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MMIC Expands Insurance Services to Kansas and Missouri
Sep 21 2010 // Medical professional liability insurance provider, MMIC Group, recently announced its entry into the Kansas/Missouri marketplace. According to MMIC President and CEO Bill McDonough, “As consolidation of healthcare...
Kansas Report: 1 in 10 Fatal Crashes Involves Unlicensed Driver
Aug 18 2010 // Kansas officials say it’s a maddening when someone who has no driver’s license is involved in a fatal crash, but they’re not sure how to fix the problem. The Kansas Department of Transportation says that...
Praeger to Retain Post as Kansas Insurance Commissioner
Aug 16 2010 // Incumbent Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger prevailed over her challenger, David Powell, in the Aug. 3 Republican primary to secure her party’s nomination for the commissioner’s job. Because there are...
Praeger to Retain Post as Kansas Insurance Commissioner
Aug 4 2010 // Sandy Praeger prevailed over challenger David Powell in the Aug. 3 Republican primary to secure the nomination for Kansas Insurance Commissioner. Because there are no challengers from any other party for the November...
Midwest Economy: North Dakota Tops Region in Job Growth
Aug 3 2010 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
Upcoming Kansas Primary to Decide Next Insurance Commissioner
Jul 30 2010 // Experience and support for the new federal health care reform law are the defining issues in a Republican primary for Kansas insurance commissioner that will determine who holds the office for the next four...
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Has Spent $140K on Campaign
Jul 28 2010 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has spent four times as much money as her only rival in her campaign for a third term. Praeger, of Lawrence, faces El Dorado insurance agent David Powell in the Aug. 3 Republican...
Kansas Suspends Insurance Agent’s License Amid Federal Probe
Jul 26 2010 // Kansas regulators have suspended the license of a Wichita insurance agent in a rare emergency order spurred by a federal investigation over alleged fraud linked to the trust of an elderly woman. The action was taken...
Nearly $10M Being Distributed to Kansas Firefighters Relief Associations
Jul 15 2010 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger is currently making the annual distribution of funds to state and local firefighter relief organizations. More than $9.7 million will be distributed among 580 local Firefighters...
CNA Adds Wehrkamp as Commercial Underwriting Officer in Kansas City
Jul 13 2010 // CNA Financial Corp., based in Chicago, has appointed Don Wehrkamp as Commercial Underwriting officer for its Kansas City territory. In this role, Wehrkamp will ensure that the full complement of CNA’s products and...
People
Jul 5 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected David Wood, vice president and partner at Bogan, Dunlap & Wood Insurance in Odessa, to serve as the association’s president for 2010-2011. Other newly...
Kansas, Nebraska Gain Jobs in May
Jun 22 2010 // Kansas businesses gained 11,300 jobs in May, a 0.8 percent increase, building on gains made in April. Nebraska also saw job gains in May 2010 and a decrease of 0.1 percent in its unemployment rate, bringing the rate to 4.9...
Only Republicans Running for Kansas Insurance Post
Jun 15 2010 // Voters in Kansas’ Aug. 3 Republican primary will probably decide the insurance commissioner’s race. No Democratic, Libertarian or Reform Party candidates filed for the office before the June 10...
Mid-America Business Conditions Index at Highest Level in Four Years
Jun 1 2010 // The May Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in the...
New Flood Maps Put More Kansas Residents in Flood Plain
May 24 2010 // Officials Harvey County, Iowa, say some residents may need to buy flood insurance under new federal maps of the area’s flood plain. Scott Davies, director of the Harvey County Planning and Zoning, says 270 residents...
Ratings: Partners Mutual, Farmers (NJ), Premier Group, United Farm Indiana, Real State, Kansas Med Mutual
May 13 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘B+’ (Good) and issuer credit rating of “bbb-” of Wisconsin-based Partners Mutual...
Kansas City-Based Westrope Expands Transportation Team
Apr 30 2010 // Wholesale insurance broker Westrope announced that Edward T. Havermann III has joined its Kansas City, Mo., headquarters as a broker in Westrope’s national transportation practice. Havermann began his career with...
Kansas State University: Crashes Caused by Older Drivers Often Severe
Apr 15 2010 // Kansas State University researchers are discovering the challenges aging creates for drivers. To help improve traffic safety, K-State engineers identified the characteristics of older drivers in Kansas and the types of...
Kansas Lawmakers Add Exemptions to Insurance Scoring Law
Apr 8 2010 // A national insurer trade organization is praising the Kansas Legislature for passing legislation (HB 2501) that includes what the trade group says are positive changes to the state’s laws regarding the credit...
Insurance Related Complaint Against Kansas House Speaker Dismissed
Apr 1 2010 // A special Kansas House committee has dismissed a complaint by Democrats against Republican Speaker Mike O’Neal. Democrat lawmakers filed a complaint in mid-March, accusing O’Neal, an attorney, of misconduct for...
