All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 2 2008 // $23 MillionIowa is set to receive another $23 million in federal money to repair flood damaged roads and bridges. The funds are part of $690 million being divided up among 28 states by the U.S. Department of Transportation...
Oct 28 2008 // Two Kansas businessmen, one in banking and the other in insurance, have made an offer to purchase the assets of the troubled Brooke Insurance Corp.In an interview with Insurance Journal, Albert Riederer, who is the Special...
Oct 21 2008 // Steadily rising numbers in Kansas vehicle accidents involving deer have prompted a need for constant defensive driving this fall, according to Sandy Praeger, Commissioner of Insurance.More than 200 additional deer-vehicle...
Oct 21 2008 // An Illinois company connected to a bank involved in the lawsuit of the parent company of Brooke Corp. has taken control of 44.3 percent of Brooke’s stock.Trim Creek LLC of Crete, Ill., now owns 6.43 million shares of...
Oct 20 2008 // Overland Park, Kansas-based Brooke Corp. faces a lawsuit by a bank seeking $13 million plus interest and costs for breach of contract. The suit was filed the last week in September 2008 in federal court in Illinois by...
Oct 6 2008 // A Missouri physicians’ group plans to build a new medical office building in Galena, Kan., citing lower malpractice insurance costs across the state line. Dr. Christopher Banwart, a member of Orthopedic Specialists...
Oct 3 2008 // A man convicted in five Kansas counties of selling insurance to elderly residents but pocketing tens of thousands of dollars in premiums has filed for bankruptcy.The Chapter 7 filing by Ronald Hummel of Hutchinson could...
Oct 3 2008 // Overland Park, Kansas-based Brooke Corp. faces a lawsuit by a bank that is seeking $13 million plus interest and costs for breach of contract. The suit was filed the last week in September 2008 in federal court in Illinois...
Sep 25 2008 // After three days of deliberation in one of the longest jury trials ever held in Kansas, a jury in January left residents in a southeast city stunned.The panel had decided that the city of Neodesha was not entitled to...
Sep 19 2008 // A Missouri physicians’ group plans to build a new medical office building in Galena, Kan., citing lower malpractice insurance costs across the state line. Dr. Christopher Banwart, a member of Orthopedic Specialists...
Sep 11 2008 // The crane company involved in a fatal accident at Kansas City Power & Light’s Iatan power plant in Platte County has been fined $14,000 for two serious violations.The Occupational Safety & Health...
Sep 5 2008 // A Sedgwick County jury has awarded more than $4 million in damages to a Wichita man who became permanently disabled after doctors failed to diagnose Rocky Mountain spotted fever.Kyle Jim was 11 when he was taken to Via...
Sep 1 2008 // Community Financial Insurance Center, Monroe, La., hired Jeanette F. Credo as senior vice president for its new Financial Institutions Division for the states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.Credo will establish and...
Sep 1 2008 // Insurance Journal Top 100 Agency ProfileRANKING: No. 12 Headquarters: Denver, Colo. and Wichita, Kan. Year Founded: 1973 Additional Locations: Topeka, Kan., Dallas, Texas, Kansas City, Kan. 2007 Total Property/Casualty...
Aug 22 2008 // A survey shows that new safety restraint mandates in Kansas have helped boost compliance among children.A study by the Kansas Department of Transportation found that 75 percent of passengers younger than 14 were protected...
Aug 21 2008 // F5 Tornado damage in Parkersburg, Iowa, May 25, 2008.Tornado damage, Windsor, Colo. Prior to 1990, the average number of tornadoes per year in the Continental US was 772. In the period from 1990 through 2007, the average...
Aug 21 2008 // Kansas had 1,616 tornadoes, 11 of them were F4 tornadoes and nine were categorized as F5. … The number of tornadoes reported has gone up over 50 percent.Much has been written in the last six weeks about the 2008...
Aug 21 2008 // Tornadoes are usually classified using the Fujita Tornado Scale, or FScale developed by Dr. T. Theodore Fujita at the University of Chicago in 1971, CDS said. Using FScale classifications, the study looked at whether there...
Jul 31 2008 // Matt Arst has joined Higginbotham & Associates as a commercial account executive in the company’s Fort Worth headquarters. He brings to the agency niche expertise in hospitality industry exposures and related...
Jul 25 2008 // A year after a refinery oil spill into floodwaters blanketed a third of this southeast Kansas town, little remains in the area that was damaged.The oil-drenched houses are gone, and only a few homeowners have rebuilt....