All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 27 2012 // A New Mexico widow whose husband was killed in a 2009 plane crash is suing a Utah crematory and funeral home after she says they gave her the wrong person’s ashes.Marilynn Flynn of Alamogordo has filed a federal...
Apr 25 2012 // Defense contractor ATK Launch Systems Inc. has agreed to pay $36.9 million in cash and services to settle a whistleblower’s complaint alleging the Utah-based company sold the military dangerous and defective...
Apr 11 2012 // An additional 750,000 people had their personal information stolen by hackers, state health officials said this week after discovering that the thieves downloaded thousands more files of data than authorities initially...
Apr 9 2012 // The Buckner Co. named Ryan Loftin, Jeremy Stucki and Micah Zabriskie to the Salt Lake City, Utah-based firm’s executive ranks. Loftin will work out of the firm’s Salt Lake City, Utah office, while Stucki and...
Apr 9 2012 // Health officials in Utah say hackers who downloaded thousands of medical files from state computers last week stole far more personal information than originally thought.The Utah Department of Health said Friday that...
Mar 19 2012 // Utah’s Supreme Court has ruled that lawyers can pursue a lawsuit seeking to hold doctors responsible for the actions of a man who fatally shot his wife while under their care.The justices said medical providers need...
Mar 12 2012 // Misdemeanor criminal charges have been filed and fines levied against the operator of a Utah mine where a 2007 collapse killed six miners, two rescuers and a federal inspector, Federal prosecutors said Friday.U.S. Attorney...
Mar 9 2012 // A life insurance company has asked a judge to decide whether any of Josh Powell’s relatives are entitled to collect on a $1.5 million policy after he killed himself and his two sons in a Washington house fire last...
Mar 8 2012 // Utah officials are replacing 73 vehicles in the state’s fleet with fuel-efficient hybrids this year as part of Gov. Gary Herbert’s clean air initiative. Herbert is also asking Utah’s households,...
Mar 1 2012 // Utah’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that lawyers can pursue a lawsuit seeking to hold doctors responsible for the actions of a man who fatally shot his wife while under their care.The justices said medical providers...
Feb 29 2012 // A disabled Gulf War veteran is getting a $20,000 settlement in a federal lawsuit claiming he was repeatedly fined for keeping a companion dog in his Park City condo. The lawsuit claims the Fox Point at Redstone...
Feb 20 2012 // ISU NetworkThe San Francisco, Calif.-based ISU Network had expansions in four states, Utah, North Carolina, Maryland and North Dakota. Three Utah agencies have joined ISU Network. ISU Service Insurance Agency in Roosevelt,...
Feb 20 2012 // Utah is selling new maps that show the shaking intensity of earthquakes for the west half of Salt Lake County.The set of 10 maps also spotlights the risks of landslides, rock falls, floods, radon gas and other hazards in...
Feb 16 2012 // Pleasant Grove, Utah-based Veracity Insurance Solutions LLC has acquired Stratus Insurance Services Inc.Of particular interest to Veracity was Stratus’s collective experience in program management. The Stratus team...
Feb 9 2012 // Three Utah agencies have joined the San Francisco, Calif.-based ISU Network. ISU Service Insurance Agency in Roosevelt, Utah and ISU Rocky Mountain Insurance Services in Vernal, Utah have joined the ISU network of...
Feb 7 2012 // A federal judge has dismissed the city of St. George, Utah and one of its police officers from a lawsuit filed by the parents of a high school student who was killed while handling a blank-firing prop pistol just before a...
Feb 7 2012 // Several agencies from the western region joined Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance in January, pushing its number added to 47 for the month.Of January’s signed members, 33 are liberated “captive agents”...
Feb 6 2012 // Scientists say a minor earthquake has shaken the Utah Valley, but apparently causing no injuries or property damage. The University of Utah Seismograph Stations report the magnitude 3.7 quake occurred around 4:27 a.m....
Feb 6 2012 // Centennial, Colo.-based Colorado Casualty has named Lucas J. Bills as president and chief executive officer of the commercial lines company, which operates in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.Bills...
Feb 3 2012 // Utah is selling new maps that show the shaking intensity of earthquakes for the west half of Salt Lake County.The set of 10 maps also spotlights the risks of landslides, rock falls, floods, radon gas and other hazards in...