Latest Iowa Headlines
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Iowa City Settles Police Shooting Wrongful Death Suit for $2.5M
Jan 11 2016 // The city of Waterloo, Iowa, has settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a man shot to death in 2012 by a police officer. A judge signed off on the $2.5 million settlement with the city’s insurance...
Judge: Iowa Must Pay Nearly $1M in DNR Worker’s Disability Suit
Jan 11 2016 // The state must pay nearly $1 million after losing a discrimination lawsuit filed by a longtime Iowa Department of Natural Resources employee who said he was fired because he sought disability accommodations for a job...
Best, Worst States for Insurance Regulation
Dec 21 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry. The...
Use of ATVs on Louisa County, Iowa, Roads Opposed
Dec 4 2015 // Researchers are opposing a petition to allow all-terrain vehicles on Louisa County’s secondary roads, citing public safety. The proposal for roadway use was presented to the Louisa County Board of Supervisors on Nov....
Best, Worst States for Insurance Regulation
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry. The...
Former Clerk in Iowa Town Charged with Fraud, Burning City Hall
Nov 20 2015 // The former city clerk for the small western Iowa city of Casey has been indicted on federal charges alleging she used city funds for personal use and burned down City Hall the night before state auditors were to arrive to...
Iowa Hospital, Minnesota Insurer Form Insurance Company
Nov 19 2015 // Des Moines, Iowa-based hospital and medical clinic company UnityPoint Health is getting into the health insurance business. The company said it has partnered with Bloomington, Minn., health care provider and insurer...
Bettendorf, Iowa, Seeks Funds for Buyout of Homes in Flood Zones
Nov 19 2015 // Bettendorf, Iowa, officials are seeking federal funding that would allow the city to buy and demolish homes in flood zones. The Quad-City Times reports Bettendorf City Planner John Soenksen presented the plan to apply for...
Officials: Most Poultry Farms Affected by Bird Flu Can Restock
Nov 8 2015 // Most commercial chicken and turkey farms that were infected by the bird flu have been cleared to restock, agriculture officials said, but scientists still will keep a close eye on migrating birds and test thousands to see...
Iowa Insurer Wellmark to Participate Health Exchange in 2017
Oct 7 2015 // Iowa’s dominant health insurer has agreed to start selling policies for 2017 that will qualify for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, the company announced. Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield has not...
Bird Flu Has Midwest Farmers Building Fences, Hosing Down Visitors
Oct 2 2015 // In Iowa, one of the largest U.S. egg processors has started to buy foreign supplies for the first time. Elsewhere in the Midwest, a free-range egg producer says it may build automatic car washes to scour vehicles accessing...
NAMIC Honors Western Iowa Mutual’s Paul with Chairman’s Award
Sep 30 2015 // John Paul, president/treasurer of Western Iowa Mutual Insurance in Council Bluffs, Iowa, was presented the Chairman’s Award by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Company’s at its 120th Annual...
Iowa’s New Highway Cable Barriers Helping to Reduce Fatalities
Sep 22 2015 // An effort to build cable barriers on Iowa’s highways has helped reduce the number of cross-median fatal crashes. After 21 people died as a result of cross-median collisions in 2010, state officials installed 177...
Judge Blocks Texas Company’s Attempt to Shield $600K from Disabled Workers
Sep 21 2015 // U.S. District Chief Judge Jorge A. Solis issued an order on Sept. 11, 2015, to override a confidential settlement that would have re-directed nearly $600,000 away from a class of 32 intellectually disabled former employees...
IA&B in Pennsylvania Announces Officers for 2015-16 Administrative Year
Sep 18 2015 // The fall marks a new administrative year for the Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group (IA&B) in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and its partnership of agents’ associations. The following directors have...
Iowa Insurers Assessed $10M for Second Injury Fund
Sep 16 2015 // Sufficient funds are not available to meet the liabilities of the Second Injury Fund in Iowa, the Iowa Insurance Division reported. As result, insurers and self-insured employers in Iowa are being assessed for $10 million....
Plymouth Rock’s ‘Prime’ Combines Online Sales With IA Channel
Sep 7 2015 // Plymouth Rock Assurance — a Boston-based auto insurer serving Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire — launched a new online tool called “Prime.” The insurer says the new tool will give...
Iowa Hotel Owners Must Pay Over $1M in Harassment Case
Sep 1 2015 // The owners of an Iowa hotel have been ordered to pay two former employees who complained about sexual harassment more than $1.2 million. An Iowa jury ruled against the owners of a Quality Inn and Suites in Peosta, Iowa,...
Kansas Man Sentenced for Iowa for Insurance Scam
Aug 26 2015 // A 38-year-old Kansas man has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for mail fraud connected to an insurance commissions scam in Iowa. Brian Henton, of Olathe, Kansas, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court...
NCCI Files for Workers’ Comp Rate Increase in Iowa
Aug 18 2015 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. has filed a workers’ compensation rate proposal in Iowa that would increase voluntary and assigned risk rates by 2.7 percent from the current rates that became...
