La Jolla, Calif.-based Palomar Specialty Insurance Co., established in February 2014 as a specialty catastrophe insurer, announced it is now licensed to write residential and commercial insurance in 14 states. Palomar Specialty initially focused on writing residential earthquake insurance, commercial …
A Utah city says it’s not to blame for a landslide that crushed a home earlier this month and forced evacuations in a mountainside community. No one was injured when the hillside tumbled on Aug. 5 in a subdivision about …
Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Insurance Point LLC in St. Charles, Ill. and Salt Lake City, Utah. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Insurance Point offers employee benefit consultation and insurance brokerage services for healthcare …
A jury has faulted state and local agencies in the 2010 deaths of a Utah married couple kayaking in the Jordan River. Family members of Kelly Frye-Glasser and Joseph Glasser on Tuesday won their case arguing that officials were aware …
Encino, Calif.-based Answer Financial Inc. will open a fourth office in Ogden, Utah. The office, adjacent to operations for sister company Esurance, opens this summer. The office is currently taking applications for sales professionals. Answer plans to begin training its …
A Paris-based company says it will fight a U.S. judge’s ruling against its attempt to force a Utah couple to pay $3,500 over a critical online review. Descoteaux Boutiques, which owns online retailer Kleargear.com, issued statements this week saying John …
The Leavitt Group’s Spearfish and Sturgis, S.D. offices, formerly part of Western Dakota Insurors, are forming a new agency called Leavitt Heartland Insurance Services, which will remain part of the Leavitt Group. All personnel will remain with the agency and …
The Leavitt Group has opened a new office, Risk Services – Leavitt Insurance Agencies, in Houston. The agency will be co-managed/owned by Vladimir Chemadurov and Rob Eppers. In the South Central region, Utah-based Leavitt Group also has existing offices in …
One of the last U.S. ski resorts to prohibit snowboarding said a lawsuit challenging the ban degrades the U.S. Constitution and should be thrown out. Lawyers for the Alta ski area east of Salt Lake City, Utah said in their …
Marjorie Berte, vice president for state affairs for the American Insurance Association’s Western region on Tuesday announced plans to retire on March 31 Berte joined AIA in January 2011, and has been responsible for overseeing AIA’s government affairs efforts in …
