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LP Insurance Services in Nevada Adds Holland as Shareholder

Mar 31 2017 // Reno, Nev.-based LP Insurance Services Inc. has named Tim Holland as its newest shareholder. Holland will continue as an employee benefits sales executive with LP Insurance. He has been in that role since 2011. Tom...

How Senate Republicans Are Split Over Obamacare Replacement Bill

Mar 21 2017 // The House is racing to find enough votes for its health-care bill this week, but even if it passes, prospects in the Senate have only darkened.More than enough Senate Republicans oppose the House bill to kill it —...

Black Pedestrians at Higher Risk Than Whites at Crosswalks from Motorists Not Stopping

Mar 17 2017 // Motorists approaching mid-block crosswalks are less likely to yield for black pedestrians than white pedestrians and the pedestrian bias is apparently even worse in high-income than low-income neighborhoods, according to a...

LP Insurance in Nevada Adds Peitz, Ruiz, Pierce

Mar 6 2017 // RENO, Nev.-based LP Insurance Services Inc. has added Steve Peitz, Carlos Ruiz and Loren Pierce at risk management consultants.Peitz was previously a safety specialist at Panasonic Energy North America, and an assistant...

California-Based Sierra Nevada Issues 36-State Recall of Select Beers

Feb 6 2017 // California-based Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. announced a recall on Jan. 22 of certain 12-ounce bottles of its pale ales, IPAs and other beers after detecting a packaging flaw that could cause a piece of glass to break off...

A.M. Best Upwardly Revises Outlooks for Employers and Subsidiaries in Nevada

Jan 31 2017 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to stable from negative and affirmed, the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a-” of Employers Insurance GroupEmployers...

California-Based Sierra Nevada Issues 36-State Recall of Select Beers

Jan 25 2017 // California-based Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. announced a recall on Jan. 22 of certain 12-ounce bottles of its pale ales, IPA’s and other beers after detecting a packaging flaw that could cause a piece of glass to break...

LP Insurance Adds Flueckiger to Benefits Team in Nevada

Jan 11 2017 // LP Insurance Services Inc. has added John Flueckiger to the southern Nevada employee benefits sales team. Flueckiger is responsible for developing new business relationships as well as retaining and servicing existing...

Nevada High School Football Coach Targeted in Bullying Suit

Jan 10 2017 // Three former Nevada high school football players have filed a federal lawsuit that says they had to leave the team after they challenged bullying from their coach.The lawsuit names the coach, Galena High School principal...

Hundreds of Evacuations in California, Nevada from Flooding

Jan 10 2017 // Hundreds fled homes as a massive winter storm packing heavy rain, damaging winds and lightning caused mudslides and widespread flooding in Northern California and Nevada.The Russian River in California’s Sonoma...

Expert: Remote Nevada Earthquakes Big Enough to Cause $1B in Damage

Jan 9 2017 // A trio of significant earthquakes that struck a remote part of western Nevada along the Sierra Mountains’ eastern last month were big enough to cause as much as $1 billion in damage if they had been centered beneath...

Confie Acquires Auto Insurance America in Nevada and New Mexico

Jan 3 2017 // Confie has acquired Auto Insurance America from Western National Mutual Insurance Co. Auto Insurance America is a provider of non-standard auto insurance serving Nevada and New Mexico. The company has five locations in Las...

Expert: Remote Nevada Earthquakes Big Enough to Cause $1B in Damage

Dec 30 2016 // A trio of significant earthquakes that struck a remote part of western Nevada along the Sierra Mountains’ eastern front Wednesday were big enough to cause as much as $1 billion in damage if they had been centered...

CEA Reports No Claims So Far from Nevada Quake

Dec 28 2016 // A swarm of earthquakes in Nevada produced shaking in wide parts of Northern and Central California early this morning, including in Sacramento and Fresno.The first shock, a magnitude 5.7, occurred shortly after midnight...

A.M. Best Downgrades Golden Insurance, RPG in Nevada

Dec 28 2016 // A.M. Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to B- (Fair) from B (Fair) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “bb-” from “bb” of Nevada-domiciled Golden Insurance Company, A Risk...

LP Insurance in Nevada Names Banes Shareholder, Director of Risk Management

Dec 9 2016 // Reno, Nev.-based LP Insurance Services Inc. has named Jared Banes a shareholder and director of risk management.Banes will also continue as a sales executive at LP Insurance, a role he’s held since 2013. He will also...

Nevada Expected to See Jobs, Population Growth

Nov 23 2016 // Jobs are growing in Nevada, and more people are coming to fill them, according to the state demographer.State demographer Jeff Hardcastle said Nevada’s recovery was slow compared with the rest of the country, The...

Minor Flooding Follows Downpour in Nevada Wildfire Area

Oct 19 2016 // Fears of flooding are dissipating after rainfall helped quell a wind-whipped wildfire in Northern Nevada that destroyed 22 homes and 17 other structures in the Washoe Valley north of Carson City.Sierra Front Fire...

Nevada Sports Bar Settles Part of Overtime Suit With $375K Payout

Oct 7 2016 // Bully’s Sports Bar & Grill has agreed to pay $375,000 in back wages to settle part of a class-action lawsuit with 15 cooks who accused the oldest sports bar chain in northern Nevada of denying them overtime pay...

LP Insurance Acquires McMullen in Nevada

Sep 1 2016 // LP Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Elko, Nev.-based McMullen Insurance. McMullen co-owners, John Smales and Trinity Steelman, have both been named LP Insurance shareholders. Terms of the deal were not disclosed Reno,...