The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows that severe drought affecting much of the Midwest and Great Plains now covers more than half of Iowa and three-quarters of Nebraska. More than half of Indiana is now listed in extreme drought …
Nebraska’s top regulator says insurance producers will be among the first to benefit from the state’s implementation of a national state based online regulatory system. The Nebraska Department of Insurance announced it has completed the initial phase of implementing State …
A Lincoln, Neb., insurance agent plans to continue running for re-election to a natural resources district board even though he is due to be sentenced for perjury next month. Larry Hall is also in the midst of bankruptcy, his insurance …
A Nebraska lawmaker who has led the push to create a state-based marketplace for health insurance says officials must move quickly and seek public comments as they enact the requirements of the federal health care law. Omaha Sen. Jeremy Nordquist …
A Fremont, Neb., man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for a wire fraud conviction that cost banks and insurance companies in Nebraska and Iowa millions of dollars. Thomas Herink was sentenced in Omaha’s U.S. District Court. …
One of three former Grand Island, Neb.-based insurance agents accused of defrauding more than 250 investors out of $29 million has pleaded guilty. The Grand Island Independent reported that Kenneth Mottin, of St. Libory, pleaded guilty to mail fraud. Mottin, …
Nebraska taxpayers are paying far more than necessary into the state’s health insurance program because of high administrative costs, poor oversight and a failure to monitor and control spending, State Auditor Mike Foley said. The Republican auditor said the cost …
A 67-year-old Lincoln man was arrested and accused of violating a judge’s order about selling insurance to former customers. Larry Hall faced Judge Paul Merritt in court on April 16, according to the Lincoln Journal Star Merritt told Hall he’d …
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved a bill that will let the dependents of workers killed on the job collect a larger payout for burial expenses. LB 378 by Grand Island Sen. Mike Gloor will increase the workers’ compensation benefit …
Tornadoes raking communities across the Midwest and Plains left five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma, damaging a hospital, homes and other buildings as a vast severe weather front plunged eastward on April 15 across the nation’s …
