All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 13 2024 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge ruled Monday that the state isn’t violating transgender residents’ rights under the state constitution by refusing to change their driver’s licenses to reflect their...
Mar 12 2024 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced last week that an Overland Park man has been sentenced to 12 months of probation for insurance fraud. Matthew Finholm, age 43, pleaded guilty in the District Court of...
Mar 11 2024 // Federal investigators determined a Liberal, Kansas truck washing company failed to protect workers from hydrogen sulfide gas as they entered over-the-road tanker trailers to clean them out, causing one worker’s fatal...
Mar 8 2024 // Two Columbia, Missouri residents were sentenced in federal court on March 6 for their roles in a $1.1 million insurance fraud scheme that involved false claims of injuries suffered in faked car accidents.Michael Lee Gene...
Mar 1 2024 // Conrade Insurance Group this week reported a data breach upon identifying unusual activity in its email system. The Newton, Kansas-based insurance agency posted a Notice of data Event on its website stating an...
Feb 22 2024 // VIAA Names Drda Alliance CoordinatorValley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a cohesive family of more than 160 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois, hired David Drda as an alliance coordinator. Drda has...
Feb 8 2024 // The former chief executive officer of a Kansas bank was charged with embezzling $47.1 million from the lender to buy cryptocurrency, as the tale of tiny Heartland Tri-State Bank and its failure unfolds.Shan Hanes, who led...
Jan 29 2024 // WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A prized statue of Jackie Robinson was stolen from a public park in Kansas, spurring a police search Friday and outrage across the city of Wichita.The statue honors the first player to break Major...
Jan 25 2024 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced that she will be serving on three committees for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in 2024.Committee assignments were made at the NAIC’s...
Jan 23 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of American Heritage Agency, Inc., a well-established insurance agency that has been serving the Hays community in Kansas since 1999. This marks Inszone’s entry...
Jan 22 2024 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced a Kansas man has been sentenced to 12 months of probation for insurance fraud. Cloise Allen, age 46, pled guilty in the District Court of Sedgwick County to one...
Jan 22 2024 // London-based Rokstone, the Aventum Group’s re/insurance MGA, appointed Alex Berisha head of U.S. marine cargo and Derek Vandermyde as underwriting manager, Inland Marine. Both are based in New York.Berisha joins from...
Jan 19 2024 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas court system needs at least $2.6 million in additional funds to recover from an October cyberattack that prevented the electronic filing of documents and blocked online access to records...
Jan 17 2024 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced the Kansas Insurance Department recovered more than $16 million for Kansans in 2023, the largest single-year recovery in Department history. This new record goes beyond...
Jan 9 2024 // CHICAGO – Tyson Foods TSN.N and Cargill CARG.UL said on Tuesday it suspended operations at beef processing plants in Kansas due to a massive snowstorm, disrupting U.S. meat production. Cargill, a major producer of...
Dec 29 2023 // Insurance Journal Midwest readers in 2023 gravitated to stories on multi-million dollar rulings, policy language disputes and failing mutual insurance companies. Readers were also interested in the fallout of the East...
Dec 28 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – From an ice storm in North Dakota that sealed windows shut to blizzard conditions in Colorado causing hundreds of airport delays and cancellations, a winter storm pummeled much of the central United...
Dec 19 2023 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – The court system in Kansas has started bringing its computer system for managing cases back online, two months after a foreign cyberattack forced officials to shut it down along with public access to...
Dec 15 2023 // Relation Insurance Services acquired the assets of Kane Insurance Agency. The transaction went into effect on December 1, 2023 and terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Serving Illinois individuals and businesses...
Dec 14 2023 // Swift Joins XPT Specialty Brokerage TeamXPT Specialty, headquartered in New York, N.Y., hired Ben Swift as an underwriter/broker specializing in commercial binding accounts for Midwest retailers. Before joining XPT, Swift...