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Top Midwest Insurance Journal Stories of 2023
Dec 29 2023 // Insurance Journal Midwest readers in 2023 gravitated to stories on multi-million dollar rulings, policy language disputes and failing mutual insurance companies. Readers were also interested in the fallout of the East...
Missouri Urgent Care Chain Settles for $9.1M Over False Claims for COVID-19 Testing
Dec 27 2023 // ST. LOUIS (AP) – One of the largest urgent care chains in Missouri will pay $9.1 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims for medical services, including COVID-19 testing. The U.S. Attorney`s...
Missouri County Agrees to $1.2 Million Settlement Over Inmate Restraint Chair Death
Dec 18 2023 // Missouri`s second-largest county will pay a $1.2 million settlement to the parents of a 21-year-old man with mental health concerns who, according to a lawsuit, screamed “I can`t breathe” as he was subdued by...
Missouri’s Denali Specialty Expands Investor Property Program to Include Student Housing
Dec 13 2023 // Denali, a wholesale insurance specialist, announced that its Investor Property Program has grown to include student housing. The expansion of Denali’s package insurance for investor properties is well timed. Limited...
Missouri Employers Will See Reduced Workers’ Compensation Rates in 2024
Nov 30 2023 // The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance said that employers should see a reduction in workers’ compensation rates in 2024, the third straight year of declining rates. The NCCI recently proposed an overall...
Missouri’s Cameron Mutual Placed Into Liquidation
Nov 21 2023 // Cameron Mutual Insurance Company has been placed into court-supervised liquidation effective December 1, 2023, the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) announced. Chlora Lindley-Myers, Director of the...
Bayer Ordered to Pay $1.56B in Latest Trial Loss Over Roundup Weedkiller
Nov 20 2023 // A Missouri jury ordered Bayer to pay $1.56 billion to four plaintiffs who claimed the company’s Roundup weedkiller caused injuries including cancer, a verdict that could intensify investor pressure on the German...
Missouri Manufacturer Agrees to Settle Discrimination Suit
Nov 1 2023 // Tapco Inc, a manufacturer and molder of farm equipment in Bridgeton, Missouri, agreed to conciliate two federal discrimination charges alleging sexual harassment and constructive discharge with the U.S. Equal Employment...
Mother Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Shuttered Missouri Boarding School Over Son’s Abuse and Suicide
Oct 25 2023 // MISSION, Kan. (AP) – A mother is suing a shuttered Christian boarding school in Missouri, blaming her son’s death on a gang rape and other abuse he endured there. Agape Boarding School has been subjected to a wave...
Inszone Acquires Missouri’s DeVoy
Oct 11 2023 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of DeVoy Insurance Group, a well-established insurance agency deeply rooted in the community of Brookfield, Missouri. DeVoy Insurance Group is run by Blake DeVoy, whose...
VIAA Adds Two Missouri Agencies to Commercial Marketing Pod Program
Sep 25 2023 // Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a cohesive family of more than 160 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois, recently welcomed two alliance agencies to its members-only Commercial Marketing pod...
Missouri Jury Awards $745M in Lawsuit Over Fatal Accident Involving Use of Nitrous Oxide
Sep 14 2023 // CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri jury has awarded $745 million to the parents of a young woman killed on a sidewalk outside an urgent care center by a driver who huffed nitrous oxide canisters right before the...
Missouri Roofing Contractor Faces $205K Fine After Employee’s Fatal Fall
Sep 12 2023 // On March 27, 2023, an 18-year-old employee of a Missouri contractor was applying sealant to a commercial building’s roof when he fell more than 22 feet and suffered serious injuries that left him in a coma for five...
Missouri’s C Williams Insurance Agency Joins VIAA
Aug 14 2023 // C Williams Insurance Agency recently joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a cohesive family of more than 160 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois. Founded in 2023, C Williams Insurance Agency...
Missouri’s Cameron Mutual Placed Into Rehabilitation
Aug 10 2023 // Cameron Mutual Insurance Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Cameron National Insurance Company, were placed into rehabilitation this week by the Circuit Court of Cole County, Missouri. Missouri Department of Commerce...
Consumer Specialists Available to Assist Tornado-Impacted Missouri Residents
Aug 8 2023 // The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) said that consumer specialists will be on-site at the Multi-Agency Resource Center in Knox County, Missouri, to answer insurance questions and assist residents...
Poorly Designed Railroad Crossing in Rural Missouri Contributed to Fatal Amtrak Derailment, Investigators Find
Aug 4 2023 // A dump truck driver last year may have never seen an oncoming Amtrak train before it was too late, federal investigators concluded in a report, finding that a steep, poorly designed railroad crossing in rural Missouri...
VIAA Named Platinum Tier Member in Previsor Insurance and Missouri Employees Mutual Partner Program
Jul 26 2023 // Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a cohesive family of more than 160 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois, was recently named a platinum tier member in Previsor Insurance and Missouri Employees...
Missouri Chemical Plant Fined $393K for Safety and Health Violations
Jul 21 2023 // Less than two years after an investigation found dozens of serious safety and health violations at a Verona, Missouri chemical plant, workplace safety inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor identified 16 violations,...
How Push for the Atomic Bomb Spawned Enduring Radioactive Waste Problems in St. Louis
Jul 14 2023 // ST. LOUIS (AP) __ The federal government and companies responsible for nuclear bomb production and atomic waste storage sites in the St. Louis area in the mid- 20th century were aware of health risks, spills, improperly...
