Kansas Insurance Commissioner News

Outgoing Kansas Commissioner Tenure Marked by Industry Growth

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says the insurance industry has grown from an $11 billion industry to a $17 billion one during the time she has been in office. Praeger, who chose not to run for re-election this year, began …

Industry Exec Elected to Kansas Insurance Commissioner Post

Kansas voters have elected Republican Ken Selzer, an executive managing director at reinsurance broker Aon Benfield, as the state’s new insurance commissioner. He defeated Democrat Dennis Anderson by a vote of 62 percent to 38 percent, according to the Kansas …

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Makes Firefighters Relief Fund Distribution

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger is currently making the annual funds distribution to state and local firefighter relief organizations. Nearly $12 million will be distributed among 569 local Firefighters Relief Associations (FRAs) across the state. That is nearly $342,000 more …

Selzer Files for Kansas Insurance Commissioner

Another Republican candidate has filed for the August primary to be the next Kansas insurance commissioner. Ken Selzer, of Leawood, filed his paperwork Tuesday with the secretary of state. Selzer is an accountant and a managing director of a global …

Local Businessman Seeks Kansas Insurance Post

A Kansas City-area businessman launched his campaign for Kansas insurance commissioner Monday, with the state’s previous first lady serving as honorary chairwoman. Dennis Anderson of Overland Park is the first announced Democratic candidate in this year’s race to replace three-term …

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Has New Consumer Chief

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has promoted a staff attorney to director of the office’s Consumer Assistance Division. Praeger notes that Jennifer Sourk began working for the Insurance Department in 2007 as a consumer representative in the same division she’ll …

Kansas Insurance Department Names New Assistant Commissioner

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has named Zachary J.C. Anshutz as assistant commissioner and John Wine as general counsel. Anshutz has been the Kansas Insurance Department’s (KID’s) general counsel since January 2011. He was assistant general counsel for two years …