All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 14 2014 // Oil refiner Phillips 66 has paid $2 million to settle allegations it helped itself to a state fund for cleaning up damage from leaking fuel storage tanks even though it had insurance to cover the cleanups.Phillips 66 is...
Jan 2 2014 // State Auto’s Western Region unit, based in Austin, Texas, has made new assignments and promotions effective Jan. 1, 2014, the company announced.Lyndell Haigood, previously regional vice president – personal...
Dec 24 2013 // A Utah couple have sued an online retailer over a $3,500 charge the company assessed after one of them wrote a negative review concerning its customer service.John and Jennifer Palmer of Layton filed the lawsuit Wednesday...
Dec 18 2013 // Utah officials say they’ve come to a tentative $5.35 million settlement with Chevron after a pipeline leaked about 20,000 gallons of diesel fuel in northern Utah earlier this year.Chevron officials did not...
Dec 2 2013 // Officials with the Utah Department of Public Safety say more people are wearing seatbelts this year than they were a year ago.The state’s annual seatbelt observational study found 82.4 percent of people riding in...
Nov 13 2013 // A Utah mortgage company and two of its top officers will pay $13.2 million in refunds and fines in a settlement that puts an end to a lawsuit filed in July.The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Salt Lake City-based Castle...
Nov 4 2013 // Salt Lake County, Utah’s levee systems are in unacceptable shape, according to a review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.Officials with the Corps’ Sacramento District announced Friday that they found several...
Nov 4 2013 // A Utah Boy Scout leader whose toppling of an ancient rock formation in a state park was captured in a viral online video is facing questions over a personal injury lawsuit he filed a month before the incident.Glenn Taylor...
Oct 22 2013 // A Utah Boy Scout leader whose toppling of an ancient rock formation in a state park was captured in a viral online video is facing questions over a personal injury lawsuit he filed a month before the incident.Glenn Taylor...
Oct 16 2013 // A conservative think tank and advocate for harsher liquor laws in Utah is pushing to lower the legal limit for a driver’s blood alcohol level, arguing it would reduce roadway deaths.The Salt Lake City-based nonprofit...
Oct 10 2013 // A Utah man has been sentenced to seven days in jail after a high-speed chase that he blamed on a bathroom emergency.Thirty-nine-year-old Jeffrey Laub told a judge Monday that he ate something that upset his stomach and was...
Sep 26 2013 // The MGIS Companies, Inc. (MGIS) and Freedom Specialty, a Nationwide Insurance company, have entered the Utah medical malpractice insurance market. MGIS provides a broad range of insurance products and services designed for...
Sep 23 2013 // New figures from Bureau of Labor Statistics show there were 39 workplace deaths in 2012 in Utah – the same total as the year before.The preliminary data shows that transportation-related deaths were the most frequent in...
Sep 19 2013 // Get ready to rev your engine if you’re driving on rural Utah interstates: Signs are going up this week increasing the speed limit on many stretches to 80 mph.The Legislature approved the new, faster zones during the...
Sep 9 2013 // The MGIS Companies Inc. named Paul Fischerkeller assistant vice president of medical professional liability insurance sales. Fischerkeller will be responsible for managing and growing the firm’s MPL business,...
Sep 4 2013 // New figures from Bureau of Labor Statistics show there were 39 workplace deaths in 2012 in Utah – the same total as the year before.The preliminary data shows that transportation-related deaths were the most frequent in...
Aug 13 2013 // Stephen Merrill was finishing his freshman year of college two years ago when he and a group of friends went to an indoor trampoline park in Utah for a day of flipping, jumping and bouncing.At one point, Merrill leaped...
Jul 23 2013 // Utah County officials are considering regulating trampoline parks after the county’s emergency room doctors reported dozens of serious injuries from the centers in the past year and a half.Lance Madigan of the Utah...
Jul 22 2013 // The parents of a Lehi boy who was killed after a tombstone fell on him last year are suing the cemetery’s association.According to a lawsuit filed in Utah’s Third District Court, 4-year-old Carson Dean Cheney...
Jul 8 2013 // The parents of a Lehi boy who was killed after a tombstone fell on him last year are suing the cemetery’s association.According to a lawsuit filed in Utah’s Third District Court, 4-year-old Carson Dean Cheney...