All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 8 2023 // Ann DiPasquale has joined Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., as senior vice president within its employee benefits group. DiPasquale is based in Kansas City, Mo. DiPasquale has more than 15 years...
Nov 7 2023 // Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., has named James Spears senior vice president within its Alliant Americas division. He is based in Kansas City, Mo. Spears has over 15 years of experience in...
Nov 2 2023 // Worden Joins Leif AssuranceLeif Assurance, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, hired Robert Worden as a construction insurance specialist. Worden has nearly 15 years of insurance industry experience. Before joining Leif...
Oct 30 2023 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident” and, while they had not provided an...
Oct 20 2023 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Computer systems for almost all of Kansas` courts have been offline for five days because of what officials call a “security incident,” preventing them from accepting electronic filings...
Oct 19 2023 // Kansas producer licensing fees will be reduced by $1.2 million beginning in January, 2024, Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced. Resident producer application fees will be reduced from $30 to $15, and...
Oct 10 2023 // A McDonald’s restaurant in Checotah, Oklahoma, operated by franchisee Arch Fellow North LLC, violated federal law when a manager sexually harassed a 17 year-old worker, and she was forced to resign, the U.S. Equal...
Oct 2 2023 // A federal agency has sued the restaurant chain Chipotle, accusing it of religious harassment and retaliation after a manager at a Kansas location forcibly removed an employee`s hijab, a headscarf worn by some Muslim...
Oct 2 2023 // “Settlements of this size and nature have often attracted the attention of third-party litigation funding entities intending to prey on litigants, including settlement participants seeking litigation funding pending...
Sep 26 2023 // A Kansas woman has been sentenced to 18 months of probation for insurance fraud, the Kansas Insurance Department (KID) announced.Carolyn Engelhardt, age 30, pleaded guilty in the District Court of Norton County on July 25,...
Sep 18 2023 // The District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas has declared MutualAid eXchange (MAX) insolvent, and the company has been placed into liquidation pursuant to a petition filed by the Commissioner of Insurance.The court ruled...
Sep 13 2023 // Vicars Powersports, a McAlester, Oklahoma retailer of ATVs, UTVs, dirt bikes, motorcycles and personal watercraft, violated federal law when it fired a female manager because she is a woman, the U.S. Equal Employment...
Sep 8 2023 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced the Kansas Insurance Department (KID) has returned dollars to group-funded pools following the enactment of legislation that does away with two assessment fees.The...
Sep 1 2023 // One of the reporters who works at the small Kansas newspaper that was raided by authorities earlier this month filed a federal lawsuit against the police chief Wednesday.Deb Gruver believes Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody...
Aug 30 2023 // HIGHLAND, Kan. (AP) – A Kansas community college that was accused of trying to reduce the number of Black student-athletes has agreed to a settlement, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday.The department said in a...
Aug 28 2023 // KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Kansas City, Missouri, Fire Department is under a U. S. Department of Justice investigation for alleged racial discrimination, a Kansas City spokesperson confirmed to The Kansas City Star...
Aug 28 2023 // The District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas has declared MutualAid eXchange (MAX) insolvent, and the company has been placed into liquidation pursuant to a petition filed by the Commissioner of Insurance.The court ruled...
Aug 25 2023 // Sagging ears just short of maturity, cobs half bare of kernels as if nibbled, earth so dry that deep cracks criss-cross the fields: The US corn harvest is in trouble.The signs were already there in South Dakota. Scouts...
Aug 21 2023 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A judge has agreed to allow the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit that seeks to force the state to list the sex that people were assigned at birth on their...
Aug 9 2023 // Hundreds of cattle died in Iowa from extreme heat and humidity in late July, the state and livestock producers said, as the world recorded its hottest month ever.The deaths show the toll of severe weather on farm animals...