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#1 Many US Cities Are Sinking. But In Texas, It’s Worse
May 8 2025 // Cities across the US are sinking,and the problem is most pronounced in Texas, according to a new study. The research, which examined 28 cities and was published in science journal Nature on Thursday, found all of them were...
#2 TWFG Acquires Agencies in Texas and North Carolina
May 5 2025 // TWFG, Inc., a high-growth insurance distribution company, announced the acquisition of two agencies, one in Texas and one in North Carolina, and the hiring of Denise Davis as Vice President of Retail Operations. Denise...
#3 Texas Legislators Seek Solutions to Rising Home Insurance Rates
May 9 2025 // Texas lawmakers hope to rein in homeowners’ rising insurance bills even as they acknowledge there’s only so much they can do to tackle costs. Legislators have advanced bills to limit how much insurance...
#4 Three Workers Killed in Scaffold Collapse at LNG Plant in Texas
Apr 30 2025 // Three workers were killed and two were injured when a section of scaffolding collapsed early Tuesday at a liquefied natural gas plant that Sempra is building in Texas. The two survivors at the Port Arthur LNG project were...
#5 Texas Governor Abbott Signs Bill Inspired by DOGE
Apr 24 2025 // Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed the first law of this year’s legislative session, a bill creating a new regulation-cutting agency inspired by Elon Musk’s federal Department of Government...
#6 Texas Woman Sentenced for Disaster Relief Fraud Scheme
May 12 2025 // A Texas woman has been sentenced for conspiracy to commit wire fraud which resulted in approximately $620,000 in losses, U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei announced last week. Cora Chantail Custard, a 35-year-old who had...
#7 Risk Strategies Acquires Texas’ GMC Advisors
Apr 28 2025 // Risk Strategies announced that it has acquired GMC Advisors, LLC., based in Houston, Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Headed by owner Greg Chubon, GMC Advisors is a specialist in commercial lines insurance...
#8 Texas-Based Insurtech Steadily Secures $30M Series C Round
Apr 23 2025 // Steadily, a provider of landlord insurance in the U.S., announced $30 million in Series C funding led by Two Sigma Ventures at a $355 million valuation. Steadily serves 18 million individual rental property owners who...
#9 Texas Insurance Fraudster Given Prison Sentence and $350K Fine
May 13 2025 // A federal judge sentenced a McAllen woman who reportedly helped commit property and title fraud schemes to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Chief U.S. District Judge Randy Crane also ordered...
#10 Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch in Texas Faces Scrutiny Over Potential Accident Risks
May 15 2025 // Federal safety regulators have asked Elon Musk’s car company to explain how its driverless taxis will avoid causing accidents when they hit the road in Texas next month before a national “robotaxi” launch...
#11 AM Best Downgrades Credit Ratings of Texas’ PrimeOne Insurance Group
Apr 21 2025 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to B- (Fair) from B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “bb-” (Fair) from “bbb-” (Good) of PrimeOne Insurance Company in Dallas,...
#12 Tariff ‘Chaos’ Drags Key Texas Manufacturing Gauge to Worst Since 2020
Apr 29 2025 // A widely followed measure of Texas manufacturing activity weakened significantly as executives used words like “chaos” and “insanity” to describe the turmoil spurred by President Donald...
#13 Capital Farm Credit Acquires Two Texas Agencies
Apr 21 2025 // The Board of Directors for Capital Farm Credit recently supported the purchase of two crop insurance agencies in the Texas Plains Region in an acquisition agreement aimed at serving as a long-term provider of critical crop...
#14 Why the Green Hydrogen Industry Is Flocking to Texas
May 1 2025 // Despite federal policy uncertainty stunting growth prospects, US clean hydrogen industry leaders at the BloombergNEF summit see one bright spot: Texas. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are impacting the industry as...
#15 Wastewater Is Polluting Rivers and Streams in Central Texas
Apr 29 2025 // Margo Denke set out to rally the town when she learned that a Christian youth camp planned to build a wastewater treatment plant and discharge its effluent into the pristine Hill Country creek that ran through her small...
#16 Texas Farmers Fear Proposed Legislation Could Devastate Hemp Economy
Apr 23 2025 // Andrew Hill, who studied and farmed hemp in California before it was legal in Texas, was a keynote speaker at the state’s first-ever agricultural hemp expo in Dallas in 2019. Amid considerable hype and excitement...
#17 Texas AG Secures $60M Judgment in Pollution Case
May 14 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last week announced a judgment of more than $60 million against David Polston and his companies, Inland Environmental and Remediation, Inland Recycling, and Boundary Ventures, for...
#18 This Texas E&S Carrier Is Implementing Natural Language Processing
May 2 2025 // At AM Specialty Insurance Co., Nishad Lad, head of data and software development, has been placed at the forefront of transforming the Dallas, Texas-based excess and surplus carrier’s claims processing with new...
#19 Texas Mutual Approves $330M General Dividend Distribution
May 2 2025 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that its board of directors voted unanimously to approve a $330 million general dividend distribution in 2025. Texas Mutual, the state’s top provider of workers’...
#20 Outsourcing Firm to Pay $250K For Discriminating Against Blind Employee in Texas
Apr 23 2025 // The Results Companies, A business services outsourcing firm agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency...
