Latest Nebraska Headlines

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Wells Fargo Insurance Services Names Samland Managing Director

Aug 27 2009 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services of Minnesota Inc. named Gina Samland managing director for its Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas City, Kan. operations. She is based in the Omaha, Neb., office.In her new role, Samland is...

American Community Introduces Small Group Health Plan in Nebraska

Aug 26 2009 // American Community Mutual Insurance Company, headquartered in Livonia, Mich., is now offering Latitude, a small group product that allows employers to customize a health plan, to employers in Nebraska.Sold through...

Survey: Midwest Economy Improving

Aug 4 2009 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions.The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...

Insurer to Pay Bulk of $900K Settlement in Nebraska Fraud Case

Jul 23 2009 // A group of more than 200 investors who believe they were defrauded by their Nebraska-based brokers will share roughly $900,000 in a settlement with one of their brokers’ former employers. The company’s...

$1M in Liability Coverage Needed for Nebraska Highway Hay

Jul 7 2009 // Permits are available for people who want to harvest hay from alongside Nebraska state highways near their land. Applicants must prove they have $1 million in liability insurance.Until July 30, those landowners will have...

Nebraska Officials Propose Grain-Insurance Fund; Growers Skeptical

Jun 12 2009 // Nebraska officials are moving forward with a plan to establish a multimillion-dollar insurance fund to protect farmers when grain warehouses go broke, following the financial collapse of an elevator last year.But major...

NE Oklahoma Chapter of CPCU Society Installs New Officers

Jun 11 2009 // The Northeastern Oklahoma chapter of the CPCU Society has installed new officers for 2009-2010. The new officers are President Ron Comeau, President-Elect Amy Bradley-Waters, Vice President J.D. Hatter and...

It Figures

Jun 1 2009 // $5 MillionThe estimated cost of repairs and clean-up at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale as a result of high winds that tore through the campus in May. Much of that total will go to fix broken windows and roof...

Nebraska Adds Engel as Insurance Fraud Investigator

May 5 2009 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance announced that Mike Engel will begin employment as an insurance fraud investigator on May 13. Engel comes to the Division with 30 years experience with the Lincoln Police Department.

Nebraska Warns of Improper Producer Practices

May 4 2009 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance Market Conduct Division has responded to several situations recently that involve insurance producers engaging in fraudulent, dishonest practices, and demonstrating financial...

Nebraska Adds Hofmeister in Examination Division

May 4 2009 // Joe Hofmeister, a 2004 Nebraska Wesleyan graduate, has joined the Nebraska Department of Insurance Examination Division. He will be responsible for performing pre-need examinations throughout the state. He also will assist...

Nebraksa Rules Insurance Exclusion Applies to Liquidator

Apr 6 2009 // A regulatory exclusion in a directors and officers liability insurance policy applies to an insurance regulator acting as liquidator, according to the Nebraska Supreme Court.The ruling is believed to be the first by any...

Insurance Exclusion Applies to Liquidator, Nebraska Court Rules

Mar 24 2009 // A regulatory exclusion in a directors and officers liability insurance policy applies to an insurance regulator acting as liquidator, according to the Nebraska Supreme Court.The ruling is believed to be the first by any...

A.M. Best: Negative Outlook for Nebraska’s Battle Creek Mutual

Mar 19 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of B+ (Good) and issuer credit rating of “bbb-” of Battle Creek Mutual Insurance Co. in Nebraska. The outlook for both ratings has been revised to...

Nebraska Bank Employee Wins Reversal on Medical Bias Ruling

Mar 16 2009 // A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling against a former Beatrice bank worker who said he lost his job because of his rare voice disorder.The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled in a case...

Accounts of Nebraska’s Grand Island Insurance Firm Frozen

Mar 9 2009 // The bank accounts of a Grand Island insurance agency under investigation for an alleged Ponzi scheme and the accounts of a related company have been frozen.An attorney representing First Americans Insurance Service in its...

Nebraska Supreme Court to Rule on Insurance Guaranty Fund Viatical Role

Mar 4 2009 // Nebraska’s highest court will determine whether a state insurance guaranty fund must cover nearly $1 million in losses suffered by 26 Nebraskans in a life insurance deal.The Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments...

Nebraska Trial in Florida Insolvent Insurer Case Put on Hold

Feb 25 2009 // The Nebraska Supreme Court has ordered a judge to put a new trial on hold in a multimillion-dollar insurance dispute and follow the high court’s ruling from last summer.Last June, the Supreme Court threw out the...

Principal of Nebraska Agency Under Investigation Files for Bankruptcy

Feb 23 2009 // One of the principals of a Grand Island business suspected in a Ponzi scheme has filed for bankruptcy.Stella Levea of Grand Island says in her Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that she owes between $1 million and $10 million....

FBI Involved in Probe of Nebraska’s Grand Island Insurance Agency

Feb 9 2009 // The FBI is involved in the investigation of a Grand Island insurance agency suspected in a Ponzi scheme.An FBI investigator, accompanied by a Nebraska state trooper, visited First Americans Insurance Service on Friday....