Latest Kansas Headlines
All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
GE PLANS SALE OF INSURANCE UNITS:
Sep 19 2005 // General Electric Co. likely will sell all of its remaining insurance operations, which include Kansas City-based GE Insurance Solutions, according to comments made by the head of GE Insurance Solutions. Ron Pressman, head...
News Briefs
Sep 19 2005 // Illinois Katrina Could Affect Ill. Insurance Rates: Experts say the path of destruction left by Hurricane Katrina likely will lead to higher insurance rates in the metro-east and across the country, although it is unclear...
News Briefs
Sep 5 2005 // Illinois CCC Settles Class-Action Suit on Total Loss Vehicle Valuation: Chicago-based claims software-maker CCC Information Services Inc. and 15 of its customers signed a settlement agreement with plaintiffs in various...
GE Plans Sale of Insurance Units
Aug 25 2005 // General Electric Co. likely will sell all of its remaining insurance operations, which include Kansas City-based GE Insurance Solutions, the local company’s chief executive told Bloomberg News. Bloomberg reported the...
Engle Martin & Associates Opens Vegas, K.C. Offices
Aug 22 2005 // Engle Martin & Associates Inc., an independent loss adjustment firm, will expand its Western and Midwestern presence with the opening of two new offices in Las Vegas and Kansas City. Officially located at 1489 W Warm...
Auto-Liability
Aug 22 2005 // This recurring feature examines insurance coverage decisions in the Midwest’s appellate courts, as compiled by the New York-based law firm of Goldberg Segalla LLC and edited by insurance lawyer Kevin T. Merriman...
People
Aug 22 2005 // The National Association of Government Labor Officials (NAGLO) during its 2005 summer conference elected Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry Commissioner Scott Brener president. With members from more than 30 U.S....
Increase in Midwestern Insured Crop Acres Eases Drought Threat
Aug 22 2005 // Farmers in Midwestern states like Kansas have more than doubled the acres they insure and tripled their dollar amount of coverage since 1989, according to recent statistics. It’s a trend that could mitigate financial...
Kansas Insurers Oppose Drivers’ License Renewals at AAA Offices
Aug 17 2005 // Kansas members of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) are mobilizing opposition to a state program permitting drivers’ license renewals at local AAA offices. The Kansas Department of...
Kansas Official Appointed to SILA
Aug 17 2005 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger announced today that LeRoy Brungardt has been appointed to serve on the Executive Committee of The Society of Insurance Licensing Administrators (SILA). Brungardt is Director of...
Kansas, Missouri Insurers Grew Profits in 2004
Aug 15 2005 // Forty-four property and casualty insurance companies based in Missouri reported total earnings of $224 million in 2004, compared with a loss of $423.5 million in 2003, according to Weiss Ratings Inc. In Kansas, 22 property...
Kansas Commissioner Issues Complaint Ratio Report
Aug 12 2005 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger on Friday released the 2004 Consumer Complaint Ratio Report which tracks complaints and questions about insurance companies licensed to do business in the State of Kansas. During...
Kansas Doubles Amount of Insured Crop Acres
Jul 29 2005 // Kansas farmers have more than doubled the insured acres in the state since 1989, tripling their dollar amount of coverage during the same time, according to a recently released study. The Associated Press reported that so...
Brown Joins Burns & Wilcox Kansas City Branch
Jul 21 2005 // Burns & Wilcox has appointed Chad Brown as a broker for the company’s Kansas City branch. As a Burns & Wilcox broker, Brown is responsible for the placement of large, complex property and casualty and...
HRH Purchases Doherty Inc.
Jun 7 2005 // Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company, an insurance and risk management intermediary, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Doherty Inc., an employee benefits brokerage operation in Fort Scott, Kansas. Terms of the...
People & Places
Apr 4 2005 // Michael D. Pierce Cincinnati-based Great American Insurance Group recently announced three promotions in its Schaumburg, Ill.-based executive liability division. Bruce R. Smith Jr. Michael D. Pierce was promoted to...
Q&A With Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger
Apr 4 2005 // Interviewed by Kevin B. O’Reilly When Insurance Journal last spoke with Sandy Praeger, she was only months into the job. Kansans elected the Republican as insurance commissioner in November 2002. Back then she was...
Regulators Name Consumer Liaison Reps for 2005
Mar 15 2005 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners recently named its funded consumer liaison representatives for 2005. Established in 1992, the program promotes consumer representation and interaction with NAIC members,...
Kan. DOI Names Levi Public Affairs Director
Mar 10 2005 // The Kansas Insurance Department announced that Kelly Levi has been named director of the government and public affairs division. Levi comes to the insurance department from Kansas State University, where she was associate...
Burns & Wilcox Names Felber Assistant Manager of Kansas City Branch
Feb 16 2005 // Farmington Hills, Mich.-based wholesaler Burns & Wilcox named Howard Felber assistant branch manager of the newly established Kansas City, Kan., service center. Felber is responsible for managing underwriting,...
