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Texas Records $699.8M in Surplus Lines Premiums in September
Oct 6 2021 // Texas surplus lines premium recorded during September totaled $699.8 million, bringing the state’s year-to-date premium up to $6.88 billion. The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) said the year-to-date...
West Texas Gas Companies to Pay $8M on Fines, Compliance After Worker Deaths
Oct 5 2021 // The U.S. Justice Department said five subsidiaries of West Texas Gas Inc. will spend $8 million on fines and compliance measures to settle alleged Clean Air Act violations and claims resulting from fatal chemical...
Hospital Housekeeping Services in Texas Sued for Disability Discrimination
Oct 1 2021 // Federal officials allege in a lawsuit that a Texas-based company unlawfully fired disabled workers because of their inability to pass an essential functions test. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a...
Texas Senators Blast Regulator for Power Grid Winterization Loophole Lawmakers OK’d
Sep 29 2021 // In a committee hearing on Sept. 28, Texas state senators were furious that natural gas companies won’t have to better prepare their facilities for extreme weather before this winter and rebuked the Texas Railroad...
COVID-Related Discrimination Lawsuits Filed Against 2 Texas Companies
Sep 28 2021 // Federal officials filed two lawsuits in Texas courts, alleging that a pharmacy in Fabens and a coffeehouse in Ft. Worth both discriminated against employees with disabilities that rendered them vulnerable to serious...
Feds to Texas: Tougher Rules Needed to Protect Power Plants
Sep 27 2021 // Federal officials made more than two dozen recommendations aimed at further safeguarding power plants and natural gas supplies to prevent a repeat of the February blackouts that caused more than 200 deaths in Texas. Staff...
Report: More than 456.5K Claims Filed in Texas After Winter Storm
Sep 24 2021 // A recently released report from the state’s insurance department shows more claims and higher average claim costs resulting from the severe and prolonged winter storm that enveloped Texas in mid-February than were...
People Moves: Biggs Joins Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Commission; Alliant Adds Soto, Hargrave in Texas; ICT Hires Johnson
Sep 23 2021 // Biggs Joins Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Commission The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) added Scott Biggs as its newest commissioner. The WCC and its three commissioners are tasked with carrying out...
GlobalPro Enters Texas; Opens Office in Dallas
Sep 21 2021 // GlobalPro, a multidisciplinary insurance services firm that helps clients manage the risks to a financial recovery following a loss caused by wind, water, fire, theft or another calamity, opened an office in Dallas. The...
Military Training Jet Crashes in Texas; Homes Damaged, Pilots Injured
Sep 21 2021 // A military training jet crashed Sept. 19 in a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes but not seriously hurting anyone on the ground, authorities said. Both pilots managed to...
Texas Reduces Insurance Complaint Processing Times by 80%
Sep 17 2021 // The Texas Department of Insurance eliminated a backlog of consumer complaints and reduced processing times by 80% as part of the agency’s ongoing modernization initiative, the regulatory agency says. “Customer...
Texas Plastics Company to Pay Nearly $3M for Clean Air Act Violations
Sep 16 2021 // A plastics company will pay $2.85 million in civil penalties to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations at its petrochemical manufacturing plant in Point Comfort, Texas, federal environmental protection officials...
AccuWeather: Nicholas Hits Texas as Cat 1 Hurricane
Sep 14 2021 // Nicholas made landfall as a hurricane, packing 75-mph winds, on the coast of Texas on Monday night, and AccuWeather forecasters say the slow-moving storm will unleash life-threatening flooding along the Texas Gulf Coast,...
Tropical Storm Nicholas Drenches Texas, Louisiana
Sep 14 2021 // HOUSTON — Heavy rains lashed Texas and Louisiana on Tuesday as hurricane Nicholas weakened into a tropical storm, bringing the threat of widespread floods and power outages as it swept down the U.S. Gulf Coast. It is the...
Texas, Louisiana Governors Issue Disaster, Emergency Declarations
Sep 13 2021 // With Tropical Storm Nicholas beginning to hammer the state’s coastline, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 13 issued a state disaster declaration for 17 counties, and Gov. John Bel Edwards requested a pre-landfall...
Tropical Storm Nicholas Heads for Texas, Louisiana
Sep 13 2021 // Tropical Storm Nicholas will pass near or just offshore the coasts of northeastern Mexico and south Texas this morning, and move onshore along the coast of south or central Texas late this afternoon or evening, the...
Texas Events Business to Pay $20K to Settle Harassment, Retaliation Case
Sep 13 2021 // A Texas company agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by federal employment officials that alleged the firm’s owner subjected a female employee to sexist comments, then fired her for complaining about the owner’s...
$767.1M in Texas Surplus Lines Premiums Recorded in August
Sep 9 2021 // Surplus lines premium recorded in Texas during August totaled $767.1 million, bringing the year to date total to $6.18 billion, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). This results in a 6.9% (or $49...
Brown Named Texas Insurance Commissioner
Sep 7 2021 // Cassie Brown has been appointed Texas Commissioner of Insurance by Gov. Greg Abbott for a term that expires on Feb. 1, 2023. Brown has served as Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation since 2018, succeeding Ryan...
Texas Hospital to Pay $3.3M to Settle Claims-Related Whistleblower Suit
Sep 2 2021 // John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) in Tarrant County, Texas, will pay more than $3.3 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by upcoding certain claims submitted to federal healthcare programs, the...
