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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...
Texas Children’s Hospital Faces $15K in Fine for Failing to Protect Employees After Assault by Patient
Jun 8 2023 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration determined that Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas exposed employees who worked with patients with behavioral health issues...
Texas Car Dealership Sued for Age and Disability Discrimination
Jun 7 2023 // DALLAS – Pete’s Car Smart Inc., a car dealership based in Amarillo, Texas, violated federal law by firing a long-time employee based on her age and cardiovascular-related disability, the federal agency announced...
West Texas Dollar General Store Hit With $294K Penalty
Jun 6 2023 // A federal workplace safety inspection at another Dollar General store, this time in Lamesa, Texas, found exit routes and walkways blocked and merchandise unsafely stacked, conditions that exposed employees and others to...
Ryan Specialty Acquires Texas’ Point6
Jun 6 2023 // Ryan Specialty announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of Point6 Healthcare, LLC (“Point6”), a distributor of medical stop loss insurance, pharmacy solutions, and complex claims...
Google Antitrust Suit Over Ad Tech Sent Back to State Court
Jun 6 2023 // A judicial panel on Monday transferred antitrust litigation against Alphabet Inc.’s Google filed by state attorneys general back to a federal court in Texas, citing a law passed by Congress in December. The decision...
Texas Insurance Carriers Reported Nearly 100K COVID Claims: DWC Factsheet
Jun 5 2023 // Texas insurance carriers reported nearly 100,000 COVID-19 claims and 472 fatalities to the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), according to a factsheet released this week by DWC....
Business Moves
Jun 5 2023 // Midwest G&G Independent Insurance, Robbins Insurance Group G&G Independent Insurance has acquired Branson, Missouri-based Robbins Insurance Group. G&G has been serving the insurance needs of clients in Missouri...
People & Places
Jun 5 2023 // National Specialty insurance provider CFC appointed Michael Phillips as Cyber Practice leader. He is based in New York. Michael Phillips In this newly created role based out of New York, Phillips will drive CFC’s...
Texas Lawmakers Allocated $2 Billion to Increase Water Supply, Reduce Flooding
Jun 2 2023 // During this year’s legislative session, Texas lawmakers allocated part of the state’s historic $32.7 billion surplus toward better protecting the state against droughts and floods — an investment that...
1 Killed in Boiler Explosion at Southeastern Texas Power Plant
Jun 1 2023 // FRANKLIN, Texas (AP) – One person was killed when a boiler exploded at a southeastern Texas power plant Wednesday morning, according to a spokesperson for Dallas-based Luminant. “A contractor was fatally...
Inspectors in McClenney Moseley ‘Fraud’ Scheme Sue for Unpaid Bonuses and Overtime
May 30 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...
Louisiana Parishes Top List of Riskiest US Housing Markets
May 30 2023 // A pair of Louisiana parishes lead CoreLogic’s ranking of riskiest U.S. housing markets based on natural-disaster probability. CoreLogic’s Climate Risk Analytics: Composite Risk Score (CRA Composite Risk Score)...
Fatal Blaze at Texas Refinery to Result in Lawsuits Against Oil Refiner Marathon
May 26 2023 // HOUSTON – 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...
Texas Cotton Farmers Seek Improvements to Crop Insurance
May 25 2023 // LUBBOCK — On the eve of another drought-ridden growing season, farmers from the High Plains are asking state and national lawmakers to provide a stronger financial safety net. In Austin and Washington, D.C., farmers from...
Families of Uvalde Victims Dig In for New Test of Gun Industry Protections
May 23 2023 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – After Mayah Zamora was shot and wounded at Robb Elementary School, her family did what many mass shooting survivors do: They sued. They sued the store off Main Street in Uvalde, Texas, that sold...
Investigators Determine Cause of Texas Fire That Killed 18,000 Cows
May 22 2023 // LUBBOCK — State investigators have determined a fire and explosion at a Panhandle dairy farm was an accident and started with an engine fire in a manure vacuum truck that was cleaning part of the barn. The April 10 fire...
Families of Gun Violence Victims Dig In for New Test of Gun Industry Protections
May 22 2023 // After Mayah Zamora was shot and wounded at Robb Elementary School, her family did what many mass shooting survivors do: They sued. They sued the store off Main Street in Uvalde, Texas, that sold the teenage gunman his...
Chubb: No Duty to Defend Texas Subway Franchise in Killing Case
May 22 2023 // ACE American Insurance Company (Chubb) says it has no duty to defend a Texas Subway franchise sued by the family of a former worker killed on site by an ex-boyfriend. In a complaint for declaratory relief filed in the US...
