Latest Kansas Headlines
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Flooding Causes $5.4 Million in Damages in Kansas County
May 23 2007 // Flooding last week caused more than $5 million in damage to buildings in Shawnee County, Kan., said Mark Hixon, county appraiser. The American Red Cross provided a list of addresses of flood-damaged structures that...
Fla. Agents Send Response Vehicle to Tornado-ravaged Kan. Town
May 22 2007 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents’ state-of-the-art catastrophe response vehicle (CRV) arrived in Greensburg, Kan. earlier this week to assist insurance agents whose offices were demolished by the tornado...
State Farm Claims at $12 Million After Deadly Kansas Tornado
May 21 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co. has paid out about $12 million in claims with more still coming in after a Kansas tornado that destroyed a town two weeks ago and killed at least a dozen people, the company said. Home and auto...
Kansas Residents Evacuate Homes as Water Levels Rise
May 10 2007 // Small creeks and broad rivers swollen by heavy rain topped their banks in much of Kansas on this week, forcing residents from their homes in scattered parts of the state. Flooding along the Wakarusa River cut off its...
Kan. Department Ready to Work with Adjusters, Residents in Storm Aftermath
May 8 2007 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger wants citizens to know the Kansas Insurance Department is here to help. In a statement on Monday morning she said, “The past weekend has been devastating for the state of...
Kan. Governor Seeks Federal Agricultural Disaster Designation
May 2 2007 // While the extent of freeze damage to Kansas crops is still being calculated, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius assured farmers last week that she will seek a federal agricultural disaster designation for counties hit...
Kan. Legislature Advances Bill to Help Poor Buy Insurance
Apr 4 2007 // Thousands of poor Kansans would get the state’s help in paying for health insurance under a proposal endorsed earlier this week in both the House and Senate, as legislators moved closer to finishing a modest package...
Mo. Department Names New Deputy Director, General Counsel
Mar 23 2007 // The Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions & Professional Registration announced that Larry McCord has been named the new deputy director and general counsel. McCord has served as a unit manager for...
Kansas Army National Guard Trying to Purchase Life Insurance
Mar 23 2007 // After searching for nearly two years for a company that would offer life insurance to Kansas Army National Guard troops, the Guard is now considering three potential options. The Legislature is trying to correct an...
Kan. Governor Urges Quicker Action by Legislature on Health Issues
Mar 21 2007 // Kansas Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Monday that the Republican-dominated Legislature is moving too slowly on health care issues, but GOP leaders argued they’re making some progress on market-based...
Kansas State New Lab on Front Lines of Biosecurity
Mar 19 2007 // Randy Phebus, food microbiologist and professor of food safety and security at Kansas State University, didn’t get much of a response when he first proposed the idea of a new lab that would aim to protect the...
People
Mar 12 2007 // Three members of the Kansas Insurance Department, Ted Clark, Anti-Fraud director, Larry Bruning, chief actuary, and Neil Woerman, director of Information Technology, have been appointed to leadership positions within the...
Declarations
Mar 12 2007 // Child safety “None of us wants to — as we each have done — meet with another family who has lost a child, in what is clearly a preventable death.” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., spoke in...
Declarations
Mar 12 2007 // Child safety “None of us wants to — as we each have done — meet with another family who has lost a child, in what is clearly a preventable death.” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., spoke in...
Fraud Charges Filed Against 5 in 2005 Kansas Fire
Mar 9 2007 // Attorney General Paul Morrison announced fraud charges Wednesday against five people accused of fraudulently trying to obtain grant or insurance money for a fire that destroyed a large portion of historic downtown Fort...
Kan. Insurance Agent Alleges Company Discriminates Against Hispanics
Mar 2 2007 // When Paul Bergersen told the Kansas Insurance Department that his company was treating auto policyholders with Hispanic surnames differently than others, investigators had little experience to draw upon. Bergersen, who is...
Kan. Insurance Department Staff Appointed to Key Positions at NAIC
Feb 21 2007 // Three members of the Kansas Insurance Department, Ted Clark, Anti-Fraud director, Larry Bruning, chief actuary, and Neil Woerman, director of Information Technology, have been appointed to various leadership positions...
The Commissioners: Sandy Praeger
Feb 12 2007 // The state of Kansas is examining several key areas of concern in 2007 including the uninsured motorist population, health care for small businesses, rating, federal health insurance iniatives and more. Insurance...
It Figures
Feb 12 2007 // 2,700 The world’s largest kosher slaughterhouse is recalling about 2,700 pounds of potentially underprocessed frankfurters shipped to New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, company and federal officials said....
One-on-one interviews with 15 insurance regulators
Feb 12 2007 // One-on-one interviews with 15 insurance regulators At a recent meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Insurance Journal sat down with 15 insurance regulators to talk about issues affecting their...
