All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 29 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...
Nov 11 2004 // As temperatures fall, certain workplace injuries tend to rise. Utah’s Workers Compensation Fund is urging workers statewide to learn preventive tactics to remain safe on the job this fall and winter.Common...
Oct 6 2004 // The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of one of Utah’s highest-profile court cases, perhaps ending a decades-long legal battle over a claim brought by a couple against their insurance agency.The...
Sep 9 2004 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) have filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a remand of a second Utah...
Sep 6 2004 // An insurance company that already won a $136 million reduction of a punitive damage award thinks that the $9 million it was ordered to pay is still too high.State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. has appealed the...
Sep 2 2004 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) have filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a remand of a second Utah...
Aug 26 2004 // An insurance company that already won a $136 million reduction of a punitive damage award thinks that the $9 million it was ordered to pay is still too high.State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. has appealed the...
Jun 18 2004 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long announced that a cease and desist order – levying two fines worth $390,000 – was issued against American Benefits and Insurance Services Inc. of Salt Lake City....
Jun 7 2004 // Medical malpractice insurance rates are on the rise in Wyoming, and lawmakers anticipate being called into a special legislative session this summer to address the issue.The Doctors Co., which insures about 30 percent of...
Jun 2 2004 // Salt Lake City-based Workers Compensation Fund announced that it will pay dividends totaling $20 million to policyholders this year.All eligible policyholders, regardless of company or policy size, will receive a portion...
May 17 2004 // Insurance Journal asked me to spend 2,000 words on the Leavitt Group’s agency perpetuation philosophy. So, after rattling off some rather sterile company background, I’ll describe how we and our co-owners...
May 13 2004 // A committee of legislators and state agency and insurance representatives is considering how the state might implement a plan to treat the state’s 120,000 uninsured drivers much the way financial institutions deal...
Apr 26 2004 // The Utah Supreme Court on Friday lowered by $136 million the amount of punitive damages State Farm Insurance should pay in a decades-old lawsuit alleging it underpaid insurance claims, cheated customers and destroyed...
Apr 7 2004 // The Insurance Council of Texas presented $15,000 in scholarships this month to students at Baylor, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas. All of the students had excelled in insurance and risk...
Mar 22 2004 // Private insurers won a victory this week as legislation to privatize the Utah Workers’ Compensation Fund (WCF) died in the final hours of the 2004 Utah legislative session. However, the defeat of this legislation (SB...
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Mar 5 2004 // Private insurers won a victory this week as legislation to privatize the Utah Workers’ Compensation Fund (WCF) died in the final hours of the 2004 Utah legislative session.However, the defeat of this legislation (SB...
Dec 1 2003 // The Utah Workers Compensation Fund has filed a lawsuit against the State of Utah over the ownership of the assets of WCF, in efforts to put to rest the dispute over ownership which stems back to the Fund’s inception...
Oct 23 2003 // The Utah Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the State of Utah over the ownership of the assets of WCF.This dispute has been long standing. WCF believes that the assets of the...
Oct 6 2003 // Utah’s Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) will host four safety seminars in October. Seminar topics include fall protection, forklift safety, defensive driving and fleet safety.The seminars are free to WCF...