All the headlines from our Nevada Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 22 2013 // The Nevada Senate has approved a bill designed to give law enforcement quicker access to cellphone locations in times of emergency.SB268 gives cellphone carriers protections for providing information during certain...
Apr 17 2013 // In a decision the National Risk Retention Association says will help clear any future hurdles faced by risk retention groups in other states, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a District Court ruling that the...
Apr 17 2013 // A government contractor at the Hawthorne Army Depot in northern Nevada has agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a lawsuit over the firing of a pregnant woman and her husband.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Apr 11 2013 // A Nevada jury has ordered the state’s largest health management organization to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak.Two...
Apr 10 2013 // Plaintiffs’ attorneys asked a Nevada state court jury on Monday to put the state’s largest health management organization on the hook for a stunning $2.5 billion punitive damage award in a Las Vegas hepatitis...
Apr 9 2013 // Three former fugitives were heading Tuesday to Carson City in police custody to face murder charges in the slaying of William McCune, Nevada’s chief insurance examiner, authorities said.Carson City sheriff’s...
Apr 9 2013 // Construction defect laws intended to protect consumers have morphed into a trial lawyer’s dream and a nightmare for Nevada’s building trades, putting many out of business and sending the cost of insurance...
Apr 8 2013 // A Nevada Sheriff says he suspects foul play in the disappearance of the state’s chief insurance examiner after evidence of a bloody, violent struggle was uncovered in his apartment.Carson City Sheriff’s...
Mar 28 2013 // Federal officials have fined NV Energy $43,000 after investigating a fall that killed a 29-year-old Nevada employee in September.The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Mar 11 2013 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based CSE Insurance Group President and CEO Pierre Bize announced he will be transitioning out of his current role at the company at the end of 2013.The move comes after 19 years at the helm of CSE....
Mar 8 2013 // A bill that would allow patients addicted to prescription drugs to sue the doctors who prescribed the medication – and the drug’s makers – was met with stiff opposition Wednesday in a Nevada legislative...
Feb 20 2013 // Insurance Commissioner Scott J. Kipper named Joseph R. Decker deputy commissioner of insurance at the Nevada Division of Insurance.Decker started on Monday. He will be based in the division’s Las Vegas office, where...
Feb 20 2013 // A winter storm brought driving rain to parts of California and even a rare tornado, but the severity of snowfall in much of the state caught drivers by surprise and left hundreds stranded on mountain highways.A late...
Feb 11 2013 // Visions of robotic self-driving cars may appear like something from a George Lucas film but in June 2011, this vision took a giant leap toward becoming reality when Nevada became the first state to enact legislation that...
Feb 6 2013 // Shea Insurance in Las Vegas, Nev. has been acquired by the Leavitt Group.Terms of the deal were not made available. With the acquisition Scott Villamor, who owned Shea Insurance, joins Leavitt Group’s Las Vegas...
Jan 30 2013 // Thanks to rising medical costs many Nevada employers will see a small increase in the premiums they pay for workers’ compensation insurance this year, according to the Nevada Division of Insurance.The average premium...
Jan 22 2013 // A Las Vegas woman is suing an online dating service for nearly $10 million, claiming it set her up with a man who brutally attacked her.In her lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, Mary Kay Beckman...
Jan 14 2013 // Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines. Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best...
Jan 10 2013 // A state board chaired by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has approved a $6 million contract to market the state’s health insurance exchange program. The Board of Examiners on Tuesday approved the contract with KPS 3 Inc....
Jan 4 2013 // The Nevada Highway Patrol says it handed out nearly 12,000 tickets last year to people using cell phones while driving.Officials say most were getting their first phone ticket, while 30 were cited for their second offense...