Latest Missouri Headlines
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Missouri Prison Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Costs State $600K
Apr 5 2018 // The state of Missouri has paid out nearly $600,000 to a female corrections officer to settle another sexual harassment lawsuit. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday cited a report issued by the Missouri attorney...
Lawsuits Against Facebook Pile Up Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Apr 5 2018 // Facebook Inc. finds itself in the eye of a rapidly building legal storm over the disclosure of user data to political research firm Cambridge Analytica. Lawsuits are piling up from users and investors. U.S. lawmakers are...
Missouri Passes Measure to Limit Insurance Company Payouts
Apr 4 2018 // A bill on Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ desk would limit how much money insurance companies would have to pay after vehicle accidents. The proposal affects cases where multiple people are owed money from an insurance...
Workers’ Compensation Insurer Stonetrust Enters Missouri, Tennessee
Apr 3 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurer Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co. has begun writing business in Missouri and Tennessee. Stonetrust, which is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is also writing in Louisiana,...
People
Apr 2 2018 // Independent insurance broker ONI Risk Partners (ONI) has hired Mike Loveless as a commercial risk adviser in ONI’s Fort Wayne, Indiana, office. Loveless most recently worked for JPMorgan Chase as a branch manager. He...
Declarations
Apr 2 2018 // Autonomous Caution “Unlike Arizona, California has taken a safety driven approach when developing autonomous vehicle regulations.” — Jim Frazier, a California Assemblyman, urged caution in his state...
Missouri Bill Backing Workplace Arbitration Fails to Advance
Mar 27 2018 // A Missouri bill to strengthen employment contracts that require sexual harassment, discrimination and other work-related issues to be decided through arbitration has died an unusually early death that came as Congress...
‘Plaintiff-Friendly’ St. Louis Targeted in Missouri Bill
Mar 26 2018 // Business groups are praising a bill under consideration in the Missouri Senate that would restrict when people can join together to sue over injuries. The bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Glen Kolkmeyer of Odessa,...
Judge Says Corps Is Responsible for Flooding, Damage in 4 Midwest States
Mar 15 2018 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should act immediately to make flood control the top priority on the Missouri River, an attorney for hundreds of farmers, landowners and business operators said after a federal judge ruled...
Burton Joins Missouri’s Wiley Insurance Agency
Mar 14 2018 // Wiley Insurance Agency in West Plains, Mo., has hired Melissa Burton as customer service representative/agent. Burton will write policies and enter information into the agency’s management system for new and existing...
Missouri House Passes Bill Aimed at Limiting Asbestos Lawsuit Awards
Mar 12 2018 // The Missouri House has passed legislation to change the rules for lawsuits over asbestos exposure, an effort praised by supporters as a way to stop plaintiffs from being overcompensated but criticized by others as limiting...
Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Acquires Self Insurance in Missouri
Mar 8 2018 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc., headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, has acquired a Sikeston, Missouri-based agency, Tri-Star of Sikeston Inc., doing business as Self Insurance. Now led by Brian Self, the...
Missouri’s Valley Insurance Agency Alliance Adds 4 Team Members
Mar 2 2018 // St. Louis, Missouri-based Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), with 100 independent insurance agency members in Missouri and Illinois, recently hired four new employees. Clinton Mudd and Michael Thornton will serve as...
Tyson Ordered to Pay $2M for Causing Missouri Fish Kill
Mar 1 2018 // Tyson Foods Inc.’s poultry subsidiary has been ordered to pay a $2 million fine for discharges from a southwest Missouri plant that caused a fish kill. The U.S. Justice Department announced that Tyson also must pay...
Ohio, Missouri Insurance Departments Return Tens of Millions in Claims Payouts to Consumers
Feb 19 2018 // The Ohio Department of Insurance helped recover $30.4 million for insureds in 2017 and the Missouri Department of Insurance helped consumers receive an extra $16.8 million in claims payments last year, insurance regulators...
Report: Lawsuit Settlements Cost Missouri Taxpayers $23M in 2017
Feb 7 2018 // Lawsuits against the state of Missouri cost taxpayers at least $23 million last year, according to a new report from Attorney General Josh Hawley. A year-end report from Hawley, a Republican, showed that 16 of the 45 major...
2 Dead After more than 100 Vehicles Crash on Icy Missouri Roads
Feb 6 2018 // Authorities say at least two people have died in a series of crashes involving more than 100 vehicles on snowy and icy Missouri highways. The Kansas City Star says the series of wrecks began around 2 p.m. Sunday, with the...
Missouri’s Safety National Casualty Announces Management Changes
Feb 6 2018 // St. Louis, Missouri-based Safety National Casualty Corp. is implementing changes to its executive and upper management structure that will become effective on April 1, 2018. Gene Maier, executive vice president and chief...
Missouri Department of Insurance Helps Return $16.8M to Consumers
Feb 5 2018 // Missouri consumers received an additional $16.8 million from their insurance companies in 2017 with the help of the Missouri Department of Insurance’s Consumer Affairs Division and Market Conduct Section. The...
Missouri’s Panera Bread Recalls Some Cream Cheese
Jan 30 2018 // St. Louis, Mo.-based Panera Bread Co. is voluntarily recalling some cream cheese sold in its U.S. stores because of possible bacterial contamination. The St. Louis-based company released a statement Sunday saying the...
