Midwest News for January 2015
- Iowa Testing System to Determine Safer Speeds on Icy Roads
- Roadway Bicycle Safety Bill Stalls in South Dakota House
- Ohio’s Westfield Insurance Expands Responsibilities of Leadership Team
- Chubb Sued for $60M by Owners of Ohio Mansion Destroyed by Fire
- Builders Association Sues over Minnesota’s Residential Sprinkler Law
- Pro Athletes Durant, Watt to Endorse Wisconsin-Based American Family Insurance
- Zehr Appointed VP, Segment Underwriting at CNA
- FBI Case Log: The Stolen Stradivarius
- Kansas Geologists Seek More Funding for Earthquake Monitoring
- Kansas Businesses Support State Takeover of OSHA Enforcement
- Nebraska to Consider Residential Carbon Monoxide Detector Mandate
- Indiana City Moves to Reduce Liability at Popular Sledding Spot
- Nebraska School Faces $1M Lawsuit Over Boy’s Drowning
- Jung Appointed Director of P/C Business Development at Oswald Cos.
- After 17 Years, Florida-Nebraska Insurance Dispute Continues
- FEMA Agrees to Fargo, North Dakota, Flood Insurance Basement Exemption
- Iowa, Nebraska Officials Seek to Close Insurance Co-Op
- Ohio BWC Proposes Private Employer Workers’ Comp Rate Reduction
- Fraternity Members Accused of Vandalism at Michigan Ski Resorts
- Sioux Falls Business Break-Ins Prompt Security Upgrades
- Universal Holdings P/C Subsidiary Enters Indiana Homeowners Market
- Study Finds New Predictors of Workers’ Comp Outcomes in Iowa
- Arson Trial Begins over 2008 Fire at Nebraska Plant
- Company in Ohio Overpass Collapse Had Strong Safety Track Record
- White Appointed Director of Innovation at Accident Fund Holdings
- Michigan Police Targeting Speeding, Distracted Driving After Pileup
- Associated Banc-Corp to Acquire Ahmann & Martin in Minnesota
- J.M. Wilson Hires Hongisto as Branch Manager in Wisconsin
- Republican Lawmakers in Missouri Considering Lawsuit Caps Again
- Kansas State Official Links Quakes to Waste Water Disposal
- Ohio Fighting Scrap Metal Theft with Data Sharing Project
- Minnesota Diocese Files Chapter 11 over Sexual-Abuse Claims
- Court Upholds $5M Liability Cap in Indiana Stage Collapse Case
- North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Seeks Reduced Operating Budget
- Damages Denied in Iowa Whistleblower Case
- Ohio’s Smith Insurance Services Partners with the Leavitt Group
- Michigan Driverless Vehicle Test Site to be Operational This Spring
- SECURA Promotes Mongarella to Director-Risk Management in Wisconsin
- Minnesota Woman Charged in $2M Fake Death Insurance Scam
- 89 Fires Reported Near Ohio State in Post-Game Revelry
- Ex-Kansas Insurance Agent Gets Prison Sentence for Client, Company Theft
- Fischer, Prout to Lead Fidelis Group Holdings’ New Ocean Cargo Unit
- Michigan Orders Unlicensed Agent, Fictitious Insurer to Stop Selling Insurance
- No Contamination Detected after Ohio Refinery Explosion
- Michigan-Based Amerisure Insurance Promotes Loss Control Executives
- ‘One-Day’ Policy Sales Lead to Agent License Suspensions in Michigan
- Illinois’ Joseph M. Wiedemann & Sons Joins Keystone Insurers Group
- Boating, Traffic Fatalities Down in Missouri in 2014
- Bucher Named Partner at Wisconsin-Based HNI Risk Services
- Deiter Picked to Lead South Dakota Insurance Division
- Explosion, Fire Cause Extensive Damage at Husky Energy’s Ohio Refinery
- Kansas Judge Tosses Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems Discrimination Lawsuit
- High Infection Rates Lead to Penalties for 11 Kansas Hospitals
- December Was Ohio’s Deadliest Month for Fires in 2014
- Insurance Wholesaler Russell Bond Adds Finkelstein in Chicago
- Kluting Joins Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services in Michigan
- Kansas Woman Sues Wal-Mart over Injuries from Black Friday Sale
- MGIC Hires Former Wisconsin Regulator Dilweg as Sr. VP – Government Relations
- Columbia Insurance Group Promotes LeBlanc to VP, Claims
- Missouri Fines Insurer Nearly $162K for Misstatements to Policyholders
- No State Mandate to Shovel Sidewalks in Ohio, but Local Laws May Require It
- Western National Insurance, Michigan Millers Mutual Join Forces
- Markel Names Huels Managing Director, Brokerage Casualty in Chicago
- Michigan-Based Insurer, Hagerty, Hires Hutchinson as President
- Fowler Named President/CEO of Cameron Mutual Insurance
- DSP Insurance Services Acquires Willis of Illinois’ Schaumburg Office
- Kansas Storm Damage Totals Dropped in 2014
- Topel Joins Hays Cos. in Chicago as President of Property/Casualty
- Some Midwest Cities Limiting Sledding Due to Liability Concerns
- Ohio Traffic Deaths Increased in 2014
- Cancerous Transplant Malpractice Case Revived by Minnesota Court
- Indiana Court: US Steel not Responsible for Sleepy Driver’s Crash
- Drunk Driving Arrests Down 10% in North Dakota in 2014
- CNA Seeks to Limit Liability in Minnesota Priest Abuse Case
- Crash Toll in Nebraska Likely to Hit 5-Year High
- Unsafe Megabus Stopped, Taken Out of Service in Indiana
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