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Worker Injured as Explosion at Texas Paint Plant Sends Fireballs into Sky

GARLAND, Texas (AP) – A worker was injured early Monday when an explosion set a paint manufacturing plant in the Dallas suburbs ablaze and shot a series of fireballs into the night sky. A company spokesperson said the blast at …

Texas Legislature Takes Aim at the Use of ESG-Related Factors by Insurance Companies

Insurance companies are increasingly incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their underwriting processes when they examine risk. However, despite the increasing adoption of ESG-related factors by insurers, political polarization and divergent political stances on the utility of ESG …

South Louisiana Parish Sues to Block Port of New Orleans’ $1.8B Container Port Project

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A south Louisiana parish is suing the Port of New Orleans to block it from building a planned $1.8 billion container facility. The St. Bernard Parish District Attorney`s Office filed the lawsuit this week in 34th …

Texas Construction Company Fined $266K For Failure to Correct Fall Protection Systems

Despite an extensive history of serious and repeat violations dating back more than a decade, a Houston, Texas steel erection company again failed to correct fall protection systems hazards, a federal workplace safety investigation has found. Investigators with the U.S. …

Texas Court Rejects ‘Fishing Expedition’ Discovery Request to Home Depot

A Texas appellate court threw out a trial court order that approved a plaintiff’s overly broad discovery request in an employee’s personal injury lawsuit against Home Depot. A panel of the 9th Court of Appeals in Beaumont vacated a judge’s …

Drag Performers and LGBTQ+ Advocates Sue to Block Texas Law Expanding Ban on Sexual Performances

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A group of drag performers and LGBTQ+ rights advocates have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a new Texas law that expands what is considered an illegal public performance of sexual conduct, arguing it is …

Boundless Rider Launches Motorcycle, ATV and Off-Road Insurance in Texas

Boundless Rider, a venture-backed digital MGA, announced that it is available for purchase in Texas, with plans to expand to additional states later this year. Owners of on-road and off-road motorcycles, ATVs, UTVs, snowmobiles, scooters, and mopeds can now purchase …

Texas Policy Protects Big Polluters From Citizen Complaints

PORT LAVACA — On a rugged stretch of the Gulf Coast in Texas, environmental groups called foul in 2020 when an oil company sought pollution permits to expand its export terminal beside Lavaca Bay. Led by a coalition of local …

Oklahoma Governor Signs Executive Order Narrowly Defining “Female” and “Male”

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday directed state agencies to use narrow definitions of “female” and “male,” in the latest attack on transgender rights in a state that already has laws targeting bathroom use, health care …

NR West Acquires Texas’ Foster Benefit Resources

NR West, the parent company of The Insurance Exchange, a premier Dallas-based General Agency, announced that it has completed its acquisition of Foster Benefit Resources, a full-service General Agency specializing in fully insured and self-funded employee benefits in the North …

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