All the headlines from our Nebraska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 15 2015 // Pregnant workers will have the right to easier workloads and modified schedules under a new Nebraska law.Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a bill to create better employment protections for expectant mothers. The law requires...
Apr 1 2015 // A bill that would allow Uber, Lyft and other ride-booking services to operate legally in Nebraska is headed to a vote in the Legislature.The Transportation and Telecommunications Committee voted 5-2 to advance regulations...
Mar 23 2015 // A push to repeal Nebraska’s motorcycle helmet law is going to a vote in the Legislature despite opposition from senators who say the requirement saves lives.The repeal measure would lift Nebraska’s restriction...
Mar 18 2015 // Federal regulators have ordered Union Pacific to pay $350,000 to a long-time employee who was disciplined after reporting an injury, but the railroad plans to appeal. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Mar 2 2015 // An insurance cooperative created to provide health care in Iowa and Nebraska will be formally liquidated this weekend.Iowa Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart said that a Polk County judge has agreed to approve the...
Feb 9 2015 // Iowa’s top insurance official announced plans to ask a court to end a cooperative that was selling health insurance to residents in Iowa and Nebraska – a move that will limit options for consumers in both...
Jan 27 2015 // An increase in carbon monoxide poisoning calls last year could prompt Nebraska lawmakers to require alarms in homes and apartments.A bill set for a legislative hearing on Jan.29 would add Nebraska to a growing list of...
Jan 26 2015 // The family of a 12-year-old boy who drowned at an Omaha, Neb., school last fall is seeking $1 million from the district. The Omaha World-Herald reports that James Martin Davis submitted a claim to Omaha Public Schools on...
Jan 26 2015 // Seventeen years after it started, a multimillion-dollar insurance dispute between the state of Florida and a Nebraska company continues to meander through the courts.The Nebraska Supreme Court has already ruled on aspects...
Jan 25 2015 // Iowa’s top insurance official announced plans to ask a court to end a cooperative that was selling health insurance to residents in Iowa and Nebraska – a move that will limit options for consumers in both...
Jan 22 2015 // A federal trial has begun for an Omaha, Neb., businessman accused of paying someone more than six years ago to set fire to his manufacturing plant in eastern Nebraska.A prosecutor said in his opening statement on Jan. 20...
Jan 12 2015 // Ohio saw more traffic deaths and Nebraska had an increase in vehicle crashes in 2014, according to authorities in both states.Preliminary data indicate the number of Ohio traffic deaths for the past year might end up above...
Jan 12 2015 // A woman who had part of her lower lip bitten off by a dog she was watching for friends has no right to seek payment of medical expenses from the owners’ home insurance company, the Nebraska Supreme Court...
Jan 2 2015 // Nebraska’s highway safety administrator says the number of people who died in Nebraska crashes in 2014 likely will be the highest number in five years. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that as of the morning of Dec....
Dec 31 2014 // Nebraska cities along the Missouri River are still waiting for nearly $7.2 million in reimbursement from state and federal agencies, more than three years after extensive flooding.Five cities have yet to receive payments...
Dec 22 2014 // A woman who had part of her lower lip bitten off by a dog she was watching for friends has no right to seek payment of medical expenses from the owners’ home insurance company, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled on...
Dec 11 2014 // Nebraska’s Judicial Nominating Commission for the Workers’ Compensation Court has forwarded the names of three nominees to Gov. Dave Heineman for his consideration.The nominees are Shirley Williams and Anne...
Dec 1 2014 // Nebraska Gov.-Elect Pete Ricketts announced he will retain Bruce Ramge as director of the Nebraska Department of Insurance.Ramge joined the Nebraska Department of Insurance Market Conduct Division in September 1984. He was...
Nov 21 2014 // Nebraska’s insurance company is asking a judge to declare that it has no duty to pay any award made against the Nebraska State Colleges Board of Trustees in a lawsuit over the 2010 disappearance of a Peru State...
Nov 14 2014 // Nebraska Gov.-Elect Pete Ricketts says he will retain Bruce Ramge as the director of Nebraska’s Department of Insurance. Ricketts announced that Ramge will remain the head of the agency, which regulates...