Federal and state agencies have started looking at natural resource damage in an effort to come up with a dollar estimate from a March barge and cargo ship collision in the Houston Ship Channel that dumped thousands of gallons of …
A luxury house has been left teetering about 75 feet above a Central Texas lake since the cliff the home is built on began collapsing. WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth reported Wednesday that the house has been condemned and the owners …
In late March 2014, Texas Insurance Commissioner Julia Rathegeber approved a staff petition to adopt the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) Basic Manual, with Texas exceptions, and the national and Texas-specific endorsements and forms in the NCCI Forms Manual. …
A group of Southeast Texas government officials and business leaders has formed an alliance embracing construction of a nearly 60-mile-long barrier of covered concrete dunes and water gates along the upper Texas coastline to ease damage from hurricane storm surges. …
Alice, a city in South Texas, was hit with high winds and baseball size hail on Tuesday night. Most of the population of 19,000 were affected by the storm that knocked out power for several hours, the Insurance Council of …
An Alcoa machine shop worker in Texas has been arrested in what prosecutors call a $1 million scam to order, steal and then resell equipment. Prosecutors in Victoria say 55-year-old Jack Kennedy of Houston remains in custody pending a detention …
Teams of emergency officials will comb a 4-square-mile area of the Texas Panhandle to assess the damage from a wildfire and search for potential victims. Texas A&M Forest Service spokesman Troy Duchneaux says the crews began a door-to-door search Tuesday …
Declining workplace injuries and fewer claims for workers’ compensation benefits are leading to lower costs for employers, Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Rod Bordelon told lawmakers in testimony before the House Business & Industry Committee. Bordelon explained workers’ compensation insurance …
A jury has awarded a West Texas family $4.6 million in a lawsuit it had filed against three trucking companies related to a 2010 crash that killed two men. The El Paso Times reports the jury on Thursday found the …
An outbreak of severe thunderstorms north of Dallas, Texas, on Apr. 4 produced hurricane force winds, tornadoes and hail reported to be as large as grapefruits. Several communities are reporting extensive damage. Severe storms first hit Denton around 4 p.m. …