Latest Iowa Headlines
All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
$2.7B Highway Spending Plan Unveiled in Iowa
May 15 2014 // Iowa’s preliminary five-year highway spending plan includes more than $900 million for state-owned bridges and more than $1.2 billion for enhanced safety features and upgrades on state highways. The Des Moines...
Iowa Commissioner Gerhart: Something for Everybody at the Global Insurance Symposium
May 5 2014 // The state of Iowa on May 20-22 will host its first-ever Global Insurance Symposium, a privately funded event that aims to bring insurance professionals and regulators from around the world together to discuss the...
Speculation on Buffett’s Successor Heats Up Before Berkshire Annual Meeting
May 1 2014 // Two years ago, Warren Buffett, then 81, announced that the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. board had chosen his successor as chief executive officer. The board, he said, also had two backups, but all three names were to remain a...
Data Breach at Iowa State Could Affect Thousands
Apr 24 2014 // The Social Security numbers of nearly 30,000 people who enrolled at Iowa State University over a 17-year period were exposed in a data breach, school officials announced. Five information technology servers on the Ames...
Iowa Insurance Regulators Investigating Agency Accused of Overbilling
Apr 22 2014 // Iowa regulators are investigating an insurance agency accused of overbilling thousands of government employees for health care coverage. The Iowa Insurance Division is focused on Two Rivers Insurance Co. The agency had...
Gerhart: U.S. Has a Good Story to Tell at the Global Insurance Symposium
Apr 17 2014 // The state of Iowa on May 20-22, 2014, will host its first ever Global Insurance Symposium, a privately funded event that aims to bring insurance professionals and regulators from around the world together to discuss the...
Supreme Court Allows State Ban on Corporate Political Giving
Apr 8 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court left intact Iowa’s ban on corporate political donations, as the justices declined a chance to extend last week’s ruling striking down federal contribution limits. The justices, making no...
Iowa Revokes Insurance, Securities Licenses of Illinois Producer
Apr 7 2014 // Iowa Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart has revoked the insurance producer license and securities agent license of Deanna R. McClean of Rock Island, Ill., state insurance regulators announced. McClean is also permanently...
Iowa Man Faces Prison for Arson, Insurance Fraud
Apr 7 2014 // A Davenport, Iowa, man faces up to 15 years in prison when he’s sentenced in May for trying to burn down his home. The Quad-City Times reports that a Scott County jury convicted 47-year-old Brian Earl Lebs of...
Owners of Leaky Iowa Apartments Win Suit Against Insurer
Apr 7 2014 // An insurance company has been told to pay $12.4 million to the owners of a West Des Moines, Iowa, apartment complex that was plagued with water leaks and mold. Construction of the Westlake apartments began in 2002....
Iowa Seeking to Reduce Fatal Crashes on Rural Roads
Apr 3 2014 // An effort to reduce fatal crashes on secondary rural roads has been launched in Iowa. The Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau announced the effort, which began April 1 and continues through Sept. 30, 2015. The program...
Owners of Leaky Iowa Apartments Win Suit Against Insurer
Mar 28 2014 // An insurance company has been told to pay $12.4 million to the owners of a West Des Moines, Iowa, apartment complex that was plagued with water leaks and mold. Construction of the Westlake apartments began in 2002....
Life Insurers Flock to ‘Easy’ Iowa As More Federal Oversight Looms
Mar 28 2014 // After Symetra Financial Corp. was formed in 2004, the life insurer set up shop in a 25-story glass tower outside Seattle, put its name on the building and pushed the state to adopt more favorable rules for its...
Iowa Court: Breastfeeding Employee Can’t Sue Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Mar 19 2014 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. did not discriminate against an employee who claims she was denied a room to pump breast milk and pressured to resign on her first day back from maternity leave, a federal appeals court in...
Repairs to Levees in Council Bluffs, Iowa Could Cost $50M
Mar 12 2014 // Repairs and improvements on Council Bluffs, Iowa’s river and creek levees could cost the city $50 million. The Daily Nonpareil says the estimate comes from a study on the work needed to repair river and creek levees...
Texas Company Stalls on Paying $6M Judgment in Iowa Disabled Workers Case
Mar 12 2014 // Federal and state officials are having trouble collecting the multimillion-dollar judgment a Texas company was ordered to pay for mistreating 32 mentally disabled workers at an Iowa labor camp. The Des Moines Register...
Iowa Council Facing Possible $50M Bill On Levees
Mar 11 2014 // Repairs and improvements on Council Bluffs river and creek levees in Iowa could cost the city $50 million. The Daily Nonpareil reported the estimate comes from a study on the work needed to repair river and creek levees to...
Only 2 Inspectors For Asbestos Projects in Iowa
Mar 7 2014 // Two inspectors are responsible for making sure thousands of asbestos-removal projects are being properly handled in Iowa each year. The Des Moines Register reported that the lack of inspections at asbestos removal projects...
Iowa Pharmacist Acquitted of Insurance Fraud Charges in Hemophilia Drug Case
Mar 6 2014 // Jurors acquitted an Iowa pharmacist of health care fraud, rejecting allegations that he fraudulently billed Iowa’s largest health insurance company for life-saving drugs sent to hemophilia patients. The federal jury...
Sioux City, Iowa Contemplates Insurance for Water Line Repairs
Mar 5 2014 // The City Council in Sioux City, Iowa, has discussed setting up an insurance fund to cover the costs of water service repairs. The Sioux City Journal says dozens of homeowners have had to pay hundreds or even thousands of...
