All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 7 2014 // Seven states, including five in the Great Plains, saw their median age decline between 2012 and 2013, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. At the same time, the median age for the U.S. as a whole ticked up from 37. 5...
Jul 2 2014 // Benjamin M. Harris will be joining the Utah’s Captive Insurance Division as an audit manager.Harris, a CPA, will join Travis Wegkamp, also an audit manager, in directing the examinations for the captive insurers in...
Jun 26 2014 // Seven states, including five in the Great Plains, saw their median age decline between 2012 and 2013, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. At the same time, the median age for the U.S. as a whole ticked up from 37.5...
Jun 4 2014 // Encino, Calif.-based Answer Financial Inc. will open a fourth office in Ogden, Utah. The office, adjacent to operations for sister company Esurance, opens this summer. The office is currently taking applications for sales...
May 27 2014 // A Paris-based company says it will fight a U.S. judge’s ruling against its attempt to force a Utah couple to pay $3,500 over a critical online review.Descoteaux Boutiques, which owns online retailer Kleargear.com,...
Apr 8 2014 // A judge has ruled in favor of an Ogden, Utah woman in a lawsuit over a severe dog bite.Second District Judge Mike DiReda found that Sara Loving was owed $250,000 in damages from defendants James and Cindy Davis for...
Apr 2 2014 // The former director of Utah’s health insurance exchange has been named director of a group that is exploring whether to create a state-run exchange in Arkansas.Cheryl Smith will begin work next month for the Arkansas...
Mar 28 2014 // Scott Harper’s hobby is insurance, but not the kind that protects your home, car or health. His insurance is emergency preparedness. And he’s found an opportunity to help other Oklahomans in the metro area get...
Mar 27 2014 // One of the last U.S. ski resorts to prohibit snowboarding said a lawsuit challenging the ban degrades the U.S. Constitution and should be thrown out.Lawyers for the Alta ski area east of Salt Lake City, Utah said in their...
Mar 10 2014 // The Leavitt Group has hired Jim Lineweaver, a client advisor, in its Tacoma, Wash., office.Lineweaver has 25 years of insurance experience. He specializes in large manufacturing risks, forest products, transportation,...
Mar 7 2014 // David J. Snowball has been named the new director for the Utah Insurance Department’s captive division. Snowball replaces Ross Elliott, who is set to retire at the end of the month. Snowball joined the division in...
Feb 24 2014 // James Eldredge has joined The Buckner Co. in Utah Eldredge has more than a decade of insurance experience, mostly within the commercial insurance sector. Eldredge focuses on contractors, real estate development,...
Feb 24 2014 // Kemper Corp.Kemper Corp. is realigning its property/casualty business. This realignment will result in one property/casualty segment for financial reporting purposes, beginning with the first quarter 2014. The new Kemper...
Feb 19 2014 // Bargoers weighing whether they’re sober enough to take the wheel could soon have a tool to help make that decision.Breathalyzers and similar devices could pop up in more bars across Utah under a coming proposal from...
Feb 12 2014 // A major blaze at a vacant downtown Salt Lake City, Utah apartment complex that could be seen for miles and brought onlookers from around the metro area caused at least $1.5 million in damage, fire investigators said...
Feb 12 2014 // The Leavitt Group has merged five of its agencies in southern Utah and Nevada.The merger includes Dixie Leavitt Agency, Hunt-Leavitt Insurance Agency, Leavitt Group Benefits Services of Southern Utah, Bringhurst-Leavitt...
Feb 10 2014 // Utah transportation officials say they counted 219 traffic deaths in Utah in 2013, and almost half of the car crash victims who died hadn’t been wearing seatbelts. The Utah Department of Transportation statistics...
Jan 28 2014 // Cameron Hallows has joined Okerlund, Sorensen & Leavitt in Utah as a producer. Hallows will focus on commercial and agribusiness insurance. Prior to insurance, Hallows worked selling farm equipment for Mason Machinery....
Jan 27 2014 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Cos. added John Brooks as a senior field representative for Arkansas, Louisiana and eastern Texas.A graduate of Louisiana State University, Brooks has been part of the insurance industry...
Jan 22 2014 // Utah transportation officials say they counted 219 traffic deaths in Utah in 2013, and almost half of the car crash victims who died hadn’t been wearing seatbelts. The Utah Department of Transportation statistics...