All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 28 2017 // Hundreds of bridges in northwest Missouri and northeastern Kansas are being called “structurally deficient.” The St. Joseph News-Press reports that the National Bridge Inventory Database defines a structurally...
Feb 26 2017 // Eighteen Kansas counties affected by a severe ice storm in January will receive federal disaster aid.The Kansas Adjutant General’s office announced that President Donald Trump has granted Gov. Sam Brownback’s...
Feb 23 2017 // Avant LLC has purchased Supermarket Insurance Group (SIG), based in Overland Park, Kansas. SIG is a property/casualty insurance provider to the supermarket niche in the U.S. with a concentration in the Midwest. SIG is led...
Feb 16 2017 // About 20 employees from a manufacturing plant in Kansas’ Reno County were sent to the hospital on Feb. 13 after being exposed to carbon monoxide in the workplace.SYT USA official Alex Birkenfeldt tells The Hutchinson...
Feb 13 2017 // Firefighting costs hit $1.5 million in the county hardest hit by a massive wildfire along the Kansas-Oklahoma border last year.Jerry McNamar, emergency management director for Kansas’ Barber County, said he’s...
Feb 6 2017 // A Kansas Insurance Department staff member will be visiting with business majors at Kansas universities during February to promote insurance courses as part of a statewide education initiative to attract more employees to...
Jan 26 2017 // Alan F. Short has joined XL Catlin’s Excess Casualty team as a senior underwriter in Kansas City. Short brings 30-plus years of broker and underwriting experience, including his recent tenure as an underwriting...
Jan 24 2017 // An investigation into possible wildlife violations uncovered unrelated insurance fraud evidence that led to a recent criminal conviction in Kansas.Lawrence E. Payne, Overland Park, was sentenced Dec. 6, 2016, to serve 30...
Jan 23 2017 // TechAssure, the international nonprofit association of insurance and risk management experts for technology-related risks, has named Kansas City, Mo.-based Brush Creek Partners as a new member.Brush Creek Partners is an...
Jan 9 2017 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Jan 9 2017 // Regents system universities in Kansas are reviewing earthquake insurance policies after several quakes were reported in the state this year.The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the universities’ chief financial...
Jan 3 2017 // Regents universities in Kansas are reviewing earthquake insurance policies after several quakes were reported in the state this year.The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the universities’ chief financial officers...
Dec 30 2016 // Commissioners in Kansas’ Shawnee County have agreed to pay a $48,000 settlement to two women who claimed they were wrongfully terminated from their jobs in the prosecutor’s office because of racial and gender...
Dec 29 2016 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a western Kansas woman against the state and several agencies after her son was removed from her home in 2015 when he told school officials she used marijuana. Shona Banda,...
Dec 28 2016 // Three tornadoes were reported in Kansas on Christmas Day, causing some damage but no injuries, the National Weather Service confirmed.The Dodge City office of the weather service said the first tornado was reported six...
Dec 28 2016 // Celebrity chefs are cooking up poor food safety habits, according to a Kansas State University study.Kansas State University food safety experts Edgar Chambers IV and Curtis Maughan, along with Tennessee State...
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Dec 19 2016 // The parents of a 13-year-old Kansas girl who died of viral meningitis are suing a Lincoln hospital, alleging that doctors there were negligent when treating her in 2014.Terrisa and Scott Waters filed a wrongful death...
Dec 16 2016 // Federal workplace safety officials are investigating a western Kansas oil field explosion that injured five workers, two of them critically.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Dec 1 2016 // A female student contends in a court filing that Kansas State University’s failure to investigate the rape of another woman allowed the same alleged assailant to sexually assault her.The accusations were levied in...