Latest Nevada Headlines
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Nevada Bill Suggests Removing Part of Marijuana DUI Tests
May 10 2013 // Some Nevada lawmakers say medical marijuana patients shouldn’t be deemed impaired when driving just because they have small amounts of marijuana in their system. The idea sparked intense debate Tuesday when Assembly...
Rockwood Decreases Agent E&O Rates in Massachusetts, California, Texas
May 7 2013 // Rockwood Programs has implemented underwriting guideline changes to its P&C Agents E&O program. The modifications will result in a rate decrease in the states of California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Texas. The...
Lawsuit Accuses Nevada Police Of Discrimination
May 2 2013 // An Elko, Nev. police officer claims she was forced to resign after three months on the job because of a hostile work environment. Cassandra Sabo is suing the city, three supervisors and the police chief in a lawsuit filed...
Nevada Capitol Police Chief Sues Over Firing
Apr 29 2013 // Former Nevada Capitol Police Chief Tom Navin is suing the Nevada Department of Public Safety, claiming he was wrongfully terminated for failing a physical. Navin, in his district court suit filed this week, contends he was...
Nevada Quake Lab Has New $4M Research Project
Apr 25 2013 // The University of Nevada’s world-renowned earthquake laboratory has launched a nearly $4 million research project aimed at making nonstructural parts of buildings more earthquake proof. Engineers at the...
Nevada Senate Approves Cellphone Tracking Bill
Apr 22 2013 // The Nevada Senate has approved a bill designed to give law enforcement quicker access to cellphone locations in times of emergency. SB268 gives cellphone carriers protections for providing information during certain...
Risk Retention Association Hails Court Ruling in Nevada Battle
Apr 17 2013 // In a decision the National Risk Retention Association says will help clear any future hurdles faced by risk retention groups in other states, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a District Court ruling that the...
Nevada Firm Pays $70k in Suit Over Pregnant Worker
Apr 17 2013 // A government contractor at the Hawthorne Army Depot in northern Nevada has agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a lawsuit over the firing of a pregnant woman and her husband. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Nevada Jury Orders HMO To Pay $500M In Hepatitis Case
Apr 11 2013 // A Nevada jury has ordered the state’s largest health management organization to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak. Two...
Lawyers Ask Hepatitis C Jury To Award $2.5 Billion In Nevada Case
Apr 10 2013 // Plaintiffs’ attorneys asked a Nevada state court jury on Monday to put the state’s largest health management organization on the hook for a stunning $2.5 billion punitive damage award in a Las Vegas hepatitis...
3 Bound In Nevada Insurance Official Slaying
Apr 9 2013 // Three former fugitives were heading Tuesday to Carson City in police custody to face murder charges in the slaying of William McCune, Nevada’s chief insurance examiner, authorities said. Carson City sheriff’s...
Bills Target Nevada’s Construction Defect Law
Apr 9 2013 // Construction defect laws intended to protect consumers have morphed into a trial lawyer’s dream and a nightmare for Nevada’s building trades, putting many out of business and sending the cost of insurance...
Search On For Missing Nevada Chief Insurance Examiner
Apr 8 2013 // A Nevada Sheriff says he suspects foul play in the disappearance of the state’s chief insurance examiner after evidence of a bloody, violent struggle was uncovered in his apartment. Carson City Sheriff’s...
OSHA Fines Nevada Energy $43K After Worker’s Death
Mar 28 2013 // Federal officials have fined NV Energy $43,000 after investigating a fall that killed a 29-year-old Nevada employee in September. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
People – West
Mar 11 2013 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based CSE Insurance Group President and CEO Pierre Bize announced he will be transitioning out of his current role at the company at the end of 2013. The move comes after 19 years at the helm of CSE....
Nevada Measure Would Create Liability For Addictive Drugs
Mar 8 2013 // A bill that would allow patients addicted to prescription drugs to sue the doctors who prescribed the medication – and the drug’s makers – was met with stiff opposition Wednesday in a Nevada legislative...
Decker Named Deputy Commissioner at Nevada Division of Insurance
Feb 20 2013 // Insurance Commissioner Scott J. Kipper named Joseph R. Decker deputy commissioner of insurance at the Nevada Division of Insurance. Decker started on Monday. He will be based in the division’s Las Vegas office, where...
Snow Closes California Highways, Yields Tornado
Feb 20 2013 // A winter storm brought driving rain to parts of California and even a rare tornado, but the severity of snowfall in much of the state caught drivers by surprise and left hundreds stranded on mountain highways. A late...
A Future Filled With Driverless Cars
Feb 11 2013 // Visions of robotic self-driving cars may appear like something from a George Lucas film but in June 2011, this vision took a giant leap toward becoming reality when Nevada became the first state to enact legislation that...
Shea Insurance in Nevada Acquired by Leavitt Group
Feb 6 2013 // Shea Insurance in Las Vegas, Nev. has been acquired by the Leavitt Group. Terms of the deal were not made available. With the acquisition Scott Villamor, who owned Shea Insurance, joins Leavitt Group’s Las Vegas...
