Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri’s POWERS Insurance & Risk Management Launches Surety Bonds Division
Feb 25 2020 // St. Louis, Missouri-based POWERS Insurance & Risk Management has opened a new division: POWERS Surety Bonds. The new national division will focus on bond products and services for all surety programs to help safeguard...
Missouri Woman Wins Jury Award in Police Stun Gun Lawsuit
Feb 24 2020 // Jurors have awarded $3,500 to a woman who was shocked three times with a stun gun after a St. Louis, Mo., march protesting police misconduct. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that jurors found in favor of University...
Missouri School District Sued for $2.4M Over Girl’s Arrest
Feb 21 2020 // A woman whose daughter was wrongfully arrested at a middle school is suing the Columbia school district and police department. Kandas Holmes-Barnes is seeking a total of $2.4 million from the Columbia Public Schools and...
Jury Awards $265M to Farmer Claiming Drifting Herbicides Damaged His Orchard
Feb 17 2020 // A Missouri jury’s $265 million award to peach grower Bill Bader in his lawsuit against herbicide providers Bayer and BASF has raised the stakes for the two companies as at least 140 similar cases head to U.S. courts...
Missouri Man Sentenced for Stealing Almost $4M from Former Employer
Feb 14 2020 // A Kirkwood, Mo., man has been sentenced to 48 months in federal prison and ordered to pay approximately $3.8 million in restitution after being convicted of stealing that amount from his former employer, the U.S....
Missouri’s Valley Insurance Agency Alliance Promotes Qaoud
Feb 14 2020 // Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), based in St. Louis, Missouri, has promoted Robert Qaoud to director of Performance His responsibilities include providing resources to member agencies, integrating new members into...
Missouri Officer Told to ‘Tone Down’ Gayness Settles Lawsuit for $10.25M
Feb 12 2020 // Missouri’s St. Louis County has agreed to a $10.25 million settlement with a gay police lieutenant who says he was passed over for promotion 23 times and was told to “tone down” his...
Winter Storm in Deep South Brings Snow, Floods, 1 Death
Feb 7 2020 // A powerful winter storm raked across the Deep South early Thursday, with high winds and flooding causing damage that killed one person, injured several others and littered at least 10 states. Rescue crews repeatedly pulled...
Daughter of Duck Boat Victim Slams Missouri Tort Reform Bill
Feb 7 2020 // Speaking before a Missouri legislative panel, a woman whose father was among the 17 people who died after a tourist duck boat sank in a Missouri lake condemned a bill that would limit when companies can be sued over...
Family Sues Over Worker Death at Missouri Sawmill
Jan 30 2020 // The family of a 38-year-old man who died after falling into a wood chipper at a St. Joseph sawmill is suing the manufacturer of the machine. The St. Joseph News-Press reports that the minor children of Joshua Hill allege...
Bayer Roundup Trial in Missouri Postponed as Settlement Talks Continue
Jan 27 2020 // Bayer AG said on Friday it has reached an agreement with plaintiffs’ lawyers to postpone a Missouri jury trial over allegations its popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer to provide room for negotiations to settle...
Branch Launches in Missouri, Offering Home, Auto Insurance
Jan 23 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based Branch has launched statewide in Missouri, offering home and auto insurance. Branch said using technology and automation it has developed a way to bundle home and auto insurance with just two...
Owner of Missouri Duck Boat Settles Final Lawsuit Over Deadly Sinking
Jan 21 2020 // The owner of a tourist duck boat that sank in a Missouri lake, killing 17 people, has settled its final pending lawsuit for an undisclosed amount. Thirty-one lawsuits have been filed against Ripley Entertainment since the...
Outlooks to Revised to Stable for Missouri Valley Mutual Insurance
Jan 14 2020 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to stable from positive and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb-” of Missouri Valley Mutual Insurance Co....
Missouri City Sues Dairy, Alleging River Contamination
Jan 8 2020 // A southern Missouri city alleges in a lawsuit that a Dairy Farmers of America plant is regularly releasing untreated wastewater into a river. Cabool is seeking $1.2 million in reimbursement, claiming in the suit that it...
Better Flood Protection Needed in Missouri, Governor’s Advisory Group Says
Jan 3 2020 // Missouri’s levees need to be strengthened and repaired, especially in rural areas hit hard by prolonged flooding in 2019, according to an advisory group appointed by Gov. Mike Parson. St. Louis Public Radio reported...
Insurance Journal’s Top 10 Midwest Region Stories of 2019
Jan 2 2020 // The expanding legalization of marijuana in Midwest states captured the attention of Insurance Journal readers last year. Illinois became the 11th state to legalize recreational cannabis when Gov. J.B. Pritzker in June 2019...
Missouri Lawsuit: Bank Mismanaged Estate, Lost Artwork by Thomas Hart Benton
Dec 23 2019 // More than 100 pieces of art by the late Kansas City artist Thomas Hart Benton have been lost from an estate mismanaged by UMB Bank, according to a lawsuit filed in probate court by his family. The lawsuit claims UMB Bank...
Weather-Related Crashes Blamed on 5 Deaths in Missouri, Kansas
Dec 17 2019 // At least five people have died in weather-related crashes in Missouri and Kansas amid a storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow in places, forced schools to close their doors and snarled traffic, authorities said. The...
Missouri Court: City’s Insurer Must Pay Millions to Man in Homicide Case
Dec 12 2019 // The Missouri Court of Appeals has ruled that insurance providers for the city of Columbia must pay $5.3 million to a man who spent nearly a decade in prison before his conviction for killing a Columbia sports editor was...
