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Utah workers’ comp fund plans no changes The Utah Workers Compensation Fund, an insurance pool that pays Utah residents who are injured on the job, has dropped plans to restrict benefits. Earlier, UWCF officials considered asking for a change in …

Editor’s Note: Thin ice

Identity theft costs American businesses and consumers a reported $50 billion, and victimizes an estimated 10 million people in the United States each year, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. While those numbers are expected to grow, the information-laden …

Utah Officials Plan No Changes in Workers’ Comp

The Utah Workers Compensation Fund, an insurance pool that pays people who are injured on the job, has dropped plans to restrict benefits. Fund officials considered asking for a change in state law to tighten eligibility for lost wages. They …

Prime Holdings Launches New Excess and Surplus Lines Company

Prime Holdings Insurance Services Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Co., a new surplus lines insurance company funded with a cash infusion of $16 million in May, has received an A. M. Best “B+” rating and has recently been …

Prime Holdings Launches New Excess and Surplus Lines Company with an A. M. Best B+ Rating

Chicago, Illinois and Salt Lake City, Utah – Prime Holdings Insurance Services, Inc. (“Prime Holdings”) announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Company (“Prime”), a new surplus lines insurance company funded with a cash infusion of $16 million in May, has …

States go global for new ideas to improve transportation safety

Searching for ways to improve road safety without breaking the bank, state transportation officials in the U.S. have found inspiration in ideas being implemneted abroad. Low-cost devices increasingly popping up on treacherous roadways and crammed crossroads across the nation have …

States go global for new ideas to improve transportation safety

Searching for ways to improve road safety without breaking the bank, state transportation officials in the U.S. have found inspiration in ideas being implemneted abroad. Low-cost devices increasingly popping up on treacherous roadways and crammed crossroads across the nation have …

Utah Workers’ Comp Fund Evaluates Worker Elegibility

Utah’s Workers Compensation Fund recently came under fire for propsing workers’ eligibility to benefits be evaluated. Based on its proposal, some in the mainstream media interpreted WCF’s actions as trying to do away with benefits for illegal immigrants. Based on …

3rd Bag of Tainted Spinach Linked to Calif. Plant

A third bag of Dole baby spinach that tested positive for a deadly E. coli strain has been linked to a specific batch packaged at a Salinas Valley plant, California health officials said. A Pennsylvania state lab identified the strain …

Investigators Trace Specific Batch of Tainted Spinach

Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials hone in on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista, Calif., processing plant that may be the source of …