All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 3 2010 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions.The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
Jul 30 2010 // Experience and support for the new federal health care reform law are the defining issues in a Republican primary for Kansas insurance commissioner that will determine who holds the office for the next four...
Jul 28 2010 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has spent four times as much money as her only rival in her campaign for a third term.Praeger, of Lawrence, faces El Dorado insurance agent David Powell in the Aug. 3 Republican...
Jul 26 2010 // Kansas regulators have suspended the license of a Wichita insurance agent in a rare emergency order spurred by a federal investigation over alleged fraud linked to the trust of an elderly woman.The action was taken against...
Jul 15 2010 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger is currently making the annual distribution of funds to state and local firefighter relief organizations.More than $9.7 million will be distributed among 580 local Firefighters...
Jul 13 2010 // CNA Financial Corp., based in Chicago, has appointed Don Wehrkamp as Commercial Underwriting officer for its Kansas City territory. In this role, Wehrkamp will ensure that the full complement of CNA’s products and...
Jul 5 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected David Wood, vice president and partner at Bogan, Dunlap & Wood Insurance in Odessa, to serve as the association’s president for 2010-2011.Other newly...
Jun 22 2010 // Kansas businesses gained 11,300 jobs in May, a 0.8 percent increase, building on gains made in April. Nebraska also saw job gains in May 2010 and a decrease of 0.1 percent in its unemployment rate, bringing the rate to 4.9...
Jun 15 2010 // Voters in Kansas’ Aug. 3 Republican primary will probably decide the insurance commissioner’s race.No Democratic, Libertarian or Reform Party candidates filed for the office before the June 10 deadline....
Jun 1 2010 // The May Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in the...
May 24 2010 // Officials Harvey County, Iowa, say some residents may need to buy flood insurance under new federal maps of the area’s flood plain.Scott Davies, director of the Harvey County Planning and Zoning, says 270 residents...
May 13 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘B+’ (Good) and issuer credit rating of “bbb-” of Wisconsin-based Partners Mutual...
Apr 30 2010 // Wholesale insurance broker Westrope announced that Edward T. Havermann III has joined its Kansas City, Mo., headquarters as a broker in Westrope’s national transportation practice. Havermann began his career with...
Apr 15 2010 // Kansas State University researchers are discovering the challenges aging creates for drivers.To help improve traffic safety, K-State engineers identified the characteristics of older drivers in Kansas and the types of...
Apr 8 2010 // A national insurer trade organization is praising the Kansas Legislature for passing legislation (HB 2501) that includes what the trade group says are positive changes to the state’s laws regarding the credit...
Apr 1 2010 // A special Kansas House committee has dismissed a complaint by Democrats against Republican Speaker Mike O’Neal.Democrat lawmakers filed a complaint in mid-March, accusing O’Neal, an attorney, of misconduct for...
Mar 15 2010 // Top Democrat lawmakers in Kansas filed a complaint in the Kansas House against its Republican speaker, accusing him of misconduct for representing businesses, trade groups and insurance funds in a lawsuit against the...
Mar 8 2010 // Some fear a proposed amendment to a drunken driving bill would make it easier for DUI offenders to avoid getting a device that prevents them from starting their vehicles if they have had too much to drink.That’s...
Mar 3 2010 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner and former National Association of Insurance Commissioners President Sandy Praeger was honored with the American Medical Association’s (AMA) top government service award for an elected...
Mar 2 2010 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has joined colleagues from two other states in opposing interstate health insurance options.Praeger, along with state insurance commissioners from Oklahoma and West Virginia,...