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Kansas – Sandy Praeger

Feb 11 2007 // Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger is a seasoned player now going into her fifth year leading the Kansas Insurance Department. She was elected in 2002 to her first term as Commissioner of Insurance, and was recently...

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Kansas Legislative Proposal Seeks to Toughen Fraud Law

Feb 1 2007 // A bill in the Kansas Senate targeting the largest insurance frauds would strength the state’s existing law that doles out little punishment to serious insurance criminals, according to the Coalition Against Insurance...

Midwestern states top 2006 list for largest catastrophe losses

Jan 29 2007 // While most of the country tends to consider the coastal areas to be the jackpot winners for pending catastrophes, in 2006 the Midwest won in the disaster lottery. Living in the Midwest, all of us know the devastating...

More Federal Disaster Aid Offered to Kansas for Storm Damage

Jan 24 2007 // Federal officials have expanded the disaster relief available for areas of western Kansas hit by severe winter storms in late December, Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts said Monday. The Federal Emergency Management Administration...

Kan. Snowstorm Damages Will Exceed $360 Million, Officials Say

Jan 22 2007 // Damage from the crippling late-December snowstorm that blanketed western Kansas with snow and ice, downing power lines and killing thousands of head of cattle, will exceed $360 million. The Kansas Adjutant General’s...

Transamerica Occidental Life Moves Bulk of Operations to Iowa

Jan 15 2007 // Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co. is moving the bulk of its Kansas City operations to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, costing 500 jobs and alarming city officials trying to bring businesses back downtown. The company’s...

Kan. Governor Calls for Universal Health Care, Tax Cuts

Jan 12 2007 // Kan. Governor Kathleen Sebelius proposed tax cuts for businesses and promised the state will be more aggressive in promoting energy conservation and wind power as she outlined her legislative agenda Wednesday night. And,...

Kan. Commissioner Offers Tips on Insurance Coverage

Jan 8 2007 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger is offering New Year’s tips on smart choices for insurance coverage. Praeger said in her release that “even though most Americans, three fourths, feel they have about...

People and Places

Dec 25 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas appointed P. Scott Hubacek to the newly created position of IIAT Member Services Ambassador. Hubacek will be responsible for recruiting new members and for helping new and existing...

People and Places

Dec 25 2006 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during the group’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance...

People and Places

Dec 25 2006 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during the group’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance...

People and places

Dec 25 2006 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during the group’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance...

People

Dec 24 2006 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during the group’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance...

Dec 24 2006 // People Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during the group’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas...

People

Dec 24 2006 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during the group’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance...

Kan. Commissioner Elected to National Post

Dec 14 2006 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger is the newly-elected president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), according to a department release. She was elected during the NAIC Winter...

Ala.’s Bell Heads State Regulators; Kansas’ Praeger Next in Line

Dec 12 2006 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during last week’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance...

Western U.S. Snowstorms Blamed in Deaths, Injuries; More in Store

Dec 1 2006 // A new storm headed into the northwestern U.S. the region shivered in the aftermath of unusually heavy rain and snow that was blamed for at least eight deaths and has caused traffic nightmares and power outages. The stormy...

Mo. Man Sentenced to Prison in Medicare Fraud Scam

Nov 22 2006 // The owner of two Kansas City-area medical supply businesses was sentenced Monday to three years in prison without parole for his part in a scheme that bilked Medicare out of millions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Gary A....