Cracked steel columns are not “property damage,” but are building products that are not covered by a contractor’s general liability policy, the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals decided in ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/05/03/772779.htm
After a failed vote to build a downtown Kansas City Royals stadium, another of the city’s professional sports teams is planning to expand with a mixed-used entertainment district. The Kansas Ci...
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The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday took the unusual step of striking down a 2022 voter-approved constitutional amendment that required Kansas City to spend a larger percentage of its money on ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/05/02/772516.htm
WESTMORELAND, Kan. (AP) — One person died Tuesday when a tornado ripped through the small city of Westmoreland in northeastern Kansas, destroying houses, RVs and outbuildings, authorities said....
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will remain among the handful of states that haven’t legalized the medical use of marijuana or expanded their Medicaid programs for at least another year. Republica...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/05/01/772335.htm
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — BNSF will become the second major freight railroad to allow some of its employees to report safety concerns anonymously through a federal system without fear of discipline. T...
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The tornadoes that ripped through parts of Nebraska, Iowa and Oklahoma late last week damaged some 7,200 homes, leaving a reconstruction tab of $2.1 billion, according to CoreLogic, the data anal...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2024/05/01/772277.htm
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — Three children were hurt when the minivan they were in rolled down a hill Saturday morning into a concrete baseball dugout in northern Illinois’ Woodstock. The children...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/30/772140.htm
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota ballot initiative group can gather signatures to put a proposal legalizing recreational marijuana to a statewide vote in the fall, the state’s top electio...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/30/771980.htm
CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a Chicago man killed when plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times during a traffic stop filed a wrongful death lawsuit last week, accusing th...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/30/771970.htm
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council has agreed to pay a $150,000 settlement to an eyewitness who tried to intervene to prevent George Floyd’s murder and who says he suffers from p...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/29/771967.htm
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday, damaging hundreds of homes and other structures as it tore for miles along farmland and into subdivisions. Some ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/28/771878.htm
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The manufacturer of a popular weedkiller won support Wednesday from the Missouri House for a proposal that could shield it from costly lawsuits alleging it failed to ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/26/771722.htm
An active weather pattern could bring destructive tornadoes, heavy rains, large hail and strong wind gusts to parts of the central United States over the next several days, according to meteorolo...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/26/771695.htm
ALKEME announced the acquisition of Ralph Weiner & Associates, a retail insurance agency based in Wheeling, Illinois. Established in 1951, Ralph Weiner & Associates has earned acclaim for its spe...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/25/771729.htm
Delivery company DHL will pay $8.7 million and be subject to the oversight of a court-appointed monitor to settle a class race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunit...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/25/771647.htm
Susan Morisato has joined Sentry’s Board of Directors. Sentry is headquartered in Steven’s Point, Wisconsin. Morisato, based in Des Plaines, Illinois, brings over 30 years of health insurance...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/25/771470.htm
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Former Nebraska women’s basketball assistant coach Chuck Love denied ever having a sexual relationship with former Cornhuskers player Ashley Scoggin but acknowledged in a c...
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Republican senators this month introduced legislation they say would increase support for crop insurance and make higher levels of coverage more affordable to farmers. Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D) pr...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/24/771287.htm
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland will pay $4.8 million to the family of a 13-year-old girl killed when a stolen car driven by a teenage carjacker jumped a curb during a police pursuit and struck her....
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/24/771296.htm
Iowa will lower the amount of reinsurance tax due from some captive companies under a bill signed by Governor Kim Reynolds last week. HF 2636 lowers the tax on premiums written above $60 million ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/23/771311.htm
A Michigan doctor was bound over last week in the 48th District Court in Bloomfield Hills on charges stemming from an allegedly fraudulent disability insurance claim and subsequent years of recei...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/23/771244.htm
An Ohio subsidiary of one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers could have prevented a 26-year-old employee in Franklin from being fatally crushed in October 2023 if the company had provi...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/23/771239.htm
Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue Inc. were ordered to pay $45 million to the family of an Illinois woman who blamed the companies’ baby powders for giving her a fatal cancer in what was the first v...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/22/771029.htm
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa men who were victims of child sexual molestation while they were in the Boy Scouts of America could get higher legal compensation under a measure lawmakers approved...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/22/770922.htm
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers, headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, named Andrew Bernau senior vice president, commercial lines producer. Bernau is based in Chicago. Bernau has nearly 2...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/22/770646.htm
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Strong storms caused damage in parts of the middle U.S. this week and spawned tornadoes in Kansas and Iowa, including one that left two people hurt. An EF-1 tornado touched dow...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/19/770784.htm
Federal workplace safety inspectors found a Kansas roofing contractor again putting its employees at risk of falls from elevation — the construction industry’s deadliest hazard — by not pro...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/19/770774.htm
MADISON, Wis . (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans on Tuesday ignored the latest call from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to spend $125 million to combat so-called forever chemicals, leading Evers to say ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/18/770476.htm
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Stung by paying billions of dollars for settlements and trials, chemical giant Bayer has been lobbying lawmakers in three states to pass bills providing it a legal shiel...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2024/04/18/770473.htm