All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 18 2012 // A Las Vegas couple has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America over the July 2011 drowning of their 12-year-old son during a camp program in northern Utah.Christopher and Sherry Tuvell, in their...
Jun 15 2012 // Extremely dry conditions have prompted Utah officials to implement a series of fire restrictions aimed at preventing wildfires.Federal officials from the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fish and...
Jun 7 2012 // Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc.has started selling its core commercial automobile insurance products in Utah, becoming the 31st state where Atlas is actively underwriting. Atlas’ insurance subsidiaries, American...
May 22 2012 // A Utah insurance agent has been ordered to stop doing business in North Dakota. State Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm says Bart Winterton of Vernal, Utah, operated as an insurance producer without being licensed in North...
May 15 2012 // The state of Utah has joined an antitrust lawsuit accusing publishers of fixing e-book prices.The Utah Attorney General’s Office says Utah has joined 29 other states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia in...
May 7 2012 // State officials say 10 Utah counties have sued the federal government over title to thousands of miles of roads that cross public land in the state, and 12 more counties are expected to follow suit next week.Utah Chief...
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...