Latest Kansas Headlines
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Landscape Changed for Kansas Medical Malpractice Suits with Court Ruling
Jul 12 2019 // Brenda Lundeen went in for routine surgery to relieve heavy periods. What the Overland Park mom and grade schoolteacher got was a nightmare, as a medical mistake caused 194-degree water to pour through a hole in her uterus...
Kansas Benefits Most From Federal Disaster Grants, Study Finds
Jul 10 2019 // A study has found that Kansas saves more money, on average, than any other state that uses federal grants to mitigate natural disasters. The Pew Charitable Trusts recently released its data analysis showing that for every...
Under New Law, Kansas Drivers Can Refuse Field Sobriety Tests
Jul 3 2019 // Kansas drivers can no longer be charged with a crime for refusing a field sobriety test under a new state law. The Wichita Eagle reported that a change in state law that took effect on July 1 means police can’t...
Credit Rating of Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange in Kansas Upgraded
Jun 25 2019 // AM Best has upgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “a+” from “a” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) of Federated Rural Electric Insurance...
Chicago Staffing Firm to Pay $50K to Settle Sex Harassment Lawsuit
Jun 19 2019 // Chicago-based Staff Management | SMX (SMX), which provides temporary employees to the light-industrial sector worldwide, will pay $50,000 to a female former employee and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment...
Kansas Supreme Court Throws Out Personal Injury Damages Cap
Jun 17 2019 // The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the state’s cap on damages for noneconomic injuries in personal injury lawsuits is unconstitutional. The court ruled 4-2 that capping damages an injured person is able to...
AssuredPartners Acquires Kansas’ Air Capital Insurance
Jun 13 2019 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired Air Capital Insurance LLC (ACI) of Wichita, Kansas. ACI’s team of 10 will remain under the leadership of ACI founders Glenn Tate and Greg Hiser. The group will join...
Prime Property & Casualty Enters Kansas Commercial Auto Market
Jun 6 2019 // Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. (PPCI) has entered the Kansas commercial auto insurance market as an admitted carrier specializing in distressed and substandard risks. With PPCI, producers now have an...
Equal Pay Lawsuit Settled With Kansas School District
May 20 2019 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has settled its lawsuit against a Kansas school district that paid a female principal less than it paid the man she had replaced and less than the man who succeeded her. A...
Kansas Supreme Court: Bars Can’t Be Sued by Drunken Driving Victims
May 15 2019 // The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld a 34-year-old rule that prohibits victims injured by drunken drivers from suing the bars that served them. The high court’s ruling on May 10 came in the case of Jeff Kudlacik, who...
Kansas’ Spirit Aerosystems Faces $193.2K in Penalties for Carcinogen Exposure
May 13 2019 // Spirit Aerosystems Inc. – based in Wichita, Kansas – has been cited for exposing employees to carcinogen hazards and faces penalties of $193,218 for two repeated and four serious violations, federal safety officials...
Possible Tornado Tears Roof from Arkansas Apartment Complex
May 10 2019 // Several people were injured when a possible tornado tore the roof off an Arkansas apartment building, part of a powerful line of thunderstorms that was dumping more rain Thursday on already drenched areas throughout the...
State Farm Again Cutting Auto Insurance Rates in Kansas
May 9 2019 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is lowering its rates in Kansas, for the second time in two years. As a result, its overall personal auto rate will drop by 2.3 percent. The total state-wide expected impact for...
Schlitterbahn Water Park Where Kansas Boy Died Appears Unlikely to Open
May 9 2019 // A Kansas water park where a 10-year-old boy was decapitated isn’t hiring lifeguards, advertising or selling tickets with less than a month left before its typical Memorial Day weekend opening date, underlining...
Why the Missouri River Is Just Going to Keep On Flooding: Viewpoint
Apr 30 2019 // The Missouri River used to be out of control. “It cuts corners, runs around at nights, fills itself with snags and traveling sandbars, lunches on levees, and swallows islands and small villages for dessert,” is...
Kansas Took Control of 22 Struggling Nursing Homes Last Year
Apr 30 2019 // Kansas lawmakers have tightened the financial requirements for a license to operate nursing homes after state regulators were forced to take over 22 struggling facilities last year. Officials with the Kansas Department for...
Suits Against Gun Seller Tied to Kansas Business Shootings Settled for $2M
Apr 22 2019 // The families of victims of a mass shooting at a central Kansas business in 2016 have won a $2 million legal settlement from a pawn shop that sold the firearms to the shooter’s girlfriend. The settlement of three...
Census: Number of Kansas Farms Drops 5% in 5 Years
Apr 15 2019 // The government’s latest Census of Agriculture for Kansas shows the number of farms in the state has dropped 5% from the count taken five years earlier. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Thursday...
U. of Kansas Business School Creates Insurance, Risk Management Program
Apr 10 2019 // A $1 million gift has helped the University of Kansas School of Business to establish a new insurance and risk management certificate program, which will launch in the fall. The gift, from Cheryl Lockton Williams, of...
Kansas Lawmakers OK Bill Allowing Farm Bureau Non-ACA Compliant Health Plan
Apr 7 2019 // Republican lawmakers in Kansas pressed ahead with allowing the state Farm Bureau to offer health coverage to members that doesn’t satisfy the Affordable Care Act, a state-level effort to circumvent an Obama-era law...
