Latest Nevada Headlines
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Report Says Nevada Builder Could Make Construction Safer
Nov 20 2008 // A major construction contractor could do more to ensure safety at its work sites, including the massive CityCenter project on Nevada’s Las Vegas Strip, according to two new reports. Perini Building Co. sends an...
Study: Death Rates Improve at Nevada Hospitals
Nov 10 2008 // Death rates at Nevada hospitals have improved in seven of eight categories, according to a study. The annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America study found the state’s mortality rate of 6.86 percent is slightly...
Voters Shuffle Deck of State Legislatures; Both Parties Claim Gains
Nov 5 2008 // Voters on Tuesday left their mark on the state political landscape, shifting the partisan control of state government in a dozen states. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Democrats gained control...
Nevada Cap on Medical Damage Awards Draws Criticism
Oct 31 2008 // As 59-year-old Richard Krikalo lumbers through the office of a junkyard he helps manage, he bumps into a desk and clips a wastebasket with his right leg. Krikalo is almost blind in his right eye and has trouble with depth...
Former Nevada Regulator Joins Western Insurance Co.
Oct 30 2008 // Alice A. Molasky Arman has joined Western Insurance Co. as senior vice president of government relations. Molasky Arman recently retired from the State of Nevada, where she was recognized as the state’s longest...
Universal North America Offers Auto Coverage in Arizona, Nevada
Oct 6 2008 // Universal North America Insurance Co. will begin providing automobile insurance coverage in Arizona and Nevada, the company announced. The Universal family of insurance companies already provides homeowners insurance and...
Universal North Americal Offers Auto Coverage in Arizona, Nevada
Sep 23 2008 // Universal North America Insurance Co. will begin providing automobile insurance coverage in Arizona and Nevada this month, the company announced. The Universal family of insurance companies already provides homeowners...
Nevada Names Baker Acting Insurance Commissioner
Sep 12 2008 // The Nevada Department of Business & Industry named Betty C. Baker acting commissioner of the Division of Insurance. Baker will oversee the Division while a replacement is sought for Alice Molasky-Arman, who recently...
Weather, Fuel, Chief Factors in ’07 Idaho Wildfire
Sep 8 2008 // A state and federal report concluded that last summer’s lightning- and cheatgrass-stoked Murphy Complex fire that torched 1,000 square miles of Idaho and Nevada backcountry would have overwhelmed efforts by ranchers...
4.1-Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Northern Nevada
Sep 8 2008 // An earthquake has shaken the area around Swedes Place in northern Nevada. The U.S. Geological Survey’s preliminary report put the quake at a 4.1-magnitude. The temblor hit just before 4:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6,...
Nevada Countersignature Law Officially Null and Void
Aug 21 2008 // protectionist requirement that served only the self interests of small protectionist agents. The battle to defeat countersignature laws is finally over, now that the July 9, 2008, deadline has passed for Nevada to file a...
Conduit Insurance Offers Mini-Wrap in California, Arizona, Nevada
Aug 19 2008 // Conduit Insurance Services of Irvine, Calif., has a new residential wrap market – “mini-wrap” available in California, Arizona and Nevada. The program is designed for smaller single-family and...
Business Moves
Aug 4 2008 // C.M. Meiers, Fireman’s Fund The C.M. Meiers Co. of Woodland Hills, Calif., and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. of Novato, Calif., donated more than $33,000 to the Ventura County Fire Department for the purchase of...
Nev. Court Rules Workers’ Comp OK in Some Suicide Cases
Jul 28 2008 // In a precedent-setting case, the Nevada Supreme Court held last Thursday that worker comp benefits can go to families of people who kill themselves if an industrial accident broke down their “rational mental...
PointSure Acquires Black/White & Associates
Jul 17 2008 // Seattle-based SeaBright Insurance Holdings Inc. announced that its subsidiary, PointSure Insurance Services Inc., has acquired Black/White & Associates of Nevada, Black/White & Associates Inc. and...
Nevada Capital Insurance Named NIIA Company of the Year
Jul 16 2008 // Reno-based Nevada Capital Insurance Co., the state affiliate of Capital Insurance Group, was honored as Company of the Year by the Nevada Independent Insurance Agents. NIIA member agencies are not beholden to any one...
N.D. Workers’ Comp Committee Studying Benefits of Privatization
Jul 14 2008 // Complaints about North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) agency may not translate into support for making WSI a private business and allowing competition from other insurers, state lawmakers say. The...
Officials Review Crane Mishap at Nevada CityCenter Project
Jun 19 2008 // Safety and construction officials are investigating what caused a crane to buckle and malfunction at MGM Mirage’s CityCenter resort work site in Las Vegas. The unstable 180-foot crane shut down traffic on the Las...
Nevada Insurance Regulator to Retire
May 19 2008 // Longtime Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice Molasky-Arman has decided to retire effective Sept. 7, 2008, after a long regulatory career. Molasky-Arman was named commissioner in 1995 and has served under three governors....
Insurers Expected to Halt New Business in Nevada as Temblors Continue
May 19 2008 // Dozens of minor earthquakes shook Reno, Nev., on April 27 as a sequence of temblors entered its third month and prompted some frazzled residents to leave their homes. Officials recorded more than 150 aftershocks on the...
