All the headlines from our Nevada Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 12 2022 // Outsource Insurance Professionals had announced senior leadership changes.The following roles will be assumed by OIP leadership: Martina Seferovic, President & Chief Executive Officer, OIP. Prior to this role,...
Aug 8 2022 // People who lost their homes and property in last summer’s Tamarack Fire in northern Nevada and California have filed a claim against the U.S. Forest Service seeking more than $85 million.The filing by attorney Bill...
May 24 2022 // COVID-19 emergency declarations for Nevada have ended as the public health agency for metro Las Vegas noted that the pandemic isn’t over and said it will continue to monitor spread of the virus and provide assistance...
May 5 2022 // First Light Program Managers Inc. and NTIS Inc. dba NTIS Transportation Insurance Services of Las Vegas Nevada have entered into an agreement for First Light Program Managers to acquire substantially all of...
Mar 28 2022 // A jury in Las Vegas has awarded $8 million to a middle school special education teacher who sued after being permanently injured when he was served cleaning solvents instead of tap beer at a casino bar.Lon Enwright, 38,...
Mar 25 2022 // Cragin & Pike in Nevada announced numerous C-level promotions, including the agency’s first woman/first Hispanic shareholder partner, Dulcinea Rongavilla who is also named executive vice president.Scott Kerestesi...
Mar 7 2022 // Nevada’s largest utility plans to inspect power lines near a Reno neighborhood where a 2020 wildfire destroyed five homes and damaged two dozen others, a blaze that investigators blamed on arching power lines in gale...
Feb 15 2022 // School trustees in Las Vegas have approved a $9 million settlement in a case involving a former school bus driver who was sent to prison in 2018 for sexually assaulting special education preschoolers.The Clark County...
Feb 7 2022 // The number of drivers ticketed in Nevada for putting the pedal to the metal in violation of speed limits continues to climb.Nevada Office of Traffic Safety data indicates over 5,100 citations were issued in 2021 to drivers...
Feb 2 2022 // Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services Inc. announced access to an expanded workers’ compensation coverage option, which is now available in California, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada and Texas.BTIS...
Jan 31 2022 // Karen Caterino, senior vice president of Alliant Insurance Services, has been appointed to serve as a member of the Nevada Division of Insurance Agent Advisory Council.Caterino was selected by Nevada Insurance Commissioner...
Jan 25 2022 // A 25-year-old Black man is suing two police agencies in Nevada after he was misidentified as a white ex-felon nearly twice his age, arrested, and held for six days in jails in two Las Vegas-area jurisdictions.Shane Lee...
Jan 13 2022 // The parents of a five-time champion on the game show “Jeopardy!” are accusing a Las Vegas-area hospital where he underwent abdominal surgery of causing his death in February 2021.Brayden Smith, who died at 24,...
Jan 5 2022 // Nevada has agreed to back a proposed nationwide settlement worth up to $26 billion resolving lawsuits against three large drug distributors and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson over the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic, the...
Jan 3 2022 // Hundreds of unvaccinated employees who work at public colleges and universities in Nevada were fired Friday, a day after state Board of Regents voted to keep a staff vaccine mandate in effect, officials said.The Nevada...
Dec 15 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Reno, Nevada-based Richied & Associates Inc. in Nevada. Paul Richied, Tera Hodges, Cindy Fleischer and their associates will remain in their current locations under the direction...
Dec 9 2021 // One of the largest U.S. health insurance companies and its branches in Nevada were found liable for $60 million in punitive damages for underpaying out-of-network emergency medical providers.A state court jury said three...
Dec 6 2021 // Nevada’s Supreme Court ruled gun manufacturers cannot be held responsible for the deaths in the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip because a state law shields them from liability unless the weapon...
Nov 30 2021 // Brightway Insurance opened of 12 new franchise locations in October and November, with new locations in Nevada and California. Richard Hancock opened Brightway, The Hancock Agency in Las Vegas, Nevada, the first of the...
Oct 18 2021 // LP Insurance Services LLC added Deanna DeHart, Courtney Pino and Bryce Warner to the Reno, Nev., employee benefits insurance team.All three brokers will serve employee benefits clients in the northern Nevada community....