All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 25 2019 // Jurors have awarded more than $2 million to a Missouri man who was injured when a driver threw a tractor-trailer in reverse on Interstate 35 in Kansas. The Kansas City Star reports that Michael Whitt, of the Kansas City...
Jul 19 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Manhattan, Kansas-based Darrell Phillips Inc., dba DPI Benefits.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Operating since 2008, DPI Benefits is an independent benefits broker...
Jul 15 2019 // Insurance brokerage, Virtus, has acquired Cobbs Allen’s Kansas City employee benefits practice. This acquisition supplements Virtus’ Kansas City presence and adds depth and expertise to its employee benefits...
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...
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...
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 ticket...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 insurance...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...