January 10, 2025
The Nevada Division of Insurance’s Consumer Services section recovered $9.4 million for Nevada consumers during 2024, the division announced this week. The Consumer Services team processed a significant number of consumer complaints, successfully closing 4,194 complaint cases in 2024, according …
May 9, 2024
The Nevada Division of Insurance is launching a web-based tool that enables Nevada consumers to identify insurance carriers that are currently accepting home insurance applications by specific ZIP code. The NVDOI said its tool is a recognition that personal home …
September 7, 2023
The Nevada Division of Insurance announced it recovered over $6.1 million in Fiscal Year 2023. The Division’s Consumer Services and Enforcement teams investigate thousands of consumer complaints each year, as well as help settle claim disputes and recover money insurers …
June 26, 2023
The Nevada Division of Insurance says it has been made aware of an email phishing scam targeting licensed insurance producers and agents in Nevada. The division has reportedly received several calls from licensed professionals reporting they received a fraudulent email …
February 19, 2016
Barbara Richardson has been appointed as commissioner of the Nevada Division of Insurance. Richardson will join the Division in March. The appointment comes after a long nationwide recruitment to fill the vacancy after the resignation of Scott Kipper in July …
March 5, 2014
The Nevada Division of Insurance recovered more than $3.9 million from insurance companies for Nevada Consumers in 2013, according to the division. A recovery is the amount of monetary compensation or relief received by a consumer as a result of …
April 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 detectives were in a Las Vegas courtroom to take …
April 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 deputies were called to the apartment Thursday after …
February 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 he will manage the consumer services …