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Nebraska Insurance Director Needs More Data on Exchange Cost
Oct 17 2011 // Nebraska insurance officials can’t decide whether to recommend a state-based health insurance exchange or follow a proposed federal model until they know how much the national plan will cost, Nebraska Department of...
Holmes Murphy Adds Johnson and Shald in Nebraska Office
Oct 17 2011 // Holmes Murphy Division Leader Beau Reid has announced the addition of two industry professionals to the company’s Nebraska division. Craig Johnson has joined the firm as senior consultant – client services and...
Stine Sworn in as Nebraska Workers’ Comp Court Judge
Oct 7 2011 // Judge Tom Stine has been sworn in to serve on the bench of the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court. Attorney General Jon Bruning opened and officiated the swearing-in ceremony, which took place in the Nebraska State...
Insurer Says Exclusion Bars Payment in Nebraska Pastor’s Death
Oct 3 2011 // An insurance company specializing in policies for churches is asking a federal court to absolve it from paying a claim by the widow of a central Nebraska pastor who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a house owned by the...
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Oct 3 2011 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) presented the Federal Legislator of the Year Award to U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., at its annual convention in Indianapolis. Biggert currently serves as...
Insurer Says Exclusion Bars Payment in Nebraska Pastor’s Death
Sep 21 2011 // An insurance company specializing in policies for churches is asking a federal court to absolve it from paying a claim by the widow of a central Nebraska pastor who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a house owned by the...
Reid Named Leader of Holmes Murphy & Associates’ Nebraska Office
Sep 15 2011 // Holmes Murphy & Associates Vice President Beau Reid has been appointed to lead the independent insurance brokerage’s Nebraska division. Reid has been with Holmes Murphy since 2004 and specializes in innovative...
Pfeffer Joins Aon Risk Solutions in Omaha, Nebraska
Sep 13 2011 // Aon Risk Solutions has appointed Dennis J. Pfeffer as appointed senior vice president and resident sales director for the Omaha, Neb., office. Pfeffer is experienced in the design of both traditional and alternative risk...
Lockton Expands With Omaha, Nebraska Office Opening
Sep 8 2011 // Kansas City, Mo.-based Lockton is expanding its insurance and risk management operations with the opening of an office in Omaha, Neb. Jack Struyk has been appointed to lead the office as president of Lockton’s...
Nebraska County Must Pay $407K in Car Crash Lawsuit
Sep 7 2011 // Furnas County, Neb., has been ordered to pay more than $407,000 to a man injured in a car accident. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp awarded nearly $679,000 to Juston Pohl. But...
Former Nebraska Insurance Claims Examiner Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud
Aug 31 2011 // An Omaha man has pleaded guilty to mail fraud while he was working as a claims examiner for an insurance company. The U.S. attorney’s office says that William Bouda faces up to 20 years in prison when he’s...
Ohio and Nebraska Agencies Join Iroquois Group
Aug 9 2011 // Mittelstadt Agency of Nebraska and Nelson Insurance of Ohio joined the Iroquois Group. The agency was founded in June of 2000 and recently went independent after 11 years of being affiliated with Farmers Insurance...
Texas Agriculture Losses Could Set New Record Amid Drought
Jul 28 2011 // Randy McGee spent $28,000 in one month pumping water onto about 500 acres in West Texas before he decided to give up irrigating 75 acres of corn and focus on other crops that stood a better chance in the drought. He...
Expected Summer Floods Could Set Record
Jul 18 2011 // With rivers running above flood stage and soils saturated, forecasters have predicted the 2011 summer flooding season could rival the worst in U.S. history. In the “Great Flood of 1993,” record-breaking floods...
Iowa Governor Proposes Downstream Missouri River Group
Jul 8 2011 // Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has urged governors in three states to consider pulling out of a Missouri River association because of the Army Corps of Engineers’ long-term management of the river and what he believes is a...
Expected Summer Floods Could Set Record
Jul 7 2011 // With rivers still running above flood stage and soils saturated, forecasters predicted Wednesday this summer flooding season could rival the worst in U.S. history. In the “Great Flood of 1993,” record-breaking...
Missouri River Levee Fails in Southwest Iowa
Jul 1 2011 // A Missouri River levee failed near Percival in southwest Iowa on June 30, the National Weather Service said. The breach, about a mile northwest of the town in Fremont County, had grown to about 200-yards-wide by 9 a.m.,...
Nebraska Nuke Utilities Say Safety Prevails Amid Flood
Jun 29 2011 // The utilities that run Nebraska’s two nuclear power plants want the public to know the facilities are safe, even though floodwaters from the Missouri River have surrounded one plant and are encroaching on...
Nebraska: Insurers May Not Collect Fees for Health Insurance Consultants
Mar 21 2011 // Health insurance companies may not collect fees from a new insured on behalf of an insurance consultant if the insurance business is placed by an insurance consultant in Nebraska, according to the Nebraska Department of...
Nebraska: Insurers May Not Collect Fees for Health Insurance Consultants
Mar 14 2011 // Health insurance companies may not collect fees from a new insured on behalf of an insurance consultant if the insurance business is placed by an insurance consultant in Nebraska, according to the Nebraska Department of...
