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North Texas Tornado Kills At Least Four People
Jun 22 2023 // At least four people are dead and nine are injured after a tornado hit Matador, a small town of nearly 800 people northeast of Lubbock, late Wednesday night. The tornado was brought on by several severe storms in the...
Texas Power Grid Operator Urges Power Conservation During Heat Wave
Jun 21 2023 // The Texas power grid operator urged homes and businesses to conserve electricity on Tuesday evening to prevent power reserves from falling short as consumers crank up their air conditioners to escape the first heat wave of...
Texas Family Dollar Faces $294K Over Repeat Safety Violations
Jun 21 2023 // Soon after U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety inspectors arrived at a Family Dollar store in southeast Van Zandt County in December 2022, they found the store’s operator allowing merchandise to block storeroom...
Hail and Wind from Thunderstorms Caused $5.5 Billion in Damage, KCC Says
Jun 21 2023 // Severe weather created when a stationary front trapped warm, humid air over Texas and the Southeast caused an estimated $5.5 billion in insured losses, Karen Clark & Co. said in a briefing on Tuesday. KCC said there...
States Are Rushing to Regulate Deepfakes as AI Goes Mainstream
Jun 21 2023 // Images of former President Donald Trump hugging and kissing Dr. Anthony Fauci, his ex-chief medical adviser. Pornographic depictions of Hollywood actresses and internet influencers. A photo of an explosion at the...
Southern US Hit by Power Outages as Heat Wave Grips Texas
Jun 20 2023 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – More than 100,000 customers in the southern U.S. remained without power Monday following damaging storms, leaving residents searching for relief as sweltering temperatures continued to scorch the...
Texas Panhandle Storm Blamed for 3 Deaths, Wrecked Mobile Homes and Main Street
Jun 19 2023 // PERRYTON, Texas (AP) – As Sabrina Devers watched what would turn out to be a deadly storm approach her ranch just north of the Texas Panhandle town Perryton, she first spotted golf ball-sized and then softball-sized...
For Groups Fighting Opioid Crisis, Settlement Money Can Be Hard to Come By
Jun 19 2023 // Companies accused of fueling the U.S. opioid crisis have so far paid out more than $3 billion to compensate states, but has any of the money reached the people who need it? It depends where you live. Yes, if you’re...
Fatal Blaze at Texas Refinery to Result in Lawsuits Against Oil Refiner Marathon
Jun 19 2023 // Attorneys representing the family of a worker who was killed in a fire at a Texas City, Texas, refinery and another worker who was hospitalized said on Wednesday they have filed or would soon file injury claims against top...
Inspectors Sue Firm Associated with Troubled McClenney Moseley for Unpaid Bonuses and Overtime
Jun 19 2023 // Seventeen former field inspectors for a company that provided damage estimates for McClenney Moseley & Associates filed a lawsuit against their former employer, saying they are owed for bonuses that were promised but...
KCC Estimates June Texas Hailstorm Losses at $1B
Jun 16 2023 // The impact from a June hailstorm over Texas with baseball to softball-sized hail is expected to cause over $1 billion in insured losses, according to catastrophe modeling firm Karen Clark and Company. The storm occurred...
3 Dead, Dozens Injured in Texas Panhandle Tornado
Jun 16 2023 // At least three people died and dozens more injured when a tornado struck the Texas Panhandle town of Perryton on June 15. The National Weather Services in Amarillo said the tornado hit at 5:10 p.m. CT. Perryton, a town of...
Storms Across Southeast Damage Buildings, Toss Cars, Topple Trees
Jun 16 2023 // Damaging winds and possible tornadoes toppled trees, damaged buildings and blew cars off a highway Wednesday as powerful storms crossed the South from Texas to Georgia. The National Weather Service issued numerous tornado...
ALKEME Acquires Texas’ Daugherty Insurance Group
Jun 15 2023 // ALKEME announced the acquisition of the Daugherty Insurance Group, a Sugar Land, Texas- based full-service insurance agency. For over three decades, Daugherty Insurance Group has been focused on serving their loyal...
Three Texas Companies Recognized for Workplace Safety
Jun 14 2023 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) awarded three companies the Lone Star Safety Award for their exemplary workplace health and safety programs and low rates of work-related...
Braidwood v Becerra and Its Impact on Preventive Service Access
Jun 14 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Since Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, it’s faced many challenges, and the newest comes from a court case recently decided by a judge in...
Core Specialty Forms Medical Stop Loss Division With Acquisition of Texas’ American National Group
Jun 13 2023 // Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc., and its subsidiaries announced today that it will form a medical stop-loss division through the acquisition of the MGU/Stop-Loss business of American National Group. The acquisition...
Elevated Walkway Collapses in Texas Beach City, Injuring Nearly Two Dozen
Jun 12 2023 // SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas (AP) – Nearly two dozen teenagers from a summer camp were injured when an elevated walkway collapsed Thursday in a beachside city in Texas, with five flown to the hospital by helicopter. None of...
Texas Court Dismisses Billionaire’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Beto O’Rourke
Jun 12 2023 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A Texas appeals court on Friday dismissed a billionaire’s defamation lawsuit against Democrat Beto O’Rouke that was brought after O’Rourke criticized a $1 million campaign...
How Excess Emissions Ballooned in Texas
Jun 8 2023 // In the early hours of Aug. 22, 2020, Hurricane Laura was still just a tropical storm off the coast of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. But effects from the monstrous storm, which would ultimately take at least 81...
