All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 30 2014 // Starting July 1, Kansas is granting a yearlong exemption to small commercial trucks from most of the safety regulations it imposes upon larger haulers, despite the misgivings of some officials.The Topeka Capital Journal...
Jun 27 2014 // Pam Popp is joining Lockton as president of its retirement services operation effective Sept. 2, based in Kansas City, Mo., the risk management and insurance services firm announced.Popp is a longtime retirement plan...
Jun 23 2014 // Lockton has expanded its national employee benefits practice with the addition of Scott Behrens, J.D., as assistant vice president, compliance attorney in Lockton Benefit Group’s compliance services practice. He is...
Jun 19 2014 // Kansas highest court reversed a state appeals court finding that an oil field worker was not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits after he was injured while riding home from his workplace.The nature of oil...
Jun 18 2014 // Kansas City, Mo.-based Lockton named Joe Agnello president of the insurance broker’s Kansas City property/casualty insurance operation.Agnello, a 20-year Lockton veteran, succeeds Ron Lockton who will devote more...
Jun 5 2014 // A Kansas man has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for a $1.3 million fraud involving a Missouri fund for cleaning up leaking petroleum tanks.Robert Fine II was sentenced on June 3 after pleading guilty last...
Jun 3 2014 // Joyce R. Banks, assistant comptroller for the Kansas Insurance Department (KID), has been appointed as the agency’s new comptroller.Banks is replacing Kathy Bohnhoff, who is retiring from the department after 13...
Jun 2 2014 // A veteran Republican legislator has filed to run for Kansas insurance commissioner and joined an already crowded field of candidates.Sen. Clark Shultz of Lindsborg filed the necessary paperwork on May 30 for a spot on the...
May 22 2014 // Another Republican candidate has filed for the August primary to be the next Kansas insurance commissioner.Ken Selzer, of Leawood, filed his paperwork with the secretary of state on May 20. Selzer is an accountant and a...
Apr 30 2014 // The National Weather Service in Tulsa, Oklahoma says the EF2 tornado that killed one person in Quapaw earlier this week started at 5:29 p.m. Sunday, April 27 about 3 miles southwest of Quapaw. The tornado packing maximum...
Apr 30 2014 // Everything has been stolen – including the kitchen sink – from the kitchen of a model house in Kansas. Police say thieves stripped the kitchen of the Clayton Homes unit in south Wichita, taking all the upscale...
Apr 16 2014 // Republican Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger and several health care organizations are urging Gov. Sam Brownback to veto legislation that would allow Kansas to join a multistate health care compact. Praeger, who is not...
Apr 8 2014 // The parents of a Missouri man awarded nearly $3 million by a Kansas jury say they hope the case helps raise awareness of the risks and possible complications from pain injections. A Johnson County, Kan., jury awarded the...
Apr 7 2014 // Van Wert, Ohio-based Central Insurance Companies announced several promotions in March.Todd Simpson was promoted to assistant vice president of claims. A graduate of the Indiana University School of Law, Simpson has been...
Apr 1 2014 // Kansas City, Mo., has settled four discrimination lawsuits filed by former part-time municipal prosecutors at a cost of more than $1 million since last July, and four similar lawsuits are still pending.The...
Mar 28 2014 // The union representing engineers at Spirit AeroSystems Inc. accused the aerospace company of terminating hundreds of workers last year because they were too old and a burden on health insurance costs, claims that the...
Mar 26 2014 // A Wichita, Kan., couple whose son died while at day care is using their tragedy to push for stronger regulations of day care providers. Brock and Christina Mosier won a $950,000 judgment against day care provider Karin...
Mar 24 2014 // A business-backed proposal to change court evidence rules failed on March 21 in the Kansas House before members gave first-round approval to a bill increasing the damages allowed in personal injury lawsuits.The measure...
Mar 21 2014 // Managing general agency and surplus lines insurance broker, J.M. Wilson, added Michele Terry, as branch manager of its Kansas City, Mo., location.Terry will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Kansas City office and...
Mar 20 2014 // A Kansas House committee has endorsed legislation allowing higher monetary damages in personal injury lawsuits while revising the rules of evidence in such cases.The March 18 voice vote by the Commerce, Labor and Economic...