Latest Nevada Headlines

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Wet Monsoon Season on Tap for Southern Nevada

Jul 16 2018 // Forecasters with the National Weather Service are warning residents in southern Nevada about the potential for flash flooding this summer since the monsoon season is expected to be wetter than normal. A new forecast shows...

Wet Monsoon Season on Tap for Southern Nevada

Jul 2 2018 // Forecasters with the National Weather Service are warning residents in southern Nevada about the potential for flash flooding this summer since the monsoon season is expected to be wetter than normal. Meteorologist John...

Nevada-based Insurtech Talage Offering Workers’ Comp, Liability, Property Online

Jun 29 2018 // Talage Inc. is an insurtech to its core – both in function and name. The Reno, Nev.-based software platform designed to help small business owners compare and quickly purchase a range of commercial insurance policies...

Nevada Pot Regulators Get More Money to Deal With Rampant Demand

Jun 27 2018 // Nevada’s marijuana regulators say they are trying to keep up with demands at recreational dispensaries, where sales continue to outpace projections. The Nevada Appeal reports the Interim Finance Committee approved an...

Alera Group Acquires Menath Insurance in Nevada

Jun 25 2018 // Alera Group has acquired Incline Village, Nev.-based Menath Insurance. Terms of the deal were not announced. Menath Insurance also has offices in Reno, and South Lake Tahoe, as well as in Susanville, Caif. Alera Group...

New Liability Coverage Minimums in Nevada Go into Effective in July

Jun 21 2018 // Nevada’s new liability coverage minimums go into effect next month. The new standards require drivers to be covered for at least $25,000 in bodily injury per person, $50,000 per crash and $20,000 for property damage...

Alera Group Acquires Kaercher Insurance in Nevada

Jun 19 2018 // Alera Group has acquired Las Vegas, Nev.-based Kaercher Insurance, which includes Kaercher Campbell, Kaercher Insurance Agency and Sundance Insurance. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Kaercher Insurance offers...

Nevada Motorists Face July 1 Auto Insurance Rate Increase

Jun 18 2018 // Nevada state officials are reminding as many as 600,000 vehicle owners they could face auto insurance rate increases July 1, when minimum liability coverage requirements go up. Officials announced earlier that almost one...

Nevada Motorists Face July 1 Auto Insurance Rate Increase

Jun 4 2018 // Nevada state officials are reminding as many as 600,000 vehicle owners they could face auto insurance rate increases July 1, when minimum liability coverage requirements go up. Officials announced earlier that almost one...

Drugs in Workforce at Highest in Decade But Opiates Decline: Quest Diagnostics

May 9 2018 // Drug use by the American workforce remains at its highest rate in more than a decade, driven by increases in cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana. However, prescription opiate positivity rates have declined. Nationally,...

Peter C. Foy & Associates Completes Acquisitions in California and Nevada

Apr 30 2018 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Peter C. Foy & Associates Insurance Services LLC has completed the acquisition of four agencies, three in California and one in Nevada. The acquisitions are Walnut Creek, Calif.-based R.L....

Copperfield Takes Stand in Tourist Injury Case in Nevada

Apr 20 2018 // David Copperfield testified this week that he didn’t know until he was sued that a British tourist claimed to have been seriously injured while taking part in an illusion during a performance on the Las Vegas Strip...

LP Insurance in Nevada Names Cantlon to Lead Surety Efforts

Apr 17 2018 // Reno, Nev.-based LP Insurance Services Inc. has named Andrea Cantlon surety sales executive. Cantlon now leads the surety efforts of LP Insurance throughout the company. The LP Insurance surety team services bonds...

Nevada Trial Begins in Case Focused on David Copperfield Show

Apr 17 2018 // The tricks behind a disappearing act that magician David Copperfield performed for years in Las Vegas were revealed in court last week, the start of trial in a civil case brought by a British tourist who claims he slipped,...

A Third of Nevada Drivers Could See Auto Insurance Rates Rise

Mar 13 2018 // About one in three Nevada motorists, or as many as 600,000 people, could face a 9 percent jump in auto insurance rates this summer when the state raises the basic required minimum levels of bodily injury and property...

Nevada OK’s Filings for Moderate Workers’ Comp Loss-Cost and Assigned-Risk Rate Changes

Mar 1 2018 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Barbara D. Richardson approved a slight decrease in workers’ compensation voluntary insurance loss costs and average increase for assigned-risk rates. Richardson approved two filings...

Iowa Town: Flammable Stover at DowDuPont Plant Cause of Concern

Feb 27 2018 // Public safety officials are concerned about up to 500,000 bales of flammable stover that are stored across central Iowa and will be left over after a cellulosic ethanol plant is sold. The newly merged DowDuPont is selling...

Surplus Lines Market Had a Record Breaking Year in 2017

Jan 31 2018 // Across the United States, all 15 surplus lines service offices experienced increases in excess and surplus (E&S) lines insurance premium, totaling $28.1 billion, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX)...

A.M. Best Downgrades Credit Ratings of California Capital and Subsidiaries

Dec 20 2017 // A.M. Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a-” from “a” of California Capital Insurance Co. and its wholly...

Series of Small Earthquakes Rattle Northern Nevada

Dec 13 2017 // The Nevada Seismological Laboratory confirmed a series of small earthquakes rattling north Reno, Nev. Some 32 small earthquakes were reported being felt since Nov. 28. The largest detected had a magnitude of 1.9. Officials...