July 7, 2014
Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. named Conor Overstake as a producer in the Denver, Colo. office. Overstake will focus on business development in the technology, life science and manufacturing industries. Most recently, Overstake was a producer at USI Colorado. Prior to that …
July 7, 2014
Farmers Insurance is looking to grow its presence in Washington by adding 85 agency owners throughout the state. Candidates with a record of previous sales success, those with experience in the financial sector, and those who have recently entered into …
July 7, 2014
Drugstore chain Walgreens has agreed to pay $180,000 to a diabetic employee who was fired after eating a $1.39 bag of chips before paying for it during what she said was an attack of low blood sugar, federal officials said. …
July 7, 2014
California-based Health Net sold the lowest-cost insurance plans to Arizona residents under the Affordable Care Act, but the insurer has also netted the most complaints. The Arizona Republic reports Health Net has been named in 89 of the 110 complaints …
July 7, 2014
The man fired as leader of Oregon’s workers compensation agency after just three months on the job has filed notice that he plans to sue over his ouster. John Plotkin alleges his predecessor at SAIF Corp. wanted the CEO job …
July 3, 2014
HomeServe USA‘s subsidiary Home Emergency Insurance Solutions (HEIS), is relaunching its optional Water Service Line Insurance plans as home protection plans to more than 425,000 households across the state of California. A mailing outlining the new benefits of the Plans …
July 3, 2014
A wildfire in rural Northern California’s Napa County damaged two homes and forced the evacuation of 200 others, although the blaze has yet to threaten the area’s famed vineyards. The fire in Pope Valley grew to 4,300 acres, according to …
July 3, 2014
A federal lawsuit seeking damages against a Wyoming-based wilderness training academy over the death of a hiker on a 2011 trip to India will be heard in Wyoming. The lawsuit filed by Elizabeth Brenner of Minnetonka, Minnesota, against the Lander-based …
July 3, 2014
Wildfires blamed in part on climate change are consuming timber in the U.S. West at such a furious pace that half the Forest Service’s budget is now spent fighting them — up from 21 percent in 2000. Add in the …
July 2, 2014
Benjamin M. Harris will be joining the Utah’s Captive Insurance Division as an audit manager. Harris, a CPA, will join Travis Wegkamp, also an audit manager, in directing the examinations for the captive insurers in Utah. Harris will assist in …