The Nevada Highway Patrol has issued more than 4,500 citations to drivers using cellphones this year under a new state law. The Elko Daily Free Press reported the numbers from the Nevada Department of Transportation. The law banning the use …
A former undersheriff in Twin Falls County, Idaho has filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming she suffered gender discrimination during her brief time on the job. Gerlyn “Sam” Walker filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court last week. The …
Dave Guyll,vice president in the employee benefits division of Conover Insurance, was recently selected to the Roll of Agents & Brokers Technical Advisory Committee for the Health Care Exchange Board in Washington. Gat Conover Guyll is a producer of new …
Island Insurance Company Ltd. named Alison Tanigawa advertising and media director. In this newly created position, Tanigawa will be responsible for managing the company’s advertising and media activities. Tanigawa has nearly 15 years of advertising and marketing experience. Prior to …
Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Emil McCulloch managing director and Karen Williamson-Gracey senior account manager in its Northern California office. McCulloch will lead Poms & Associate’s growth strategy in Northern California and oversee the hiring …
A California appeals court has reinstated a now-retired paralyzed Los Angeles police officer’s product liability lawsuit against gun manufacturer Glock. Enrique Chavez was paralyzed from the waist down when his 3-year-old son accidentally shot him with his service pistol. The …
Environmentalists filed notice Wednesday that they plan to sue the six companies that co-own eastern Montana’s Colstrip power plant over alleged pollution violations. The Sierra Club and Montana Environmental Information Center say the plant’s owners failed to upgrade pollution control …
Cecil and Delores Kolka thought they escaped the worst of the Ash Creek Fire when the 390-square-mile blaze spared their home and several pastures as it ripped through the couple’s Montana cattle ranch. But when the family went to round …
Coming off a rough few years of recession, then a disaster prone 2011 – and then more global uncertainty in 2012 – the world and the insurance industry have a few things to look forward to in the next year. …
A Kern County jury has awarded $5.5 million to a woman who sued the manufacturer of a type of surgical mesh often used to treat urinary incontinence in women of post child-bearing age. The Bakersfield Californian reported that the jury …
