All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 28 2011 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger appointed Mark Birdsall, a veteran life insurance actuary, as the chief actuary for the Kansas Insurance Department (KID).Birdsall, a former Utah resident, has 31 years’...
Jan 25 2011 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has named a new general counsel, a new consumer assistance director and made title changes for two staff members at the Kansas Insurance Department (KID).Praeger named Zachary...
Jan 24 2011 // Combined Agents, Elliott Insurance, HC&H InsuranceAustin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) has added two new agency members, one located in Kansas and one in North Texas. With the addition of the two...
Jan 24 2011 // Commercial insurance executive Doug Anderson has re-joined Lockton as senior vice president and producer in the insurance broker’s property and casualty operation in Kansas City, Mo. Anderson will be responsible for...
Jan 12 2011 // The Kansas Insurance Department is reporting that it recovered 32 percent less money for consumers last year than it did in 2009.But the agency says the number of complaints from consumers about insurance companies also...
Jan 11 2011 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America, LLC (CAA) announced it has added two new agency members, one located in Kansas and one in North Texas.With the addition of the two new members of the group — Elliott...
Jan 6 2011 // A signed legal settlement with American International Group will net the State of Kansas general fund $500,000, according to Sandy Praeger, Commissioner of Insurance.“The AIG settlement for Kansas was part of a...
Dec 17 2010 // BNSF Railway Co. has been ordered to pay $95,096 to a Kansas employee it disciplined for reporting a work-related injury. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said this week that the penalty represents back...
Dec 3 2010 // A construction boom has been under way at grain elevators across the Great Plains, where farmers have grown more corn and opted to keep more of the grain to meet the demand from ethanol plants.Storage capacity at the...
Nov 30 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B+ (Good) from B++ (Good) and issuer credit rating to “bbb-” from “bbb” of Upland Mutual Insurance Inc. (Upland) (Junction City, KS)....
Nov 14 2010 // Republicans made big gains across the United States – and the Midwest was no exception – in the November 2 midterm elections. Across the country, GOP gains gave the party its largest number of seats in state...
Nov 1 2010 // $220 MillionEstimated 2010 storm losses in Kansas climbed to $220 million as of the end of August, according to the Kansas Department of Insurance. There were approximately 59,400 storm claims filed during the same period....
Oct 22 2010 // Estimated 2010 storm losses in Kansas climbed to $220 million as of the end of August, according to the Kansas Department of Insurance. There were approximately 59,400 storm claims filed during that period. The highest...
Oct 18 2010 // Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Sandy Praeger recently revoked the licenses of three Crawford County insurance agents and warned area citizens who may have been customers of the agents to check with their insurance...
Oct 6 2010 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has awarded a $1,000 scholarship to a University of Kansas minority student as part of a program established by an insurance company’s discrimination suit settlement....
Oct 1 2010 // Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Sandy Praeger recently revoked the licenses of three Crawford County insurance agents and warned area citizens who may have been customers of the agents to check with their insurance...
Sep 21 2010 // Medical professional liability insurance provider, MMIC Group, recently announced its entry into the Kansas/Missouri marketplace.According to MMIC President and CEO Bill McDonough, “As consolidation of healthcare...
Aug 18 2010 // Kansas officials say it’s a maddening when someone who has no driver’s license is involved in a fatal crash, but they’re not sure how to fix the problem.The Kansas Department of Transportation says that...
Aug 16 2010 // Incumbent Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger prevailed over her challenger, David Powell, in the Aug. 3 Republican primary to secure her party’s nomination for the commissioner’s job.Because there are...
Aug 4 2010 // Sandy Praeger prevailed over challenger David Powell in the Aug. 3 Republican primary to secure the nomination for Kansas Insurance Commissioner. Because there are no challengers from any other party for the November...