All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 11 2011 // Utah gained 54 new captive insurance companies during 2010, according to the Utah Insurance Department. At the end of the year, there were 188 captive insurers in active operation with another 11 new applications pending....
Feb 7 2011 // Brown & Brown, Balcos Insurance, Mike Howard InsuranceBrown & Brown Inc. subsidiary Brown & Brown of Washington Inc. acquired substantially all of the assets of Balcos Insurance, Inc. and M C H Inc. of Seattle...
Jan 31 2011 // Utah Senate Bill 35 is going after construction companies, requiring them to pay workers’ compensation and contribute to unemployment insurance and withholding taxes as long as their employees own less than 20...
Jan 26 2011 // Dan Hair, Utah Workers Compensation Fund senior vice president and chief underwriting and safety officer, has been promoted to chief risk operator. He will be responsible for developing and implementing an enterprise risk...
Jan 19 2011 // Jeff Bock, currently director of the Farmers Minneapolis Business Development Center, has been appointed state executive director of Utah, according to Farmers Insurance. Bock began his career with Farmers in 1987 as a...
Jan 6 2011 // Wiseman Insurance Agency has joined the ISU Network, ISU International announced. Founded in 1935, ISU Wiseman Insurance Agency has been a family run business for four generations and is located in Provo, Utah. Currently...
Nov 1 2010 // Juan Andrade stepped down as Commercial Markets president at The Hartford to join Ace as president of the insurers’ Global Personal Lines and Small Commercial Insurance division. He will assume the new position with...
Oct 28 2010 // The Buckner Co. has been honored for the second yar in the row by the Mountain West Capital Network’s Utah 100 Event. MWCN has organized the Utah 100 event for 16 years as a way to recognize the industry-leaders and...
Oct 21 2010 // Utah Business Insurance Company (UBIC) has retained Andrew Olwert as part of its leadership team in order to expand its footprint in the West. Mr. Olwert will initially help UBIC position itself both operationally and...
Sep 21 2010 // A wind-stoked fire sparked at a firing range during a National Guard training session blazed across hundreds of acres, as crews rushed to keep it from reaching any more than the estimated four homes that burned on...
Jul 13 2010 // Shifty eyes long have been thought to signify a person’s problem telling the truth. Now a group of University of Utah researchers are taking that old adage to a new level.Educational psychologists John Kircher, Doug...
Jul 1 2010 // Alan Seegrist of The Buckner Co. has been awarded Health Underwriter of the Year by the Utah Chapter of The National Association of Health Underwriters. Seegrist was selected as the recipient of this award because of his...
Jun 28 2010 // Six U.S. insurance companies and Lloyd’s of London are suing for reimbursement of millions of dollars for equipment abandoned inside a Utah mine that collapsed in 2007, killing six miners and three rescuers.The suit...
Jun 17 2010 // The Utah Chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters has installed officers for the 2010-2011 term. Officers include: President Melanie Hamilton of Hamilton Insurance Associates Inc. in Salt Lake City; Vice...
Jun 1 2010 // Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert has appointed Neal T. Gooch as Commissioner of the Utah Insurance Department.Gooch was appointed acting Insurance Commissioner in January, and previously served as deputy insurance...
Apr 22 2010 // Five outstanding business degree majors at the University of Texas Pan American in Edinburg, Texas, have been awarded academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT). The students, many of them first...
Apr 7 2010 // Five insurance and risk management students at the University of Texas at San Antonio have been awarded $10,000 in scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT).The UTSA scholarship recipients for 2010 are Su-Whey...
Apr 5 2010 // An attorney for the family of a Utah boy killed by a black bear told the state Supreme Court that wildlife officials didn’t do enough to warn them to steer clear of an area where the troublesome bear had been seen...
Mar 25 2010 // Acting Commissioner Announced Neal T. Gooch has been appointed as acting insurance commissioner of the Utah Insurance Department. Governor Gary R. Herbert said the appointment would extend “until the selection of a...
Mar 24 2010 // The Utah Association of Independent Insurance Agents is seeking applicants for a new executive director. After 23-plus years with UAIIA, Steve Baugh will be stepping down due to health issues. Resumes for the executive...