All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 12 2007 // Two Kansas legislative leaders outlined a $17.5 million relief package Saturday, (Nov. 10) to help flood-stricken southeast Kansas and tornado-ravaged Greensburg, with money to encourage home building and tax breaks for...
Oct 30 2007 // Kansas could become the ninth state to allow a modernized rating system for personal lines of insurance. A state task force studying rate modernization has issued a recommendation proposed by the National Association of...
Oct 15 2007 // A bipartisan group of state lawmakers want to provide $50 million to build new housing in Kansas communities still hurting from storms earlier this year.The Greensburg tornado in May and flooding in southeast Kansas...
Oct 8 2007 // Funeral director’s scam“I didn’t try to deceive anyone out of their money, I was just trying to maintain my business.” — Kent Kellog, 51, a former Indiana funeral home director accused of...
Oct 4 2007 // The Kansas Insurance Department (KID), recently announced that Larry Bruning has been elected and installed as a new director of the American Academy of Actuaries.Bruning, with 29 years of experience as an actuary, was...
Sep 24 2007 // With $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets becomes the largest regional independent agency forceBoston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now the largest regional provider of property and...
Sep 3 2007 // With $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets becomes the largest regional independent agency forceBoston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now the largest regional provider of property and...
Sep 3 2007 // Ohio Casualty officially joins the Liberty Mutual agency familyWith $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets now largest regional independent agency Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now...
Aug 27 2007 // Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group finalized its acquisition of Ohio Casualty Corp. on Friday, Aug. 24, 2007 and immediately announced a realignment of its $5.9 billion net premium regional agency company organization to...
Aug 23 2007 // Westrope recently announced the creation of its Transportation Division, which will be located in its Kansas City, Mo. office.The new wholesale broker team will service all of Westrope’s clients, primarily focusing...
Aug 22 2007 // A new Kansas state law that recently went into effect, making it harder for illegal immigrants to get driver’s licenses after July 1, has raised concerns that it will increase the number of unlicensed and uninsured...
Aug 21 2007 // A spate of deadly cross-over crashes has pushed the Kansas Department of Transportation to re-examine its policy for installing safety barriers in highway medians.Highway engineers said Kansas highways were designed with...
Aug 17 2007 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger announced today that the Kansas Insurance Department, along with Johnson County authorities and the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, were involved in the case of a former...
Aug 6 2007 // Kan. Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, recently announced that she has named Cindy Hermes as director of the Government and Public Affairs Division and Bob Hanson as public information officer.Cindy Hermes previously...
Aug 6 2007 // Nearly 52 percent of U.S. urban interstates are now congested and traffic fatality rates rose slightly, but road surface conditions and bridge conditions improved, according to the Reason Foundation’s latest annual...
Aug 6 2007 // $9.1 million Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger announced that nearly $9.1 million is being distributed to Firefighter Relief Associations from the Firefighters Relief Fund this year. This important fund,...
Aug 6 2007 // $9.1 millionKansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger announced that nearly $9.1 million is being distributed to Firefighter Relief Associations from the Firefighters Relief Fund this year. This important fund,...
Aug 6 2007 // N.D. HAS BEST ROADS IN U.S. Redlining or effective predictor? THE RUSSIANS AREN’T COMING No Russian firefighting aid yet
Aug 6 2007 // $9.1 millionKansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger announced that nearly $9.1 million is being distributed to Firefighter Relief Associations from the Firefighters Relief Fund this year. This important fund,...
Aug 6 2007 // N.D. HAS BEST ROADS IN U.S. Redlining or effective predictor? THE RUSSIANS AREN’T COMING No Russian firefighting aid yet