All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...