The Leavitt Group’s Concord, Calif. office named Paul Cardoso as an account executive in the employee benefits division. Cardoso comes has a background in sales and has worked for various Fortune 500 companies, including Mohawk Industries, Xerox, United Airlines and …
Merrilee Robbins was named senior account executive in The Buckner Co.’s trucking insurance division. Robbins will work from the firm’s Ogden, Utah officce. Robbins has 23 years in the insurance industry, and 16 years as a trucking specialist. Salt Lake …
La Crescenta, Calif.-based Monarch E & S Insurance named Stefanie McLeod assistant vice president of personal lines heading up the personal liability division. McLeod has been with Monarch for nearly 11 years. Before Monarch she was with Beitler Commercial Real …
Out of a tiny, green shack on a parking lot in an industrial area south of San Francisco International Airport, three teenagers are trying to change the airport car rental business. To do it, all they need are your cars, …
Firefighters are nervous, and ranchers and farmers are hurting as Malheur County enters summer in drought. Gov. John Kitzhaber has issued drought declarations for four Oregon counties, including Malheur, the Vermont-size southeast corner of the state. The Oregonian reported that …
Nearly 290,000 jobs will become available in Idaho by 2020, a new study says. Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce in a study finds the fastest-growing occupations will be health care support, health care professional and technical positions, …
An elite team of 19 firemen were killed on Sunday in one of deadliest U.S. firefighting disasters in decades as flames raced through dry brush and grass in central Arizona, destroying scores of homes and forcing the evacuation of two …
A National Weather Service spokeswoman says a modest tornado did indeed touch down near the tiny Oregon town of Birkenfeld in the North Oregon Coast Range. The Tuesday afternoon tornado was classified as an EF-0, which means it had wind …
A new study says thousands of low-paid California workers were cheated out of money they won against employers who broke the law. The report, to be released Thursday, says many companies escaped judgment by dissolving and taking new names. The …
The San Francisco Examiner has filed a lawsuit alleging that the city’s dominant daily newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, has slashed advertising prices to stifle competition. The suit claims Chronicle owner The Hearst Corp. and officials at the paper took …
