Texas / South Central News for February 2021
- Texas Marine Services Firm to Pay $125K to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit
- Texas Mom Seeks to Raise Fire Safety Awareness after 4 Die in Frigid Home
- Risk Management (or Lack Thereof) and Texas’ Deep Freeze Energy Failures
- Most of Texas Deep Freeze $90 Billion in Losses Avoidable, Modeler Says
- Texas Lawmakers Told Insurers Want ‘Seat at Table’ As Power Blackout Probe Begins
- Texas’ Upland Capital Group Launches Excess Transportation Liability Program
- Texas Insurance Exec, Harrison, Honored by Big ‘I’ with Woodworth Memorial Award
- Truck/Train Collision in Texas Results in Large Explosion, Fire
- Deadly Power Outages Lead to Board Resignations at Texas Grid Operator
- Water Woes Expected to Last Several More Days in Mississippi After Freeze
- Minick Retiring from Texas Workplace Injury Benefit Risk Managing Firm, PartnerSource
- Worker Injuries Rise as Oklahoma Pork Plant Speeds Up Slaughtering
- $1B Class-Action Suit Filed Against Texas Wholesale Electricity Provider, Griddy
- Texas Ranchers Scrambled to Keep Animals Alive in Extreme Cold
- Family of Woman Killed in New Orleans Float Accident Sues Carnival Krewe
- Mother of 11-Year-Old Who Died in Texas Freeze Sues Power Companies for $100M
- Oklahoma Injection Wells Closed or Reduced After 4.2 Magnitude Quake
- Bursting Pipes, Sagging Roofs Strain Texas Adjusters, Contractors
- Insurer Wins Covid-19 Business Interruption Case Filed by New Orleans Restaurant
- Insurance Losses From Texas Storm May Set First Quarter Record: A.M. Best
- Insurers Expect ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Claims from Texas Storm
- Oklahoma Legislation Would Require Tornado Safety Information in Hotels
- Winter Storm Uri to Generate Billions in Insured Losses: Moody’s
- Texas Leaders Failed to Heed Warnings About Vulnerability of Power Grid, Experts Say
- Palomar Teams Up with Austin’s Technical Risk Underwriters on Builder’s Risk
- NTSB Will Investigate Deadly 130 Vehicle-Plus Crash in Texas
- In Texas’s Black-Swan Blackout, Everything Went Wrong at Once
- Texas Ag Industry, Food Supply at Risk from Severe Weather, Official Says
- $4.5M Settlement Offered in Police Shooting of Alton Sterling in Louisiana
- Brence Named Shareholder at Swingle Collins & Associates in Dallas
- Citrus Crop Losses Expected in Texas After Deep Freeze
- Freeze Slams Texas; Power Could Be Out for Days
- South Central Region Shut Down by Winter Storm
- Applied Underwriters Acquires Oklahoma Property and Casualty Insurance
- Brown Reappointed as Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner
- Louisiana’s Democratic Governor Balks at Biden’s Oil, Gas Policy
- FEMA: Aid Deadline for Residential Losses from Hurricane Zeta — March 15
- At Least 6 Killed in Massive Crash on Icy North Texas Interstate
- Robles Joins XPT Partners in Texas as VP, Senior Transportation Broker
- Opt-In Data Privacy Legislation Moves Forward in Oklahoma
- Texas Woman Faces Charges After Dog Attacks 3-Year-Old Girl
- Arsonist Charged in Texas Courthouse Fire Suspected in Additional Blaze
- Barta Reappointed as Texas Injured Employee Public Counsel
- Texas Bill Would Mandate Business Interruption Cover for Pandemic Losses
- Texas Rail Services Firm Faces $419K Fine After Oklahoma Workers’ Deaths
- $32M Project on Louisiana Coast Aimed at Storm Mitigation
- Caldwell, Mowbray Named to Leadership Posts at Louisiana Insurance Dept.
- Neptune Flood, Acadian Managers to Offer Flood Insurance in Louisiana
- Northern Oklahoma Rattled by Small Earthquakes
- Massive Fire Destroys County Courthouse in Texas; Arson Suspected
- Texas Approves Redpoint/Tesla Auto Insurance Policy Form
- Study: 40 Out of 120 Texas Workers’ Comp Insurers Are ‘High Performers’
- Texas Hotel Management Firms to Settle Pay Discrimination Suit for $400K
- Texas Governor Calls for COVID-19 Liability Protections for Businesses
- Ashwood Named Oklahoma Captive Insurance Coordinator
- Texan Insurance Acquires Suzanne Brown Agency in Houston
- Drought, Wildfire Threat Lead to Disaster Declaration in Texas
- $22M-Plus Recovered for Louisiana Insurance Consumers in 2020
- Oklahoma’s Vaughan Insurance Group Merges with Higginbotham
- Over $115M in Federal Flood Insurance Paid in Louisiana for 2020 Hurricanes
- Texas’ Cudd Well Control Providing Energy Expertise to Worldwide Facilities
- Cargill Closing Louisiana Salt Mine Where 2 Died in Roof Collapse
- $262M in Main Street Grants Aid 21K Louisiana Small Businesses
- NTSB Probes Deadly Oklahoma House Fire; Gas Pipeline Involved
- SUV Crashes into Houston Supermarket; 8 People Injured
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