All the headlines from our Nebraska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 17 2015 // Columbia Insurance Group (Columbia) welcomed Shane Martinez to its executive team as the new vice president and Omaha, Neb., branch manager. Martinez is a seasoned insurance professional with more than 20 years of...
Sep 17 2015 // A new federal report says the proportion of Nebraska residents without health insurance dropped below 10 percent last year. The census report says 9.7 percent of residents were uninsured in 2014, down from 11.3 percent the...
Sep 8 2015 // The Nebraska Supreme Court has 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...
Sep 4 2015 // Federal safety officials have placed a Norfolk, Neb., flooring manufacturer into a severe violator program for workplace safety hazards and attempting to hide those hazards from safety inspectors.U.S. Department of Labor...
Sep 1 2015 // The Texas-based agency partnership Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced it is expanding into Nebraska and elected Rick Elliott to serve as central regional vice president.The insurance agency aggregator will be...
Aug 19 2015 // A jogger who blamed Lincoln, Neb., officials after falling on an uneven sidewalk has lost her lawsuit against the city.The Lincoln Journal Star reports Lancaster County District Judge Andrew Jacobsen dismissed the lawsuit...