Texas / South Central News for February 2018
- 6 Months After Storm, Texas Launches Harvey Recovery Funds Tracker
 - Oklahoma Highway Safety Agency: Road Debris Increasing Crash Risk
 - Oklahoma School District Settles Fraud Lawsuit with Food Distributor Sysco
 - Weather Service Confirms 2 Weekend Tornadoes in Arkansas
 - NTSB Investigating Deadly Dallas House Explosion
 - Church Mutual Subsidiary OK’d to Do Business in Arkansas
 - EPIC Adds Edwards, Palmer to Risk Management Team in Houston
 - Corps Says Agency Did Work to Inform Public on Harvey Flood Risk
 - Outlooks Revised to Positive for Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual
 - Records: Corps Failed to Release Harvey Flood Prediction to Public
 - Texas’ Combined Agents of America Adds 3 New Agencies
 - Texas Appeals Court Upholds $351M Award Against Credit Suisse
 - Dallas Mavericks Investigating Allegations of Hostile Workplace, Harassment
 - Huck Named VP of Fidelis Group Holdings’ Marine Division in Houston
 - Worker’s Death on Gulf Platform Subject of Federal Probe
 - Brown Tapped to Chair Oklahoma Senate Insurance Committee
 - Arkansas Governor Says Special Session on Pharmacy Rates Possible
 - Rubel Joins Myron Steves as Chief Underwriting Officer, Commercial Lines
 - Lawyer: 13-Year-Old Oil Leak Off Louisiana Coast a ‘Long-Term Problem’
 - Texas Mutual Hires Redpoint’s Siddons as VP, Business Development
 - Monsanto Loses Bid to Stop Arkansas Ban on Herbicide Dicamba
 - Texas Petro-Chemical Contractor Sued for Disability Discrimination
 - Agency Warns of Possible Hepatitis Exposure at Arkansas Restaurant
 - Former Texas Agent Gets Life Sentence for Insurance Scam
 - Federal Suit Alleges Texas Coach Helped Student Accused of Sexual Assault
 - Texas Family Awarded $8M for Body Missing from Funeral Home
 - TWIA Policy Center for Commercial and Manufactured Home Policies Now Available
 - Worker Injury Incidence Rate in Louisiana in 2016 Among the Lowest
 - Coastal Communities Hit by Harvey to Get $1B for Hazard Mitigation
 - Nearly 670K Property Insurance Claims in Texas from Hurricane Harvey: TDI
 - All Types of Disasters Covered at Oklahoma’s National Tornado Summit
 - Texas Sees Increase in Auto Fatalities in 2017
 - Report: San Antonio Fire Department Mishandled Deadly Shopping Center Blaze
 - Tribe Continues Suit Against Drug Distributors; Refiles in State Court
 - Thieves Steal Tires from 40 Vehicles at Oklahoma Dealership
 - Study Finds Houston’s Apartment Safety Programs Are Flawed
 - IICF Raises Over $900K for Nonprofits in Texas and the Region
 - Fracking Earthquakes Pop Up in Unexpected Corner of Oklahoma’s Shale Patch
 - Oklahoma Recovers Over $3M for Consumers in 2017
 - Texas Appeals Court Says Federal Law Preempts State on Air Ambulance Fees
 - Tort Reform Upstages Effort to Put Road Funding Measure on Arkansas Ballot
 - Study: Urbanization Contributed to Deadly 2015 Wimberley, Texas Flood
 - Martin Joins MarketScout as Technology Analyst
 - New Orleans’ Infrastructure Is Crumbling; Will Trump Plan Help?
 - Police Cars Sledgehammered in Dallas Substation Parking Lot
 - Louisiana Work-Related Fatalities Decreased in 2016
 - Texas A&M Study: Better Science, Urban Planning Needed in Coastal Cities
 - Thousands of Acres Scorched by Northeastern Oklahoma Wildfires
 - Baton Rouge Fires Spike Push for Smoke Alarms
 - Appeals Court Rejects $586M FEMA Fix for Louisiana Barrier Islands
 - Hub International Acquires Texas-Based IPS Advisors
 - Texas Workers’ Comp Division: Nonsubscriber Annual Reports Are Due
 - Louisiana Oil Spill Near Where Young Whooping Cranes Released
 - Study Finds Oklahoma’s Earthquakes Strongly Linked to Wastewater Injection Depth
 - Towerstone Adds 4 Associates to Dallas Underwriting Team
 - Heckman Joins Berkeley Research Group’s Insurance Claims Practice in Dallas
 - Fire Threat Leaves more than Half of Oklahoma Under Burn Ban
 - Employee Benefit Strategies Group Joins Holmes Murphy