All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 1 2006 // Todd Graves, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, reported that a former Kansas City, Mo., police officer pleaded guilty in federal court recently to a scheme to collect insurance on a fraudulent stolen car...
Dec 15 2005 // Todd Graves, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, reported that a former Kansas City, Mo., police officer pleaded guilty in federal court recently to a scheme to collect insurance on a fraudulent...
Dec 8 2005 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected regulators from Maine, Alabama, Kansas and New Mexico as the organization’s 2006 officers during the Association’s Winter National...
Dec 5 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...
Dec 4 2005 // Burns & Wilcox, a national specialty insurance managing general agency, has promoted Wayne Bates to director of the company’s Special Risk Division (SRD), International and promoted him to associate vice...
Dec 4 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...
Nov 20 2005 // Insurers like writing commercial auto business, and most lines of business, in the Midwestern states because of market stability and a favorable legislative and regulatory climate. But even in this typically stable line of...
Nov 15 2005 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, has opened a Kansas City branch office headed by Jason Patchen, assistant vice president and branch manager. Patchen will work closely with...
Oct 31 2005 // The Society of Insurance Licensing Administrators (SILA) has named Kansas Insurance Department employee LeRoy Brungardt the Warren E. Spurill Regulator of the Year-2005. “Naming Leroy as this year’s recipient...
Oct 28 2005 // Acuity said Friday that it will begin writing insurance in Kansas effective Jan. 1. The Sheboygan, Wis.-based insurer said consumers may receive policy premium quotes from independent agents who represent Acuity starting...
Oct 17 2005 // As a direct result of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (ARPA), more farmers are insuring their cropland. Nationwide, insured acres have increased by 14.6 million acres, and coverage has increased by $12.2...
Oct 17 2005 // With Katrina’s impact yet to be felt, farmers in low loss-ratio states may have to pick up the slack for the hard-hit Gulf Coast farmers in months and years to come. If anything, the aftermath of Katrina underlines...
Oct 17 2005 // As a direct result of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (ARPA), more farmers are insuring their cropland. Nationwide, insured acres have increased by 14.6 million acres and coverage increased by $12.2 billion...
Oct 17 2005 // As a direct result of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 more farmers are insuring their cropland. Nationwide, insured acres have increased by 14.6 million acres and coverage increased by $12.2 billion over the...
Oct 17 2005 // The hurricane [Katrina] produced catastrophicBroward and Miami- Dade counties inFlorida.As a direct result of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (ARPA), more farmers are insuring their cropland. Nationwide,...
Sep 21 2005 // Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has deployed two members of the Kansas Insurance Department to assist at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Call Center in Kansas City, Mo., which was...
Sep 19 2005 // General Electric Co. likely will sell all of its remaining insurance operations, which include Kansas City-based GE Insurance Solutions, according to comments made by the head of GE Insurance Solutions.Ron Pressman, head...
Sep 19 2005 // IllinoisKatrina Could Affect Ill. Insurance Rates: Experts say the path of destruction left by Hurricane Katrina likely will lead to higher insurance rates in the metro-east and across the country, although it is unclear...
Sep 5 2005 // IllinoisCCC Settles Class-Action Suit on Total Loss Vehicle Valuation: Chicago-based claims software-maker CCC Information Services Inc. and 15 of its customers signed a settlement agreement with plaintiffs in various...
Aug 25 2005 // General Electric Co. likely will sell all of its remaining insurance operations, which include Kansas City-based GE Insurance Solutions, the local company’s chief executive told Bloomberg News.Bloomberg reported the...