All the headlines from our Arizona Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2018 // CREST Insurance Group LLC of Arizona has named Cristina Baena president of the employee benefits division.Baena will be overseeing 32 employees from the Tucson, Scottsdale, Sierra Vista, Flagstaff, as well as San Diego,...
Nov 16 2018 // CREST Insurance Group LLC of Arizona has named Heather Perrin chief operations officer. Perrin will reside at the company headquarters located in Tucson, Ariz., and will oversee operations at the Arizona branches located...
Nov 14 2018 // USG Insurance Services Inc. has named Toni Adame a producer/broker in Scottsdale, Ariz. In her new position, Adame will continue to build her own book of business while assisting the team with broadening USG’s...
Nov 6 2018 // Phoenix, Ariz.-based CopperPoint Insurance Cos. has named Trent Marchuk assistant vice president in the strategic programs office. Marchuk’s primary responsibility will be to help drive strategic value and...
Nov 6 2018 // Motel 6 will pay up to $7.6 million to Hispanic guests to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit claiming that it violated their privacy by regularly providing guest lists to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
Nov 5 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc has asked Pennsylvania for permission to resume self-driving car testing on public roads and has improved the autonomous vehicle software, the company said on Friday, more than seven months after it...
Oct 29 2018 // The University of Arizona has banned dockless electric scooters from its campus effective immediately.University of Arizona Parking and Transportation Services Interim Executive Director Gail Nazarenko says the decision...
Oct 9 2018 // GBS Benefits has added Don Mollihan as a senior consultant in Arizona. Mollihan founded Arizona Benefit Consultants LLC in 1995. He has more than 30 years of experience in the brokerage and consulting space. Don...
Oct 9 2018 // When flood waters rise, more data helps better predict and monitor changing conditions. Soon there will be an app for that.The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Smart and Connected Communities $1.5 million grant...
Oct 8 2018 // A Kentucky woman is suing the U.S. arm of Brazil’s JBS SA, alleging she was hospitalized after consuming ground beef produced by the company that was tainted with Salmonella, according to a lawsuit filed on Friday in...
Oct 5 2018 // An earthen dam in Arizona’s southern desert could fail and flood a small village because the lake behind it is swollen with runoff from the remnants of Tropical Storm Rosa, officials said this week.Ali Chuk, a Native...
Oct 4 2018 // Remnants of a tropical storm drenched parts of the desert Southwest this week, trapping some drivers on swamped streets of Phoenix, Ariz. as authorities prepared for possible flash flooding in the state, central Utah and...
Oct 1 2018 // The National Weather Service issued flash flood watches for parts of four states in the Southwest for late Monday and Tuesday. Areas covered by watches due to what the weather service’s Las Vegas office calls...
Sep 27 2018 // A member of the Arizona Corporation Commission is calling for the state’s natural gas operators to review the safety of their pipelines.Commissioner Andy Tobin said this week that he called an emergency meeting with...
Sep 25 2018 // Paladin Cyber, a cyber protection and remediation firm, has developed a cyber insurance product tailored for small and mid-sized businesses. Along with its existing software products and services, the new product will...
Sep 20 2018 // A female Uber driver in Arizona is suing Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston, accusing him of sexual assault.Court documents say the woman filed the suit in Arizona this week and is seeking more than $75,000 in...
Sep 11 2018 // A new law banning the use of cellphones while driving went into effect in a Phoenix suburb this month, making it the latest city to attempt regulation rather than wait for a state effort.Surprise officials put an ordinance...
Sep 7 2018 // Arizona State Land Department officials say a national insurance company has successfully bid $83 million for about 134 acres of trust land in Scottsdale.Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. has plans for a mixed-use...
Sep 6 2018 // The Arizona Cardinals’ home field is changing its name to State Farm Stadium.The team announced this week that it has reached an 18-year naming rights deal with the insurance giant. The facility has been known as...
Aug 23 2018 // Phoenix, Ariz.-based CopperPoint Insurance Cos. has named Jennifer J. Johnston chief marketing officer and executive vice president of marketing and communications. Johnston has more than 25 years of experience in...