All the headlines from our Nevada Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 31 2002 // Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn presented a special session of the state Senate with his proposals to cure the state’s medical malpractice crisis. The governor called for the special session to pass legislation that will...
Jul 30 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers is hopeful that a special session of the Nevada state Legislature meeting early this week to consider caps on non-economic damages will help alleviate the current medical malpractice...
Jul 24 2002 // Nevada’s Democratic leaders in the Assembly have indicated a cap on non- economic damages is likely to become a portion of a final compromise to solve the state’s medical malpractice insurance crisis, according...
Jul 22 2002 // According to the Alliance of American Insurers, Nevada insurance regulators concerned about the availability of residential contractor’s liability insurance should not look to mandatory pools, but should develop a...
Jul 16 2002 // Ten days after shutting down due to fast-rising malpractice insurance rates, Nevada’s lone top-level trauma center reopened its doors July 14, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The county-run trauma center...
Jul 4 2002 // Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn is set to call a special session of the Legislature within the next few weeks to deal with the state’s medical malpractice crisis, according to the Associated Press. Saying he will ask for the...
Jul 4 2002 // Employers Insurance Company of Nevada (EICN) has acquired California-based Fremont Compensation Insurance Group’s book of business, effective July 1.Fremont Comp is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fremont General...
Jun 26 2002 // The Nevada Department of Insurance announced two State Farm subsidiaries, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and State Farm Fire & Casualty Company, recently requested proposed rate hikes of 3.7 percent...
Jun 13 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers, a longtime advocate of repeal of anticompetitive countersignature laws, says it backs the lawsuits filed June 11 against Florida and Nevada by the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers...
Jun 10 2002 // From mold to construction defects, contractors and those who insure them can run into a mound of claims when building.One company who has stepped in to construct a program for contractors is Nevada-based National Builders...
Apr 30 2002 // Nevada Contractors Insurance has expanded its operations to offer workers’ compensation to contractors in New Mexico. The company, which is Nevada’s second largest insurer for workers’ comp insurance,...
Apr 25 2002 // As a result of wind storms earlier this month, Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice Molasky-Arman gave the temporary go-ahead for non-resident salaried adjusters or independent adjusters who are licensed in their home state...
Mar 21 2002 // California-based financial services company Fremont General Corp. has reported a fourth-quarter profit, moving from a loss from a year earlier, when it recorded large losses in its workers’ compensation insurance...
Mar 6 2002 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice Molasky-Arman said during a hearing March 4 on the malpractice crisis that she can’t make insurers do business at a loss, according to the Associated Press.Molasky-Arman commented...
Feb 4 2002 // Insurance scores provide companies an objective and unbiased underwriting tool, Sam Sorich, vice president and western regional manager of the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) explained last week during...
Dec 24 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), several amendments the Nevada Division of Insurance is considering to underwriting and rating regulations would result in huge administrative expenses...
Dec 17 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), several amendments the Nevada Division of Insurance is considering to underwriting and rating regulations would hurt consumers who find it difficult to...
Dec 11 2001 // In a seminar attended by leading Las Vegas construction company executives, Jack Schreiner of S & C Claims Services outlined how aggressive claims handling can reduce their losses and lower worker’s compensation...
Nov 7 2001 // The Nevada Division of Insurance is considering ways to tweak its consumer privacy regulation so that it no longer runs contrary to state law.Nevada’s proposed privacy regulation-which spells out insurers’...
Oct 10 2001 // State insurance regulators have ordered a Nevada insurance company to stop selling health policies and collecting premiums in Texas, after learning that the company had not been paying medical claims.According to a report...