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Kansas City Tenants Awarded $52M in Suit Over ‘Horrendous’ Living Conditions
Sep 18 2020 // Tenants who sued over “horrendous” living conditions at a Kansas City low-income housing development have been awarded $52 million in damages. Jackson County Judge Joel Fehestock found in favor of the tenants,...
Kansas Health Dept.: Meatpacking Plants Have Highest Number of Active COVID Cases
Sep 11 2020 // Meatpacking plants and correctional facilities continue to be the main sites of active COVID-19 clusters in Kansas, with each reporting thousands of cases, according to data released on Sept. 9 by the state health...
World Insurance Associates Acquires Kansas’ Peoples Insurance Group
Aug 27 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired Peoples/Commercial Insurance Services LLC (d/b/a Peoples Insurance Group) in Topeka, Kansas. The transaction, the terms of which were not disclosed, was effective Aug....
INSURICA Adds Kansas City’s Broker Source to Online Platform
Aug 12 2020 // INSURICA, a privately-owned insurance agency based in Oklahoma City., has entered into an equity partnership with Kansas City-based Broker Source, to introduce its EnrollSource platform to the agency’s small business...
Missouri School Worker Fired in Student Attendance Scandal Sues
Aug 7 2020 // A fired Kansas City Public Schools secretary who was among several employees accused of falsifying attendance data in a bid to help the district regain accreditation is suing. The Kansas City Star reports that LaQuyn...
2 New Sex Abuse Suits Filed Against Missouri Diocese
Aug 3 2020 // Two new lawsuits allege that the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph in Missouri covered up abuse by two priests who were known to be sexual predators. The lawsuits, one filed on July 28 and the other on July 20, were...
Insurance Broker PCF Acquires Avidity Insurance in Kansas
Jul 31 2020 // PCF Insurance Services (PCF), headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif., has acquired Avidity Insurance, an Overland Park, Kansas-based independent insurance agency founded in 2013 by Will Wilson. Avidity offers home, auto,...
UPS Freight to Pay $75K to Resolve Kansas Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Jul 31 2020 // UPS Freight will pay $75,000 to resolve a three-year old federal lawsuit over disability discrimination at its service center in Kansas City, Kansas, federal authorities said. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Fireworks Causes Estimated $10.5K in Damage to Duplex in Kansas
Jul 7 2020 // Authorities are blaming fireworks for a blaze that caused an estimated $10,500 in damage to a Junction City, Kansas, duplex. WIBW-TV reports that the fire was reported around 4:20 a.m. Sunday on the northeast edge of the...
Lawsuit Claims Racial Discrimination at Frito-Lay Plant in Kansas
Jul 6 2020 // Black employees at the Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, were subjected to ongoing racial harassment and discrimination, including hearing racial slurs and being threatened with lynching by white employees, according to a...
The Next Wave of COVID: Agency E&O?
Jul 6 2020 // As many states keep watch for the “next wave” of COVID-19 infections, the insurance industry is keeping watch for the “next wave” of potential claims that could be directed at independent agents. In...
Textron Aviation Cited for 2019 Explosion at Kansas Site
Jul 1 2020 // Federal regulators have cited aircraft maker Textron Aviation for a December 2019 explosion that injured 15 workers at its Wichita, Kansas, manufacturing plant. U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...
Absenteeism at Meatpacking Plants Tied to Workplace Safety Concerns
Jun 15 2020 // Smithfield Foods Inc. is missing about a third of its employees at a South Dakota pork plant because they are quarantined or afraid to return to work after a severe coronavirus outbreak, according to the workers’...
Family of Man Killed in Kansas Police Beanbag Shooting to Get $3.5M
Jun 3 2020 // Kansas officials will pay $3.5 million to the family of a man who was killed in 2017 with a homemade beanbag round fired by a Barber County undersheriff at close range. An attorney for the family said in a written...
2 Companies Fined $1M Each Over Kansas Chemical Leak
May 29 2020 // Two companies that caused a chlorine gas leak over Atchison, Kansas, in 2106 have each been fined $1 million for violating federal clean air laws. Harcros Chemicals Inc., and MGP Ingredients Inc., had pleaded guilty to...
Former Student Sues Kansas’ Wichita State University over Data Breach
May 27 2020 // A former student at Wichita State University in Kansas has filed a federal lawsuit against the school over a December data breach that exposed the personal information of thousands of current and former students. Michael...
Federal Court: No Immunity from Civil Lawsuit for Kansas Sheriff
May 26 2020 // A Kansas sheriff is not entitled to immunity from a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed black man who was shot in the back following a police chase, a federal appeals court has ruled. A three-judge panel of the 10th...
Kansas Legislature Passes Bill Barring COVID-19 Lawsuits
May 25 2020 // Republicans pushed a sweeping coronavirus measure through the GOP-controlled Kansas Legislature on May 22, aiming to shield businesses and health care providers from coronavirus-related lawsuits and take control of the...
Workers at Kansas FedEx Facility Infected with Coronavirus
May 18 2020 // FedEx has confirmed that workers from its facility in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe have tested positive for COVID-19. A spokesperson from FedEx Ground said in a statement that it was working cooperatively with county...
Kansas Sausage Making Plant with COVID-19 Cases Shuts Down
May 15 2020 // A Kansas plant that makes sausage shut down on May 13 after employees tested positive for the coronavirus, and an outbreak that has infected hundreds at the state’s largest prison claimed the life of another...
