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Overland Park, Kansas, Apartment Building Fire Ignites Houses
Mar 22 2017 // A huge fire at an apartment building under construction in suburban Kansas City has sparked fires at several homes blocks away. The eight-alarm fire broke out about 3:30 p.m. on March 20 at the multimillion-dollar...
Ranchers in Midwest Assessing Damage After Wildfires
Mar 20 2017 // Thousands of livestock are estimated to have been killed in the wildfire that spanned two counties along Kansas’ southern border in early March, but the actual numbers likely will not be totaled for some time. One...
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas Wildfires Tracked by New Satellite
Mar 16 2017 // When wildfires scorched more than 1 million acres in early March across parts of the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas, forecasters used a new weather satellite to see the infernos developing, almost in real time. The...
20 Kansas Counties Declared Disaster Areas after Wildfires
Mar 16 2017 // Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a final disaster declaration covering 20 counties following last week’s wildfires that burned more than 1,000 square miles of the state. Brownback signed the declaration on March...
Some Kansas Lawmakers Want State, not Feds, to Regulate Workplace Safety
Mar 16 2017 // Some Kansas lawmakers want the state to take over the job of writing and enforcing workplace regulations, despite concerns by a labor rights group that the change could water down safety oversight. Lawmakers and some...
Forestry Services: Wildfires in Oklahoma, Kansas 42% Contained
Mar 15 2017 // Oklahoma Forestry Services says four wildfires in northwestern Oklahoma and southwestern Kansas are now 42 percent contained, but a high fire danger continues in the region. The agency said that the largest fire is the...
Kansas Traffic Fatalities Increased by 22% in 2016
Mar 13 2017 // Kansas recorded a 22 percent increase in traffic fatalities in 2016 compared with the previous years and some experts say the blame falls on drivers who are looking at their phones instead of the road. Kansas Highway...
Ranchers in Midwest Assessing Damage After Wildfires
Mar 10 2017 // Kansas rancher Greg Gardiner got into some of his scorched pastures for the first time on March 8 and surveyed what he likened to a battle zone: carcasses of dead cattle everywhere. “It’s pretty much a...
Hundreds of Homes, Businesses Damaged by Storms in Midwest
Mar 8 2017 // A severe storm system has pummeled parts of the Midwest with tornadoes, huge hailstones and powerful winds, damaging nearly 500 buildings and injuring a dozen people in one Missouri city. The Storm Prediction Center in...
Deadly Wildfires Force Thousands from Homes in 4 States
Mar 8 2017 // Emergency crews on March 7 struggled to contain deadly wildfires that have scorched hundreds of square miles of land in four states and forced thousands of people to flee their homes ahead of the wind-whipped flames. The...
Fighting Massive 2016 Wildfire Cost Kansas County $1.5M
Mar 6 2017 // Firefighting costs hit $1.5 million in the county hardest hit by a massive wildfire along the Kansas-Oklahoma border last year. Jerry McNamar, emergency management director for Kansas’ Barber County, said he’s...
Report: 100s of Deficient Bridges in NE Kansas, NW Missouri
Feb 28 2017 // Hundreds of bridges in northwest Missouri and northeastern Kansas are being called “structurally deficient.” The St. Joseph News-Press reports that the National Bridge Inventory Database defines a structurally...
18 Kansas Counties Hit by Ice Storm in January to Get Federal Aid
Feb 26 2017 // Eighteen Kansas counties affected by a severe ice storm in January will receive federal disaster aid. The Kansas Adjutant General’s office announced that President Donald Trump has granted Gov. Sam Brownback’s...
Avant Acquires Kansas-Based Supermarket Insurance Group
Feb 23 2017 // Avant LLC has purchased Supermarket Insurance Group (SIG), based in Overland Park, Kansas. SIG is a property/casualty insurance provider to the supermarket niche in the U.S. with a concentration in the Midwest. SIG is led...
Workers Hospitalized for Carbon Monoxide Exposure at Kansas Plant
Feb 16 2017 // About 20 employees from a manufacturing plant in Kansas’ Reno County were sent to the hospital on Feb. 13 after being exposed to carbon monoxide in the workplace. SYT USA official Alex Birkenfeldt tells The...
Fighting Massive 2016 Wildfire Cost Kansas County $1.5M
Feb 13 2017 // Firefighting costs hit $1.5 million in the county hardest hit by a massive wildfire along the Kansas-Oklahoma border last year. Jerry McNamar, emergency management director for Kansas’ Barber County, said he’s...
Insurance Department Staff to Meet with Students at Kansas Universities
Feb 6 2017 // A Kansas Insurance Department staff member will be visiting with business majors at Kansas universities during February to promote insurance courses as part of a statewide education initiative to attract more employees to...
Short Joins XL Catlin’s Excess Casualty Unit in Kansas City
Jan 26 2017 // Alan F. Short has joined XL Catlin’s Excess Casualty team as a senior underwriter in Kansas City. Short brings 30-plus years of broker and underwriting experience, including his recent tenure as an underwriting...
Kansas Wildlife Investigation Uncovers Insurance Fraud
Jan 24 2017 // An investigation into possible wildlife violations uncovered unrelated insurance fraud evidence that led to a recent criminal conviction in Kansas. Lawrence E. Payne, Overland Park, was sentenced Dec. 6, 2016, to serve 30...
Kansas City’s Brush Creek Partners Joins TechAssure
Jan 23 2017 // TechAssure, the international nonprofit association of insurance and risk management experts for technology-related risks, has named Kansas City, Mo.-based Brush Creek Partners as a new member. Brush Creek Partners is an...
