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#1 Charter Bus Carrying Baseball Team Catches Fire in Iowa; No One Hurt
Aug 5 2024 // A charter bus caught fire early Friday as it was transporting a professional baseball team from Iowa to a game in a Chicago suburb. Members of the Sioux City Explorers made it off the bus safely, although several lost...
#2 Tyson Foods Accused by Conservative Group of Hiring Migrants Over US Citizens
Jun 5 2024 // A group founded by former Trump administration officials has accused Tyson Foods of discriminating against U.S. citizens by disproportionately hiring immigrants, including children and people in the country...
#3 Donald Trump Sues Iowa Newspaper Over Pre-Election Poll
Dec 19 2024 // President-elect Donald Trump sued the Des Moines Register and its pollster for “brazen election interference” in publishing a survey the weekend before the election that showed Democrat Kamala Harris with a...
#4 Scientists at Iowa Research Facility Race to Halt Spread of Bird Flu
Aug 26 2024 // AMES, Iowa (AP) — At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A milking barn sits in the distance with a tractor parked alongside. But the people who work there are not...
#5 AM Best Downgrades Credit Rating of Iowa’s IMT Insurance
Sep 4 2024 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A-(Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “a-” (Excellent) from “a” (Excellent) of IMT Insurance Company and...
#6 Floodwaters Force People From Homes in Some Parts of Iowa
Jun 24 2024 // Floodwaters forced people out of their homes in parts of Iowa, the result of weeks of rain, while much of the United States longed for relief Saturday from yet another round of extraordinary heat. Sirens blared at 2 a.m....
#7 Iowa Roofer Ordered to Cease Unlicensed Public Adjuster Services
Dec 16 2024 // An Iowa roofing company has agreed to a consent order to stop promoting itself as a public adjuster or providing any public adjuster services on its websites, social media pages and advertisements. Darren Reeves Roofing...
#8 Iowa and Iowa State Athletes Join Civil Lawsuit Over State Gambling Sting
Sep 17 2024 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ten more Iowa and Iowa State athletes and an Iowa basketball equipment manager ensnared in a 2023 state gambling sting joined a civil lawsuit Tuesday seeking unspecified monetary damages from the...
#9 Iowa Insurance Commissioner Appointed Receiver of Fraudulent Investment Companies
Jul 25 2024 // The Iowa Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen was appointed the receiver of Beckstone Partners, LLC (Beckstone), DesFined, LLC (DesFined), East King Management, LLC, and The Corporate Leasing Company, LLC to wind down the...
#10 Contractor Agrees to Iowa Consent Order Regarding Unlicensed Public Adjusting
Sep 6 2024 // The Iowa Insurance Division entered into a consent order with a Midwest roofing contractor on Sept. 5 following a June cease and desist order against contractors acting as unlicensed public adjusters. IID alleges that...
#11 Black Man Sues Iowa Trucking Company for Alleged Hair Discrimination
Oct 2 2024 // A Black man alleges in a lawsuit that an Iowa trucking company fired him as a driver because he wouldn’t cut off his dreadlocks, the latest in a series of incidents across the country over an issue activists have...
#12 Iowa to Pay $3.5M to Family of Student Who Drowned in Rowing Accident
Jun 6 2024 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa officials agreed Tuesday to pay $3.5 million in a settlement agreement with the family of an Iowa State University student who drowned after a school crew club boat capsized in cold, rough...
#13 Iowa Couple Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Nov 13 2024 // An Iowa couple pleaded guilty to insurance fraud, forgery and theft, the Iowa Insurance Division announced. Des Moines – Lance Seastrand, age 52, and his wife, Staci Seastrand, age 56, of Davenport, were sentenced on...
#14 AM Best Removes Under Review Status of Iowa’s Pharmacists Mutual
Oct 30 2024 // AM Best has removed from under review with negative implications and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a-” (Excellent) of Pharmacists Mutual...
#15 Iowa Woman Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Injury Scam at Casino
Dec 10 2024 // An Iowa woman pled guilty to one count of presenting false information to an insurer over an alleged fraudulent injury at a casino, following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau. Tonya...
#16 Record Flooding and Tornadoes This Spring In Iowa Caused $130M in Damage
Jul 17 2024 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Record flooding and powerful tornadoes ravaged parts of Iowa for weeks this spring, destroying or damaging thousands of homes, closing roads and bridges and costing over $130 million in...
#17 Former Iowa Insurance Producer Sentenced for Wire Fraud and Money Laundering
Oct 21 2024 // William Berg, an insurance producer and former financial advisor from Waukee, Iowa, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty in federal court to wire fraud and money laundering charges. In...
#18 Iowa Sues Bitcoin Depot and CoinFlip Over Millions Lost to Crypto Scams
Mar 4 2025 // Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird last week announced lawsuits against Bitcoin Depot and CoinFlip, Iowa’s two largest cryptocurrency ATM operators, over their failures that allowed Iowans to transfer millions of...
#19 Iowa Woman Sentenced for Pet Insurance Fraud
Jul 11 2024 // An Iowa woman was sentenced on July 2, 2024 after pleading guilty to Tampering With Records (Aggravated Misdemeanor) following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau. Sarah Rahm, age 39, of...
#20 Iowa Insurance Division Joins $17M Settlement With Edward Jones
Jan 14 2025 // The Iowa Insurance Division, a member of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), announced last week it has joined a $17 million settlement with Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. (Edward Jones)...
