Nevada Watch
Featured news in this section focuses on Nevada, the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange (Nevada Health Link), the Nevada Division of Insurance (in the Department of Business and Industry), and actions by the state legislature affecting insurance brokers and clients.
Nevada added 239 new COVID-19 cases and 23 deaths over the preceding day, as the state’s infection or positivity rate registered its first decline in nearly a month, according to state data posted Wednesday.
Hospital workers in Las Vegas are calling on Nevada health officials to investigate claims of unsafe working conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Nevada recorded 672 new cases of COVID-19 and 25 additional deaths over the preceding day, according to state data posted Tuesday.
Nevada lawmakers wrapped up the state’s latest special legislative with a deeply divisive amendment that cut schools and hospitals out of a bill to protect business owners from coronavirus-related employee lawsuits.
Nevada health officials on Monday reported 994 new coronavirus cases and 15 new deaths
The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange has announced its Open Enrollment Period for Plan Year 2021 will run from Nov. 1 through Jan. 15, 2021.
The Nevada Legislature approved immense cuts to the state’s health and education budgets on Sunday in an effort to rebalance the state budget amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and plummeting revenue projections.
Health officials announced plans to train and add more than 400 new positions to handle contact tracing of local COVID-19 patients as they battle rising case numbers in Clark County and an ever-increasing statewide infection rate.
Nevada lawmakers have started cleaning up a ten-figure budget mess caused by the coronavirus, opening a special legislative session on Wednesday that will see hundreds of millions of dollars slashed from the state’s $4.4 billion annual spending plan.
With COVID-19 cases increasing across the Las Vegas Valley, many people wonder what the protocol is if a staff member at a business or office were to test positive for the virus.