Latest Iowa Headlines
All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Iowa Offering Loans to Small Businesses
Aug 4 2010 // A new state loan program in Iowa designed to help entrepreneurs and small businesses is now accepting applications. Iowa businesses with less than 35 employees can get a loan up to $50,000 from the Iowa Small Business Loan...
Midwest Economy: North Dakota Tops Region in Job Growth
Aug 3 2010 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
Severe Weather Pummels Iowa
Jul 26 2010 // The Lake Delhi dam in eastern Iowa failed July 24 as rising floodwater from the Maquoketa River ate a 30-foot-wide hole in the earthen dam, causing water to drop 45 feet to the river below and threatening the small town of...
Midwest Threatened with More Flooding
Jul 22 2010 // The Mississippi River is back above flood stage from the southern tip of Iowa through Missouri, leaving some communities on edge as more storms threaten to bring more water. Parts of southern Iowa, northern Missouri and...
Iowa: Certificate of Insurance Forms Must Be Approved Beginning Sept. 1
Jul 19 2010 // The Iowa Insurance Division (IID) recently issued a reminder insurance companies and insurance producers that effective Sept. 1, 2010, certificate of insurance forms must be approved before such forms may be used. Iowa...
Few Iowa Communities Join Flood Insurance Program
Jul 8 2010 // Officials say just 18 cities and counties in Iowa have enrolled in the National Flood Insurance Program since the floods of 2008. Those that participate must agree to adopt and enforce flood plain management ordinances to...
Accidents Bring New Calls for Helmet Law in Iowa
Jul 5 2010 // A recent spate of motorcycle accidents have prompted renewed calls for an Iowa helmet law. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reported Iowa, Illinois and New Hampshire are the only states without helmet laws, even...
People
Jul 5 2010 // Donald D. Larson has been named president and chief operating officer of the Great American Property and Casualty Group and Great American Insurance Co. Larson is the 16th president in Great American’s history. He...
Western National Insurance Enters Iowa’s Personal Lines Market
Jul 1 2010 // Western National Insurance Group, headquartered in Edina, Minn., announced that it has expanded its personal lines program to begin serving customers in the Iowa. Effective immediately, the carrier’s personal...
Iowa Texting While Driving Ban Takes Effect July 1
Jun 28 2010 // Iowa motorists will face new restrictions aimed at cutting down on distractions beginning July 1. A new law that bans adults from reading, writing and sending text messages goes into effect Thursday. The law also bans...
Golf Carts a Popular Way to Get Around in Iowa’s Small Towns
Jun 28 2010 // Golf carts are making their way from the fairways to public roadways in Iowa, with a little push from government and a lot from the motoring public’s nascent attraction to battery-powered vehicles. Local governments...
Iowa Insurance Consultant Gets 15-Month Sentence
Jun 24 2010 // A 15-month prison sentence has been handed an insurance consultant who used employee IRA contributions to operate his Pella, Iowa-based life insurance consulting company, Van Elsen Consulting. According to U.S. Attorney...
Accidents Bring New Calls for Helmet Law in Iowa
Jun 23 2010 // A recent spate of motorcycle accidents have prompted renewed calls for an Iowa helmet law. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reports Iowa, Illinois and New Hampshire are the only states without helmet laws, even...
OSHA: Iowa Railroad Wrongly Censured Train Conductor
Jun 17 2010 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered the Iowa Interstate Railroad, headquartered in Cedar Rapids, to make amends for censuring a train conductor who was disciplined...
Hastings Mutual Insurance Begins Writing New Business in Iowa
Jun 11 2010 // Hastings Mutual Insurance Co., a 125-year-old regional property/casualty insurance organization headquartered in Hastings, Mich., has added Iowa as its sixth state for writing farm, commercial and personal insurance...
Iowa Insurance Division to Contractors: Stop Acting as Public Adjusters
Jun 7 2010 // The Iowa Insurance Division (IID) has issued summary cease and desist orders against two contractors, directing them to stop acting as public adjusters. The division alleges the firms have been soliciting storm repair...
People
Jun 7 2010 // Craig A. Payan has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of directors for Itasca, Ill.-based Associated Risk Managers International Inc. Payan is president of PA&T Insurance and Financial Services, an...
Mid-America Business Conditions Index at Highest Level in Four Years
Jun 1 2010 // The May Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in the...
Iowa Supreme Court Rules Property Owners Can Sue State Over Floods
May 24 2010 // Residents and businesses in a northeast Iowa town can sue the state for flood damage caused by a highway project, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled last Friday. The court overturned district court and appeals court decisions...
Declarations
May 17 2010 // No Bogus Charges Allowed “Some repair shops have abused consumers by refusing to return a vehicle until the consumer pays bogus charges.” —Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller. A new law took effect May 1 in Iowa...
