Latest Kansas Headlines
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New Law Causes Some Kansas Cities to Close Water Slides
Jul 11 2017 // Some Kansas cities are closing water slides at pools and aquatic centers this summer at least until confusion over a new state law that increased regulation of amusement park rides is cleared up. The law, which took effect...
How States Rate in Preventing Home, Auto, Work Accidents
Jun 28 2017 // No state goes far enough to protect its residents from leading causes of preventable deaths and injuries – commonly known as “accidents” – on the road, in homes and communities and at work, according to the...
Jury Says Syngenta Must Pay Kansas Farmers $217.7M in GMO Corn Case
Jun 26 2017 // A U.S. jury has ordered Syngenta AG to pay $217.7 million to more than 7,000 Kansas farmers over its decision to commercialize a genetically modified strain of corn before China approved importing it. The June 23 verdict...
Wine Named Securities Head, Shultz Asst. Commissioner at Kansas Insurance Dept.
Jun 23 2017 // John Wine, current assistant commissioner at the Kansas Insurance Department (KID), has been named securities commissioner within the department, and Clark Shultz has been tapped as Wine’s successor as assistant...
Partners Specialty Group Adds Swett & Crawford’s Coelho in Kansas City
Jun 23 2017 // Partners Specialty Group Inc., an AmWINS Group Co., has added Michael Coelho to its property team. He is based in Kansas City, Mo. With almost 30 years of experience in the insurance industry, Coelho specializes in...
Ex-Missouri Insurance Director Joins Dentons Law Firm in Kansas City
Jun 22 2017 // The global law firm, Dentons, has named John M. Huff as a partner in its insurance regulatory practice. He is based in Kansas City. Huff most recently served as director of the Missouri Department of Insurance, where he...
Kansas Traffic Deaths Averaging More than 1 Per Day
Jun 16 2017 // Kansas officials say the troubling increase in traffic fatalities across the state is accelerating. AAA spokeswoman Jennifer Haugh told the Wichita Eagle that Kansas is currently averaging more than one traffic fatality a...
Third Person Pleads Guilty in Kansas City Arson, Insurance Fraud Scheme
Jun 13 2017 // A Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to participating in a $235,000 arson and insurance fraud conspiracy. Federal prosecutors say 43-year-old Joseph Levi Little is the third person to plead guilty in the scheme. Tina...
1st Farmer Lawsuit Against Syngenta over China Trade Begins in Kansas
Jun 6 2017 // The first of tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits went to trial on Monday in Kansas against Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its decision to introduce a genetically engineered corn seed variety to the U.S. market...
Autopsy: Kansas Toddler Electrocuted at Carnival by Fencing
Jun 1 2017 // An autopsy report concludes that a toddler fatally injured at a carnival in Wichita, Kansas, died after grabbing an electrically charged fence. The report cited by the Wichita Eagle says 15-month-old Pressley Bartonek of...
Puetz to Lead Willis Towers Watson’s Corporate Risk Business in Missouri, Kansas
May 2 2017 // Willis Towers Watson has appointed John Puetz as corporate risk and broking (CRB) segment leader for the Missouri/Kansas market. Puetz will be responsible for driving the overall CRB growth strategy, value proposition and...
Dodge City Community College Wins Kansas Don’t Text #Just Drive Contest
Apr 28 2017 // Dodge City Community College (DCCC) received the most votes by percentage of students enrolled to win the Kansas community college “Don’t Text #Just Drive” spring contest March 15-April 16, sponsored in...
Kansas Tightens Amusement Park Regulations after Boy’s Waterslide Death
Apr 26 2017 // The death of a colleague’s son has spurred the governor in the often anti-regulation Kansas to toughen the state’s inspection requirements for amusement parks. A new law signed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback...
1st Farmer Lawsuit Against Syngenta over China Trade Begins in Minnesota
Apr 24 2017 // The first of tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits is about to go to trial against Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its decision to introduce a genetically engineered corn seed variety to the U.S. market before China...
Report: 90% of Firefighters in Kansas Are Underfunded Volunteers
Apr 20 2017 // Volunteer firefighters, who make up 90 percent of the firefighters in Kansas, are seeking additional funding. Kansas spends about $300,000 at the state level on firefighting, less than almost any other state, the Wichita...
Feds Say Chemical Cloud in Kansas Caused by Human Error, Labeling
Apr 17 2017 // Human error and labeling and design problems led to the release of a large chemical cloud over a northeast Kansas city that sent more than 140 people to the hospital last year and caused others to stay indoors or evacuate...
Aon: Insured Losses Likely to Exceed $2B from March Storms, Wildfires
Apr 17 2017 // Severe weather in March led to significant damage in the central and eastern United States, racking up more than $2 billion in insured losses, according to a report published by Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s...
Kansas Amusement Ride Safety Bill in the Works
Mar 27 2017 // Members of a Kansas House committee are pushing to ramp up oversight of temporary and permanent amusement park rides after a lawmaker’s son was killed on a waterslide last year, but the bill that would allow it to...
Officials: Kansas Apartment Blaze Caused $23M to $25M in Damage
Mar 27 2017 // Officials in a Kansas City suburb where a fire destroyed a multimillion-dollar apartment building under construction and spread to about two dozen homes estimate the blaze caused between $23 million and $25 million in...
Welder Sparked Massive Kansas Apartment Fire, Official Says
Mar 23 2017 // A fire that leveled a multimillion-dollar apartment building under construction and spread to about two dozen homes in suburban Kansas City, Mo., started when a welder accidentally ignited wooden building materials, fire...
