A weight-related question will remain on a wellness questionnaire for Oregon state workers, but employees next year will be given an alternative to sharing their waist size. This year’s version of the Health Engagement Model online health questionnaire required employees …
With Colorado’s and New Mexico’s record wildfire seasons freshly in mind, some experts are starting to take note that California’s wildfire season is nearing, and with that there are two main points to be made: the state’s wildfire season may …
A federal judge in Utah is asking the Montana Supreme Court to help decide if an air ambulance company can blame air traffic controllers for a deadly crash outside Bozeman in 2007. Because Metro Aviation Inc. settled with families of …
Gov. C. L. “Butch” Otter has hired a consulting firm run by former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to help decide whether to expand Medicaid to thousands of low-income Idahoans. The Idaho Statesman reported the governor’s office hired Leavitt Partners in …
An insurance agent from Butte, Mont. who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $7,200 of his client’s premiums has been given a three-year deferred sentence and ordered to pay restitution. State Insurance Commissioner Monica Lindeen says Jeremy Hoscheid pleaded guilty …
Sacramento, Calif.-based insurance adjuster Sams & Associates Inc. named Marcia Gelon as the firm’s new general adjuster in Phoenix, Scottsdale and surrounding areas. Gelon joined Sams & Associates in 2012. She has more than 23 years’ experience. She has worked …
Barbara Gall joined Kansas City, Mo.-based Lockton as senior vice president of its technology practice in the firm’s San Jose, Calif. office. Gall will have a lead role in expanding Lockton’s presence in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout …
Everett, Wash.-based Whitfield United Insurance Agencies Inc. has joined The Leavitt Group. The agency will now do business as Whitfield-Leavitt Insurance Agency. Local agency leaders Ted Schlatter, Randy McDonald, Don Whitfield, Sean King, and Jeff Olsen share ownership in the …
Fullerton, Calif.-based RMIS is taking their 34-year-old managing general agency national beginning July. Leading this endeavor will be Jay Mieloszyk based out of Illinois. Beginning with Illinois, RMIS has also added Iowa, Ohio and Indiana with expectations of being in …
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has named a new public advisor to assist members of the public and consumer groups with the Proposition 103 intervenor process, under which consumer groups can intervene in proceedings for insurance rate increases and decreases. …
