All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 1 2005 // The owner of the Park City Pharmacy at The Clinic in Utah has been arrested on suspicion of fraudulently billing an insurance company for drugs that never were prescribed.Thomas Evan Strebel, 60, was arrested for...
Oct 14 2005 // Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. has signed the Insurance Fraud Awareness Declaration making October Insurance Fraud Awareness Month. Joe Christensen, director of the Fraud Division, wrote and promoted the signing of this...
Sep 19 2005 // UTAHUTAH SUPREME COURT RULES WCF ASSETS NOT OWNED BY STATE: The Utah Supreme Court has declared that Workers Com-pensation Fund’s assets are owned by policyholders, not the state. The ruling in favor of WCF settles...
Sep 5 2005 // Boghos v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London (California, July 18, 2005) Ruling: This case considered the effect and enforceability of an arbitration clause in a contract for disability insurance. The Supreme...
Sep 5 2005 // Boghos v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London (California, July 18, 2005)Ruling: This case considered the effect and enforceability of an arbitration clause in a contract for disability insurance. The Supreme...
Sep 5 2005 // The Utah Supreme Court has agreed with a lower court that the state has no ownership in the Workers Compensation Fund other than as one of the 33,000 policyholders.The court on Tuesday upheld 3rd District Judge Timothy...
Sep 5 2005 // The Utah Supreme Court has agreed with a lower court that the state has no ownership in the Workers Compensation Fund other than as one of the 33,000 policyholders.The court on Tuesday upheld Third District Judge Timothy...
Aug 31 2005 // The twice-a-week bus trips from Preston, Idaho, to Logan have been canceled due to church-state and insurance concerns.Franklin County Clerk Elliott Larsen said the trips, which have been shut down for the past month,...
Aug 25 2005 // The Utah Supreme Court has declared that Workers Compensation Fund’s assets are owned by policyholders, not the State of Utah. The ruling in favor of WCF settles long-standing challenges by the State of Utah and...
Jul 25 2005 // Springville, Utah’s City Council has voted unanimously to tighten Springville’s pit bull ordinance, including raising the amount of insurance pit bull owners must carry and changing who must be with a dog when...
Jul 19 2005 // Utah’s Workers Compensation Fund has declared a $20 million dividend that will be distributed to a majority of policyholders this August. Policyholders can expect to receive 9.25 percent of their earned premium...
Jun 22 2005 // Utah’s city budgeting office has requested an additional $100,000 from the Municipal Council to replenish the diminished insurance-claims fund.The original budget allocated $200,000 for that fund for the 2004-2005...
Jun 14 2005 // Dan Hair joined Workers Compensation Fund as senior vice president, safety and underwriting. Hair began his insurance career with the State Compensation Insurance Fund of California in 1976, and he recently ended a 25-year...
Mar 24 2005 // A glass half full in Utah is much preferred to one that is empty, according to the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies. Western Region State Affairs Manager Christian Rataj said that his organization is...
Mar 2 2005 // On Feb. 2, 2005, Utah Third District Judge Leslie A. Lewis ruled in favor of Workers Compensation Fund, dismissing an action brought by the Utah State Auditor. In that action, the State Auditor asserted that WCF was a...
Feb 7 2005 // Southwestern Utah has not been declared a federal disaster area despite more than $150 million in damages caused by flooding in mid-January. St. George and the surrounding areas in Washington County were the hardest hit...
Jan 10 2005 // On Jan. 5, Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. appointed D. Kent Michie as Commissioner of Insurance. Michie will replace Commissioner Merwin Stewart. Michie is a native of Utah and was educated in Salt Lake City schools....
Dec 29 2004 // The Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration and the nation’s Better Business Bureaus have issued consumer advisories against companies going by the names Watermark...
Dec 20 2004 // A Utah law that caps the noneconomic damages that can be awarded in medical liability lawsuits will remain in place, the Utah Supreme Court ruled in November, according to the American Medical Association. In the nearly 20...
Dec 20 2004 // The year 2004 saw a little bit of everything across the Western Region. Workers’ comp, homeowners, med-mal, and even insurance fraud topped the list of the most talked about stories. We compiled these recaps based on...