All the headlines from our Idaho Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 12 2020 // An Idaho woman has been charged for insurance fraud over damage to her vehicle from a deer.Callene Zink, of Jefferson County, was charged and pled guilty to insurance fraud in violation of Idaho code 41-293(1)(c). Zink...
Mar 6 2020 // Two mobile units have been deployed to help residents who lost state driver’s licenses or photo identification in severe storms that ravaged Tennessee counties this week.Tennessee’s Department of Safety and...
Mar 3 2020 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Pend Oreille Insurance in Idaho. Pend Oreille is led by co-owners Stefanie Nostdahl and Jodie Corless. Nostdahl and Corless, along with the entire Pend Oreille team, will join...
Feb 27 2020 // An Idaho man was sentenced for insurance fraud in violation of Idaho code after reportedly purchasing a 1992 Mercedes for $700 and then adding the vehicle to an existing policy with GEICO.Hester then filed a claim for...
Feb 21 2020 // A licensed insurance producer from Emmett, Idaho, has been sentenced for misappropriation of fiduciary funds. Casandara H. Aune admitted to receiving cash for a client’s premium payment but reportedly did not apply...
Feb 18 2020 // A Utah county agreed to pay more than $10,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by two Idaho State University football players who said they were falsely arrested during a bank robbery investigation.Nehemiah McFarlin and Atoatasi...
Feb 14 2020 // Idaho insurance agent Misty A. Adams was taken into custody this week after being sentenced for insurance fraud.A licensed insurance producer from Idaho Falls, Adams, 45, reportedly backdated her son’s auto insurance...
Feb 13 2020 // A young woman from Idaho who sustained a traumatic brain injury in a 2018 van crash while traveling to a Christian conference in Portland, Ore. with her youth group is suing the church and the youth pastor who was driving...
Jan 31 2020 // A reportedly unsafe blasting operation in Spokane, Wash., that put workers and the public at risk has resulted in an Idaho-based drilling company losing its license to perform similar work in Washington.The Washington...
Jan 14 2020 // A Clean Water Act lawsuit filed by the Nez Perce Tribe that seeks to force a Canadian gold mining company to acquire permits for pollution discharged from its central Idaho facility will be allowed to continue, a federal...
Dec 27 2019 // A Florida city is offering to pay for identity protection monitoring for up to 60,000 people following a cyberattack that crippled Pensacola’s computer systems for days.The News Journal reports Pensacola Mayor Grover...
Dec 10 2019 // Idaho Department of Insurance Director Dean L. Cameron has been voted vice president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Cameron served as Secretary-Treasurer of the NAIC for 2019. Starting Jan....
Nov 18 2019 // Several rural volunteer fire departments in north-central Idaho are in danger of losing much of their equipment after officials learned it was uninsured.Idaho County officials previously believed the fire trucks and other...
Nov 1 2019 // Several rural volunteer fire departments in north-central Idaho are in danger of losing much of their equipment after officials learned it was uninsured.The Lewiston Tribune reported Idaho County officials previously...
Oct 30 2019 // An Idaho man has been nailed for insurance fraud using fictitious golf club receipts.David Gress appeared at the Canyon County District Court this week and was sentenced for insurance fraud. Gress pled guilty in August to...
Oct 29 2019 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has named Weston Trexler deputy director. He was hired to the department as the product review bureau chief-actuary in 2012. He previously worked for the actuarial consulting firm...
Oct 28 2019 // One of the largest cities in Idaho has banned the use of a hand-held phone while driving.Meridian’s city council approved the ordinance last week, prohibiting the use of hand-held devices any time a vehicle is in a...
Oct 7 2019 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has approved a proposal for a 6.2 percent overall rate decrease to Idaho workers’ compensation insurance effective Jan. 1, 2020. The proposed rate change was recommended by the...
Sep 26 2019 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has revoked the license of Desiree A. Jachetta for violations of the Idaho Insurance Code. Jachetta, a resident of Priest River, reported failed to appropriately handle clients’...
Sep 24 2019 // The nation’s most expensive wildfire this year is one that has been burning for months on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.The Swan Lake Fire has so far cost about $46 million to fight, according to the National...