Incoming Kansas Insurance Regulator Wants More Competition in State
The accountant and industry executive taking over as Kansas’ top insurance regulator next month says creating a more robust market is a top goal and argues that greater competition will address...
View ArticleSafety Of Guardrails Questioned by Kansas, Missouri
Missouri and Kansas transportation officials have suspended installations of a guardrail system after concerns that parts of the guardrails break off on impact and run through vehicles, causing...
View ArticleFalling Grain Prices, Record Cattle Prices Mark 2014 For Kansas
Farmers and ranchers across Kansas are wrapping up the 2014 growing season, marked by rapidly changing fortunes that were buffeted by weather and markets. It began with a meager winter wheat harvest...
View ArticleKansas Storm Damage Totals Dropped in 2014
The amount of storm damage reported in Kansas in 2014 was the lowest amount in 16 years, according to state insurance regulators. The Kansas Insurance Department says insurance companies received...
View ArticleKansas Woman Sues Wal-Mart over Injuries from Black Friday Sale
A southeast Kansas woman who says she was trampled at a Wal-Mart store on Black Friday in 2013 is suing the retail giant, claiming it did not do enough to protect her or make it clear to customers that...
View ArticleKansas Judge Tosses Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems Discrimination Lawsuit
The remaining age-discrimination claims against Boeing Co. and Spirit AeroSystems were tossed out by a federal judge in Kansas on Jan. 7, a major blow to a lawsuit that’s spanned nine years. When...
View ArticleKansas State Official Links Quakes to Waste Water Disposal
A state group says a steep increase in earthquakes in south-central Kansas likely is caused by the disposal of waste water from an oil and gas extraction process often called fracking. The state...
View ArticleKansas Businesses Support State Takeover of OSHA Enforcement
A proposal that the state take over enforcement of workplace safety rules from the federal government seems unlikely to pass this year but still has some support in the Kansas House. Republicans on the...
View ArticleKansas Geologists Seek More Funding for Earthquake Monitoring
Kansas geologists say they need more funding to investigate an unprecedented spike in earthquakes in the state. Kansas Geological Survey Director Rex Buchanan told the House Energy and Environment...
View Article4 CAA Agencies Expand Through M&As
Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced that member agencies have expanded their books of business and locations through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) over the last nine...
View ArticleGeologists Look for Earthquake, Fracking Connection in Kansas
For at the last 15 months, Kansas geologist Rex Buchanan estimates, he’s spent 90 percent of his time studying something once relatively rare in the state — earthquakes. He has learned a lot, said the...
View ArticleKansas Governor Nixes Gay State Worker Anti-Discrimination Order
Kansas will no longer specifically ban discrimination against gays, lesbians and the transgendered in hiring and employment in much of state government because of action announced Tuesday by Republican...
View ArticleOnly 3 Days Jail Time for Kansas Man’s 10th Drunk Driving Conviction
A Kansas man convicted for the 10th time for drunken driving has been sentenced to jail, but only for three days. The Kansas City Star reports that Leavenworth County District Court Judge Gunnar Sunby...
View ArticleKansas Earthquakes Further Damaging Century-Old Courthouse
Harper County officials are grappling with how to fix a century-old courthouse that was already deteriorating before a sharp increase in earthquakes began rattling south-central Kansas. The bill just...
View ArticleMidwest, Plains Likely to See Economic Growth: Report
Economic growth lies ahead for nine Midwestern and Plains states despite pullbacks in the energy sector, according to a monthly report released on March 2. The overall Mid-America Business Conditions...
View ArticleKansas Hotel Owners Hired Illegal Immigrants, Didn’t Pay Taxes, Workers’ Comp
When a suburban Kansas City couple bought two Clarion hotels, they systematically replaced lawfully employed workers with immigrants not authorized to work in the United States, cutting labor costs by...
View ArticleKansas Hotel Owner Going to Prison for Hiring Illegal Workers
A suburban Kansas City hotel owner has been sentenced to 27 months in prison in a case that highlights the U.S. Justice Department’s shift to targeting employers who knowingly hire immigrants not...
View ArticleChanges to Kansas Workers’ Comp System Raise Lawsuit Fears
A change to the state system for paying medical bills and lost wages for injured workers in Kansas has some fearing big lawsuits and others looking forward to cost savings. Starting Jan. 1, the state...
View ArticleIMA Names Grace President of Signature Select President
Kansas-based IMA Financial Group Inc. appointed Jeff Grace as president of Signature Select LLC. Grace is president of IMA Inc. Wichita, a post he will keep. Signature Select is a subsidiary of The IMA...
View ArticleUber Urges Kansas Governor to Veto Bill Raising Insurance Costs
Ride-hailing company Uber says it will be forced to pull out of Kansas if the governor signs a bill increasing regulations on its drivers. The dispute over the bill, which passed both chambers on April...
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