Latest Nevada Headlines
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PointSure Acquires Black/White & Associates
Jul 17 2008 // Seattle-based SeaBright Insurance Holdings Inc. announced that its subsidiary, PointSure Insurance Services Inc., has acquired Black/White & Associates of Nevada, Black/White & Associates Inc. and...
Nevada Capital Insurance Named NIIA Company of the Year
Jul 16 2008 // Reno-based Nevada Capital Insurance Co., the state affiliate of Capital Insurance Group, was honored as Company of the Year by the Nevada Independent Insurance Agents. NIIA member agencies are not beholden to any one...
N.D. Workers’ Comp Committee Studying Benefits of Privatization
Jul 14 2008 // Complaints about North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) agency may not translate into support for making WSI a private business and allowing competition from other insurers, state lawmakers say. The...
Officials Review Crane Mishap at Nevada CityCenter Project
Jun 19 2008 // Safety and construction officials are investigating what caused a crane to buckle and malfunction at MGM Mirage’s CityCenter resort work site in Las Vegas. The unstable 180-foot crane shut down traffic on the Las...
Nevada Insurance Regulator to Retire
May 19 2008 // Longtime Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice Molasky-Arman has decided to retire effective Sept. 7, 2008, after a long regulatory career. Molasky-Arman was named commissioner in 1995 and has served under three governors....
Insurers Expected to Halt New Business in Nevada as Temblors Continue
May 19 2008 // Dozens of minor earthquakes shook Reno, Nev., on April 27 as a sequence of temblors entered its third month and prompted some frazzled residents to leave their homes. Officials recorded more than 150 aftershocks on the...
Earthquakes Raise Questions of Future Shocks, Public Readiness
May 5 2008 // Just weeks after earthquakes rattled Nevada, the Midwest and the coast of Oregon, and on the heels of the 102nd anniversary of San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake, the public, government officials and insurance industry...
Earthquakes Shake Reno, Bigger Quake Could be Coming
May 5 2008 // Two moderate earthquakes shook the Mogul-Somerset area just west of Reno, Nev., on April 24, 2008, according to the Nevada Seismological Laboratory. While there were no immediate reports of damage, the laboratory predicts...
Insurers Expected to Halt New Business in Nevada as Temblors Continue
May 1 2008 // Dozens of minor earthquakes shook Reno, Nevada, on April 27 as a sequence of temblors entered its third month and prompted some frazzled residents to leave their homes. Officials recorded more than 150 aftershocks on the...
Homes, Schools Threatened as Fires Scorch Nevada, Arizona and California
May 1 2008 // Firefighters had to contend with gale-force winds while battling a huge brush fire that raced along the edge of a valley south of Reno, forcing a major highway to close, threatening homes, and causing the evacuation of a...
Nevada Governor Urges Citizens to Prepare for Any Emergency
Apr 30 2008 // Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons encouraged citizens throughout the state to prepare for emergencies by building an emergency kit, developing a family response plan and ensuring they maintain access to communications networks...
Nevada Insurance Regulator to Retire
Apr 28 2008 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice Molasky-Arman is stepping down after a long regulatory career that included approval in 2007 of a $2.6 billion deal involving Nevada’s largest health insurer — a deal that...
Nevada Residents Warned Bigger Earthquake Could be Coming
Apr 28 2008 // Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada’s largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors. More than 100...
Hogan Insurance Services Opens Office in Nevada
Apr 25 2008 // Hogan Insurance Services Inc. of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has expanded to Nevada with the opening of a new office in Henderson. Donna Ferguson will lead Hogan’s expansion in Nevada. Ferguson has more than 30 years of...
Earthquakes Shake Reno, Nevada
Apr 25 2008 // Two moderate earthquakes shook the Mogul-Somerset area just west of Reno, Nev., on April 24, 2008, according to the Nevada Seismological Laboratory. While there were no immediate reports of damage, the Laboratory predicts...
Recession, Soft Market Forcing Western Agents to Refocus
Apr 22 2008 // Whether the nation is in a true recession may still be up for debate, but it’s difficult to ignore the signs of economic slowdown throughout the West — and its effect on the insurance industry. New home...
Court Throws Out Nevada’s Insurance Agent Countersignature Law
Apr 21 2008 // The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has invalidated Nevada’s insurance producer countersignature law, in what could be the final nail in the coffin for these requirements on nonresident producers. U.S. District...
New Markets
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Court Throws Out Nevada’s Insurance Agent Countersignature Law
Apr 11 2008 // The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has invalidated Nevada’s insurance producer countersignature law in what could be the final nail in the coffin for these requirements on nonresident producers. U.S. District...
Report: Nevada Ranks Among Worst States for Internet Crime
Apr 7 2008 // Nevada ranked among the worst states for Internet scams last year, according to a government study. The state ranked second in the nation per capita for perpetrators and fifth per capita for victims, the report by the FBI...
