Latest Nebraska Headlines
All the headlines from our Nebraska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nebraska Bill Would Prohibit Sole-Basis Credit Scoring
Feb 12 2003 // A bill moving through the Nebraska legislature would prohibit insurers from denying, canceling or non-renewing an insurance policy or basing rates solely on the basis of credit information. Legislative Bill 487 would also...
NE Ins. Dept. to Upgrade Use of Electronic Data Processing for On-site Financial Examinations
Dec 26 2002 // Nebraska’s Department of Insurance (NDI) issued a statement indicating that due to “advancements in technology” it will be making substantial changes in the periodic on-site financial examinations it...
NE Dept. of Insurance Places Acceptance Under Supervision
Dec 23 2002 // L. Tim Wagner, Director of the Nebraska Department of Insurance, announced that he had issued an order on Friday placing Acceptance Insurance Company under supervision. Acceptance is the parent company of American Growers...
NE Ins. Dept., USDA Risk Management Agency Conclude Agreement on American Growers
Dec 12 2002 // L. Tim Wagner, Director of the Nebraska Department of Insurance (NDI), and Ross J. Davidson, Jr., Administrator of USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced the signing of a “Memorandum of...
Nebraska Insurance Dept. Approves Excess Med Mal Rate Increases
Dec 9 2002 // Tim Wagner, Director of the Nebraska Department of Insurance, announced that rates charged by the Nebraska Excess Liability Fund for excess medical professional liability insurance for doctors, hospitals and other health...
Eight Receive 2001, 2002 NAMIC Service Awards
Sep 24 2002 // Due to the cancellation of its 2001 convention after 9/11, recipients of both the 2001 and 2002 NAMIC Service Awards were honored during the business meeting of the 107th convention of the National Association of Mutual...
Farm Bureau Mutual to Merge with Kan., Neb. Farm Bureau Affiliated P&C Insurers
Jul 9 2002 // Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company announced that the Farm Bureau property-casualty affiliates in Kansas (Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, Inc.) and Nebraska (Farm Bureau Insurance Company of Nebraska) will merge...
Cattle Loom Large on the Farm & Ranch Scene
Apr 15 2002 // Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies It’s your misfortune, and none of my own. Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies, For you know Wyoming will be your new home. That trail song, used by historian Walter...
Cattle Loom Large on the Farm & Ranch Scene
Apr 15 2002 // Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies It’s your misfortune, and none of my own. Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies, For you know Wyoming will be your new home. That trail song, used by historian Walter...
Neb. to Disapprove Terrorism, Nuclear Exclusions in Personal Lines
Feb 27 2002 // The Nebraska Insurance Department announced it will disapprove terrorism exclusions in personal lines insurance, including exclusions for nuclear and bio-terrorism risks. National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII)...
Neb. Says No to Some Terror Exclusions, Yes to Those for Mold
Feb 13 2002 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance Director Tim Wagner announced that the department plans to disapprove personal lines exclusions for losses arising from terrorism, including exclusions for so-called nuclear and...
Insurance Availability Task Force Formed in Nebraska
Feb 5 2002 // Nebraska Department of Insurance Director, L. Tim Wagner announced the creation of an insurance availability task force, members of which are various insurance company representatives and insurance producers who will...
Nebraska, Iowa Residents See Rising Rates
Dec 3 2001 // Residents of Nebraska and Iowa are going to have to dig deeper into their wallets as home insurance companies are increasing rates for most Nebraskans and Iowans. According to the Omaha World-Herald, damage from three...
Nebraska Company Suffers Losses
Aug 7 2001 // Acceptance Insurance Cos. Inc., an Omaha crop insurance company, noted it lost $888,000, or 6 cents per share, in the three months that ended June 30, bringing its loss for the year to $4.7 million, or 33 cents a share,...
Amwest Surety Insolvent
Jul 9 2001 // Lancaster District Court Judge John A. Colborn entered an order for the liquidation of Amwest Surety Insurance Company, a Nebraska-domiciled insurer based in Calabasas, Calif. The order was entered June 7 after Nebraska...
AMWEST SURETY TO LIQUIDATE
Jun 25 2001 // Amwest Insurance Group Inc. received notice that an Order of Liquidation of its subsidiary Amwest Surety Insurance Company had been entered by the Honorable John A. Colborn, Judge of the District Court of Lancaster County,...
Amwest Surety Placed Under Order of Supervision
May 21 2001 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Amwest Insurance Group Inc. recently announced that its subsidiary, Amwest Surety Insurance Company (Amwest Surety), had agreed to be placed under an Administrative Order of Supervision by the...
Amwest Surety’s Rating Revised to ‘R’
May 10 2001 // Standard & Poor’s (S&P) revised its financial strength rating (FSR) on Amwest Surety Insurance Co. (Amwest Surety) to “R” from “CCCpi.” S&P took this rating action after Amwest...
Amwest Insurance Group Announces Order of Supervision of Amwest Surety Insurance
May 9 2001 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Amwest Insurance Group Inc. announced that the company has been unable to reach an agreement with its reinsurer on terms that would enable it to obtain necessary regulatory approval for such...
Nebraska Gets Licensing Law Without Exemption
Mar 9 2001 // Gov. Mike Johanns has signed an insurance producer licensing bill incorporating all the provisions of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners model regulation. “We tried to amend LB 51 to include a...
