Latest Nebraska Headlines
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Nebraska County to Challenge Insurers Over Coverage for $28M Lawsuit
Nov 28 2016 // Nebraska’s Gage County will challenge its insurers’ decision not to cover it for a $28.1 million judgment awarded to six people who were wrongfully convicted of murder. KWBE reports that the county board...
Nebraska Grain Facility Fined Nearly $527K over Worker’s Death
Nov 15 2016 // Federal safety regulators have proposed nearly $527,000 in penalties against the operators of a northeast Nebraska grain facility where a worker was fatally injured. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said...
Berkshire’s Workers’ Compensation Product Carries Risks of Innovation
Nov 4 2016 // David Miller is a stickler for safety at the Goodwill stores he runs in central California. So when Applied Underwriters offered his nonprofit a deal on insurance for workplace accidents if he could minimize injuries, he...
Nebraska County Appeals $28.1M Judgment Won by Exonerated Inmates
Oct 10 2016 // Gage County, Nebraska, is appealing a $28.1 million civil judgment it faces in a lawsuit filed by six people who were wrongly convicted of the 1985 rape and homicide of a Beatrice woman. The Lincoln Journal Star reports...
Berkshire’s Applied Underwriters Defends Workers’ Comp Products, Says Brokers Should Not Be at Risk
Oct 3 2016 // Legal and regulatory squabbles in New York, California and other states involving Berkshire Hathaway and its Applied Underwriter affiliates over particular workers’ compensation products should not have any negative...
Could Trouble with Comp Products from Berkshire Affiliates Land in Brokers’ Laps?
Sep 26 2016 // Insurance brokers who sold allegedly illegal workers’ compensation products from Berkshire Hathaway affiliates involved in legal and regulatory troubles in New York and California could end up being strapped with...
$411K in Fines Proposed in Nebraska Grain Elevator Fatality
Sep 14 2016 // A federal safety agency has proposed more than $411,000 in penalties against the operator of a south-central Nebraska grain elevator where a worker was killed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in a...
County in Nebraska Seeks Insurance Coverage in Wrong Conviction Case
Aug 22 2016 // Nebraska’s Gage County has hired a legal firm to examine insurance coverage in a recent ruling involving six people who were wrongly convicted of the 1985 rape and homicide of a Beatrice woman. Gage County Board of...
Nebraska Doctor Opens Membership-Based, Insurance-Free Practice
Aug 19 2016 // Dr. Todd Johnson of Lincoln is a modern-day pioneer, starting the first membership-based, insurance-free medical practice in Nebraska. Access Family Medicine opened in mid-July and provides what is called direct primary...
HGGC/Integrity Partnership to Acquire Nebraska Insurance Marketing Firm
Jul 19 2016 // Palo Alto, Calif.-based middle market private equity firm HGGC, has completed its equity investment in Integrity Marketing Group LLC (Integrity), an independent distributor of life/ health insurance products focused on...
Insurer for Nebraska Town Settles Claim Filed in Water Park Death
Jun 28 2016 // Grand Island, Neb.’s insurance carrier has settled a claim against the city over the drowning of a 5-year-old girl at the city’s Island Oasis Water Park last summer. The claim for more than $1 million was filed...
Iowa Insurance Commissioner Sues Feds Over Failed Health Co-Op
May 23 2016 // Iowa Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart says federal health officials are unlawfully withholding millions of dollars owed to a failed health insurance co-op in his state. Gerhart, who is Liquidator for CoOportunity...
Nebraska Church with No Alarm System Suffers $450 in Fire Damage
May 17 2016 // A fire at a Scottsbluff, Neb., church earlier this month caused $450,000 damage because it burned for more than five hours before being discovered. KNEB reports firefighters increased their damage estimate for the May 8...
Tornadoes Survival Tips from Texas to Nebraska
May 11 2016 // Storms swept through the nation’s midsection Monday, spawning numerous tornadoes. While tornadoes can form any time weather conditions are right, the area from Texas to Nebraska typically sees tornadoes between April...
Main Street America Names Simmons Assistant Secretary in Nebraska
May 6 2016 // The Main Street America Group has named Scott Simmons assistant secretary in its Omaha, Neb., office. Simmons reports to Dan Gaynor, the company’s vice president and head of commercial lines. He is responsible for...
Insurer Among Parties Arguing over Cause of Flooded Homes in Nebraska
Apr 24 2016 // The city of Bellevue, Neb., the Metropolitan Utilities District, a plumbing contractor and its insurance company disagree about who’s to blame for a ruptured water line that flooded about 12 homes in February. The...
Nebraska Letter Carrier Awarded $25K after Dog Bite
Apr 3 2016 // A letter carrier has won $25,000 from the owners of a dog that bit him in Grand Island, Neb. The Grand Island Independent reports that a Hall County jury awarded the damages to Seth Gruhn, who’d sued David Hernandez...
Whistleblower Protections for Nurses Passed in Nebraska
Apr 1 2016 // A bill that would grant whistleblower protections for nurses in Nebraska has won final approval from lawmakers. Senators passed the bill Thursday with a 45-0 vote. The issue surfaced last year after two Nebraska nurses...
Nebraska Governor Signs Bill Allowing Direct Payment for Primary Care
Apr 1 2016 // Medical patients in Nebraska will have the option to pay doctors directly for consultations and physicals rather than through insurance under a bill signed by Gov. Pete Ricketts. The law allows medical practitioners to...
Safety Regulators Back Nebraska Man Who Refused to Drive Truck
Mar 21 2016 // Federal safety regulators say a southeast Nebraska company wrongfully fired a driver who refused to operate a truck that violated Iowa law. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
