Latest Iowa Headlines
All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People
Jun 15 2009 // Kansas City-based insurance broker Lockton has added Michael Todorovich II as vice president and producer in its St. Louis office. With more than 11 years of experience in the insurance industry, Todorovich’s...
My New Markets
Jun 1 2009 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com. Staffing Firms Market Detail: World Wide...
United Fire & Casualty Reports Appointments, Rife’s Retirement
May 21 2009 // Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based United Fire & Casualty Company announced that four directors have been elected for full terms on the company’s 13-member board, Brad M. Sayre was appointed an assistant vice president,...
Missouri Insurance Agents Honored With Trusted Choice Award
May 20 2009 // Trusted Choice has awarded the inaugural Dan Fulwider Award for Community Involvement to Kevin and Kathy Flynn of K. Flynn Insurance Agency in Troy, Mo., the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America...
Iowa Governor Signs Bill Expanding Benefits for First Responders
May 11 2009 // Iowa Gov. Chet Culver signed into law a measure expanding benefits for police and firefighters who get cancer and some other infectious diseases. Under the measure, the diseases are presumed to be job-related, an...
Agnew to Be Inducted Into Iowa Insurance Hall of Fame
Apr 21 2009 // Dan F. Agnew, president and CEO of Iowa-based Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company, will be inducted into the Iowa Insurance Hall of Fame on May 21, 2009. The induction ceremony will take place at the Olmsted Center on the...
Measure in Iowa House Requires Registration for Disabled Housing
Apr 16 2009 // Responding to as situation in Atalissa, Iowa, where 21 mentally disabled Texas men lived in a dilapidated house while they worked at a nearby turkey processing plant operated by Texas-based Henry’s Turkey Service, an...
It Figures
Apr 6 2009 // 225 The weight of a 61-year-old Bloomfield Hills, Mich., man who is suing his former employer, claiming he was fired from a $75,000-a-year salesman’s job because of his waistline. The employer says Patrick J. Ronayne...
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Buy $25M in Flood Insurance for 2009
Apr 3 2009 // The Cedar Rapids, Iowa, City Council has voted to buy $25 million of flood insurance. The coverage, through the National Flood Insurance Program, would pay to clean up any buildings damaged by last summer’s flood if...
Insurer Group Takes Issue with Wrongful Death and Other Iowa Bills
Mar 27 2009 // The Iowa General Assembly is considering several insurance-related bills that could pose threats to consumers, including one that would expand wrongful death claims to allow recovery of highly speculative damages, which...
2 Iowa Insurers Cancel Merger
Mar 24 2009 // Two Des Moines area insurance companies have called off plans for a merger. American Enterprise Group Inc. of Des Moines and Homesteaders Life Co. of West Des Moines said in a joint statement that they’ve nixed the...
It Figures
Mar 23 2009 // $743 Million The latest damage estimate from last summer’s flooding at the University of Iowa – nearly triple the earlier estimate. University officials said it includes all building and content damage and the...
More Iowa Flood-Damaged Homes Face Demolition with FEMA OK
Mar 19 2009 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has given Cedar Rapids approval to proceed with the demolition of about 300 flood-damaged homes. City utilities director Pat Ball says the agreement with FEMA specifies that homes...
Iowa’s Sen. Grassley Suggests AIG Execs Consider ‘Japanese’ Suicide
Mar 17 2009 // A prominent U.S. senator has intimated that executives of the troubled insurer American International Group Inc might consider suicide, adopting what he called a Japanese approach to taking responsibility for their...
Flood Damage at Universty of Iowa Triples to $743 Million
Mar 16 2009 // The damage estimate from last summer’s flooding at the University of Iowa has nearly tripled to $743 million. University officials released the new estimate on Friday. It includes all building and content damage and...
Deceased Iowa Popcorn Butter Worker Awarded $7.5 Million
Mar 16 2009 // A federal jury has awarded $7.5 million to an Iowa man who claimed his lungs were damaged by working with buttery flavoring used to make microwave popcorn. The verdict in favor of 69-year-old Ronald Kuiper came a day after...
$100 Million Iowa Relief Plan Would Include Buying Flooded Homes
Mar 13 2009 // Iowa Democrats have unveiled a $100 million flood relief package and are negotiating how to pay for it. The biggest part of the plan would be $20 million for flood prevention efforts. The plan sets aside $12.5 million to...
School Buses Among Safest Ways to Travel in Iowa
Mar 13 2009 // University of Iowa researchers have found that school buses are among the safest forms of road transportation in Iowa. Jingzhen (Ginger) Yang, Ph.D., assistant professor of community and behavioral health in the University...
Iowa Gets $11 Million Flood Relief
Mar 12 2009 // Iowa has been awarded nearly $11 million in federal floods for flood recovery. The grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are to help with rebuilding projects at the University of Iowa and in Linn County. More...
Readiness of Some Rebuilt Levees in Midwest Questioned
Mar 10 2009 // With the prospect of another season of spring flooding fast approaching, the Army Corps of Engineers insists the earthen flood levees outmatched by the Mississippi River last summer are rebuilt and ready. Not...
