Latest Texas Headlines
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AM Best Revises Outlook to Negative for Texas’ Southern Vanguard
Jul 18 2025 // AM Best announced it has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) of Southern Vanguard...
Central Texas Floods Highlight State’s Risky Profile, Triple-I Analysis Finds
Jul 16 2025 // The catastrophic floods in central Texas on July 4th occurred in an area where fewer than 3% of homeowners have flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program, serving as another example of why Texas has one...
Texas Department of Insurance Issues Guidance for Insurers Following Deadly Floods
Jul 15 2025 // The Texas Department of Insurance shared a bulletin on flooding disaster guidance in light of the deadly floods in the Texas Hill Country. The bulletin lays out expectations for how insurers, agents, contractors, adjusters...
Geography and Driving Behavior Contribute to High Flood Death Rates in Texas
Jul 15 2025 // Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in U.S. flood deaths due partly to geography that can funnel rainwater into deadly deluges, according to a study...
Search for Victims Resumes in Texas Floods After Severe Weather Halts Operations
Jul 14 2025 // Crews on Monday were expected to resume looking for victims of catastrophic flooding in Texas that killed at least 132 people after more heavy rains temporarily paused their search and rescue operations. Those efforts...
Questions Linger on Response to Deadly Texas Flash Flood
Jul 11 2025 // Key questions remain unanswered about the actions Texas officials took both before and during the catastrophic July Fourth holiday floods as a painstaking search for victims continues along the Guadalupe River nearly a...
Farmers in Texas Face Severe Losses From Floods
Jul 11 2025 // Across a wide swath of Texas, the inundated rivers that ravaged communities also tore through farms and ranches. In the town of Bend, about two hours north of Austin, Boyd Clark waded into rising waters to help one of his...
Texas Agencies Missed Opportunities to Fund Flood Warning System
Jul 10 2025 // Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and scores of others in...
Texas Counties Have Little Power to Stop Building in Flood-Prone Areas
Jul 9 2025 // Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high risk for a devastating flood. Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are similarly situated in...
AM Best Revises Outlook to Negative for Texas’ Service Insurance Group
Jul 9 2025 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) of Service Lloyds Insurance...
Focus on First Responders’ Mental Health Grows in Texas Flood Recovery
Jul 9 2025 // Riding on horseback through brush and over numerous dead turkeys, Margo Mellon spent Tuesday scanning the flood-ravaged ground of Texas’ Hill Country for dead bodies. As she and her rescue mates trudged through the...
No Alerts Heard in Deadly Texas Flash Flood as 161 Still Missing
Jul 9 2025 // In the early hours of July 4, the only sound many of the vacationers along the banks of the Guadalupe River would have heard was pounding rain and thunder. They didn’t get any official warning of the rapidly rising...
People Moves: Hull & Company-Texas Promotes Wilkins, Hires Gambino to Underwriter/Broker Roles
Jul 8 2025 // Hull & Company-Texas, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, promoted Brandt Wilkins to underwriter/broker. Wilkins has an extensive background in the commercial wholesale business. He has been with Hull Texas for the last...
Virginia Sends Swift Water Rescue Teams to Help Texas Flood Recovery Efforts
Jul 8 2025 // In response to the catastrophic flooding impacting portions of Texas, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin announced the deployment on Monday of two Virginia swift water rescue Teams to assist in the ongoing recovery...
Deadly Texas Flash Floods Cause $18-22 Billion in Damage, AccuWeather Says
Jul 7 2025 // The deadly flash floods in Texas that killed more than 100 people over the Fourth of July holiday weekend will cause an estimated $18 billion to $22 billion in total damage and economic loss, AccuWeather said. The weather...
Misinformation on Cloud Seeding Swirls After Deadly Texas Floods
Jul 7 2025 // In the aftermath of devastating floods in Texas, social media users have spread misinformation that cloud seeding is to blame. Meteorologists have been quick to debunk the claim, but the rumors underline how weather can be...
Texas Officials Under Scrutiny Over Lack of Warning Systems in Deadly Flood
Jul 7 2025 // Before heading to bed before the Fourth of July holiday, Christopher Flowers checked the weather while staying at a friend’s house along the Guadalupe River. Nothing in the forecast alarmed him. Hours later, he was...
Deadly Floods Reinforce Texas’ Challenge as Crisis Epicenter
Jul 7 2025 // Before dawn Friday morning, city manager Dalton Rice went for a jog along the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas. He finished his run around 4 a.m. as a light rain set in. An hour later, he began receiving emergency...
Judge Dismisses Texas Attorney General’s Lawsuit Over State Fair Gun Restrictions
Jul 3 2025 // A Dallas County district judge dismissed state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s suit against the State Fair of Texas and the City of Dallas, for gun restrictions that were enacted following a 2023 shooting that injured...
Texas Braces for Budget Constraints as Federal Funding Dries Up
Jul 2 2025 // The era of massive state budget surpluses in Texas could be coming to an end. As the last of the federal government’s COVID-19 emergency funds are spent and sales tax revenues return to historic averages after a...
