All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 9 2018 // An international staffing company violated federal law when it allowed a manager at a Kansas City, Kan., worksite to repeatedly sexually harass female workers on a manufacturing line, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Feb 8 2018 // Federal safety regulators have proposed penalties totaling $194,006 against a Wichita, Kansas-based airline manufacturer for allegedly exposing its employees to a known carcinogenThe U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Jan 18 2018 // Authorities have determined the cause of a fire that caused more than $2 million in damage and losses at a truck maintenance facility in southwest Wichita, Kansas. Wichita fire Lt. Jose Ocadiz says employees were doing...
Jan 8 2018 // CIWA Industry DaysJan 8-10 Hilton La Jolla Torrey PinesLa Jolla, Calif.California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA)Contact: Thomas Shovlin, thomas@ciwa.netThe 19th Annual Windstorm Insurance ConferenceJan 15-19...
Dec 4 2017 // Conditions are ripe for winter wildfires from the mid-South through the Great Plains thanks to a combination of weather factors, including the climate phenomenon known as La Nina, that have left a lot of dry growth.In...
Nov 14 2017 // The Kansas insurance commissioner’s chief deputy is interested in running for the top job himself next year.Assistant Insurance Commissioner Clark Shultz appointed a treasurer last month for a campaign for the...
Nov 14 2017 // Two teenagers whose firing from a Kansas pizza restaurant prompted a national discussion on pay inequality should receive back pay and the corporation that owned the restaurant must implement policies to ensure it follows...
Oct 27 2017 // Swiss Re, a reinsurance company, says it plans to move its headquarters and 400 jobs from Overland Park, Kansas, to downtown Kansas City.The move is expected in late 2018. President and CEO Eric Smith says the move will...
Oct 18 2017 // Police records show there has been an unprecedented spike in gun thefts in Kansas City, Missouri.The number of annual firearms thefts sharply increased between 2015 and 2016, according to police data obtained by the Kansas...
Oct 16 2017 // Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Ken Selzer announced that workers’ compensation insurance rates on average will drop in his state in 2018.The National Council on Compensations Insurance Inc. (NCCI) filing for the...
Oct 16 2017 // A contractor was fined $24,500 for safety violations after a worker died from a fall at a Richmond, Ind., factory.The Richmond Palladium-Item reports 23-year-old Jacob Bugg died June 27 after falling about 40 feet at a...
Oct 16 2017 // Kansas residents are broadening the fight over an oil-related waste disposal well in Flint Hills into a protest of similar wells across several counties.Residents of Chase, Morris and other counties known for open pastures...
Oct 11 2017 // Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has issued his first pardon in almost seven years in office to a man convicted of felony theft as a college student in 1994.Brownback’s office announced the pardon for Mark Schmitt of...
Oct 9 2017 // Kansas residents are broadening the fight over an oil-related waste disposal well in the Flint Hills into a protest of similar wells across several counties.Residents of Chase, Morris and other counties known for open...
Oct 3 2017 // A Kansas woman’s lawsuit claims she underwent a complex surgery at the University of Kansas Hospital for a cancer diagnosis that proved to be wrong, but she was never told of the mistake.The Kansas City Star reports...
Sep 28 2017 // Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta said it has agreed to settle tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits by farmers over the company’s rollout of a genetically engineered corn seed variety before China approved it for...
Sep 20 2017 // Prosecutors say a former Kansas banker has been sentenced to prison eight months in prison for a wire fraud scheme that included the theft of funds from Labette Bank and its insurance company subsidiary, as well as filing...
Sep 18 2017 // Detroit, Mich.-based H.W. Kaufman Financial Group named Daniel J. Kaufman senior vice president of corporate growth. Kaufman will continue to serve as managing director and lead the Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and...
Sep 8 2017 // A.M. Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “a-” from “a” of Kansas Medical Mutual...
Aug 31 2017 // Joshua Eckrich has joined insurance broker Lockton’s Kansas City operation as vice president and producer. He joined Lockton from Aon where he led a team that worked with clients on complex risk management issues. A...