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2018 Insurance Industry Meetings & Events Directory
Jan 8 2018 // CIWA Industry Days Jan 8-10 Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines La Jolla, Calif. California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA) Contact: Thomas Shovlin, thomas@ciwa.net The 19th Annual Windstorm Insurance Conference Jan...
La Nina Adds to Wildfire Threat in South Central, Plains States
Dec 4 2017 // Conditions are ripe for winter wildfires from the mid-South through the Great Plains thanks to a combination of weather factors, including the climate phenomenon known as La Nina, that have left a lot of dry growth. In...
Kansas Assistant Insurance Commissioner Forms Campaign to Run for Top Job
Nov 14 2017 // The Kansas insurance commissioner’s chief deputy is interested in running for the top job himself next year. Assistant Insurance Commissioner Clark Shultz appointed a treasurer last month for a campaign for the...
Judge Sanctions Kansas Pizza Restaurant for Gender Discrimination in Job Offerings
Nov 14 2017 // Two teenagers whose firing from a Kansas pizza restaurant prompted a national discussion on pay inequality should receive back pay and the corporation that owned the restaurant must implement policies to ensure it follows...
Reinsurer Swiss Re Moving Kansas Office to Kansas City, Missouri
Oct 27 2017 // Swiss Re, a reinsurance company, says it plans to move its headquarters and 400 jobs from Overland Park, Kansas, to downtown Kansas City. The move is expected in late 2018. President and CEO Eric Smith says the move will...
Records Show Unprecedented Increase in Firearm Thefts in Kansas City
Oct 18 2017 // Police records show there has been an unprecedented spike in gun thefts in Kansas City, Missouri. The number of annual firearms thefts sharply increased between 2015 and 2016, according to police data obtained by the...
Kansas Workers’ Comp Rates to Decrease in 2018
Oct 16 2017 // Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Ken Selzer announced that workers’ compensation insurance rates on average will drop in his state in 2018. The National Council on Compensations Insurance Inc. (NCCI) filing for the...
Indiana Fines Kansas Contractor $24.5K After Worker Dies in Fall
Oct 16 2017 // A contractor was fined $24,500 for safety violations after a worker died from a fall at a Richmond, Ind., factory. The Richmond Palladium-Item reports 23-year-old Jacob Bugg died June 27 after falling about 40 feet at a...
Kansas Residents Continue Fight Against Saltwater Injection Wells
Oct 16 2017 // Kansas residents are broadening the fight over an oil-related waste disposal well in Flint Hills into a protest of similar wells across several counties. Residents of Chase, Morris and other counties known for open...
Kansas Governor Pardons Man in 1994 Insurance Fraud Case
Oct 11 2017 // Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has issued his first pardon in almost seven years in office to a man convicted of felony theft as a college student in 1994. Brownback’s office announced the pardon for Mark Schmitt of...
Kansas Residents Fighting Against Saltwater Injection Wells
Oct 9 2017 // Kansas residents are broadening the fight over an oil-related waste disposal well in the Flint Hills into a protest of similar wells across several counties. Residents of Chase, Morris and other counties known for open...
Kansas Woman Files Suit Against Hospital Over Wrong Diagnosis, Surgery
Oct 3 2017 // A Kansas woman’s lawsuit claims she underwent a complex surgery at the University of Kansas Hospital for a cancer diagnosis that proved to be wrong, but she was never told of the mistake. The Kansas City Star reports...
Syngenta Settles With U.S. Farmers in China Corn Trade Case
Sep 28 2017 // Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta said it has agreed to settle tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits by farmers over the company’s rollout of a genetically engineered corn seed variety before China approved it for...
Kansas Banker Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding Bank, Insurance Company
Sep 20 2017 // Prosecutors say a former Kansas banker has been sentenced to prison eight months in prison for a wire fraud scheme that included the theft of funds from Labette Bank and its insurance company subsidiary, as well as filing...
People
Sep 18 2017 // Detroit, Mich.-based H.W. Kaufman Financial Group named Daniel J. Kaufman senior vice president of corporate growth. Kaufman will continue to serve as managing director and lead the Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and...
Ratings of Kansas Medical Mutual Insurance Downgraded by A.M. Best
Sep 8 2017 // A.M. Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “a-” from “a” of Kansas Medical Mutual...
Lockton Adds Eckrich in Kansas City
Aug 31 2017 // Joshua Eckrich has joined insurance broker Lockton’s Kansas City operation as vice president and producer. He joined Lockton from Aon where he led a team that worked with clients on complex risk management issues. A...
St. Louis Workers Likely to See Wage Drop with New Law
Aug 27 2017 // Thousands of workers in St. Louis will likely see smaller paychecks starting Monday, when a new Missouri law takes effect barring local government from enacting minimum wages different than the state minimum. The law is...
Trial Over Bias Claim Against Kansas Secretary of State Kobach’s Office Begins
Aug 21 2017 // A former employee in Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office alleges in a lawsuit headed to trial on Aug. 21 that she was fired because she didn’t go to church enough. Kobach — who until the middle of...
21 States See Drop in Longer-Term Opioid-Related Workers’ Comp Claims: WCRI
Aug 21 2017 // As states institute opioid policies to address the opioid epidemic, a new study has found considerable decreases in the prevalence of longer-term dispensing of opioids to injured workers in a number of states studied. The...
