All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 10 2021 // Stonetrust Workers’ Compensation is now writing workers’ compensation coverage in Kansas effective January 1, 2022. Stonetrust is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and is now operating in ten states...
Dec 9 2021 // A moderate earthquake shook parts of north-central Kansas on Dec. 8 as residents were starting their day, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 4.3 earthquake was recorded around 7:45 a.m. Wednesday,...
Dec 2 2021 // A lawsuit filed against a Wichita car dealership by the wife of a police officer injured when he was run over by a sport utility vehicle from the business has been settled for an undisclosed amount.Officer Brian Arterburn...
Nov 18 2021 // A suburban Kansas City, Kansas, school district secretly agreed earlier this year to pay $295,000 to the family of an Olathe elementary student who was stalked by a now-jailed former teacher.Olathe Public Schools finalized...
Nov 5 2021 // Officials in Kansas and Missouri are urging drivers to be especially cautious this time of year as collisions with deer become more frequent.The Kansas City Star reports that cooler weather and shorter daylight hours mean...
Nov 2 2021 // The family of a man who was fatally shot by two Topeka police officers in September 2017 has filed a federal lawsuit against the city seeking $10 million for alleged civil rights violations.The parents of Dominique White,...
Oct 26 2021 // Kansas law enforcement agencies have received hundreds of complaints of bias over the past 10 years, but records available to the public show only two alleging racial bias resulted in consequences for officers, an...
Oct 7 2021 // A northeast Kansas county paid more than $70,000 to end a cyberattack that crippled its computer systems for about two weeks.Pottawatomie County administrator Chad Kinsley said the attackers had demanded more than $1...
Oct 7 2021 // Many Kansas school districts aren’t taking basic steps to protect their computer systems and the privacy of sensitive information collected about students, according to a legislative audit release.The report from the...
Oct 6 2021 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) installed Kansas’ Bob Fee, president of Fee Insurance Group Inc. in Hutchinson, as 2021-22 Big “I” chair at the recent...
Sep 24 2021 // A federal judge in Kansas City has cleared a restaurant group’s COVID-related business interruption claim for jury trial, finding that an 8th Circuit Court decision that found no coverage was owed in a separate case...
Sep 21 2021 // A federal investigation is underway after arson damaged a historic Kansas City, Missouri, church that now serves a congregation predominantly made up of people from the South Sudan.John Ham of the Kansas City office of the...
Aug 23 2021 // Insurance and reinsurance veteran Chris Harrington joined the Los Angeles-based reinsurance intermediary G. J. Sullivan Co., Reinsurance, as vice president. Based in Chicago, Harrington will report to John Threlfall,...
Aug 20 2021 // A man who suffered a compound fracture to his leg when he was hit by a tear gas canister during racial injustice protests last summer has received a $200,000 settlement from the Kansas City, Missouri, police department.The...
Aug 16 2021 // Kansas farmers are expected to harvest a smaller corn crop this season, according to a forecast released Aug. 12. The National Agricultural Statistics Service said in its monthly production report that the state is...
Aug 16 2021 // Global insurance broker and financial services firm, Hub International Limited (Hub), acquired the assets of Dissinger Reed LLC (Dissinger Reed), located in Overland Park, Kansas.Terms of the transaction were not...
Aug 11 2021 // An outbreak of illness at a splash park near Wichita, Kansas, was not caused by animals at its interactive zoo, health officials said.The Wichita Eagle reported that email exchanges it obtained through an open records...
Aug 4 2021 // National specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, Risk Strategies, acquired property/casualty actuarial consulting firm Centric Actuarial Solutions LLC, based in Overland Park, Kansas.Terms of the deal were...
Aug 4 2021 // Julia Dreier has been appointed to lead the Minnesota Commerce Insurance Division.Drier brings extensive knowledge and experience with Minnesota’s insurance industry. She has experience working at both the federal...
Jul 28 2021 // A suburban Kansas City summer camp has been shut down after eight COVID-19 cases were reported, and hospitals were raising alarms about a rise in infected patients.The Kansas City Star reports that the camp, which was put...