Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired employee benefit specialist, Brendis & Brendis Inc., located in Omaha, Neb. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1989, Brendis & Brendis Inc. provides a wide range of employee benefit program …
San Francisco-based ISU Network announces two independent insurance agencies in the Midwest have joined the agency group. ISU welcomes ISU Northwest Insurance Services of Schaumberg, Ill., and ISU RHD Insurance of Lincoln, Neb. Principals Gregg A. Germanos and George A. …
A Lincoln, Neb., insurance agent was sentenced to jail for perjury just a few days after winning a third term on a natural resources district board. Larry Hall, 68, was sentenced to 45 days in jail and ordered to pay …
Three people, including two principals of an insurance firm, who were convicted in a fraudulent Nebraska investment scheme have been sentenced to prison and ordered to make restitution of more than $16.6 million. The three were sentenced in U.S. District …
Farmers this spring were able to plant all but a few thousand acres of the land deluged by last year’s flooding along on the Missouri River and the intentional breaching of a Mississippi River levee in southeast Missouri, U.S. Department …
A federal court in Nebraska will take up a lawsuit that accuses the Nebraska Department of Administrative Services of allowing a supervisor to demean and discriminate against men in her department. The lawsuit, filed last year by Mike Hoover against …
Farmers, crop inspectors and grain elevators in Nebraska, Iowa and other corn-producing states are keeping an eye out for corn contaminated by a poison-producing fungus. They’re watching for signs of aflatoxins that, in sufficient quantity, are poisonous to humans and …
A former beauty queen in western Nebraska is suing Scotts Bluff County officials over injuries she suffered when a bull charged her at the 2010 county fair. The Scottsbluff Star-Herald reports that Jessica Littlejohn and her father William Littlejohn filed …
Authorities kept watch over parched grass and vegetation near the site of three contained wildfires in north-central Nebraska as the fire danger remained high. Firefighter spokeswoman Susan Ford said 100 percent containment was declared Sunday night. A couple of fire …
A wildfire that has scorched tens of thousands of acres and damaged homes in north-central Nebraska continued to burn on Saturday, July 21. The Norfolk Daily News said the fire was burning in parts of northern Brown County and southern …
