Midwest News for March 2012 Souris River Flood Damage Pegged at Nearly $700M Settlement Reached In Missouri LGBT Web-Filtering Case Missouri Senator Seeks Insurance For Inspection Shops Missouri Workers’ Comp Insurer To Pay $2M Dividend Michigan Lawmakers Again OK Motorcycle Helmet Repeal 3 Indiana Cities Receive Grants For Lead Removal Wolf Creek in Kansas Resumes Power Production Judge: U. Of Iowa Must Keep Paying Suspended Whistleblower Doc Governors To Tour Nebraska Plant Where ‘Pink Slime’ Is Made Cedar Rapids Oks Flood Demolition Contract Iowa Pension Fund Sues Audit Firm Over Fraud Loss Lawsuit Filed In Michigan In Fatal September Helicopter Crash Missouri Senator Seeks Insurance for Inspection Shops Ratings of Minnesota’s Austin Mutual Insurance Downgraded Home Value Protection Insurance Comes to Indiana Feds Probe Defect in Buses Manufactured by Illinois Firm Disputes Arise Between Home Builders, Owners in Joplin Rebuild Iowa Business Tax Overhaul Elusive Once Again Missouri AG Settles with American Suzuki Motor Corp. over Advertising Ohio Companies Unprepared to Replace Retiring Workers Missouri Republicans Ponder Next Move on Vetoed Business Bills Official Bismarck Flood Stage Might Be Lowered FEMA Denies Appeal; Harrisburg Fire Chief Says Town ‘Will Survive’ Missouri Insurance Company Sues Over Mamtek Bonds Ohio Tops Other States in Claims for Metal Theft Organizational Changes for Ohio’s American Financial Group Henryville in Recovery Mode; School Wins Lady Antebellum Show More Doubts Emerge About Illinois Prison Guard Comp Claims United Fire Says Losses from Storms May Be in $13M to $16M Range Michigan Fire Chief: 207 Homes Damaged by Tornado Berger, Hoboth Promoted at Great American Insurance Group A.M. Best: Outlook Negative for Missouri Valley Mutual Insurance Co. Fatal Fire Spurs City Smoke Detector Program in Indiana Public Adjusting Firm Told to Stop Soliciting Business in Indiana Insurer Group: Wisconsin Lawmakers Pass Business Friendly Legislation New Members Appointed to Illinois Self Insurance Advisory Board Missouri Governor Vetoes Discrimination, Workers’ Comp Bills Des Moines Exec Sent to Prison for Workers’ Comp Fraud Michigan Catastrophic Injury Premium to Go to $175 Per Car Ohio Court: Builders Must Construct Homes in ‘Workmanlike Manner’ Commerce Department: 23 Cars Stolen Every Day in Minnesota Illinois to Recalculate Storm Damage Cost for FEMA Iowa School Bus Safety Bill Heads to Governor Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Human Resource Management Systems Former South Dakota Deputy, Insurance Agent Sentenced for Fraud Pilot Project in Kansas, Missouri, Seeks Better Storm Warnings Polansky Joins Project CAP as Senior Business Leader Corogenes Joins ThinkRisk in Kansas City Former Democratic Senate Candidate Seeks N.D. Insurance Post Indiana, Nebraska and South Dakota Pass Contractor Fraud Bills Illinois Officials Dispute FEMA Denial of Tornado Aid Bauer Named Sales Director at Ag States Group Michigan Agency Plans Workplace Safety Rules Changes Norman-Spencer Adds Keeter as Marine Insurance VP of Dealer Services Menary Named Grinnell Mutual VP – Direct Underwriting, Production Griffith Foundation Awards Nearly $32K in Scholarships Branson Officials Mostly Pleased with Tornado Response Missouri Senate Passes Workplace Discrimination Measure Audit Questions $7B in Illinois Insurance Contracts Workers’ Compensation Bill Sent to Missouri Governor Greensburg, Kansas, About Half Way Through Master Plan for Recovery Nebraska Medical Liability Insurer Adds Staff, Announces Promotions Captives Bring Premium Dollars and Jobs to Missouri Indiana Storm Victims Get More Time to Pay for Insurance Missouri Senators Look at Changes to Workers’ Comp Insurer Kansas Agent Sentenced to Jail; Must Return $137K to Victims USI Acquires Illinois-Based Euclid Insurance Retail Business Minnesota Gov. Dayton Vetoes Deadly Force Bill Arizona Homebuilder Hit With Stiff Damage Award Insurance Exec Pleads Guilty in Wisconsin to Intoxicated Flying Mansfield Now Leading Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana NW Indiana Property Owners See Rise in Leasing Inquiries NWS: Warning System No Match for Fast-Forming Tornado FEMA Begins Survey of Illinois Tornado Damage Nolde Named Chief Underwriting Officer at Founders Insurance Norman-Spencer Rebranding Its P/C Insurance Products Beazley Adds Lamberg to Private Enterprise Underwriting Team Insurance Claims from Recent Tornadoes May Top $1B Illinois Church That Gave Hurricane Aid in ’05, Now Gets Tornado Aid Woods Appointed Chief Medical Officer at Ohio Work Comp Bureau Cost of North Dakota’s Souris River Flood Plan: $820M Missouri Senator Pushes for Changes to Homeowners Insurance Tales of Chaos After Deadly Pre-Dawn Midwest Storms Storm Damages Missouri Country Music Resort Town, Kills 9 Storm That Hit Branson Was 22-Mile Tornado North Dakota River Flood Plan Cost Estimated at $820 Million Storms Blamed for 4 Deaths, Widespread Damage in Midwest Storm Damages Homes in Indiana Town Midwest News Archives
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