Latest Iowa Headlines
All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Iowa’s First MainStreet Adds 3 Agency Partners
May 12 2022 // First MainStreet Insurance L.C. (FMSI), an affiliate of TrueNorth Companies L.C., added three new agency partners. L.B. Anderson Agency joined FMSI at the end of January. Located in Newhall, IA, L.B. Anderson Agency has...
Iowa Man Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
May 4 2022 // D’Alan Thurmond, age 41, of Waterloo, Iowa pled guilty on April 25, 2022, to one count of Presenting False Information, a class “D” Felony, following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance...
Iowa to Pay $8M Settlement to Man Hit by Snow Plow
May 4 2022 // An Iowa state board has approved an $8 million payment to an Illinois man who was left permanently disabled when he was hit in 2019 by an Iowa Transportation Department snow plow. On Monday, the three-member Iowa State...
Iowa Court Finds No Coverage for COVID Income Loss in 2 Decisions
Apr 26 2022 // The Iowa Supreme Court last week ruled in two separate decisions that COVID-19 did not cause a physical loss or damage that would allow a private golf club or a restaurant and bar to recoup income lost during COVID-19...
Tornado Confirmed in North-Central Iowa
Apr 14 2022 // A tornado hit near Gilmore City in rural north-central Iowa as a strong line of storms moved across the state overnight, the National Weather Service confirmed Wednesday. The tornado was confirmed by a trained spotter...
Iowa Egg, Turkey Farms to Lose 5M Birds to Bird Flu
Apr 7 2022 // Bird flu has infected two more farms in Iowa, forcing the killing of 5.3 million hens and 88,000 turkeys, officials said. The new cases mean that across the nation, farmers have had to kill about 22 million birds, mostly...
Lawsuit Over Iowa Beef Farm in Trout Stream Watershed May Proceed
Apr 5 2022 // A state court judge said environmental groups may proceed with a lawsuit seeking to halt expansion of a cattle farm in northeast Iowa near a prized trout stream. Judge Michael Huppert on Monday ruled against the Iowa...
PartsTrader Launches SurePart, A New Instant Parts Pricing Platform, Which Puts Accuracy at the Heart of Staff Written/IA Estimates
Apr 5 2022 // SurePart from PartsTrader gives appraisers unprecedented access to real market pricing quotes and live inventory feeds, greater accuracy and price guarantees from PartsTrader’s network of suppliers. Chicago, IL.,...
Iowa Insurance Agent’s License Permanently Revoked After Violating Order
Apr 4 2022 // Iowa Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen recently issued an enforcement order against Gary D. Marcum formerly of Clive, Iowa, and now a resident of Kodak, Tennessee. The enforcement order permanently revokes Marcum’s...
Iowa to Kill 1.5 Million More Hens and Turkeys Because of Bird Flu
Apr 4 2022 // Iowa agriculture officials announced two more bird flu outbreaks in commercial flocks that will require the killing of more than 1.5 million hens and turkeys. One of the new outbreaks will lead to the killing of 1.5...
Jury Awards $97 Million to Family of Iowa Boy Injured at Birth
Mar 28 2022 // The family of a boy whose brain was severely injured during birth at an Iowa City hospital has been awarded $97.4 million _ believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict in Iowa’s history. A Johnson County...
Iowa-Based Bus Firm Reaches Settlement Over Disabilities Act Violation
Mar 11 2022 // The U.S. Attorney’s Office in North Dakota says it has reached a settlement with a bus transit service to resolve a complaint that the company violated the federal law that protects the disabled against...
Iowa Tornadoes Deadliest Since 2008; Storm Caused Estimated $1 Billion in Damage
Mar 9 2022 // Four of the seven people killed in devastating storms that tore through central Iowa were members of the same family who had sought shelter inside a home that was razed by a powerful tornado, authorities said. Two...
Jury Sides With Dubuque, Iowa Firefighter in Harassment Lawsuit
Feb 22 2022 // A Dubuque firefighter who sued the city for sexual harassment and gender discrimination has been awarded $575,000 in damages. Jami Boss sued the city of Dubuque and Fire Chief Rick Steines in September 2020. She contended...
New Strain of Bird Flu Related to 2015 Virus
Feb 17 2022 // Farms that raise turkeys and chickens for meat and eggs are on high alert and taking steps to increase biosecurity, fearing a repeat of a widespread bird flu outbreak in 2015 that killed 50 million birds across 15 states...
SEC Fines Iowa Insurance Agent $112,000 For Oil, Gas Investments
Feb 11 2022 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has fined a Bettendorf, Iowa insurance agent nearly $112,000 for selling unregistered securities tied to oil wells in Texas. The agency said in filings that Cody Christopher...
Iowa Football Coach Disbands Diversity Group as Discrimination Lawsuit Remains Pending
Jan 18 2022 // Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz has disbanded an alumni advisory committee that was created after a 2020 investigation found evidence of racial bias against Black players in his program and bullying behavior by some of...
Iowa State Appeal Board Approves $962K Sexual Harassment Settlement
Jan 13 2022 // An Iowa state panel on Jan. 11 approved settlements of two sexual harassment lawsuits filed by employees who alleged they were mistreated at work. The State Appeal Board approved a $962,500 settlement with Jennifer...
Sioux City Sued by Iowa Over Wastewater Scheme, River Pollution
Jan 10 2022 // The state of Iowa said Jan. 7 that it is suing Sioux City over what it says was the city’s manipulation of wastewater testing results and dangerous pollution of the Missouri River in a scheme that saw the wastewater...
Judges Send Iowa Tyson Workers’ Virus Lawsuit Back to State Court
Jan 4 2022 // A federal appeals court has ruled that Tyson Foods can’t claim it was operating under the direction of the federal government when it tried to keep its processing plants open as the coronavirus spread rapidly within...
