Latest Utah Headlines
All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Closer Look: Insurance Associations
Apr 17 2006 // Editor’s note: This is the second article in a series on Western insurance associations. Part I of this article appeared in the April 3, 2006, western region publication beginning on page 47. As people migrate to the...
Utah names directors, adds market conduct division
Apr 3 2006 // Utah Insurance Commissioner Kent Michie has appointed two new directors, created a new division and combined two other divisions. “The main thrust of these changes has been to create a new Market Conduct...
News Currents
Apr 3 2006 // Utah names directors, adds market conduct division Utah Insurance Commissioner Kent Michie has appointed two new directors, created a new division and combined two other divisions. “The main thrust of these changes...
City in Utah Expects $2.5 Million Fire Insurance Settlement
Mar 30 2006 // Ogden, Utah, officials are expecting a $2.5 million insurance settlement for a fire that destroyed a building the city had offered for sale at a fraction of that amount. The cause of the March 11 fire that destroyed the...
Utah Appoints New Directors, Creates Market Conduct Division
Mar 24 2006 // Utah Insurance Commissioner Kent Michie has appointed two new directors, created a new division and combined two other divisions. “The main thrust of these changes has been to create a new Market Conduct...
PRIVACY, WORKERS’ COMP DOMINATE UTAH’S LEGISLATIVE SESSION
Mar 20 2006 // Utah insurers faced a busy and difficult year during the Utah 2006 legislative session, according to the American Insurance Association. “Insurers had to play a lot of defense this year,” said Steve Suchil, AIA...
The Hartford Lowers Utah Auto Rates
Mar 17 2006 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford, Conn., is lowering prices for many Utah drivers under its Dimensions personal auto insurance program, which is available through the company’s network of...
Insurers Happy with Utah Privacy Bills
Mar 13 2006 // In its just-concluded session, the Utah Legislature passed legislation to protect consumers from unauthorized access to their credit-related information, while preserving insurers’ access to credit data, Property...
Privacy, Workers’ Compensation Dominate Utah’s Legislative Session
Mar 9 2006 // Utah insurers faced a busy and difficult year throughout the Utah 2006 legislative session, the American Insurance Association (AIA) said. “Insurers had to play a lot of defense this year,” said Steve Suchil,...
Utah’s GBS Benefits Affiliates with the Leavitt Group
Mar 3 2006 // GBS Benefits, a Utah employee benefits brokers and consultant, became part of the Leavitt Group effective Jan. 1. The Leavitt Group is the largest Utah-based insurance brokerage and the 20th largest insurance sales...
Utah Man Who Faked Death on Mountain Pleads Guilty
Jan 2 2006 // A St. George, Utah, man who faked his death on Pine Valley Mountain last summer and then fled to Australia pleaded guilty to one count of conducting a false or fraudulent scheme to obtain fees or services, a second-degree...
Utah Man Who Faked Death on Mountain Pleads Guilty
Jan 1 2006 // A St. George, Utah, man who faked his death on Pine Valley Mountain last summer and then fled to Australia pleaded guilty to one count of conducting a false or fraudulent scheme to obtain fees or services, a second-degree...
Truck Driver Killed in Utah Train-Trash Truck Collision
Dec 16 2005 // An Amtrak train collided with a semitrailer in southeastern Utah, killing the truck driver, injuring several Amtrak passengers and derailing the front wheel on the train’s lead engine, authorities said. The...
Utah Man who Fakes Death on Mountain Pleads Guilty
Dec 12 2005 // A St. George, Utah, man who faked his death on Pine Valley Mountain this summer and then fled to Australia pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of conducting a false or fraudulent scheme to obtain fees or services, a...
Utah Pharmacy Owner Arrested on Suspicion of Fraudulent Billing
Dec 5 2005 // The owner of the Park City Pharmacy at The Clinic in Utah has been arrested on suspicion of fraudulently billing an insurance company for drugs that never were prescribed. Thomas Evan Strebel, 60, was arrested for...
San Diego Contractor Ordered to Pay $37,669 in Restitution to State Fund
Dec 4 2005 // A San Diego County Superior Court has sentenced Valley Center, Calif., businessman John Presley to three years formal probation and ordered him to pay $37,669 in restitution to California’s State Compensation...
Scruggs, Bailey to Debate Coverage in the Aftermath of Hurricanes at UT Insurance Law Institute
Dec 1 2005 // The Continuing Legal Education division of the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin announced that its 10th Annual Insurance Law Institute, to be held Dec. 7 – 9 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin,...
Utah Pharmacy Owner Arrested on Suspicion of Fraudulent Billing
Nov 1 2005 // The owner of the Park City Pharmacy at The Clinic in Utah has been arrested on suspicion of fraudulently billing an insurance company for drugs that never were prescribed. Thomas Evan Strebel, 60, was arrested for...
Utah Governor Declares October Insurance Fraud Awareness Month
Oct 14 2005 // Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. has signed the Insurance Fraud Awareness Declaration making October Insurance Fraud Awareness Month. Joe Christensen, director of the Fraud Division, wrote and promoted the signing of this...
News Briefs
Sep 19 2005 // UTAH UTAH SUPREME COURT RULES WCF ASSETS NOT OWNED BY STATE: The Utah Supreme Court has declared that Workers Com-pensation Fund’s assets are owned by policyholders, not the state. The ruling in favor of WCF settles...
