Latest Missouri Headlines
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Missouri DOI Recommends Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease
Dec 15 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance is recommending a 4.4 percent decrease in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs for 2015. The key driver of the decrease is the favorable loss experience in 2012, according...
Unlicensed Uber Drivers Ticketed by Plainclothes Officers in Missouri Town
Dec 9 2014 // Plainclothes Columbia, Mo., police officers have started issuing tickets to drivers with Internet ridesharing company Uber. City staff and Uber had been negotiating regulations that would have licensed rideshare drivers...
Rewards Offered for Information in Missouri Protest Arsons
Dec 9 2014 // The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering rewards up to $10,000 for information leading to arrests in the intentional fires set after the grand jury announcement in the Ferguson, Mo.,...
USI Acquires Holmes Murphy in Missouri
Dec 2 2014 // USI Insurance Services has acquired the Saint Louis, Mo. operation of Holmes Murphy. The business and its employees will join USI’s Saint Louis office. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquired business was...
2014 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed
Dec 1 2014 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by the companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11...
Missouri Regulators Urge Ferguson Business Owners to Check Insurance Policies
Nov 26 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance is urging business owners in Ferguson, Mo., to check for coverage under their commercial insurance policies if they have suffered damage in the recent civil unrest. Many businesses in...
Missouri Seeking Administrator/Insurer for Workers’ Comp Residual Market
Nov 25 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions & Professional Registration is seeking to contract with one or more entities to administer and provide workers’ compensation insurance for the...
Missouri Insurance Director Huff Honored for Distinguished Service
Nov 21 2014 // Missouri Department of Insurance Director John M. Huff has received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He was recognized for his tenure on the U.S. Department of...
Missouri-Based Cameron Mutual Names Lindquist CFO/Treasurer
Nov 17 2014 // Cameron, Mo.-based Cameron Mutual Insurance Co. has appointed Peter A. Lindquist as chief financial officer/treasurer. Peter Lindquist Lindquist, a CPA who holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU)...
A.M. Best Assigns ‘A’ Rating to Missouri’s American Shield Insurance
Oct 30 2014 // A.M. Best announced it assigned a financial strength rating of A (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of “a+” to American Shield Insurance Co. (American Shield) in Columbia, Mo. The outlook assigned to both...
Trinity Industries Facing Another Liability Trial Over Guardrails
Oct 14 2014 // Trinity Industries Inc. is set to defend itself a second time at trial against $1 billion in claims that its highway guardrail systems lock up and puncture cars on impact — sometimes with fatal consequences. Joshua...
Missouri Consumer Group Sues Over Health Insurance Rates
Oct 6 2014 // A Missouri consumer group announced that it has sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the latest effort to obtain information used to justify the rates consumers will pay for insurance on the federally...
Johnson Named Chief of Investigations at Missouri Insurance Department
Oct 2 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced that Mary Johnson has been appointed chief of investigations for the department. Johnson has been the chief investigative auditor for the Missouri Attorney General’s...
Missouri Insurance Regulators Help Recover $7.4M for Consumers
Oct 1 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced it helped consumers who filed a complaint against their insurance company receive an additional $7.4 million in claim payments in the first half of 2014. Health insurance...
Keystone Insurers Group Plans Expansion into Missouri in 2015
Sep 30 2014 // Privately held property and casualty franchisor, Keystone Insurers Group, announced its intent to expand into Missouri in 2015. Missouri would become Keystone’s 10th state and the first west of the Mississippi...
Settlement Reached in Missouri Traffic Camera Lawsuits
Sep 28 2014 // Hundreds of thousands of people who got tickets when their vehicles were photographed running red lights in Missouri could be in line to get some money back, under a proposed legal settlement announced on Sept....
Missouri Contractor Going to Prison for Tornado Repair Fraud
Sep 26 2014 // A southwest Missouri contractor is going to prison for stealing more than $73,000 from an elderly Joplin couple who hired him to repair their home after the May 2011 tornado. The U.S. Attorney’s office says...
Number of Carriers in Missouri’s Health Insurance Marketplace to Double
Sep 25 2014 // Missouri could have twice as many health insurers participating next year in a federally run website. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says eight insurers plan to offer policies for 2015 on Missouri’s...
Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, Cost County $4.2M
Sep 24 2014 // The unrest in Ferguson, Mo., that followed the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown by a police officer has cost St. Louis County more than $4 million. The county’s chief operating officer, Garry Earls, told...
Northern Missouri Hit by Heavy Rains, Tornadoes
Sep 11 2014 // A heavy rain storm has left much of northern Missouri facing low-level flooding and cleaning up mostly minor damage caused by tornadoes and high winds. The National Weather Service says 10 inches of rain was reported in...
