Latest Utah Headlines
All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Case Law Watch
Sep 5 2005 // Boghos v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London (California, July 18, 2005) Ruling: This case considered the effect and enforceability of an arbitration clause in a contract for disability insurance. The Supreme...
Arbitration
Sep 5 2005 // Boghos v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London (California, July 18, 2005) Ruling: This case considered the effect and enforceability of an arbitration clause in a contract for disability insurance. The Supreme...
Utah Supreme Court Rules State has No Holding in Workers Comp Fund
Sep 5 2005 // The Utah Supreme Court has agreed with a lower court that the state has no ownership in the Workers Compensation Fund other than as one of the 33,000 policyholders. The court on Tuesday upheld 3rd District Judge Timothy...
Utah Supreme Court Rules State has No Holding in Workers Comp Fund
Sep 5 2005 // The Utah Supreme Court has agreed with a lower court that the state has no ownership in the Workers Compensation Fund other than as one of the 33,000 policyholders. The court on Tuesday upheld Third District Judge Timothy...
Utah Bus Trips Canceled over Church-State, Insurance
Aug 31 2005 // The twice-a-week bus trips from Preston, Idaho, to Logan have been canceled due to church-state and insurance concerns. Franklin County Clerk Elliott Larsen said the trips, which have been shut down for the past month,...
Utah Supreme Court Rules on Status of WCF Ownership
Aug 25 2005 // The Utah Supreme Court has declared that Workers Compensation Fund’s assets are owned by policyholders, not the State of Utah. The ruling in favor of WCF settles long-standing challenges by the State of Utah and...
Utah City Raises Insurance Requirement for Pitbulls
Jul 25 2005 // Springville, Utah’s City Council has voted unanimously to tighten Springville’s pit bull ordinance, including raising the amount of insurance pit bull owners must carry and changing who must be with a dog when...
Utah’s Workers Comp Fund Announces $20M Dividend
Jul 19 2005 // Utah’s Workers Compensation Fund has declared a $20 million dividend that will be distributed to a majority of policyholders this August. Policyholders can expect to receive 9.25 percent of their earned premium...
Provo, Utah Needs Extra Money to Settle Claims
Jun 22 2005 // Utah’s city budgeting office has requested an additional $100,000 from the Municipal Council to replenish the diminished insurance-claims fund. The original budget allocated $200,000 for that fund for the 2004-2005...
Hair Joins Utah’s Workers Compensation Fund
Jun 14 2005 // Dan Hair joined Workers Compensation Fund as senior vice president, safety and underwriting. Hair began his insurance career with the State Compensation Insurance Fund of California in 1976, and he recently ended a 25-year...
NAMIC Calls Utah’s Legislative Session ‘A Glass Half Full’
Mar 24 2005 // A glass half full in Utah is much preferred to one that is empty, according to the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies. Western Region State Affairs Manager Christian Rataj said that his organization is...
Utah Court Rules in Favor of Workers Comp Fund
Mar 2 2005 // On Feb. 2, 2005, Utah Third District Judge Leslie A. Lewis ruled in favor of Workers Compensation Fund, dismissing an action brought by the Utah State Auditor. In that action, the State Auditor asserted that WCF was a...
Utah Flooding Causes More than $150 Million in Damages
Feb 7 2005 // Southwestern Utah has not been declared a federal disaster area despite more than $150 million in damages caused by flooding in mid-January. St. George and the surrounding areas in Washington County were the hardest hit...
Michie Named Utah Insurance Commissioner
Jan 10 2005 // On Jan. 5, Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. appointed D. Kent Michie as Commissioner of Insurance. Michie will replace Commissioner Merwin Stewart. Michie is a native of Utah and was educated in Salt Lake City schools....
Consumers Warned Over Alleged Loan, Insurance Scam by Jefferson Financial, Watermark Insurance
Dec 29 2004 // The Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration and the nation’s Better Business Bureaus have issued consumer advisories against companies going by the names Watermark...
UTAH SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS LIABILITY DAMAGE CAP:
Dec 20 2004 // A Utah law that caps the noneconomic damages that can be awarded in medical liability lawsuits will remain in place, the Utah Supreme Court ruled in November, according to the American Medical Association. In the nearly 20...
Looking Back on ’04: The Most Talked-About Stories in the Western Region
Dec 20 2004 // The year 2004 saw a little bit of everything across the Western Region. Workers’ comp, homeowners, med-mal, and even insurance fraud topped the list of the most talked about stories. We compiled these recaps based on...
Utah Supreme Court Upholds Liability Damage Cap
Nov 29 2004 // A Utah law that caps the noneconomic damages that can be awarded in medical liability lawsuits will remain in place, the Utah Supreme Court ruled in November, according to the American Medical Association. In the nearly 20...
Utah WCF Urging Workplace Safety for Fall/Winter
Nov 11 2004 // As temperatures fall, certain workplace injuries tend to rise. Utah’s Workers Compensation Fund is urging workers statewide to learn preventive tactics to remain safe on the job this fall and winter. Common...
State Farm Loses Supreme Court Appeal over Lawsuit
Oct 6 2004 // The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of one of Utah’s highest-profile court cases, perhaps ending a decades-long legal battle over a claim brought by a couple against their insurance agency. The...
