All the headlines from our Nevada Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 2 2003 // State Insurance Commissioner Alice A. Molasky-Arman has approved State Farm Fire and Casualty Company’s request for an overall statewide average increase of 5.2 percent, or $2.5 million. This is part of a total...
May 14 2003 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice A. Molasky-Arman has ordered Liberty Liability Foundation, Self-Funding Automobile Liability (Liberty Liability) to stop all unauthorized insurance activities, including automobile...
May 7 2003 // A crowd of supporters assembled near the University Medical Center in Las Vegas Tuesday at a rally and news conference in which victims of the escalating medical liability crisis nationwide joined Nevada doctors, seniors,...
Apr 21 2003 // Nevada’s Clark County Grand Jury indicted Pavel Daniel Oprea, 37, on nine felony counts of insurance fraud including three counts each of the following: false application to insurer, false claim for insurance...
Apr 18 2003 // Employers Insurance Company of Nevada, A Mutual Company (the “Company”), a leading provider of workers’ compensation products and services, reported its statutory financial results for the fourth quarter...
Mar 24 2003 // A flex-rating bill introduced in Nevada would foster competition and modernize rate regulation in the state, according to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII). Senate Bill 12 would create a flex-rating...
Mar 24 2003 // They’re baaack. High-flying medical malpractice liability claims losses, that is. The availability crisis of the 1970s and the affordability crisis of the 1980s may be nothing compared to the crisis insurers and...
Mar 11 2003 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice A. Molasky-Arman has approved new rates and rating rules for obstetricians for American Physicians Assurance Corporation (“APAC”).Molasky-Arman said, “I applaud the...
Mar 11 2003 // Nevada’s Clark County Grand Jury indicted Pavel Daniel Oprea, 37, on nine felony counts of insurance fraud including three counts each of the following: false application to insurer, false claim for insurance...
Mar 5 2003 // A majority of Nevada consumers would be unfairly penalized by legislation prohibiting insurance companies’ use of credit data in determining rates and making underwriting decisions, according to the National...
Feb 28 2003 // A flex-rating bill introduced in Nevada would foster competition and modernize rate regulation in the state, according to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII).Senate Bill 12 would create a flex-rating...
Feb 26 2003 // Michael Allen Lessley, 35, pled guilty to felony insurance fraud before Nevada Judge Connie Steinheimer in the Washoe County Courthouse. Lessley reported his red 1995 Mustang stolen in order to allegedly receive money from...
Feb 25 2003 // Doctor-sponsored Initiative Petition 1 (IP1) was introduced to the Nevada Senate Feb. 21, in response to the medical malpractice crisis inflicting Nevada’s doctors—in particular, obstetricians, according to the...
Feb 24 2003 // They’re baaack. High-flying medical malpractice liability claims losses, that is. The availability crisis of the 1970s and the affordability crisis of the 1980s may be nothing compared to the crisis insurers and...
Jan 30 2003 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice A. Molasky-Arman has approved new rating rules for obstetricians and gynecological surgeons for Nevada Mutual Insurance Company (NMIC). The new rules result from Molasky-Arman’s...
Jan 27 2003 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) called upon Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn (R) to abandon his proposal to double tax insurers operating in the state. In order to tackle Nevada’s $1 billion budget deficit, Gov....
Dec 30 2002 // Doug Judson, president and CEO of Millennium Corporate Services (MCS), announced that MCS is expanding its operations to include an office in Las Vegas, Nevada. Heading up the Las Vegas office is Bob Bell who has joined...
Dec 24 2002 // The Clark County Grand Jury has indicted the nine remaining defendants in the Guy Mitchell Sheets fraud case (See IJ West Web News, Dec. 19): Terri Denise Bragg, Rodney Bernard Winters, Basheba Peoples, Cedric Peoples,...
Dec 19 2002 // Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa announced that Guy Mitchell Sheets, 38, of Henderson, Nev., was sentenced to 12 to 36 months in prison, concurrent, for the two felony counts of insurance fraud he plead guilty...
Dec 12 2002 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice A. Molasky-Arman has approved a rate change for private passenger automobile insurance filed by Liberty Mutual Group.The statewide average change of -0.3 percent for Liberty Mutual Fire...