Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri Texting While Driving Law Nabs Few Violators
Feb 26 2013 // A 2009 Missouri law that bans young drivers from using their cell phones to send text messages has led to few citations and remains difficult to enforce, a Columbia newspaper reports. The Columbia Missourian reports that...
St. Louis County Police Commend Missouri Insurance Fraud Investigator
Feb 21 2013 // The St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners has awarded a commendation to an investigator at the Missouri Department of Insurance for his efforts in uncovering a widespread insurance fraud operation against...
Missouri Bill Proposes Online Workers’ Comp Database
Feb 21 2013 // Missouri senators want to create an online database for businesses to check whether prospective employees have a history of filing workers’ compensation claims. The bill given first-round approval drew support from...
Police Blame Missouri Law for Rise in Vanishing Cars
Feb 20 2013 // Why are thefts of older vehicles climbing in Missouri? And why are so many of them never seen again? St. Louis-area police who pondered what seemed like an improbable trend say they believe they have found the culprit...
Missouri Insurance Department Settles with Company over Travel Insurance
Feb 19 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced that Missouri consumers who bought travel insurance from Virginia Surety Co. or through Cheap Caribbean, one of its contracted agencies, may be entitled to a refund. A joint...
Missouri House Panel Considers Medical Liability Limits
Feb 15 2013 // Missouri doctors urged a state House committee to reinstate liability limits for medical malpractice cases after the state Supreme Court struck down an existing cap. An upper limit of $350,000 for noneconomic damages such...
Missouri Bill to Raise Seat Belt Fines Gains Support
Feb 15 2013 // A long-running proposal to raise Missouri’s fines for seat belt violations gained support on Feb. 13 from police, doctors, truckers, insurers and – perhaps most importantly – the chairman of a committee...
Missouri Senate Backs Bill to Replenish Second Injury Fund
Feb 14 2013 // Missouri senators have endorsed a two-part plan to replenish an insolvent fund for disabled workers and stop people with job-related diseases from bringing big-dollar lawsuits against their employers. The legislation...
Missouri House Panel Mulls Bill on Work Discrimination Lawsuits
Feb 13 2013 // Republicans are hoping the third time is a charm for a measure a Missouri House committee considered that would make it harder for employees to win lawsuits alleging workplace discrimination. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon has...
Missouri Senate to Debate Future of Disability Fund
Feb 5 2013 // Missouri senators are preparing to debate legislation to revive an insolvent fund for disabled workers. The state’s Second Injury Fund has a deficit of about $25 million that is expected to keep growing. The fund...
Missouri Insurance Department Returns Nearly $11M to Consumers in 2012
Jan 29 2013 // Consumers who filed complaints with the Missouri Department of Insurance received nearly $11 million in additional claim payments from their insurance companies in 2012, the department reported. Health insurance generated...
Missouri Judge Says Hospital Corp. Owes Foundation $162M
Jan 28 2013 // Hospital Corp. of America, the largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, has been ordered to pay a charitable foundation $162 million for failing to spend enough money on capital improvements at the Kansas...
Missouri Department of Insurance Closes Two Receiverships
Jan 28 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced the conclusion of the legal cases of two insurance companies that went into receivership due to insolvency. A Cole County judge ordered Transit Casualty Co. into receivership...
Missouri Cops Investigating Smash-and-Grab Crimes
Jan 18 2013 // Police in several St. Louis, Mo.- area towns are investigating a string of smash-and-grab crimes with a twist: In many cases, nothing is taken. In six instances over the past few weeks, suspects have busted through the...
Kansas, Missouri Could Be Hit by Disaster Aid Fight
Jan 18 2013 // Midwesterners accustomed to generous government aid after ice storms, floods and tornadoes may soon have to look somewhere else for help when disaster strikes. Even as the U.S. House on Jan. 15 passed a $50.7 billion aid...
USI Insurance Services Acquires 2 St. Louis, Missouri, Brokerages
Jan 16 2013 // Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Saint Louis, Mo.-based brokerages Welsch Flatness and Lutz Inc. (WFL) and Construction Insurance Partners (CIP). By combining the existing USI office in Saint Louis with WFL and CIP,...
Mississippi Rock Blasting Puts River in Ship Shape
Jan 14 2013 // Crews have completed the most critical phase of removing bedrock that threatened barges along a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi River, staving off the shipping industry’s fears that the treacherous...
2013 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 14 2013 // JANUARY P/C Insurance Joint Industry Forum Jan 15 Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY Insurance Information Institute www.iii.org 2013 Big ‘I’ Winter Meeting Jan 16-20 The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa,...
Missouri Regulator: Barton County Mutual Back on Solid Ground
Jan 14 2013 // Financial conditions at Missouri’s Barton County Mutual Insurance Co. are strong enough that the company can be released from state oversight, a judge has ruled. A Barton County judge has granted a motion by the...
Missouri Department of Insurance Closes Two Receiverships
Jan 11 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced the conclusion of the legal cases of two insurance companies that went into receivership due to insolvency. A Cole County judge ordered Transit Casualty Co. into receivership...
