All the headlines from our Nevada Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 8 2008 // An earthquake has shaken the area around Swedes Place in northern Nevada. The U.S. Geological Survey’s preliminary report put the quake at a 4.1-magnitude. The temblor hit just before 4:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6,...
Aug 21 2008 // protectionist requirement that served only the self interests of small protectionist agents.The battle to defeat countersignature laws is finally over, now that the July 9, 2008, deadline has passed for Nevada to file a...
Aug 19 2008 // Conduit Insurance Services of Irvine, Calif., has a new residential wrap market – “mini-wrap” available in California, Arizona and Nevada. The program is designed for smaller single-family and...
Aug 4 2008 // C.M. Meiers, Fireman’s FundThe C.M. Meiers Co. of Woodland Hills, Calif., and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. of Novato, Calif., donated more than $33,000 to the Ventura County Fire Department for the purchase of...
Jul 28 2008 // In a precedent-setting case, the Nevada Supreme Court held last Thursday that worker comp benefits can go to families of people who kill themselves if an industrial accident broke down their “rational mental...
Jul 17 2008 // Seattle-based SeaBright Insurance Holdings Inc. announced that its subsidiary, PointSure Insurance Services Inc., has acquired Black/White & Associates of Nevada, Black/White & Associates Inc. and...
Jul 16 2008 // Reno-based Nevada Capital Insurance Co., the state affiliate of Capital Insurance Group, was honored as Company of the Year by the Nevada Independent Insurance Agents. NIIA member agencies are not beholden to any one...
Jul 14 2008 // Complaints about North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) agency may not translate into support for making WSI a private business and allowing competition from other insurers, state lawmakers say.The...
Jun 19 2008 // Safety and construction officials are investigating what caused a crane to buckle and malfunction at MGM Mirage’s CityCenter resort work site in Las Vegas.The unstable 180-foot crane shut down traffic on the Las...
May 19 2008 // Longtime Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice Molasky-Arman has decided to retire effective Sept. 7, 2008, after a long regulatory career.Molasky-Arman was named commissioner in 1995 and has served under three governors....
May 19 2008 // Dozens of minor earthquakes shook Reno, Nev., on April 27 as a sequence of temblors entered its third month and prompted some frazzled residents to leave their homes.Officials recorded more than 150 aftershocks on the...
May 5 2008 // Just weeks after earthquakes rattled Nevada, the Midwest and the coast of Oregon, and on the heels of the 102nd anniversary of San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake, the public, government officials and insurance industry...
May 5 2008 // Two moderate earthquakes shook the Mogul-Somerset area just west of Reno, Nev., on April 24, 2008, according to the Nevada Seismological Laboratory. While there were no immediate reports of damage, the laboratory predicts...
May 1 2008 // Dozens of minor earthquakes shook Reno, Nevada, on April 27 as a sequence of temblors entered its third month and prompted some frazzled residents to leave their homes.Officials recorded more than 150 aftershocks on the...
May 1 2008 // Firefighters had to contend with gale-force winds while battling a huge brush fire that raced along the edge of a valley south of Reno, forcing a major highway to close, threatening homes, and causing the evacuation of a...
Apr 30 2008 // Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons encouraged citizens throughout the state to prepare for emergencies by building an emergency kit, developing a family response plan and ensuring they maintain access to communications networks...
Apr 28 2008 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice Molasky-Arman is stepping down after a long regulatory career that included approval in 2007 of a $2.6 billion deal involving Nevada’s largest health insurer — a deal that...
Apr 28 2008 // Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada’s largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors.More than 100...
Apr 25 2008 // Hogan Insurance Services Inc. of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has expanded to Nevada with the opening of a new office in Henderson. Donna Ferguson will lead Hogan’s expansion in Nevada. Ferguson has more than 30 years of...
Apr 25 2008 // Two moderate earthquakes shook the Mogul-Somerset area just west of Reno, Nev., on April 24, 2008, according to the Nevada Seismological Laboratory. While there were no immediate reports of damage, the Laboratory predicts...