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Nebraska Opting Out of NIMA

Jan 23 2012 // Nebraska insurance regulators have notified the governing committee of the Nonadmitted Insurance Multistate Agreement (NIMA) that the state intends to withdraw from the agreement effective March 5, 2012.Bruce Ramge,...

Nebraska to Opt Out of Nonadmitted Insurance Multistate Agreement

Jan 10 2012 // Nebraska insurance regulators have notified the governing committee of the Nonadmitted Insurance Multistate Agreement (NIMA) that the state intends to withdraw from the agreement effective March 5, 2012.Bruce Ramge,...

Coventry Health Care to Run Nebraska Health Insurance Pool

Dec 29 2011 // Coventry Health Care of Nebraska will be the new health plan administrator for Nebraska’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool.The state program is designed to provide health insurance for Nebraskans who can’t...

Nebraska, Iowa Towns Among Safest in U.S.

Dec 28 2011 // Several cities in Nebraska and Iowa made Farmers Insurance’s lists of the safer and most secure places to live in the country.The insurer ranked cities of different sizes based on crime rates, natural disaster risks,...

Crop Insurance Rates Skyrocket After Summer Floods

Dec 15 2011 // Midwestern farmers who saw their land swamped by summer flooding may be socked again with steep increases in their crop insurance premiums, the expensive result of the failure to fix broken levees before the winter snow...

Nebraska Police Say Hands Tied with Texting Ban

Dec 13 2011 // Law enforcement officials in Nebraska continue to grapple with how to enforce a 2010 state law that bans texting while driving.Columbus police have issued one ticket and three warnings since the ban went into effect almost...

AIPSO Central Region Closing East Wacker Drive Office in Chicago

Dec 5 2011 // AIPSO, a management organization and service provider for various insurance industry groups responsible for administering the residual market, announced that the central region is closing its East Wacker Drive office in...

Nebraska Health Providers Urge State-based Insurance Exchange

Dec 2 2011 // Nebraska should not wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the Obama administration’s health care overhaul before it prepares a state-based insurance exchange, a leading hospital advocate said.Bruce Rieker, a...

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Nov 7 2011 // Westfield Insurance, headquartered in Westfield, Ohio, selected Dennis Baus to lead the company’s surety operations. Baus assumes the national surety leader responsibilities on Jan. 1, 2012, replacing Rick Kinnaird...

Declarations

Nov 7 2011 // Ryan on Leadership“Leadership is establishing a vision and getting others to buy into that vision, and when they buy into that vision, it’s establishing trust.” —Patrick Ryan, chairman and CEO of...

Nebraska Court: Insurance Won’t Cover Fireworks Injury

Nov 7 2011 // A judge has ruled a Lincoln, Neb., man can’t get help from his insurance company to pay for injuries inflicted on an 80-year-old woman in a fireworks accident because it happened during a criminal act.The Lincoln...

Nebraska Health Exchange Would Need 83K-100K Enrollees

Oct 31 2011 // As many as 100,000 Nebraskans would need to enroll in a state-based health insurance exchange before the program could sustain itself as required, according to a report presented to lawmakers on Oct. 28.Insurance...

Citing Reform, Small Health Insurer Lays off Workers in Iowa, Nebraska

Oct 24 2011 // The parent company of American Republic has told employees in Des Moines, Iowa, and Omaha, Neb., it is getting out of the individual major medical insurance business.The Des Moines Register reported 110 positions will be...

Nebraska Court: Insurance Won’t Cover Fireworks Injury

Oct 24 2011 // A judge has ruled a Lincoln, Neb., man can’t get help from his insurance company to pay for injuries inflicted on an 80-year-old woman in a fireworks accident because it happened during a criminal act.The Lincoln...

Nebraska Insurance Director Needs More Data on Exchange Cost

Oct 17 2011 // Nebraska insurance officials can’t decide whether to recommend a state-based health insurance exchange or follow a proposed federal model until they know how much the national plan will cost, Nebraska Department of...

Holmes Murphy Adds Johnson and Shald in Nebraska Office

Oct 17 2011 // Holmes Murphy Division Leader Beau Reid has announced the addition of two industry professionals to the company’s Nebraska division. Craig Johnson has joined the firm as senior consultant – client services and...

Stine Sworn in as Nebraska Workers’ Comp Court Judge

Oct 7 2011 // Judge Tom Stine has been sworn in to serve on the bench of the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court. Attorney General Jon Bruning opened and officiated the swearing-in ceremony, which took place in the Nebraska State...

Insurer Says Exclusion Bars Payment in Nebraska Pastor’s Death

Oct 3 2011 // An insurance company specializing in policies for churches is asking a federal court to absolve it from paying a claim by the widow of a central Nebraska pastor who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a house owned by the...

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Oct 3 2011 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) presented the Federal Legislator of the Year Award to U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., at its annual convention in Indianapolis.Biggert currently serves as...

Insurer Says Exclusion Bars Payment in Nebraska Pastor’s Death

Sep 21 2011 // An insurance company specializing in policies for churches is asking a federal court to absolve it from paying a claim by the widow of a central Nebraska pastor who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a house owned by the...