All the headlines from our Nebraska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 6 2016 // The Main Street America Group has named Scott Simmons assistant secretary in its Omaha, Neb., office.Simmons reports to Dan Gaynor, the company’s vice president and head of commercial lines. He is responsible for...
Apr 24 2016 // The city of Bellevue, Neb., the Metropolitan Utilities District, a plumbing contractor and its insurance company disagree about who’s to blame for a ruptured water line that flooded about 12 homes in February.The...
Apr 3 2016 // A letter carrier has won $25,000 from the owners of a dog that bit him in Grand Island, Neb. The Grand Island Independent reports that a Hall County jury awarded the damages to Seth Gruhn, who’d sued David Hernandez...
Apr 1 2016 // A bill that would grant whistleblower protections for nurses in Nebraska has won final approval from lawmakers.Senators passed the bill Thursday with a 45-0 vote. The issue surfaced last year after two Nebraska nurses...
Apr 1 2016 // Medical patients in Nebraska will have the option to pay doctors directly for consultations and physicals rather than through insurance under a bill signed by Gov. Pete Ricketts.The law allows medical practitioners to...
Mar 21 2016 // Federal safety regulators say a southeast Nebraska company wrongfully fired a driver who refused to operate a truck that violated Iowa law. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Mar 13 2016 // Warren Buffett’s compensation for running Berkshire Hathaway Inc. edged up 1 percent last year to $470,244, reflecting an increase in the cost of keeping the billionaire safe. Buffett’s salary remained at...
Mar 11 2016 // Tractors, combines and fertilizer spreaders would have a little more freedom on Nebraska’s roadways under a bill that has won first-round approval from lawmakers.Senators advanced a bill, 39-0, that would relax...
Mar 4 2016 // Federal regulators want to punish a southeast Nebraska company that the regulators say wrongfully fired a driver who refused to operate a truck that violated Iowa law.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Mar 4 2016 // Barb Dale is the new chairman of the executive board of directors Of NetVU, the network of users of Vertafore systems. Dale is with the SilverStone Group in Omaha, Nebraska, where she oversees the service staff of the...
Feb 4 2016 // Tornadoes touched down in Mississippi and Alabama as thunderstorms swept through the area Tuesday, while a powerful snowstorm buried parts of Colorado and Nebraska in more than a foot of snow before crawling into the Upper...
Jan 11 2016 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s 2016 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Dec 21 2015 // Despite its opposition to making marijuana use legal, the Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit from Nebraska and Oklahoma that seeks to declare Colorado’s pot legalization...
Dec 10 2015 // A Colorado highway safety official says Nebraska should not wait for marijuana to become before acting to keep drugged drivers off the roads.The Lincoln Journal Star reports Glenn Davis, highway safety manager for the...
Nov 2 2015 // Former U.S. Senator Ben Nelson will step down as chief executive officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), when his current term ends on Jan. 31, 2016. He began his tenure at NAIC in January...
Oct 29 2015 // A North Platte, Neb., man accused of driving his car into a canal so he could collect on his insurance has been sent to prison. Court records say 32-year-old Josh Salisbury was sentenced to 18 to 36 months for insurance...
Oct 9 2015 // Former U.S. Senator Ben Nelson will not renew his contract as chief executive officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the group announced.Nelson’s current term ends on Jan. 31, 2016. He...
Sep 29 2015 // A Douglas County jury has awarded Omaha, Neb., software developer Baldwin Hackett & Meeks Inc. $43.8 million in a lawsuit that accused a rival software firm of violating antitrust laws and breaching a nondisclosure...
Sep 22 2015 // An effort to build cable barriers on Iowa’s highways has helped reduce the number of cross-median fatal crashes.After 21 people died as a result of cross-median collisions in 2010, state officials installed 177 miles...
Sep 21 2015 // The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a workers’ compensation ruling requiring a Kearney hospital to pay the salary of a former nurse who says she’s unable to work because of psychological injuries she received...