All the headlines from our Casino Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 25 2006 // Gambling man “Our investigation determined that Mr. Bowen created an elaborate scheme that diverted the premiums of dozens of customers into his personal bank accounts to fund gambling and other personal activities....
Sep 8 2006 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued proposed fines of $85,575 against three companies in the March deaths of two construction workers during the demolition of hurricane-damaged Grand Casino in...
Sep 8 2006 // Cynthia Smith remembers the horror her family endured when Hurricane Katrina’s flood waters rolled into their Gulfport, MIssissippi home and turned her world upside down.Smith and several family members — including...
Aug 3 2006 // Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. announced that, on August 1, 2006, it filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada against three of its excess insurance carriers. The suit relates to the loss incurred by...
Jul 25 2006 // Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro moved to intervene in the case against the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma’s claim for lands in Ohio.In May 2005, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma filed this suit claiming that...
Jul 24 2006 // A severe thunderstorm nailed the Reno area, turning out the lights at casinos and a stadium where former major league slugger Jose Canseco was playing for a minor league team.Friday night’s storm dropped up to 1.5...
Jul 13 2006 // Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro said this week that the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma’s decision to drop the state from its claim for lands in Ohio is a clear indication that their legal claims are...
Jul 6 2006 // Two Mississippi lawmakers are proposing a stream of money, generated by taking a portion of the growth in the state’s gambling revenue, to hold down homeowner insurance rates on the hurricane-ravaged Gulf...
Jul 3 2006 // Indian tribes are no longer merely casino entrepreneurs or cigarette wholesalers. In conjunction with America’s largest corporations, Indians are now engaged in real estate development, banking and finance,...
Jul 3 2006 // Indian tribes are no longer merely casino entrepreneurs or cigarette wholesalers. In conjunction with America’s largest corporations, Indians are now engaged in real estate development, banking and finance,...
May 22 2006 // Indian tribes are no longer merely casino entrepreneurs or cigarette wholesalers. In conjunction with America’s largest corporations, Indians are now engaged in real estate development, banking and finance,...
Apr 20 2006 // The Minnesota state House of Representatives is on track to approve a bill to fund the basic operations of state government, but several amendments attached to the proposal are being singled out for the most attention.An...
Feb 21 2006 // Several people were injured late Monday night when a shuttle bus transporting 15 passengers from the Barona Valley Ranch & Resort Casino crashed on State Route 67 outside the city of San Diego. According to...
Aug 31 2005 // In what New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin called ‘A Desperate SOS,” city, state and federal officials worked into the evening Thursday trying to evacuate refugees from the Louisiana Superdome, who are headed to...
Aug 22 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: M.E. James Surplus Lines Ins. Agency writes a customized package for tribal governments and gaming operations, as well as operations supporting gaming enterprises, like hotels, daycare centers, gift...
Jul 18 2005 // If a storm or hurricane hits Biloxi, Miss., and closes area casinos, the city will have all bets covered. The city, which obtains $20 million a year or about one-third of its annual operating revenue by taxing nine...
Nov 16 2004 // Richard J. Codey, long time Democratic legislator and local independent insurance agent in his West Orange community, became New Jersey’s acting governor at the stroke of midnight.Codey assumed the office from James...
Jul 19 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of Montana at 902,195. Approximately 87 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 24 percent had...
Jun 28 2004 // The Rhode Island General Assembly went into recess early Saturday, June 26, after approving dozens of bills that included health insurance reforms, a delay in lead paint mandates for landlords and development of a new...
Mar 24 2003 // Marine insurance is, as Insurance Journal put it last year, “a unique animal.” The belly of the beast consists of cargo and yacht coverage, which account for 50 percent of U.S. written premium.But another...