Latest Kansas Headlines
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Kansas City Life Insurance Company First Quarter, 2003 Earnings Release
May 9 2003 // Kansas City Life Insurance Company posted a $0.62 per share net loss in the first quarter 2003, compared with a $0.54 per share net income last year. The net loss of $7.5 million for the quarter is primarily due to...
N.D. Enacts NCOIL Insurance Scoring Model; Kan. Bill Sent To Governor
Apr 10 2003 // Legislation regulating the use of credit-based insurance scores was recently signed by North Dakota’s governor and has passed the Kansas legislature. Three other states, Colorado, Virginia and Wyoming have enacted...
Unlicensed Mo. Insurer Reportedly Marketing in Kansas City Area
Apr 9 2003 // First Actual American Insurance Co., which has no license to sell in Missouri, reportedly is soliciting medical malpractice business in the Kansas City area. If doctors or other health-care providers are approached, they...
Kansas City Life and GuideOne Group of Companies sign Stock purchase agreement for GuideOne Life Insurance Co.
Mar 31 2003 // Kansas City Life Insurance Company and The GuideOne Group of Companies, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, have signed a definitive agreement under which Kansas City Life will buy all of GuideOne Life Insurance...
Kansas City Life and GuideOne Group of Companies Sign Stock Purchase Agreement for GuideOne Life Insurance Co.
Mar 31 2003 // Kansas City Life Insurance Company and The GuideOne Group of Companies, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, have signed a definitive agreement under which Kansas City Life will buy all of GuideOne Life Insurance...
Kan. Commish Sounds Off on Scoring, More
Mar 20 2003 // Gov. Kathleen Sebelius “will be amenable to signing” a bill to restrict credit-based insurance scoring, according to Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger. Sebelius, a Democrat who served as insurance...
Several Midwestern States Revisit Insurance Scoring
Mar 6 2003 // The issue of credit-based insurance scoring is being revisited in many Midwestern states that considered legislation or regulations on the subject in previous years, according to the National Association of Independent...
Kansas Commish Wants to Regulate Credit Scoring
Feb 11 2003 // Kansas consumers should be told how credit scoring affects their insurance rates, Kansas Insurance Department Commissioner Sandy Praeger said in a written statement. Kansas now has “no specific statutory oversight of...
CRE Revised to ‘R’
Feb 10 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services revised its financial strength rating on Casualty Reciprocal Exchange (CRE) and Equity Mutual Insurance Co. (EMI) to “R” from “CCCpi” after a county...
CRE Revised to ‘R’
Feb 10 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services revised its financial strength rating on Casualty Reciprocal Exchange (CRE) and Equity Mutual Insurance Co. (EMI) to “R” from “CCCpi” after a county...
Traders Cut to ‘Bpi’
Jan 27 2003 // S&P’s lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Traders Insurance Co. (Traders) to “Bpi” from “Bbpi.” The ratings agency lowered the company’s ratings based...
S&P’s Revises Casualty Reciprocal Exchange Rtgs. to ‘R’
Jan 22 2003 // Standard & Poor’s has revised its financial strength rating on Casualty Reciprocal Exchange (CRE) and Equity Mutual Insurance Co. (EMI) to ‘R’ from ‘CCCpi’ after a county court judge...
S&P’s Cuts Traders Insurance. Co. Ratings to ‘Bpi’
Jan 8 2003 // Standard & Poor’s has lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Traders Insurance Co. (Traders) to ‘Bpi’ from ‘BBpi’. “The rating action is based on the...
Bob Tomlinson Resigns from Kansas Legislature to take Post as Ass’t. Insurance Commissioner
Dec 2 2002 // Republican representative Bob Tomlinson from Roeland Park announced that he’s resigning his seat in the Kansas Legislature to accept the post of Assistant Commissioner of Insurance when the newly elected...
Kansas Commissioner Welcome’s State Farm’s Return to State
Oct 10 2002 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius welcomed the news that State Farm, the state’s largest writer of homeowners’ coverage, had decided to lift its moratorium on writing new business in the...
Applied Systems Provides the Cincinnati Ins. Co’s with Policy Processing Solutions
Oct 8 2002 // Applied Systems, Inc. (API) announced that The Cincinnati Insurance Companies have launched The Diamond System(tm), API’s property and casualty insurance policy processing solution, in Kansas. API specializes in...
NAII Calls Kansas Proposal on Third-Party Claims “Unnecessary, Illogical”
Oct 4 2002 // The NAII, in a letter to Kansas Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius, stated that proposed Kansas regulations requiring insurers to treat third-party property damage claims the same as first-party claims is...
Kansas Commissioner Confirms Farmers Has No Plans to Leave State
Sep 26 2002 // Following a meeting between representatives from the Kansas Insurance Department and Farmers Insurance Co., Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius announced that the company had no plans to cease writing homeowners insurance in...
78% of Kansas City Attendees at Chubb’s Roadshow Want Insurance
Sep 24 2002 // Most of the people who attended Chubb Corp’s Antiques Roadshow in Kansas City this summer were interested in making sure that if they found out they had a valuable antique, collectible or other item it was properly...
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sebelius Running for Governor
Sep 9 2002 // Kathleen Sebelius, who currently heads the Kansas Insurance Department, as well as serving as NAIC Chairman, will face Republican Tim Shallenburger in the state’s gubernatorial election on November 5. The 54 year old...
