Utah News

Fighting future losses in the midst of fire season

With 68,775 blazes already this year, the 2006 wildfire season is well on its way to becoming the worst in 10 years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Its data shows 5.03 million acres have burned, eclipsing the …

New Markets

Retail Shopping Centers Nuts & Bolts: Argonaut Group Inc.’s Select Markets segment is expanding its line of products and services to include the retail shopping center marketplace. Highlights include specialized benefits such as coordinated policies for comprehensive landlord-tenant liability coverage, …

New Markets

Retail Carts Nuts & Bolts: General liability, including contractual liability, personal injury and advertising injury liability for retail cart vendors operating concessions and exhibits is available from K&K Insurance Group Inc. This program is specifically tailored for concessionaires, exhibitors and …

Fraud Roundup

Utah agent charged with pocketing premiums Ryan Webb, a Salt Lake County, Utah, insurance agent, was charged with insurance fraud, a second degree felony, unlawful dealing by a fiduciary, a second degree felony, theft by deception, a second degree felony, …

Fighting future losses in the midst of fire season

With 68,775 blazes already this year, the 2006 wildfire season is well on its way to becoming the worst in 10 years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Its data shows 5.03 million acres have burned, eclipsing the …

New Markets

Retail Carts Nuts & Bolts: General liability, including contractual liability, personal injury and advertising injury liability for retail cart vendors operating concessions and exhibits is available from K&K Insurance Group Inc. This program is specifically tailored for concessionaires, exhibitors and …

Fraud Roundup

Utah agent charged with pocketing premiums Ryan Webb, a Salt Lake County, Utah, insurance agent, was charged with insurance fraud, a second degree felony, unlawful dealing by a fiduciary, a second degree felony, theft by deception, a second degree felony, …

Arrowhead General Offers Wrapups and Conversions for General Contractors

Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc.’s Managed Insurance Programs Division is offering a new market for wrapups and conversions for general contractors and developers. The contractors wrapup program includes: *New minimum premiums starting at $250,000; *Conversions; *The ability to handle the …

Wal-Mart Type Banks Put on Hold

Federal bank regulators have halted for six months any new approvals of the sort of industrial banks that Wal-Mart, Home Depot and 12 other companies are seeking to own. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. imposed the moratorium on approving the …

Employers Insurance Group Expanding in Arizona, Texas

Reno, Nev.-based Employers Insurance Group announced it is expanding its market for workers’ compensation insurance and services to small businesses throughout the states of Texas and Arizona. Insurance is being offered through Employers Compensation Insurance Company, one of the companies …