Latest Nebraska Headlines
All the headlines from our Nebraska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Berkshire Hathaway Balks at Reporting on Climate Change Risks
Mar 13 2016 // Warren Buffett’s compensation for running Berkshire Hathaway Inc. edged up 1 percent last year to $470,244, reflecting an increase in the cost of keeping the billionaire safe. Buffett’s salary remained at...
Road Rules Would Ease for Farm Equipment Under Nebraska Bill
Mar 11 2016 // Tractors, combines and fertilizer spreaders would have a little more freedom on Nebraska’s roadways under a bill that has won first-round approval from lawmakers. Senators advanced a bill, 39-0, that would relax...
Regulators Back Nebraska Driver Who Wouldn’t Drive Unsafe Truck
Mar 4 2016 // Federal regulators want to punish a southeast Nebraska company that the regulators say wrongfully fired a driver who refused to operate a truck that violated Iowa law. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
NetVu Names Nebraska’s Dale as Chairman
Mar 4 2016 // Barb Dale is the new chairman of the executive board of directors Of NetVU, the network of users of Vertafore systems. Dale is with the SilverStone Group in Omaha, Nebraska, where she oversees the service staff of the...
Tornadoes Damage Mississippi, Alabama Communities
Feb 4 2016 // Tornadoes touched down in Mississippi and Alabama as thunderstorms swept through the area Tuesday, while a powerful snowstorm buried parts of Colorado and Nebraska in more than a foot of snow before crawling into the Upper...
2016 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 11 2016 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s 2016 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Obama Administration Urges Supreme Court to Reject Marijuana Lawsuit
Dec 21 2015 // Despite its opposition to making marijuana use legal, the Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit from Nebraska and Oklahoma that seeks to declare Colorado’s pot legalization...
Colorado Official: Nebraska Needs to Address Drugged Driving
Dec 10 2015 // A Colorado highway safety official says Nebraska should not wait for marijuana to become before acting to keep drugged drivers off the roads. The Lincoln Journal Star reports Glenn Davis, highway safety manager for the...
People – Midwest
Nov 2 2015 // Former U.S. Senator Ben Nelson will step down as chief executive officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), when his current term ends on Jan. 31, 2016. He began his tenure at NAIC in January...
Nebraska Man Gets Jail Time in Auto Insurance Fraud Case
Oct 29 2015 // A North Platte, Neb., man accused of driving his car into a canal so he could collect on his insurance has been sent to prison. Court records say 32-year-old Josh Salisbury was sentenced to 18 to 36 months for insurance...
Ex-Senator Nelson to Exit NAIC Leadership Post
Oct 9 2015 // Former U.S. Senator Ben Nelson will not renew his contract as chief executive officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the group announced. Nelson’s current term ends on Jan. 31, 2016....
Nebraska Software Developer Awarded $43.8M in Antitrust Lawsuit
Sep 29 2015 // A Douglas County jury has awarded Omaha, Neb., software developer Baldwin Hackett & Meeks Inc. $43.8 million in a lawsuit that accused a rival software firm of violating antitrust laws and breaching a nondisclosure...
Iowa’s New Highway Cable Barriers Helping to Reduce Fatalities
Sep 22 2015 // An effort to build cable barriers on Iowa’s highways has helped reduce the number of cross-median fatal crashes. After 21 people died as a result of cross-median collisions in 2010, state officials installed 177...
Court Backs Workers’ Comp Ruling for Assaulted Nebraska Nurse
Sep 21 2015 // The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a workers’ compensation ruling requiring a Kearney hospital to pay the salary of a former nurse who says she’s unable to work because of psychological injuries she received...
Martinez Joins Columbia Insurance Group in Nebraska
Sep 17 2015 // Columbia Insurance Group (Columbia) welcomed Shane Martinez to its executive team as the new vice president and Omaha, Neb., branch manager. Martinez is a seasoned insurance professional with more than 20 years of...
Uninsured Rate in Nebraska Dropped Below 10% in 2014
Sep 17 2015 // A new federal report says the proportion of Nebraska residents without health insurance dropped below 10 percent last year. The census report says 9.7 percent of residents were uninsured in 2014, down from 11.3 percent the...
Court Backs Workers’ Comp Ruling for Assaulted Nebraska Nurse
Sep 8 2015 // The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a workers’ compensation ruling requiring a Kearney hospital to pay the salary of a former nurse who says she’s unable to work because of psychological injuries she received...
Nebraska Flooring Company Fined $244K for Workplace Dangers
Sep 4 2015 // Federal safety officials have placed a Norfolk, Neb., flooring manufacturer into a severe violator program for workplace safety hazards and attempting to hide those hazards from safety inspectors. U.S. Department of Labor...
CAA Expanding into Nebraska; Elliott to Lead New Central Region
Sep 1 2015 // The Texas-based agency partnership Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced it is expanding into Nebraska and elected Rick Elliott to serve as central regional vice president. The insurance agency aggregator will be...
Nebraska Jogger Who Sued City over Uneven Sidewalk Loses
Aug 19 2015 // A jogger who blamed Lincoln, Neb., officials after falling on an uneven sidewalk has lost her lawsuit against the city. The Lincoln Journal Star reports Lancaster County District Judge Andrew Jacobsen dismissed the lawsuit...
