Healthcare and Insurance
Chicago-based Hub International Limited announced this morning that it had acquired Truss, one of the Kansas City region's largest private insurance brokerages. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. [caption id="attachment_22482" align="alignleft" width="140"] Paul Cohen[/caption] Truss, formerly known as Cretcher…
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The damaging floods in the region seem never ending this year, and property owners have certainly felt the pain. For some small-business owners in the Kansas City, Mo., region, though, some of that might be abated. Non-farm and non-agricultural small…
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[caption id="attachment_22223" align="alignleft" width="480"] From left: HealthJoy's Dorfman, Swell Spark's Baysinger, PayIT's Gordon and Andy Rieger.[/caption] Legitimate tariff-strife aside, by most economic measures, the economy doesn't look like it's going to face a major recession the likes of 2008 any…
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[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPu9j-mjbzU&feature=youtu.be[/embed] There's a lot of talk about the difficulty Kansas City area employers' ability to retain workers, but the situation has constantly improved over the years, says Sean Miller, chief executive officer of insurance firm Robert E. Miller Group. More…
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[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSm-qwpjuQQ[/embed] Sure, most of Intouch Solutions' clients aren't in the Kansas City area, and his company is based in Overland Park, but it doesn't bother CEO Faruk Capan. After all, the company has offices around the country, and he says…
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Agribusiness-heavy at the top, the Ingram’s 100 list is remade after some of Kansas City’s largest private companies are acquired by national and global enterprises. As if anyone needed evidence of Kansas City’s role in the worldwide…
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Peggy Schmitt, president and chief executive officer of North Kansas City Hospital and Meritas Health, is retiring from her duties, which she has held since 2012, by the end of the year. “The opportunities that I have had to serve…
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AdventHealth, which owns AdventHealth Shawnee Mission, announced this morning that it is adding Ransom Memorial Health to its care network. AdventHealth will lease and operate the 44-bed hospital in Ottawa, along with its outpatient entities, the company said in a…
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ProPharma Group has announced the acquisition of Washington D.C.-based The Weinberg Group, which also provides regulatory and compliance services to the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries. “This acquisition further solidifies ProPharma Group’s position as a leading, globally integrated pharmaceutical…
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Cliff Illig, co-founder and vice chairman of Cerner Corporation, announced today that he will retire from the company he helped to start in 1979. Illig cited the desire to focus on outside interests as the reason for his retirement. According…
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