All the headlines from our Nebraska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 7 2008 // Nebraska Beef Ltd. is expanding a recall announced on July 1 to include all 5.3 million pounds of meat it produced for ground beef between May 16 and June 26.Federal investigators have linked Nebraska Beef’s products...
Jul 2 2008 // With the thought of hamburgers sizzling on the grill for the July 4 holiday, recalled beef is not a welcome message. But the reality is that Nebraska Beef Ltd. is recalling nearly 532,000 pounds of ground beef produced in...
Jun 11 2008 // Preferred Professional Insurance Company (PPIC), an Omaha-based Catholic-owned medical liability insurance firm, recently announced two additions to its staff: Lyda H. Whiteside as account executive, and Lisa M. Wendell as...
Jun 9 2008 // A multimillion-dollar insurance dispute that’s a decade old received new life on its third trip to the Nebraska Supreme Court because the court ordered a new trial on June 6.Consequently, the state of Florida...
May 15 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘A’ junior subordinated debt rating to American International Group Inc.’s $5 billion of equity units. S&P also said it has...
Apr 15 2008 // Emergency responders who suffer mental illness after witnessing a violent act shouldn’t plan on getting workers’ compensation benefits.State lawmakers changed positions on Thursday, April 10th voting down a...
Apr 7 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Liquor Liability with Assault and...
Apr 4 2008 // Markel Insurance Company today announced that it has acquired Specialized Insurance, Inc., of Blair, Neb. Specialized Insurance provides admitted garage program coverage primarily in the western United States, with...
Apr 1 2008 // Employees who witness violent acts and suffer mental illnesses as a result would be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits under a bill discussed Thursday by state lawmakers.Several senators raised concerns...
Mar 21 2008 // Nebraska state lawmakers signed off on a nearly $10 million settlement between the state and the mother of a man injured in a traffic accident ago nine years ago.The Legislature gave first-round approval to paying that and...
Feb 25 2008 // The Nebraska Supreme Court has refused to reinstate a lawsuit against State Farm in a dispute over whether the insurance company delivered the medical coverage it promised in its automobile policies.The Supreme...
Feb 12 2008 // A national insurance group testified today against a bill to abolish Nebraska’s law regulating credit-based insurance scoring saying the practice benefits a majority of Nebraska consumers.The Washington, D.C.-based...
Feb 10 2008 // Although it’s been many years since See’s Candies President Brad Kinstler was at the helm of an insurance company, and even longer since he was involved in underwriting and claims handling, he still embodies...
Dec 20 2007 // New figures show about $2.3 million in damages from last week’s ice storm in southeast Nebraska.It’s more than double the figure released last week, which didn’t include damage in Falls City, the area...
Dec 3 2007 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) today bestowed its Esprit de Corps Award to the Nebraska Department of Insurance. This is the second time the NAIC has given the award.Nebraska Insurance Director...
Nov 30 2007 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance is getting a new, permanent boss.She’s Ann Frohman, who has been acting director since the death in October of Director Tim Wagner. The 44-year-old Frohman has been deputy...
Nov 6 2007 // The state of Nebraska discriminated against its black employees because state workers who live in Lincoln and Omaha were offered inferior health insurance than their counterparts in other parts of the state, according to a...
Oct 17 2007 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance announced earlier this month that James Almond III, dba Viking Glass, was sentenced by District Court Judge Thomas Otepka on three felony counts of insurance fraud.Almond had been...
Aug 20 2007 // The Nebraska Supreme Court restored a jury award on Friday, Aug. 17 granting a La Vista keno owner $1.6 million in a malpractice case against the state’s second-largest law firm.The court decision gave Richard T....
Jul 27 2007 // A Hastings company is recalling about 5,900 pounds of ground beef and buffalo products distributed in Nebraska and Colorado because they could be contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli, the government said...