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Insured Losses in Texas Exceed $47 Billion in 2024
Sep 22 2025 // Insured losses exceeded $47.2 billion in Texas last year–a 4.2% increase over 2023, according to a new property/casualty market report from the state’s insurance council. Annual direct losses in Texas have now...
Texas Insurance Agent Pleaded Guilty After Stealing Premiums
Sep 19 2025 // A Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) investigation led to prison time for a former insurance agent who overcharged almost $300,000 in insurance premiums. Carlyle Poindexter pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire...
Texas Cities and Counties Prepare for Budget Shortfalls
Sep 18 2025 // Last year, Fort Worth gained a new distinction as Texas’ fourth city with more than 1 million people. While other major Texas cities grew at a slower clip or struggled to regain residents it lost during the COVID-19...
West Texas Gas Falls to 14-Month Low as Negative Prices Persist
Sep 18 2025 // Natural gas cash prices in West Texas, which dipped below zero in recent days, sank to the lowest in almost 14 months, as traders expect pipeline maintenance in the area to stifle movement of the fuel for some time. Gas...
Texas Drops Suit Against Doctor Accused of Illegal Care for Transgender Youth
Sep 17 2025 // One of the nation’s first doctors accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth under GOP-led bans was found to have not violated the law, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office says, nearly a...
Texas Insurer New Century Placed in Receivership and Liquidation
Sep 12 2025 // New Century Insurance Company, a property and casualty insurer licensed only in Texas, was placed in receivership receivership and ordered into liquidation by the Travis County District Court in Austin on Sept. 3,...
Texas Cabinet Supplier to Pay $12M Settlement Over False Claims Act Violations
Sep 12 2025 // Allied Stone Inc., a Dallas, Texas-based supplier of countertop and cabinetry products, and its President, Jia “Jerry” Lim, have agreed to pay a total of $12.4 million to resolve allegations that they violated...
Texas to Ban Minors From THC Products
Sep 10 2025 // THC products will remain largely legal in Texas, but will be banned for minors and further regulated under a new executive order by Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday. Abbott directs the Texas Department of State Health...
Texas Governor to Issue Order Implementing Age Restrictions on THC Products
Sep 9 2025 // Gov. Greg Abbott will soon issue an executive order to regulate THC and set a minimum age of 21 to purchase those products in Texas, according to three people who spoke with the governor’s office. The...
Texas Hemp Industry Breathes Sigh of Relief as Legislators Avoid Ban
Sep 8 2025 // When news broke last Wednesday afternoon of a last-minute push to pass new, stricter regulations for consumable hemp products, the employees at Austin Vape & Smoke sprung into action. Zaquiri Hensen, a manager at the...
New Texas Laws Ban Youth Cabins in Floodways, Require Camp Safety Plans
Sep 8 2025 // In the days and weeks following the death of his 9-year-old daughter, Lila, at Camp Mystic in the Texas Hill Country, Blake Bonner found himself wondering whether the tragedy was simply an unstoppable act of God, or if...
Cultivated Meat Companies Sue Texas Over Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban
Sep 5 2025 // Two cultivated meat companies have filed a lawsuit against officials in Texas over the law that bans the sales of lab-grown meat in the state for two years. California-based companies UPSIDE Foods, which makes cultivated...
Insured Losses in Texas Exceed $47 Billion in 2024
Sep 5 2025 // Insured losses exceeded $47.2 billion in Texas last year—a 4.2% increase over 2023, according to a new property and casualty market report from the state’s insurance council. Annual direct losses in Texas have now...
Texas Lawmakers Fail to Reach Agreement on THC Ban
Sep 4 2025 // The Texas House gaveled out of the second special session late Wednesday, leaving behind Senate Bill 6, which would have broadly banned consumable hemp products with any “detectable amount of any cannabinoid.”...
River Valley Underwriters Acquires Texas’ Patriot National Underwriters
Sep 4 2025 // River Valley Underwriters, Inc has announced that it will be acquiring the book of business from Patriot National Underwriters, Inc, as well as the current employees. The parties expect to complete the transaction...
Texas Program Aims to Reduce Car Crashes and Fatalities in Permian Basin
Sep 3 2025 // Workers at the Texas Department of Transportation have begun responding to calls to remove debris and abandoned vehicles from West Texas roads and extinguish vehicle fires. They also change flat tires and jumpstart car...
Multi-Vehicle Crash in East Texas Injures 17
Sep 3 2025 // A multi-vehicle crash Saturday on an East Texas interstate sent 17 injured people to area hospitals and shut down a major interstate for hours. None of the injuries appeared to be life threatening after the crash along...
AvonRisk Acquires Texas’ AS&G Claims Administration and Care Logic
Sep 2 2025 // AvonRisk, a national provider of risk management, claims administration, and managed care services, announced today that it has acquired AS&G Claims Administration, Inc., and Care Logic, Inc., a Houston, Texas-based...
A Texas Congressman Is Helping Musk Pitch $760M Tunnel Project for Flooding
Aug 29 2025 // The devastating flooding in Houston caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 killed dozens of people, inundated hundreds of thousands of homes and left the community desperate for a solution. Since then, local flood experts have...
Trump Delays Mercury Pollution Rule, Helps Texas Coal Plants
Aug 28 2025 // For Donna Thomas, smokestacks are a typical sight from her home in Fort Bend County. Since she was a child, she has seen the coal and natural gas-powered W.A. Parish Generating Station puff clouds of haze during the day...
