Latest Arizona Headlines
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Arizona Reports 1,030 More Virus Cases, 14 More Deaths
Aug 5 2020 // Arizona health officials have reported 1,030 new cases of the coronavirus and 14 more deaths. The Arizona Department of Health Services has recorded 179,497 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state since the pandemic...
Monsoon Arrival in Arizona Means End of Fire Restrictions
Jul 31 2020 // Fire restrictions within some state land are being lifted because of recent monsoon rain across the northern and southern sections of Arizona. Officials with the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management said...
Crest in Arizona Names McGee Vice President/Producer in Commercial Lines
Jul 24 2020 // Crest Insurance Group of Tucson, Ariz., has named Mike McGee a vice president/producer in the commercial lines division. McGee has a background in risk management. He has worked as a Hotshot & Helitack Firefighter and...
USG Names Aubry Commercial Lines Producer in Arizona
Jul 9 2020 // USG Insurance Services Inc. has named Amanda Aubry as a producer/broker in commercial lines in the Scottsdale, Ariz., office. Aubry has 18 years of insurance industry experience. She was previously a senior underwriter at...
81,000 Arizona Businesses Get Coronavirus Loans
Jul 8 2020 // Just over 81,000 Arizona small businesses were approved for loans worth $8.6 billion under a government program meant to keep people employed during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released Monday by the federal...
Arizona Man Accused of Selling LSD Sues for Wrongful Arrest
Jun 25 2020 // A Flagstaff, Ariz. man who was wrongfully arrested on suspicion of selling LSD has filed a federal lawsuit against the city, saying police ignored evidence that showed he wasn’t a drug dealer. Tremayne Nez, who is...
Palomar Excess and Surplus Insurance Company Formed in Arizona
Jun 24 2020 // Palomar Holdings Inc. has formed Palomar Excess and Surplus Insurance Co. Palomar Holdings Inc. announced the underwritten public offering of 1 million shares of the company’s common stock PESIC has received all...
Crews Battling 4 Wildfires in Arizona
Jun 22 2020 // Hundreds of firefighters continued to battle three major wildfires burning in forested mountains and desert hills across Arizona. Crews were fighting fires in the Santa Catalina Mountains in the Coronado National Forest...
Google Sued by Arizona over ‘Deceptive’ Location Tracking
Jun 1 2020 // Google kept tabs on the whereabouts of its users even if they had turned off location tracking, an Arizona official alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The suit filed by Attorney General Mark Brnovich stemmed from an...
Arizona Judge Rules Against Releasing Nursing Home COVID-19 Stats
Jun 1 2020 // The state of Arizona doesn’t have to publicly reveal the number of coronavirus cases and deaths among residents of nursing homes, long-term facilities and retirement homes, a state judge ruled on Friday. The ruling...
Court Tosses $47M Arizona Lawsuit in Cross-Median Crash
May 6 2020 // A state appellate court has overturned rulings by a trial court and dismissed a lawsuit stemming from a cross-median crash that killed two women on Interstate 10 in southern Arizona in 2008. The Arizona Court of Appeals...
Crest Insurance Group Acquires John Creps Agency Company in Arizona
May 4 2020 // Crest Insurance Group LLC has acquired John Creps Insurance Agency LLC in Flagstaff, Ariz. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Creps Agency is a full-service property/casualty agency also offering life and disability...
WCF Insurance Names Wall Regional Vice President in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada
Apr 30 2020 // WCF Insurance has named Mark Wall regional vice president over Arizona, Colorado and Nevada. Wall will report to Kevin Peterson, senior vice president of sales and distribution, and will be responsible for collaborating...
Randall & Quilter Completes Loss Portfolio Transfer with Repwest in Arizona
Apr 24 2020 // Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. announced it has entered into a loss portfolio transfer reinsurance contract and a transfer agreement with Repwest Insurance Co. Repwest is based in Phoenix Ariz., and is a...
Arizona Insurer of Physicians Declares $12M Dividend to Help in COVID-19 Pandemic
Apr 22 2020 // Mutual Insurance Company of Arizona has declared a special dividend designed to provide economic relief to its members. The company will distribute a $12 million dividend to all members with policies in-force as of April...
Alera Group Acquires Cambridge Benefit Solutions in Arizona
Apr 20 2020 // Alera Group has acquired Cambridge Benefit Solutions in Chandler, Ariz. Cambridge Benefit Solutions joins Alera Group through Benefit Commerce Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Deerfield, Ill.-based Alera...
Report on Arizona Plane Crash That Killed 6 Cites Weight, Drugs
Apr 14 2020 // An investigation into a 2018 plane crash that killed all six people aboard found that one of two pilots aboard the aircraft had drugs in his system and that the plane exceeded its weight limit according to a federal...
Arizona Dispensary Ordered to Stop Selling Virus ‘Stabilizer’
Apr 13 2020 // Arizona’s top prosecutor has ordered a Phoenix, Ariz., dispensary to stop marketing its products as treatments for the coronavirus. Attorney General Mark Brnovich says he sent a cease-and-desist letter to YiLo...
Arizona Coronavirus Cases Exceed 2,000 As Deaths Top 50
Apr 7 2020 // Arizona now has over 2,000 cases of the new coronavirus and the state’s death toll from the disease has topped 50, state health officials reported Saturday. The Department of Health Services reported 2,019 cases...
Woman Accused of Arson Attempts of Her Arizona Business
Apr 1 2020 // A woman has been arrested in an arson attempt at her Glendale business last month, according to authorities. Police said 44-year-old Claudia Ramirez was taken into custody on suspicion of arson of an occupied structure. A...
