Latest Utah Headlines
All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Chasing Cows With Drones Must Be a Thing in Utah
Feb 3 2017 // A Utah lawmaker wants to send people to jail for harassing farm animals with drones, all-terrain vehicles and even dogs under a proposal that is unique in the U.S. but has gained an unlikely opponent. Republican Rep. Scott...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires The Presidio Group in Utah
Jan 31 2017 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired The Presidio Group Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Presido management and associates will continue to operate from their current location...
Fired Professor Sues Utah University for More than $22M
Jan 23 2017 // A former theater professor at Dixie State University in Utah who was found not guilty of assaulting a student is suing university faculty and staff members for more than $22 million over his termination. Varlo Davenport is...
Utah University Wants Lawsuit Over Frat Party Assault Dismissed
Jan 20 2017 // Utah State University and a fraternity are asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former student accusing the school and organization of failing to act on reports of sexual assault and heavy drinking at...
Ex-Professor Sues Utah University for More than $22M over Firing
Jan 10 2017 // A former theater professor at Dixie State University in Utah who was found not guilty of assaulting a student is suing university faculty and staff members for more than $22 million over his termination. The Spectrum of...
Utah Could Have Strictest DUI Limit in U.S. Under This Proposal
Jan 5 2017 // A state lawmaker wants to make Utah’s DUI threshold the strictest in the nation by lowering the blood-alcohol content limit to 0.05 percent. Though state numbers show alcohol-related driving deaths and DUI arrests...
Origami Acquires Utah-based Workers’ Comp Form Provider Claimwire
Dec 15 2016 // Origami Risk has acquired Kaysville, Utah-based Claimwire, a provider of automated workers’ compensation forms, compliance resources and regulatory information to the insurance industry. Terms of the deal were not...
Utah’s Death Investigation Backlog Impacts Insurance Payouts
Dec 1 2016 // Utah state medical examiners have an autopsy caseload that’s twice the recommended maximum, but the state still has a months-long delay in death investigations that’s affecting homicide investigations,...
Wells Fargo Banks on Arbitration to Settle Fake Account Claims
Nov 29 2016 // Wells Fargo & Co. is trying to keep dozens of customers suing over bogus accounts opened by its employees out of court, saying they agreed to resolve any disputes in arbitration when they began doing business with the...
Carl’s Jr. Files Trademark Suit against Utah’s Apollo Burger
Nov 22 2016 // Carl’s Jr. is suing Utah-based chain Apollo Burger, accusing the restaurants of knowingly copying its trademarked Western Bacon Cheeseburger. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Salt Lake City claims...
Teen Traffic Deaths Continue to Rise in Utah
Nov 7 2016 // More Utah teens have died in car crashes during the first nine months of this year than in all of 2015, according to new state data. A total of 26 teenagers had died on Utah roads as of the end of October. That compares...
Teen Traffic Deaths Continue to Rise in Utah
Oct 26 2016 // More Utah teens have died in car crashes during the first nine months of this year than in all of 2015, according to new state data. A total of 26 teenagers have died on Utah roads so far in 2016, The Salt Lake Tribune...
Utah City Passes Safety Regulations for Growing Number of Trampoline Gyms
Oct 7 2016 // Concerns about broken bones and safety at trampoline gyms has prompted the Provo city council to pass new regulations requiring the facilities to have supervised jumping, injury reporting and insurance. The Daily Herald...
Mortgage Companies in Utah Will Settle for $10M
Oct 6 2016 // Two Utah mortgage lenders will pay a total of nearly $10 million to settle allegations that they approved borrowers without documenting information like income and credit history. The U.S. Department of Justice said this...
Weather Service: Tornados Touch Down Hundreds of Miles Apart in Utah
Sep 26 2016 // Two tornados touched down hundreds of miles apart in Utah, damaging about two dozen buildings and knocking out power to thousands of people, the National Weather Service Confirmed. The severe weather on Thursday also...
First Lawsuit Over Wells Fargo Sales Practices Filed
Sep 19 2016 // Wells Fargo & Co. was sued by customers in what may be the first of many lawsuits to come after disclosures that employees created unauthorized accounts to boost the bank’s fees. Three Utah customers sued the...
Utah’s Unique Zika Case Remains Medical Mystery
Sep 15 2016 // A case of the Zika virus in Utah is now the only one in the continental U.S. that’s still puzzling researchers on exactly how it spread, health officials said this week. The man caught the illness after caring for...
CompWest to Offer Workers’ Comp to Artisan Contractors in California, Utah
Sep 14 2016 // CompWest Insurance has launched workers’ compensation insurance for artisan contractors in California and Utah. The program targets artisan construction operations with annual premiums between $25,000 and $250,000 in...
Ex-Miss Utah’s Case against Provo Dismissed by High Court
Sep 1 2016 // Citing an unpaid court fee, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former Miss Utah who says she was wrongly arrested on suspicion of stealing from the skin-care company Nu Skin. The lawsuit against the city...
Wegkamp Named Utah Captive Insurance Director
Aug 9 2016 // Utah Insurance Commissioner Todd E. Kiser has named Travis Wegkamp new director of the captive division. He replaces David J. Snowball, who is retiring this month. Kiser praised Snowball’s tenure as director, under...
