Barton County is among 29 counties throughout Kansas that have insurance from EMC Insurance Companies. All the insurance money goes into a pool and EMC offers a dividend program each year for good rates on loss control.
Cassidy Smith, with Alliance Insurance Group, represented EMC to give Barton County a dividend return of $11,978.36 on Monday.
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Smith noted the dividend pool was down this year because of claims taken out. EMC distributed $292,446 across the board, and Barton County received 4.1 percent of the dividend returns.
Over the last six years, EMC has given back $136,380.36 to Barton County.