All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 23 2025 // A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing.A California company called...
Sep 26 2025 // CIC Services LLC and the Ragnar Group Inc. have launched a captive domiciled in Utah focused on the hospitality sector.The companies say the captive is intended to solve the challenge of being misclassified. The new group...
Sep 16 2025 // Tornadoes destroyed several homes in southeastern Utah over the weekend, but authorities said there were no reports of people injured.A storm produced two tornadoes in San Juan County in southeastern Utah over the span of...
Jul 17 2025 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers launched a new Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area office, Liberty Naranjo, led by managing partners and brothers, Jonathan and Michael Naranjo.Liberty Naranjo will serve as an...
Apr 11 2025 // The Utah Insurance Department’s Fraud Division is warning consumers about an increase in fake auto insurance policies being marketed to the Hispanic community using WhatsApp. The department has not identified the...
Feb 10 2025 // Kendall Empey IMA Financial Group named Kendall Empey president, Salt Lake City and market leader for Utah. Empey oversees employee benefits and property/casualty activities in the Utah market. Empey has experience in...
Nov 14 2024 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of R.K. Gore & Associates in Lehi, Utah.Robert Gore, owner, and the R.K. Gore & Associates team will join Hub Southern California and Utah. R.K. Gore & Associates will...
Aug 20 2024 // Kevin Peterson Buckner appointed Kevin Peterson as its new director of partnerships. Peterson joins Buckner from WCF Insurance, where he was most recently senior vice president of middle market. Before that, he spent over...
Aug 1 2024 // When actuary Greg Fears attended a Western Region Captive Insurance Conference in April, he expected to learn and share information about emerging uses of captives for commercial risks, including trucking captives—a...
Jul 23 2024 // MGIS, headquartered in Salt Lake City, named Jim Wrage vice president of sales and distribution.Wrage will develop and operationalize the organization’s sales strategy and manage a team of regional sales directors...
Jun 11 2024 // ALKEME acquired InsurePro in Draper, Utah. Ladera Ranch, California-ALKEME is an insurance agency providing businesses and individuals with commercial and personal insurance, employee and executive benefits, retirement and...
Apr 25 2024 // PCF Insurance Services in Utah closed $400 million in incremental debt financing led by Blue Owl.The financing was materially oversubscribed and was upsized from $300 million to $400 million in response to demand from new...
Apr 1 2024 // Market Detail: Shield Commercial Insurance Services, in business since 2004, offers a full line of commercial and residential contractor insurance coverage. Minimum premium is $1,500 for contractors professional and...
Mar 21 2024 // The Utah Insurance Department issued a warning about unlicensed companies and individuals offering coverage for damaged packages or packages stolen from porches. The department noted that some companies are using...
Feb 27 2024 // AM Best placed under review with negative implications the Financial Strength Rating of C++ (Marginal) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “b” (Marginal) of Casualty Underwriters Insurance Co. in Salt...
Feb 12 2024 // The American Property Casualty Insurance Association wants Utah senators to vote no on HB 144, a bill the APCIA says is confusing and could be interpreted as a drivers’ right of way on a green light is...
Nov 21 2023 // In February, Mark Bova purchased a used 2018 Tesla Model S. Before leaving the dealer, he bought insurance from Tesla, finding the initial $93 monthly premium “really reasonable.”Sixteen days later, as he drove...
Oct 12 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Highly pathogenic bird flu has made its first appearances in U.S. commercial poultry flocks this season, affecting one turkey farm in South Dakota and one in Utah and raising concerns that more...
Sep 18 2023 // One80 Intermediaries, GMI InsuranceOne80 Intermediaries, a specialty insurance broker headquartered in Boston, has acquired GMI Insurance, a Pennsylvania-based managing general agent specializing in commercial...
Aug 21 2023 // Gibson has entered Utah through its acquisition of Brisk Advisors. The new Gibson Utah office is in Midvale. Brisk Advisors (formerly Insurance Network) has provided risk management and personal insurance solutions to...