Latest Kansas Headlines
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Signature Select Hires Three in Kansas City
Mar 1 2011 // Denver-based Signature Select LLC, a retail insurance broker subsidiary of The IMA Financial Group Inc., has expanded its commercial lines insurance practice in Kansas City, Kan., by adding vice presidents Larry Laubach...
People
Feb 21 2011 // Ryan Brown Kansas City-based insurance broker Lockton Companies expanded its St. Louis, Mo., office with the addition of Ryan W. Brown as producer. Brown, a mining and energy expert, comes to Lockton from Peabody Energy,...
Agriculture, Energy Help Bolster Mid-America States Economy
Feb 2 2011 // The economy is gaining strength in nine Midwest and Plains states because global growth and continued low interest rates have provided a boost to agriculture and energy businesses, according to a new survey released Feb....
Model Boasts Good Track Record Predicting Political Hotspots
Feb 1 2011 // The forecast for predicting the next political hotspots could be much more accurate because of a model developed by two Kansas State University professors and a colleague in New York. The model, named the Predictive...
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Names Birdsall Chief Actuary
Jan 28 2011 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger appointed Mark Birdsall, a veteran life insurance actuary, as the chief actuary for the Kansas Insurance Department (KID). Birdsall, a former Utah resident, has 31 years’...
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Appoints New Staff
Jan 25 2011 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has named a new general counsel, a new consumer assistance director and made title changes for two staff members at the Kansas Insurance Department (KID). Praeger named Zachary...
Business Moves
Jan 24 2011 // Combined Agents, Elliott Insurance, HC&H Insurance Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) has added two new agency members, one located in Kansas and one in North Texas. With the addition of the two...
Anderson Re-joins Lockton in Kansas City
Jan 24 2011 // Commercial insurance executive Doug Anderson has re-joined Lockton as senior vice president and producer in the insurance broker’s property and casualty operation in Kansas City, Mo. Anderson will be responsible for...
Kansas Insurance Department Recoveries for Consumers Drop in 2010
Jan 12 2011 // The Kansas Insurance Department is reporting that it recovered 32 percent less money for consumers last year than it did in 2009. But the agency says the number of complaints from consumers about insurance companies also...
Combined Agents of America Expands with Agencies in Texas, Kansas
Jan 11 2011 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America, LLC (CAA) announced it has added two new agency members, one located in Kansas and one in North Texas. With the addition of the two new members of the group — Elliott...
Kansas to Receive $500K in AIG Workers’ Comp Settlement
Jan 6 2011 // A signed legal settlement with American International Group will net the State of Kansas general fund $500,000, according to Sandy Praeger, Commissioner of Insurance. “The AIG settlement for Kansas was part of a...
Railroad Ordered to Pay Disciplined Kansas Employee
Dec 17 2010 // BNSF Railway Co. has been ordered to pay $95,096 to a Kansas employee it disciplined for reporting a work-related injury. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said this week that the penalty represents back...
Crop Bounty Spurs Construction Boom at Midwest Grain Elevators
Dec 3 2010 // A construction boom has been under way at grain elevators across the Great Plains, where farmers have grown more corn and opted to keep more of the grain to meet the demand from ethanol plants. Storage capacity at the...
A.M. Best Downgrades Ratings of Kansas-based Upland Mutual Insurance
Nov 30 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B+ (Good) from B++ (Good) and issuer credit rating to “bbb-” from “bbb” of Upland Mutual Insurance Inc. (Upland) (Junction City, KS)....
Elections Stir Up Political Mix in Midwest
Nov 14 2010 // Republicans made big gains across the United States – and the Midwest was no exception – in the November 2 midterm elections. Across the country, GOP gains gave the party its largest number of seats in state...
It Figures
Nov 1 2010 // $220 Million Estimated 2010 storm losses in Kansas climbed to $220 million as of the end of August, according to the Kansas Department of Insurance. There were approximately 59,400 storm claims filed during the same...
Kansas DOI Estimates $220M in Storm Losses as of Aug. 31
Oct 22 2010 // Estimated 2010 storm losses in Kansas climbed to $220 million as of the end of August, according to the Kansas Department of Insurance. There were approximately 59,400 storm claims filed during that period. The highest...
Kansas Commissioner Revokes Agents’ Licenses
Oct 18 2010 // Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Sandy Praeger recently revoked the licenses of three Crawford County insurance agents and warned area citizens who may have been customers of the agents to check with their insurance...
University of Kansas Student Receives Insurance Settlement Scholarship
Oct 6 2010 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has awarded a $1,000 scholarship to a University of Kansas minority student as part of a program established by an insurance company’s discrimination suit settlement....
Kansas Commissioner Revokes Licenses of 3 Pittsburg Agents
Oct 1 2010 // Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Sandy Praeger recently revoked the licenses of three Crawford County insurance agents and warned area citizens who may have been customers of the agents to check with their insurance...
