Latest Arizona Headlines
All the headlines from our Arizona Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Reavis Named Chief People Officer at Ohio Insurtech Root
Mar 30 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based Root Inc., the parent company of online insurer Root Insurance, has appointed Annette Reavis as its first chief people officer. Reavis has more than 20 years of human resource and business experience....
Arizona Court Rules Workers’ Comp OK for Cops’ High-Stress Situations
Mar 9 2020 // An Arizona court ruling stemming from a sheriff’s deputy’s encounter with a shotgun-wielding man says law enforcement officers can claim workers’ compensation benefits if diagnosed with PTSD or other...
NTSB Report Shows No Cause Yet of Deadly Plane Crash Near Arizona
Mar 5 2020 // A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board doesn’t list a possible cause for a small plane crash near Payson, Ariz., that killed one person aboard and injured two others last month. The report...
Arizona House Bans Cities from Requiring Fire Sprinklers in Big Bars
Feb 28 2020 // The Arizona House has voted to ban cities and counties from enforcing new national fire code standards requiring large restaurants and nightclubs that serve alcohol to install fire sprinklers. The proposal from Republican...
Arizona Court Rules Workers’ Comp OK for Cops’ High-Stress Situations
Feb 28 2020 // An Arizona court ruling stemming from a sheriff’s deputy’s encounter with a shotgun-wielding man says law enforcement officers can claim workers’ compensation benefits if diagnosed with PTSD or other...
Fired Arizona State University Associate Athletic Director Files $1.5M Claim
Feb 28 2020 // A former senior associate athletics director at Arizona State has filed a $1.5 million claim against the university over his firing last December. David Cohen said in his claim – which is the precursor to a lawsuit –...
Arizona Gets Court Order Blocking Vaping Firm’s Products
Feb 27 2020 // Arizona’s attorney general has obtained an injunction against a New Jersey-based vaping company he recently sued that bars the company from marketing or selling any of its products in the state. The injunction...
National Insurance Crime Bureau Says Arizona Leads Nation in Auto Glass Claims
Feb 24 2020 // Arizona leads the nation in auto glass claims despite being 14th in total population, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Insurance industry data shows that between 2015 and 2019, 10% of the nation’s...
Arizona Flood Control Project Receives Federal Funding
Feb 20 2020 // Flagstaff, Ariz.’s mayor hailed a federal agency’s commitment of $52 million for a major flood control project, saying it will protect the northern Arizona city from potentially catastrophic effects of flooding...
Arizona Senate Passes Bill Boosting Firefighter Cancer Workers’ Comp Coverage
Feb 18 2020 // The Arizona Senate has passed a bill designed to boost protections for firefighters and other first responders who are diagnosed with cancers linked to the workplace. The proposal from Republican Sen. Heather Carter...
Arizona Insurance And Banking Regulator Schraad Steps Down
Feb 13 2020 // Arizona’s top banking and insurance regulator is stepping down for a job in the private sector. Gov. Doug Ducey announced that Keith Schraad was leaving his post Thursday as head of the Arizona Department of...
Waymo: Self-Driving Vehicle That Crashed in Arizona in Manual Mode, Wamo says
Feb 3 2020 // A Waymo self-driving minivan operating in manual mode was involved in a rear-end collision in a Phoenix suburb caused by a sedan’s reckless driving, the company said Friday. The collision occurred late Thursday night...
Climate-Friendly Battery Boom Presents Growing Fire Safety Challenge
Jan 29 2020 // The explosion ruptured the dusk settling over the desert in Surprise, Arizona. For hours, smoke had poured from a metal shed packed with lithium-ion batteries at a small electric substation. The batteries were tied to the...
Uber Goes to Washington. Autonomous Cars with Humans to Collect Data in D.C.
Jan 24 2020 // Uber Technologies Inc. will put self-driving vehicles on Washington, D.C. roads Friday with human drivers in control, the ride share company said on Thursday, as it seeks to collect data for future deployment of fully...
NFP Acquires Koty-Leavitt Insurance Agency in Arizona
Jan 22 2020 // NFP has acquired Koty-Leavitt Insurance Agency Inc. in Tucson, Ariz. Lloyd Koty, a former co-owner of the firm, will join NFP as senior vice president, reporting to Ed Kurowski, NFP West region managing...
Arizona Lawmakers Vow to Boost Firefighter Cancer Coverage
Jan 21 2020 // A group of Arizona lawmakers has vowed to boost protections for firefighters and other first responders who are diagnosed with a cancer linked to the workplace to address concerns that some cities are denying...
USG Adds Aguilar as a Producer in Arizona
Jan 17 2020 // USG Insurance Services Inc. has named Jay Aguilar a producer/broker in commercial lines in the Scottsdale, Ariz. office. Aguilar will work to expand USG’s Southwestern territory. Aguilar has 23 years of insurance...
Using Game Theory to Determine Who’s Liable: Autonomous Vehicle or Human Driver?
Jan 15 2020 // A recent decision by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on the March 2018 Uber crash that killed a pedestrian in Arizona split the blame among Uber, the company’s autonomous vehicle (AV), the safety...
Arizona Sues Juul over Illegal Marketing
Jan 9 2020 // Arizona’s attorney general on this week sued e-cigarette giant Juul Labs for alleged violations of state consumer fraud laws, becoming the latest state to go after the company as youth vaping explodes. Attorney...
CopperPoint in Arizona Names Lontz Chief Information Officer
Jan 8 2020 // Phoenix, Ariz.-based CopperPoint Insurance Cos. has named Brad Lontz senior vice president and chief information officer. Lontz will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day IT operations for CopperPoint’s group...
