Latest Iowa Headlines
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Iowa Court: Carrier Ineligible For Retroactive Reimbursement on Mistaken Workers’ Comp Claim
Jun 20 2022 // An Iowa workers’ compensation insurance carrier is not entitled to retroactive reimbursement from another insurer for benefits it paid in error, the state Supreme Court ruled this month. American Home Assurance paid...
Iowa Supreme Court: 911 Dispatcher’s PTSD Claim Compensable
Jun 7 2022 // The 911 dispatch center that employed Mandy Tripp denied her workers’ compensation claim for post-traumatic stress syndrome because fielding calls involving death and injury are part of the job. A divided Iowa...
Iowa Lawmakers Approve Deer Hunting With Semi-Automatic Rifles
May 26 2022 // Deer hunters would be able to use semi-automatic rifles during a newly created antlerless season in January under a bill approved by lawmakers Tuesday and sent to the governor. The measure given final approval by the House...
Iowa Landlord Settles $135,000 Sexual Harassment Suit
May 18 2022 // The Justice Department announced that it has secured an agreement to resolve a lawsuit alleging that Davenport, Iowa, landlord Juan Goitia violated the Fair Housing Act by sexually harassing female tenants. The settlement...
People Moves: IA&B Hires Lobbyist; Concord Specialty Promotes 3; IMUA Elects Officers
May 13 2022 // IA&B Welcomes John Savant as Government Affairs Director The independent insurance agents’ trade association for Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware has a new lobbyist. The Insurance Agents & Brokers...
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...