health and Wellness Award
Sep 5 2014 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., was recently named the winner of the Higginbotham Health & Wellness Award in the large business category at the 2014 Greater Austin Business Awards, the...
U.S. Risk Opens New Office in Fort Worth, Texas
Sep 5 2014 // Dallas-based managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler, U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., has opened a new office in Fort Worth, Texas. The new office is initially staffed with underwriters from the energy and...
Church Funding Emergency Alert System for West, Texas
Sep 4 2014 // A church in the small Texas city devastated by a fertilizer plant explosion is funding an emergency alert system for the town’s residents. The system will allow West officials to deliver an automated phone message to...
Endris, Parker Join Higginbotham/Swantner & Gordon in Texas
Aug 29 2014 // Commercial insurance brokers Aaron Endris and Bryan Parker joined the Swantner & Gordon branch office of Higginbotham in Corpus Christi, Texas. Endris joins as manager of the bond department and Parker as associate of...
Philadelphia Insurance Vindicated in YouTube Bugatti Crash Case
Aug 29 2014 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies said it’s been vindicated in its investigation and denial of a fraudulent claim filed by an East Texas motorist for the 2009 crash of his Bugatti Veryon, following his guilty plea...
Texas County Reaches $775K Deal in Taser Case
Aug 28 2014 // Bastrop County in Texas has settled a federal lawsuit for $775,000 with the family of a high school student who suffered a brain injury after a deputy shot him with a Taser. The attorney representing Noe Niño de Rivera...
Officials: Texas Man Deliberately Ruined $1M Bugatti Car
Aug 28 2014 // Federal authorities say an East Texas man has admitted to deliberately driving his $1 million car into Gulf waters so that he could collect insurance on the vehicle. Authorities announced that 39-year-old Andy Lee House of...
Texas Considers Tougher Rules on Disoposal Wells
Aug 27 2014 // As scientists investigate whether injection wells where the booming oil and gas industry disposes of wastewater cause earthquakes, the Texas agency that oversees oil and gas is proposing a regulatory overhaul. The Texas...
Semitrailer Wrecks in Texas Panhandle Caused by High Winds
Aug 26 2014 // Texas authorities say strong winds in the Texas Panhandle have caused the rollovers of two highway semitrailers. A Department of Public Safety spokesman tells the Amarillo Globe-News that two people were injured in a wreck...
Design Flaws Found on Bridges on $1.4B North Texas Toll Road
Aug 26 2014 // Officials in North Texas will have to repair faulty bridge beams on the new $1.4 billion Chisholm Trail Parkway after an inspection found design flaws. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the North Texas Tollway...
Brownsville, Texas Ranks Second Among Safe Driving Cities
Aug 26 2014 // Allstate Insurance Co.’s 10th annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report” ranks Brownsville, Texas, second safest among America’s 200 largest cities in terms of car collision...
