Latest Iowa Headlines
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Wellmark Withdraws Offer of $15 Million Donation to University of Iowa
Jul 11 2007 // Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield has withdrawn its offer of a $15 million donation to the University of Iowa after school faculty rejected a proposal to rename its health college after Wellmark. Wellmark, the...
Iowa Hawkeye-Security Offers Violent Event Response Coverage for Schools
Jul 9 2007 // Hawkeye-Security Insurance recently announced that it will offer Violent Event Response Coverage beginning this month to its public and private school policyholders throughout the Midwest. Recognizing that most general...
Iowa Diocese to Review Insurance Policies Dating Back to 1950
Jul 2 2007 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport is seeking to review its insurance policies dating back more than a half century. The diocese filed a joint motion with a creditor’s committee asking a bankruptcy court to...
Iowa Hawkeye Honors Agencies with 2006 Chairman’s Award
Jun 28 2007 // Iowa-based Hawkeye-Security Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group’s Agency Markets business unit, recently recognized its highest performing agencies with the 2006 Chairman’s Award at meetings held in...
Iowa Woman Charged with Arson, Attempted Murder
Jun 11 2007 // A southwest Iowa woman faces charges of arson, attempted murder and child endangerment in connection with a May 26 fire at her home. Iowa Department of Public Safety officials said Audrey Nicole Gilleland, 24, turned...
Iowa Governor Seeks Federal Aid for Tornado Damage
Jun 7 2007 // Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said he will request federal funds to help eastern Iowa recover from tornadoes that struck last week. Culver said he will seek Presidential Disaster Declarations for Louisa and Muscatine counties,...
Preliminary Iowa Flood Damage Reaches $26 Million
May 25 2007 // Flooding that soaked southwest Iowa earlier this month caused $26 million in damage, according to preliminary assessments released by state officials. The total estimates were included in a request for federal disaster...
Iowa United Fire & Casualty Names Ramlo President, CEO
May 21 2007 // United Fire & Casualty Co. has named Randy Ramlo as its new president and chief executive officer. Ramlo, 45, most recently served as the Cedar Rapids-based insurance company’s executive vice president and chief...
Iowa Hawkeye-Security Expands Automated Inland Marine Offerings
May 16 2007 // West Des Moines, Iowa-based Hawkeye-Security Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, announced it is now offering Inland Marine coverage through new upgrades to Commercial IQ, the company’s Web-based application...
Iowa EMC Insurance Reports Midwest Tornado Losses at $21 Million
May 15 2007 // EMC Insurance Cos. said it expects to see losses of up to $21 million from storms last weekend, including devastating tornadoes that killed at least 11 people in Kansas. Des Moines-based EMC insures several businesses and...
N.D., Iowa, Minn. Support Model Annuity Suitability Regulation
May 10 2007 // NASD and state regulators from North Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota announced today that they have signed a joint statement supporting a new rule to require that insurance companies and agencies recommend only suitable annuity...
Iowa DOT Releases Plan to Reduce Highway Deaths by 10%
May 3 2007 // Iowa transportation officials have released a plan aimed at reducing highway deaths by 10 percent by 2015. The plan released this week calls for greater restrictions on young drivers, a motorcycle helmet law and expanding...
Iowa Bill Would Lift Insurance Caps on Prosthetics
Apr 25 2007 // Brent Soderstrum, who lost his leg in a car accident about seven years ago, is backing a bill that would bar insurance caps on prosthetics. The Des Moines attorney found out about 1 1/2 years ago that his insurance company...
Declarations
Apr 23 2007 // Declarations Inquiring minds want to know “The lack of public information in this case is unacceptable to the governor.” Brad Anderson, spokesman for Iowa Gov. Chet Culver. Culver and state lawmakers questioned...
Figures
Apr 9 2007 // $5.26 million A hefty pay raise was given to State Farm Insurance’s chairman and CEO after the company posted a record profit last year. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ed Rust Jr. got a $5.26 million raise. He...
Iowa Gov.Culver Questions State’s Handling of Conseco Fine
Apr 6 2007 // Iowa Gov. Chet Culver and lawmakers are questioning why the Iowa Insurance Division fined an insurance company $750,000, but didn’t make public the reasons for the penalty. Culver is concerned the agreement with...
Iowa Hawkeye-Security to Sponsor Safer Schools Seminar in Minn.
Apr 3 2007 // West Des Moines, Iowa-based Hawkeye-Security Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, announced today that it will host its first, free Safer Schools Seminar on Wednesday, April 18th at St. Olaf College in Northfield,...
Iowa Expected to Receive $37 Million in Federal Disaster Money
Mar 30 2007 // Iowa is expected to begin receiving an estimated $37 million in federal disaster money to help state and local governments and some utility companies recover from the late February ice storms. A presidential disaster...
Emergency Management Officials Explain Disaster Aid to Mo. Residents
Mar 20 2007 // State emergency management officials said recently that a growing number of disaster assistance programs aimed at helping individuals with storm damage has left many Iowans confused. Ice storms followed within days by a...
Jury Awards Iowa Man $10 Million for Back Injury
Mar 9 2007 // A federal jury has awarded a man $10 million after ruling that his employer’s insurance carrier acted in bad faith in denying his claim for benefits from a 1999 back injury. The jury is still deliberating whether to...
