Latest Nevada Headlines

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LP Insurance in Nevada Names Perchetti Vice President and Shareholder

Aug 17 2016 // Reno, Nev.-based LP Insurance Services Inc. has named Tina Perchetti vice president and shareholder. Perchetti provides clients in northeastern Nevada with commercial insurance products and risk management services. She...

2 Minor Quakes Hit Northern Nevada: USGS

Aug 3 2016 // The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed two magnitude 3.1 earthquakes recently shook the Reno, Nev. area. The Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno, says the epicenter was about 3.7 miles...

LP Insurance Services in Nevada Brings on Cleghorn

Jul 27 2016 // Reno, Nev.-based LP Insurance Services Inc. has named Adam Cleghorn to its Northern Nevada team. Cleghorn previously worked for Basalite Concrete Products in Sparks. He has been in the risk management industry for more...

Business Moves

Jul 25 2016 // Risk Strategies Company, McLaughlin Brunson Insurance AgencyNational insurance brokerage and risk management firm Risk Strategies Co. has acquired Dallas-based McLaughlin Brunson Insurance Agency. McLaughlin Brunson...

Switch Sues Nevada Regulators, NV Energy over Efforts to go Solar

Jul 15 2016 // A data-storage center company sued Nevada electricity regulators and NV Energy this week, saying it got an unfair deal when it tried to leave the grid and suffered at the hands of a former state employee who tweeted about...

Western National Purchases Nevada General and Affiliates

Jul 6 2016 // Western National Insurance Group of Edina, Minn. has completed the purchase all of the stock of Las Vegas, Nev.-based Nevada General Insurance Co., AIC America, and its wholly owned affiliates Auto Insurance America (New...

Nevada Law Requires Nevada Motorists to Replace Plates Every 8 Years

Jun 28 2016 // Nevada motorists will have to replace their vehicle license plates every eight years.A bill approved by last year’s Legislature to address law enforcement agencies’ complaints about many plates being unreadable...

Nevada Chosen as Test Site for Passenger-Carrying Drones

Jun 13 2016 // A company that manufactures passenger-carrying drones will be testing its system in Nevada.The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that EHang Inc., which is headquartered in Guangzhou, China, is partnering with the Nevada...

RIC Names Dahl Personal Lines Manager in Nevada

May 26 2016 // RIC Insurance General Agency Inc. has named Gary Dahl its personal lines manager. Dahl will be based at RIC’s Reno, Nev. office and will report to Jeff Gans, chief operating officer. Dahl has more than 30 years of...

Nevada Doctor Sued by Parents of Painkiller Overdose Victim

May 11 2016 // The Reno, Nev. doctor at the center of a federal investigation into an illegal prescription drug ring is being accused by the parents of an overdose victim of ignoring their warnings and continuing to increase the strength...

M3.6 Quake Jolts Northern Nevada Desert

May 10 2016 // A magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck in a remote part of the northern Nevada desert, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.The U.S.G.S. says the quake hit at 1:53 a.m. Sunday about 14 miles northeast of Gerlach (GEHR-lack)....

Nevada Worker Fired For Not Accepting Scientology, Suit Says

May 5 2016 // A Catholic woman fired from her job at a bottled water company led by a Nevada lawmaker has filed a federal lawsuit against the business, saying she was pressured to watch videos on Scientology and was denied pay raises...

Police in Nevada Ticket 75 Distracted Drivers During 3-Week Blitz

Apr 29 2016 // Henderson, Nev., police say officers looking for distracted drivers during a three-week enforcement blitz ticketed 75 motorists for infractions like texting, checking emails, accessing the Internet or talking on...

Retrofitting in Utah, Nevada Spurred by Earthquake Report

Apr 26 2016 // A new report raising the likelihood of a destructive earthquake striking Salt Lake City, Utah in the next half century has underscored the urgency to retrofit more than 30,000 older brick homes and other unreinforced...

Sierras Along California, Nevada Line Long Overdue for Big Quake

Apr 20 2016 // Scientists say the Sierra’s eastern front is long overdue for a large earthquake along the California-Nevada line, where a magnitude-7 event expected on average every 30 years hasn’t occurred in six...

Nevada Donor Network Sued by Family with Claims of Fraud

Apr 18 2016 // Three sisters have filed a lawsuit against the Nevada Donor Network claiming the nonprofit was misleading when a representative convinced them to allow tissue to be harvested from their mother.Kristine Fagone and her...

Nevada Donor Network Sued by Family with Claims of Fraud

Apr 5 2016 // Three sisters have filed a lawsuit against the Nevada Donor Network claiming the nonprofit was misleading when a representative convinced them to allow tissue to be harvested from their mother.Kristine Fagone and her...

First Autonomous Urban Drone Delivery in Nevada

Mar 30 2016 // A drone has delivered a package to a residential location in a small western Nevada town in what its maker says is the first fully autonomous, federally approved urban drone delivery in the United States.Flirtey CEO Matt...

Water District in Nevada County Hit With Cyber-Attack

Mar 9 2016 // The Clark County Water Reclamation District in Washington has been hit with a cyber-attack but officials say operations haven’t been disrupted and no customer or employee information was hacked.The agency said in a...

Nevada Insurance Commissioner Approves Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease

Mar 7 2016 // Acting Nevada Insurance Commissioner Amy L. Parks approved a filing from the National Council on Compensation Insurance for an average decrease of 5.5 percent for Nevada workers’ compensation voluntary insurance loss...