Latest Kansas Headlines
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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...
Farm Bureau Mutual to Merge with Kan., Neb. Farm Bureau Affiliated P&C Insurers
Jul 9 2002 // Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company announced that the Farm Bureau property-casualty affiliates in Kansas (Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, Inc.) and Nebraska (Farm Bureau Insurance Company of Nebraska) will merge...
Coverage Difficult to Find for Farm Supply Operations
Jun 26 2002 // Farm supply cooperatives and grain elevators in the Midwest are in a difficult situation regarding insurance, according to an Associated Press report, as those operations face skyrocketing premiums even if they are able to...
State Farm Shuns New Homeowners Policies in Kansas, Missouri
Jun 21 2002 // State Farm Insurance Company imposed a moratorium on new homeowners customers in Missouri and Kansas, expanding its ban against new residential policies to five states. According to the Kansas City Star, the company is the...
Kans. Task Force to Study Use of Credit Scores
May 31 2002 // The Kansas Legislature has adopted a resolution creating a task force to study insurers’ use of credit-based insurance scores and the regulation of their use by the state Insurance Department. According to the...
