Ronaldo Martins of Irving, Texas, was sentenced to one year of deferred adjudication and ordered to pay $2,850 in restitution to Texas Mutual Insurance Company as a result of his guilty plea on a workers’ compensation fraud-related charge. Martins reported …
Lone Star Bakery Inc., a private commercial bakery that employs about 500 workers, has been cited by OSHA for 32 serious, one repeat, and 16 other-than-serious violations following following a finger tip amputation incident on the pie processing line and …
A state panel in Texas has recommended more education and training for fire investigators following its review of a case involving a Texas inmate executed after a fire labeled arson killed his three daughters. The Texas Forensic Science Commission also …
Rimkus Consulting Group, a forensic engineering consulting firm in the U.S., has announced the creation of a Digital Forensics Division based in Houston, Texas. The new division, opened in 2010, will provide a full range of services in the electronic …
Hundreds of square miles of rugged, wooded country along the Brazos River in West Texas remain evacuated as a complex of wildfires remain on a rampage about 70 miles west of Fort Worth. State and local firefighting forces battled the …
Texas Workers’ Compensation March Disciplinary Orders: Ace American Insurance Company of Philadelphia, PA Order Number: DWC-11-0028 Date of Order: 3/3/2011 Order Final In: March Action Taken: Fined $48,000 Violation: Failed to comply with order or decision of Commissioner or TDI-DWC; …
Pronto Insurance Agency, a provider of auto and homeowners insurance, has opened a new claims center in San Antonio. Pronto has hired nearly 50 employees to service claims statewide and for those claimants who travel beyond Texas. Bill Taylor will …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited five companies for serious safety and health violations following a combustible dust flash fire that released hydrogen sulfide at the Eustace Gas Processing Plant in Eustace, Texas, and …
A West Texas family is dealing with the loss of their home after one fire slightly damaged the place and then a blaze the next day destroyed the house. Casey and Jamie Jones of Brownwood and their five children were …
A National Weather Service storm survey team has confirmed that at least four tornadoes struck rural areas south and east of Dallas and Fort Worth on April 11. A line of savage thunderstorms packing damaging winds and spawning the tornadoes …