All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 20 2018 // Business icon Warren Buffett plans to open a new Geico Insurance service center that will bring 500 jobs to Lenexa, Kansas.The Kansas City Area Development Council said in a news release that the center will open in August...
Jun 19 2018 // A Kansas mother says an insurance company wants her family to pay $132,000 after her 5-year-old son accidentally knocked over a sculpture at a city community center.Sarah Goodman tells the Kansas City Star the incident...
Jun 18 2018 // Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Ken Selzer issued a bulletin in late May informing “all persons and entities that have paid money to the Kansas Insurance Department (KID) Service Regulation Fund in the past 24...
Jun 13 2018 // A group of investors that own Affinity Worldwide and National Real Estate Insurance Group (NREIG) and led by Tim Norris, has purchased First Consulting and Administration Inc., a Kansas City-based insurance compliance...
Jun 11 2018 // The U.S. Geological Survey says a 4.4 magnitude earthquake shook parts of northern Oklahoma and neighboring Kansas. Geologists say the earthquake was recorded at 8:59 a.m. Saturday about 16 miles (26 kilometers) east of...
Jun 6 2018 // Two Westar Energy employees in Kansas have died after suffering severe burns at the utility’s largest plant for generating electricity.The company said the plant was shut down following the accident. Westar...
May 29 2018 // A retired healthcare company manager who has been active in the NAACP is running for Kansas insurance commissioner as a Democrat.Nathaniel McLaughlin of Kansas City, Kansas, filed for a spot on the August primary ballot....
May 22 2018 // A Kansas woman who was injured when a deputy crashed into her car while rushing to an accident at a motorcycle race course is settling her lawsuit for $40,000. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Sedgwick County commission...
May 21 2018 // Kansas City-based independent insurance broker, Lockton, named Said Taiym executive vice president and chief digital officer.Taiym will focus on digital innovation and new technologies to help Lockton. He most recently was...
May 11 2018 // Fire investigators say a fallen power pole started a fire that caused about $4 million damage to a Lawrence, Kansas, tractor business.Lawrence-Douglas County fire official James King says when the pole fell Saturday...
May 4 2018 // Kansas legislators are moving to ban taxpayer-funded settlements of sexual harassment claims against state officials and block non-disclosure agreements in harassment cases.House and Senate negotiators have agreed to...
May 3 2018 // The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority has paid nearly $3.3 million in settlements for bodily injuries or property damage from 2012 to 2017, according to claims data.Last year also saw the highest number of...
Apr 23 2018 // A Republican running for Kansas governor has released his income tax returns for the past three years and is calling for other candidates to do so.Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer said Friday that he’s setting an...
Apr 9 2018 // Emergency officials in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas are bracing for two types of disasters as spring gets into full swing: The start of what’s historically the most active time of year for tornadoes plus wildfire...
Apr 4 2018 // One of the designers of a massive Kansas water park slide that decapitated a 10-year-old boy has been arrested in Texas, federal authorities said.Trent Touchstone, chief deputy with the U.S. Marshals Service in Dallas,...
Apr 2 2018 // Kansas schools that refuse to allow teachers to carry guns could be held legally responsible in the event of a tragedy under a proposal drafted after last month’s mass shooting at a Florida high school.Opponents of...
Mar 29 2018 // A man involved in the design of the world’s tallest waterslide into has been indicted along with two others in connection with the death of a 10-year-old boy at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas.John...
Mar 28 2018 // A water park company’s co-owner was being held in a Texas jail on murder and other charges on March 27 in connection to a Kansas criminal case in the death of a 10-year-old boy on what was promoted as the...
Mar 27 2018 // A Kansas waterslide hyped as the world’s highest was a “deadly weapon” that had already injured more than a dozen people before a 10-year-old boy was decapitated on it in 2016, according to a grand jury...
Mar 21 2018 // The number of lawsuits accusing a former physician assistant at a Veteran’s Administration hospital in Kansas of sexual abuse is approaching 100. The Wichita Eagle reports that Kansas City attorneys Dan Curry and...