All the headlines from our Nebraska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 5 2021 // A health insurance lobbyist and former state official has been chosen as the next director of the Nebraska Department of Insurance.Gov. Pete Ricketts has appointed Eric Dunning, of Omaha, to lead the state agency. Dunning...
Mar 12 2021 // A Nebraska lawmaker who is a leading supporter of medical marijuana has warned her fellow senators that the issue will likely appear on the 2022 ballot if they don’t pass a legalization measure this year.Sen. Anna...
Mar 3 2021 // State regulators have filed a lawsuit accusing a Nebraska ethanol plant of repeatedly failing to comply with their orders to clean up wastewater and old, pesticide-laced seed corn.The lawsuit comes amid growing complaints...
Mar 1 2021 // Justin Smith, Jing Hong, Joan Klucarich and Jordan Comacchio have been promoted at Omaha, Nebraska-based global insurance and risk services firm Applied Underwriters, which is expanding its actuarial faculty and...
Feb 26 2021 // Douglas County, Nebraska, has agreed to pay $120,00 to settle a lawsuit by the family of a woman who died while waiting nearly an hour for rescuers to find her Omaha home after she called 911. The Douglas County Board...
Feb 25 2021 // The risk of flooding generally remains low across most of Nebraska and Iowa because the snow across both states is expected to melt gradually in the coming days.But the amount of ice on some rivers, particularly the Platte...
Feb 4 2021 // Health officials are warning consumers in Illinois that they may have bought beef tainted with E. coli bacteria that was produced at a Nebraska plant last month.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and...
Jan 28 2021 // The family of a 17-year-old Nebraska boy who died in a car wreck after he bought liquor cannot recover damages from the Kwik Shop where the alcohol was illegally sold, a Douglas County District Judge has ruled.Judge...
Jan 27 2021 // Highway safety advocates are urging Nebraska lawmakers to tighten state seat belt requirements that are among the loosest in the nation.Nebraska is one of nine states that only require seat belts for front-seat passengers,...
Jan 25 2021 // The Nebraska Supreme Court is allowing a lawsuit to continue against an Omaha natural gas utility for a 2016 fire that destroyed part of the downtown Omaha’s Old Market.The ruling affirms the finding of a lower court...
Jan 20 2021 // Nebraska teachers and meatpacking workers worry it will take longer for essential workers like them to get the coronavirus vaccine now that the next group of people to be vaccinated has been expanded to include everyone 65...
Jan 15 2021 // AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a” to Summit Specialty Insurance Co. (SSIC), based in Omaha, Neb.The outlook assigned to these ratings...
Dec 30 2020 // A woman is suing the city of Lincoln, Neb., alleging that her sister died from mesothelioma after she was exposed to asbestos while working at the now shuttered Pershing Center arena.The Lincoln Journal-Star reports that...
Dec 4 2020 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA) has acquired INSPRO, a full service, independent agency in Lincoln, Nebraska.Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For more than 80 years, INSPRO has been providing business...
Nov 24 2020 // A Nebraska meatpacking plant has been accused in a lawsuit of failing to take adequate precautions to protect workers from the coronavirus.The American Civil Liberties Union filed the federal lawsuit on Nov. 23 against...
Nov 24 2020 // A bipartisan group of U.S. states plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google as early as next month, according to two people briefed on the matter, potentially beating a more widely anticipated lawsuit from a...
Oct 29 2020 // ReAlign Insurance Holdings LLC (ReAlign) has formed Summit Specialty Insurance Co. (Summit Specialty), a new surplus lines insurance carrier based in Nebraska.A wholly owned subsidiary of ReAlign Insurance Holdings Inc....
Oct 22 2020 // State regulators have found the Nebraska Republican Party and a political consulting firm liable for making illegal robocalls in a hotly contested legislative race.The Nebraska Public Service Commission issued the ruling...
Oct 19 2020 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance is planning brief, one-hour, biannual workshops for insurance agents each October and April to discuss the changes in the Flood Insurance Manual. The first such workshop will be held on...
Oct 7 2020 // A lawsuit accuses Omaha police of using excessive force when they responded to protests against police brutality and racial injustice in Nebraska’s largest city earlier this year.The American Civil Liberties Union of...