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NFL Steeler Webster’s estate awarded disability benefits The estate of NFL Hall of Fame center Mike Webster is entitled to collect more than $1.5 million in disability benefits because brain damage left him unable to work following his football career. …

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Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during the group’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger was chosen as president-elect, New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner …

Colorado Airport Singing Holiday Blues; Losses Just Now Rolling In

Stranded travelers lined up at ticket counters at snowbound Denver International Airport early Thursday, hoping to get out of town amid a powerful snowstorm that paralyzed Colorado’s biggest cities with up to 2 feet of snow. The news wasn’t comforting: …

Storm Closes Cheyenne Government Offices, Interstates

A major winter storm hit southeastern Wyoming on Wednesday, closing interstate highways, stranding travelers and sending government workers home early in Cheyenne. Mike Sowko, forecaster with the National Weather Service in Cheyenne, said Wednesday evening that the storm was the …

Colorado Under Blizzard Warning; Storm Rolls into Denver, Plains

A powerful winter storm brought heavy snow and strong winds to Colorado on Wednesday, prompting airlines to cancel hundreds of flights and forcing highway officials to close the state’s busiest east-west route from Denver east to the Kansas border, 150 …

Former NFL Player’s Estate Wins Disability Benefits

The estate of NFL Hall of Fame center Mike Webster is entitled to collect more than $1.5 million in disability benefits because brain damage left him unable to work following his football career. The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel …

Iowa Hawkeye-Security Insurance Expands Agent Network in Mo.

Hawkeye-Security Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, recently announced the recent appointment of six new agencies to its group of independent agents in Missouri. The following appointments broaden Hawkeye-Security Insurance’s personal and small-to-medium size commercial lines business in the …

Kan. Commissioner Elected to National Post

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger is the newly-elected president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), according to a department release. She was elected during the NAIC Winter National Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 10. Alabama Commissioner Walter …

Ala.’s Bell Heads State Regulators; Kansas’ Praeger Next in Line

Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during last week’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger was chosen as president-elect, New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner …

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Former Conseco founder’s Indiana home to be sold at auction Conseco Inc. founder Stephen Hilbert’s sprawling French-style mansion, which has been on the market for months, will be sold at a sheriff’s auction next month. Conseco put the 23,000-square-foot home …