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Cotality Estimates $1.1B in Damage to Residential Buildings from Central Texas Floods
Jul 30 2025 // Cotality estimates that the recent Central Texas flash floods caused $1.1 billion in damage to residential buildings, with the National Flood Insurance Program providing as much as $135 million in insurance recoveries to...
Texas Auto Insurer for Residual Market Approved for Rate Increase
Jul 30 2025 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) said in a bulletin this month that it has approved private passenger and commercial auto rate increases for the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA), the state’s...
AM Best Upgrades Credit Rating of Texas’ New Horizon
Jul 29 2025 // AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A- (Excellent) from B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a-” (Excellent) from “bbb+” (Good) of New Horizon Insurance Company...
Texas Cotton Industry Struggles as Synthetic Fibers Go Mainstream
Jul 28 2025 // For decades, the cotton industry has long been considered king in the Texas agriculture world. However, a shift has left it standing on shaky ground. In the last few years — as cotton producers struggled with low market...
FEMA Chief Calls Texas Floods Response ‘A Model’ For Dealing With Disaster
Jul 25 2025 // The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is pushing back on criticisms of the federal response to the central Texas floods that killed at least 136 people earlier this month. “I can’t...
Mexico Tariffs Could Create Strain on Texas Economy
Jul 25 2025 // Importers and exporters based in Texas have so far avoided the harshest effects of the trade war sparked by President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports from a host of countries, but they could be in for a rude...
Long-Standing Problems Led Up to Deadly Texas Floods, Lawmakers Told
Jul 24 2025 // No minimum qualifications for local emergency management coordinators. No easy way to know if local officials are getting weather warnings. Difficulty getting all first responders on the same radio communication...
Texas Senate Doubles Down on THC Ban
Jul 23 2025 // The Texas Senate is doubling down with its attempt to ban hemp-derived THC, setting up another showdown with the House, where lawmakers are more amenable to regulating the substance than eliminating it from recreational...
Camp Mystic Deaths After Floods Darken a Cherished Texas Tradition
Jul 22 2025 // Camp Mystic was the totemic rite of passage for girls from establishment families in the American South: Lyndon Johnson sent his daughters there, Laura Bush worked there as a counselor years before becoming First Lady, and...
Missing Persons Count From Texas Floods Down to 3
Jul 21 2025 // More than two weeks after catastrophic July Fourth floods along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, authorities reported Saturday that nearly all of the people who had remained on the list of missing persons have been...
Texas Mutual’s Ward Elected to NCCI Board of Directors
Jul 21 2025 // Jeanette Ward, president and CEO of Texas Mutual Insurance Company, has been elected as one of the insurer members on the National Council on Compensation Insurance 2025 Board of Directors. NCCI provides a comprehensive...
How Crockett, Texas Turned a Devastating Tornado Into Funding for Sirens
Jul 21 2025 // A small East Texas community is in the final stages of installing a state-of-the-art disaster warning system officials have been working toward for years. Six new sirens will be placed strategically throughout the city of...
Texas Flood
Jul 21 2025 // As of press time, Texas and the world are watching yet another unprecedented natural catastrophe unfold. More than 100 lives have been lost [edited to included updated number] in this one event and billions of dollars in...
Texas, Oklahoma Among States Trying to Lure Corporations Away From Delaware
Jul 21 2025 // Lawmakers in Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada have recently approved changes aimed at helping their states dip into the lucrative side of corporate litigation that Delaware, with a specialized court and business-friendly laws,...
AM Best Revises Outlook to Negative for Texas’ Southern Vanguard
Jul 18 2025 // AM Best announced it has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) of Southern Vanguard...
Central Texas Floods Highlight State’s Risky Profile, Triple-I Analysis Finds
Jul 16 2025 // The catastrophic floods in central Texas on July 4th occurred in an area where fewer than 3% of homeowners have flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program, serving as another example of why Texas has one...
Texas Department of Insurance Issues Guidance for Insurers Following Deadly Floods
Jul 15 2025 // The Texas Department of Insurance shared a bulletin on flooding disaster guidance in light of the deadly floods in the Texas Hill Country. The bulletin lays out expectations for how insurers, agents, contractors, adjusters...
Geography and Driving Behavior Contribute to High Flood Death Rates in Texas
Jul 15 2025 // Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in U.S. flood deaths due partly to geography that can funnel rainwater into deadly deluges, according to a study...
Search for Victims Resumes in Texas Floods After Severe Weather Halts Operations
Jul 14 2025 // Crews on Monday were expected to resume looking for victims of catastrophic flooding in Texas that killed at least 132 people after more heavy rains temporarily paused their search and rescue operations. Those efforts...
Questions Linger on Response to Deadly Texas Flash Flood
Jul 11 2025 // Key questions remain unanswered about the actions Texas officials took both before and during the catastrophic July Fourth holiday floods as a painstaking search for victims continues along the Guadalupe River nearly a...
