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Kansas Utility to Pay $120K Settlement
Insurance Journal | November 9, 2022
Kansas Utility to Pay $120K Settlement
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement under the Agency’s Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) program with Evergy Kansas Central Inc. at the company’s retired Tecumseh Energy Center coal-fired power plant in Tecumseh, Kansas. In the settlement, Evergy will …
Kansas City to Pay $5M After Police Killing of Black Man
Insurance Journal | November 9, 2022
Kansas City to Pay $5M After Police Killing of Black Man
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City will pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by a police officer in 2019. The Kansas City Board of Police …
Ryan Specialty Acquires Centurion in California
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Ryan Specialty Acquires Centurion in California
Ryan Specialty acquired certain assets of Centurion Liability Insurance Services LLC in Tustin, California. Centurion is a professional lines wholesale insurance broker and has employees based in Florida and California. Prior to the acquisition, Centurion was partially owned by Insurance …
Kansas City Officer Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Black Teenager
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Kansas City Officer Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Black Teenager
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ A Kansas City, Missouri, police officer who kneed a Black 15-year-old in the neck and pushed his face into the ground pleaded guilty Thursday to third-degree assault and lost his law enforcement license. Sgt. Matthew …
Suspect in Oklahoma Murder-Suicide Was Plagued by Workplace Head Injury
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Suspect in Oklahoma Murder-Suicide Was Plagued by Workplace Head Injury
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) – An Oklahoma couple considered “primary suspects” in last week’s killings of their six children faced growing financial pressures and the husband experienced recurring pain from a workplace head injury, according to family members. Eight people …
Historic Indiana Building Collapses Amid Renovation
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Historic Indiana Building Collapses Amid Renovation
A nearly 150-year-old building that was in the midst of a renovation collapsed in a northwestern Indiana city, scattering bricks and debris onto a street but causing no injuries, officials said. No one was inside the three-story building when a …
World Insurance Associates Acquires Clinard Group in North Carolina
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
World Insurance Associates Acquires Clinard Group in North Carolina
World Insurance Associates, one of the larger brokerage firms in the country, has acquired North Carolina-based Clinard Insurance Group. WIA, headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey, announced that it had purchased Clinard on Oct. 1. Terms were not disclosed. Clinard, or …
Man Pleads Guilty to $2M Fraud in Prudential-Administered Military Injury Program
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Man Pleads Guilty to $2M Fraud in Prudential-Administered Military Injury Program
A former U.S. Navy chief petty officer, now living in Georgia, has pleaded guilty to being the ringleader in a $2 million scheme that claimed unusual injuries to defraud a disability program, administered by The Prudential, that was designed for …
Can More Rigorous Accounting Lead to Fewer Workplace Injuries?
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Can More Rigorous Accounting Lead to Fewer Workplace Injuries?
Businesses wanting to make their workplaces safer might try adopting a more rigorous accounting system. A new study finds a link between a firm’s workplace injuries and the information quality in its accounting statements. Danye Wang, assistant professor of accounting …
Prosecutors Probing New Mexico Movie Set Shooting
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Prosecutors Probing New Mexico Movie Set Shooting
A sheriff’s department submitted its investigative findings to prosecutors in the death of a cinematographer shot and killed by Alec Baldwin on a film set in New Mexico in October 2021. Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office spokesman Juan Rios said that …