Latest Kansas Headlines
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International Insurance Regulators Convene in Kansas City
Oct 15 2012 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) welcomed 14 regulators from around the world for the Fall 2012 International Fellows Program in Kansas City, Mo. Participants include regulators from China, Grand...
2 Women File Federal Discrimination Suit Against NE Kansas DA
Oct 11 2012 // Two former employees have filed a federal lawsuit against Shawnee County, Kansas, District Attorney Chad Taylor alleging they were wrongfully terminated for raising issues about race and gender discrimination. The Topeka...
Kansas Court Upholds Limits on Damages in Lawsuits
Oct 8 2012 // Kansas will continue to limit compensation for pain and suffering to $250,000 in personal injury lawsuits following a state Supreme Court ruling Friday in the case of a woman whose doctor removed the wrong ovary from her...
Lockton Expands Financial Services Team in Kansas City
Oct 5 2012 // Privately held insurance broker, Lockton, recently expanded its global financial services team with the hiring of Michael Born in Kansas City. Born joins the company as vice president providing expertise in the areas of...
IMA Promotes 3 in Wichita, Kansas
Oct 3 2012 // Insurance broker IMA Inc. announced it has promoted Craig Schumacher, Tim Smith and Russ Winn in its Wichita, Kan., office. Schumacher is now director of client services, where he focuses on alternative energy, program...
Kansas Governor Asked to Set Health Exchange ‘Benchmark’
Sep 27 2012 // Kansas’ insurance regulator is asking Gov. Sam Brownback to spell out the requirements for health coverage to be sold in a new online marketplace mandated by the federal health care overhaul, but Brownback still...
Ex-Cadets Seek Sanctions Against Kansas Military School
Sep 21 2012 // Former cadets of a Kansas military school have asked a federal judge to impose sanctions and order the school to release information about prior complaints, records and lawsuits they say would show a pattern of...
Crop Insurance Losses Mount in Midwest
Sep 18 2012 // Thousands of farmers are filing insurance claims this year after drought and triple-digit temperatures burned up crops across the nation’s Corn Belt, and some experts are predicting record insurance losses —...
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Urges Health Care Law Plans
Sep 7 2012 // The state of Kansas needs to decide soon what services it will provide in a health insurance exchange required by the federal health care law, even if the future of the exchanges hinges on the outcome of the presidential...
Drought, Low Export Demand Sap Midwest Economy
Sep 5 2012 // An August survey suggests that the continuing drought and lessening export demand for U.S. products are among the drains on the economy in nine Midwest and Plains states, according to a report released Tuesday. The...
Families Sue over Kansas Grain Elevator Blast
Aug 31 2012 // Family members of four people killed in a grain elevator explosion last year in northeast Kansas are suing employees of Bartlett Grain Co., including its current president Bob Knief, less than five months after federal...
Kansas Property Casualty Insurance Regulators Honored for Timely Reviews
Aug 16 2012 // Property and Casualty Division of the Kansas Insurance Department (KID) has raised the bar when it comes to reviewing new rate and form filings from insurance companies, the department announced. Kansas Commissioner of...
Hutchinson, Kansas Area Residents Concerned About Levee
Aug 15 2012 // The refusal of city and county officials to fund the improvement of a levee near an unincorporated section of Hutchinson has prompted concerns among residents. The city voted last year to improve and recertify levees along...
Despite GOP Governors, Feds Building Health Insurance Exchanges
Aug 8 2012 // Don’t look now: The feds may be gaining on GOP governors who’ve balked at carrying out a key part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law. Opponents of the law say they won’t set up new...
$10.4M to Be Distributed to Kansas Firefighters
Aug 2 2012 // More than $10.4 million will be distributed among 578 local Firefighters Relief Associations (FRAs) across Kansas, state insurance regulators report. Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger is currently making the...
Kansas Increases Scrutiny of Some Health Insurance Rates
Aug 1 2012 // Kansas insurance regulators are complying with part of the federal health insurance reform law that requires more scrutiny of health insurance rate increases above 10 percent at a time when Gov. Sam Brownback’s...
Former Topeka, Kansas, Deputy Fire Chief Files Discrimination Lawsuit
Jul 25 2012 // A former Topeka deputy fire chief is seeking more than $1.3 million in a federal discrimination lawsuit filed against Topeka and a firefighters union. The lawsuit was filed by Kathy Petty, a former deputy chief of the fire...
Kansas Governor, Insurance Chief at Odds on Health Care
Jul 2 2012 // Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said he wants to wait until after the presidential election to comply with a key provision of the federal health care overhaul upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, but the state’s Republican...
Kansas Researchers: Most Large Truck Crashes Caused by Driver Error
Jun 21 2012 // Two Kansas State University civil engineers working to make Kansas roads and highways safer by reducing the number and severity of vehicular crashes that involve large, cargo-carrying trucks, say the majority of such...
Boeing Lauds Tornado Recovery by Key Kansas Supplier
Jun 20 2012 // Top Boeing Co. executives were in Wichita, Kan., on June 18 to celebrate tornado recovery efforts by parts supplier Spirit AeroSystems, telling thousands of cheering employees that the event forged a stronger bond between...
