Latest Iowa Headlines
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GuideOne in Iowa Names Pearson Sr. VP, Chief Underwriting Officer
May 24 2019 // West Des Moines, Iowa-based GuideOne Insurance has appointed Doug Pearson senior vice president and chief underwriting officer. In this role, Pearson is responsible for niche product management, home office underwriting,...
Grinnell Mutual in Iowa Promotes Brunk and Augustin
May 20 2019 // Grinnell Mutual in Iowa has named Andrea Brunk vice president of strategic experience and Lauren Augustin vice president of product transformation and delivery. Brunk was assistant vice president of the PMO. She joined...
USPS Fined Nearly $185K Over Safety Issues at Iowa Post Office
May 14 2019 // Federal safety officials have proposed nearly $185,000 in penalties against the U.S. Postal Service, alleging exits were blocked at the Ankeny, Iowa, post office. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says the...
Bailey Named Surety Underwriting Manager at Iowa’s UFG Insurance
May 8 2019 // Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based UFG Insurance has hired Scott Bailey as surety underwriting manager. He will succeed current surety underwriting manager, Art Fearn, who is retiring after a successful 15-year career with the...
Iowa Court: No Claim for Workers’ Comp Insurer’s Failure to Inspect Workplace
May 8 2019 // Iowa’s high court has ruled in favor of a workers’ compensation insurer in a case in which a group of employees and former employees of a manufacturing plant alleged that the insurer failed to protect workers...
Iowa Egg Farm Sues Contractor Over Bird Flu Disinfection Damage
May 7 2019 // An Iowa egg farm that killed millions of chickens because of a 2015 bird flu outbreak is suing companies hired by the federal government to disinfect barns. Sunrise Farms says the chlorine dioxide gas and heat treatments...
Communities Along Mississippi River Prepare for Record Crest
May 2 2019 // Communities in several states along the Mississippi River are watching the skies this week as rainfall will likely determine whether the river reaches record crests and how much it will raise floodwaters. The National...
Iowa Wind Turbine Maker Settles with State Over Safety Violations
May 2 2019 // A Newton, Iowa, company that builds wind turbine blades has settled with state regulators following an investigation into workplace safety violations. TPI Composites agreed last month to pay the Iowa Occupational Safety...
Genck Joins Integrity as Territory Sales Manager for Iowa
May 1 2019 // Integrity Insurance, a property/casualty carrier headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, has added Steve Genck as territory sales manager for Iowa. Based in Iowa, Genck will develop and implement sales action plans with...
Why the Missouri River Is Just Going to Keep On Flooding: Viewpoint
Apr 30 2019 // The Missouri River used to be out of control. “It cuts corners, runs around at nights, fills itself with snags and traveling sandbars, lunches on levees, and swallows islands and small villages for dessert,” is...
U.S. Senate Hearing Focuses on Missouri River Flood Prevention
Apr 18 2019 // The federal agency that manages dams along the Missouri River received stern criticism from several U.S. senators Wednesday during a hearing held in Iowa to examine the massive spring flooding this year that caused more...
Digital or Plastic? Or Both? States Experiment with Driver’s Licenses
Apr 17 2019 // Millions of people may be able to show their smartphones rather than a plastic card to prove they’re legit to drive, vote or buy a beer in coming years. Louisiana in July became the first state to make digital...
Midwest States Want More Control Over Missouri River After Floods
Apr 5 2019 // Three Midwestern Republican governors of states ravaged by recent flooding are demanding more authority over management of the Missouri River system. Following a meeting with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Iowa Gov. Kim...
IA Capital Group Raises $150 Million for Insurtech Investing
Apr 4 2019 // IA Capital Group, an insurtech-focused venture capital firm, said it has raised $150 million across three funds. The three funds are Inter-Atlantic Stonybrook Insurtech Ventures, focusing on property/casualty insurtech;...
Government Relief Bypasses Farmers Who Lost Stored Crops in Floods
Apr 2 2019 // The Black Hawk military helicopter flew over Iowa, giving a senior U.S. agriculture official and U.S. senator an eyeful of the flood damage below, where yellow corn from ruptured metal silos spilled out into the muddy...
1 Million Acres of Midwest Farmlands Flooded as Corn Planting Deadlines Approach
Apr 1 2019 // At least 1 million acres (405,000 hectares) of U.S. farmland were flooded after the “bomb cyclone” storm left wide swaths of nine major grain producing states under water this month, satellite data analyzed by...
Business Moves
Apr 1 2019 // National Brightway Insurance Brightway Insurance, a national property/casualty insurance retailer selling through a network of franchised independent agencies, launched its new Independent Agent Program with its first...
In ‘Trump Country’ Farm Belt, Flooding Woes Add to Trade War Stress
Mar 26 2019 // Nebraska grain farmer Ryan Ueberrhein was barely breaking even after the U.S.-China trade war pushed prices for his soybean crop to a decade low. Then the nearby Elkhorn River burst its banks as flooding swept across the...
Midwest Flood Risk Might Last for Months, Experts Say
Mar 25 2019 // Even as floodwaters receded in hard-hit places in in the Midwest, experts warned Saturday that with plenty of snow still left to melt in northern states, the relief may only be temporary. Rainfall and some snowmelt spurred...
Missouri, Kansas Residents Rush to Fill Sandbags as Floodwaters Move Downstream
Mar 22 2019 // Floodwaters that devastated swaths of Nebraska and Iowa rolled downstream on Thursday, swamping more Midwestern farmland as waterfront communities in Missouri and Kansas hurried to shore up strained levees. Flooding of the...
