Latest Nevada Headlines
All the headlines from our Nevada Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Lawyers Ask Hepatitis C Jury To Award $2.5 Billion In Nevada Case
Apr 10 2013 // Plaintiffs’ attorneys asked a Nevada state court jury on Monday to put the state’s largest health management organization on the hook for a stunning $2.5 billion punitive damage award in a Las Vegas hepatitis...
3 Bound In Nevada Insurance Official Slaying
Apr 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...
Bills Target Nevada’s Construction Defect Law
Apr 9 2013 // Construction defect laws intended to protect consumers have morphed into a trial lawyer’s dream and a nightmare for Nevada’s building trades, putting many out of business and sending the cost of insurance...
Search On For Missing Nevada Chief Insurance Examiner
Apr 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...
OSHA Fines Nevada Energy $43K After Worker’s Death
Mar 28 2013 // Federal officials have fined NV Energy $43,000 after investigating a fall that killed a 29-year-old Nevada employee in September. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
People – West
Mar 11 2013 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based CSE Insurance Group President and CEO Pierre Bize announced he will be transitioning out of his current role at the company at the end of 2013. The move comes after 19 years at the helm of CSE....
Nevada Measure Would Create Liability For Addictive Drugs
Mar 8 2013 // A bill that would allow patients addicted to prescription drugs to sue the doctors who prescribed the medication – and the drug’s makers – was met with stiff opposition Wednesday in a Nevada legislative...
Decker Named Deputy Commissioner at Nevada Division of Insurance
Feb 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...
Snow Closes California Highways, Yields Tornado
Feb 20 2013 // A winter storm brought driving rain to parts of California and even a rare tornado, but the severity of snowfall in much of the state caught drivers by surprise and left hundreds stranded on mountain highways. A late...
A Future Filled With Driverless Cars
Feb 11 2013 // Visions of robotic self-driving cars may appear like something from a George Lucas film but in June 2011, this vision took a giant leap toward becoming reality when Nevada became the first state to enact legislation that...
Shea Insurance in Nevada Acquired by Leavitt Group
Feb 6 2013 // Shea Insurance in Las Vegas, Nev. has been acquired by the Leavitt Group. Terms of the deal were not made available. With the acquisition Scott Villamor, who owned Shea Insurance, joins Leavitt Group’s Las Vegas...
Nevada Workers’ Comp Loss Costs: Small Increase in 2013
Jan 30 2013 // Thanks to rising medical costs many Nevada employers will see a small increase in the premiums they pay for workers’ compensation insurance this year, according to the Nevada Division of Insurance. The average...
Nevada Woman Sues Online Dating Service Over Attack
Jan 22 2013 // A Las Vegas woman is suing an online dating service for nearly $10 million, claiming it set her up with a man who brutally attacked her. In her lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, Mary Kay Beckman...
Worker’s Comp Reforms, Portable Persistency Top West’s 2012 Headlines
Jan 14 2013 // Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines. Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best...
Nevada Board OKs $6M For Health Exchange Marketing
Jan 10 2013 // A state board chaired by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has approved a $6 million contract to market the state’s health insurance exchange program. The Board of Examiners on Tuesday approved the contract with KPS 3 Inc....
Nevada Highway Patrol issued 12k tickets for Cellphones
Jan 4 2013 // The Nevada Highway Patrol says it handed out nearly 12,000 tickets last year to people using cell phones while driving. Officials say most were getting their first phone ticket, while 30 were cited for their second offense...
Worker’s Comp Reforms, Portable Persistency Top West’s 2012 Headlines
Dec 31 2012 // Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines. Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best...
Sierra Nevada Ski Resort Employee Dies After Avalanche
Dec 27 2012 // A member of a Sierra Nevada ski resort’s patrol team who was injured after being caught in an avalanche has died. Alpine Meadows said in a statement that 53-year-old Bill Foster died at Renown Regional Medical Center...
Confie Seguros Buys Florida, Nevada Agencies
Dec 3 2012 // Confie Seguros, a national provider of personal lines insurance focused on Hispanic consumers, has acquired four regional insurance brokerages in Florida and Nevada. Confie Seguros completed the acquisitions of...
Survey: One-fourth of Nevada Drivers Use Hand-Held Phones
Nov 5 2012 // A statewide survey shows 27 percent of Nevadans still use hand-held telephones while driving, despite a state law banning the practice that took effect Jan. 1. University of Nevada, Reno, researchers say the third annual...
