Latest Missouri Headlines
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Missouri Recovers Nearly $8M for Consumers in First 9 Months of 2012
Oct 17 2012 // Consumers who filed complaints with the Missouri Department of Insurance have received almost $8 million in additional claims payments from their insurance companies in the nine months of 2012. The department said it has...
Missouri Couple Who Won $20M in Popcorn Suit Going Bankrupt
Oct 16 2012 // A southwest Missouri couple who won a $20 million verdict from the makers of a butter flavoring used at a popcorn plant have filed for bankruptcy. The Joplin Globe reports Eric and Cassandra Peoples of Carthage also are...
Court Rejects Missouri AG’s Health Care Lawsuit
Oct 8 2012 // A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder’s lawsuit challenging the federal health care law. The Kansas City Star reported that a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit...
Insurer Must Pay Missouri Firm $11M in Supply Chain Interruption Case
Oct 8 2012 // A federal jury in in St. Louis has ordered an insurance company to pay $11 million to a Joplin, Mo., company for damages caused by an oil pipeline leak. TAMKO Building Products Inc. said in a lawsuit that Factory Mutual...
US Fidelis Founders Sentenced to Prison in Missouri
Oct 2 2012 // The co-founders of defunct St. Louis-area auto service contract seller, US Fidelis, has been sentenced to prison on charges of stealing consumers’ refunds, insurance fraud and consumer fraud. Missouri Attorney...
Insurer Must Pay Missouri Firm $11M in Supply Chain Interruption Case
Sep 30 2012 // A federal jury ordered an insurance company to pay $11 million to a Joplin, Mo., company for damages caused by an oil pipeline leak. A federal jury in St. Louis returned the verdict. TAMKO Building Products Inc. said in a...
Aetna to Pay $1.5M in Settlement with Missouri
Sep 28 2012 // Missouri insurance regulators said that insurer Aetna agreed to pay a $1.5 million penalty to settle allegations that the company violated requirements for health coverage of autism, contraception and abortions. The state...
Missouri’s High Court Favors Insured in Question of Policy Ambiguity
Sep 24 2012 // Is a person hired to perform seasonal, part-time tasks for a company owner, based on a referral from an employee of the company, an employee or a temporary worker? It depends, according to Missouri’s high court...
Missouri Licenses 25th Captive Insurer
Sep 19 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced it has licensed its 25th captive insurance company. The state began allowing captive formation in 2007 and had just three licensees before Gov. Jay Nixon signed House Bill 577...
Missouri Lawyer Sentenced for Embezzling Insurance Payouts
Sep 12 2012 // A former lawyer in Missouri’s St. Louis County is going to prison after embezzling nearly $500,000 in insurance settlements from dozens of clients. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 53-year-old Jonathan McKee was...
Missouri Increases Reinsurance Requirement for Mutual Companies
Sep 10 2012 // State regulators say mutual insurance companies that provide property coverage to rural Missourians will be financially stronger because of a new reinsurance requirement. Missouri Department of Insurance reports that a new...
Missouri Supreme Court Strikes Down Non-Economic Damage Cap
Sep 10 2012 // Missouri’s top justices have ruled that the state’s law placing limits on the amount juries can award for non-economic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits is unconstitutional. The state Supreme Court said...
Missouri’s High Court Favors Insured in Question of Policy Ambiguity
Sep 6 2012 // Is a person hired to perform seasonal, part-time tasks for a company owner, based on a referral from an employee of the company, an employee or a temporary worker? It depends, according to Missouri’s high court...
Drought, Low Export Demand Sap Midwest Economy
Sep 5 2012 // An August survey suggests that the continuing drought and lessening export demand for U.S. products are among the drains on the economy in nine Midwest and Plains states, according to a report released Tuesday. The...
Missouri Insurance Director to Chair Solvency Modernization Task Force
Sep 5 2012 // John M. Huff, director of the Missouri Department of Insurance, has been appointed chair of a national task force focusing on insurance regulation, the department announced. The Solvency Modernization Initiative was...
ASNOA Welcomes New Partners in Missouri, Illinois
Sep 3 2012 // The Agent Support Network of America, ASNOA has welcomed its two newest partners, insurance veterans J. Scott Loveland and Roger Collins. J. Scott Loveland, owner and founder of Springfield, Mo.-based Scott Loveland...
Families Sue over Kansas Grain Elevator Blast
Aug 31 2012 // Family members of four people killed in a grain elevator explosion last year in northeast Kansas are suing employees of Bartlett Grain Co., including its current president Bob Knief, less than five months after federal...
Man Pleads Guilty in Missouri Insurance Agent’s Death
Aug 27 2012 // A 33-year-old St. Louis man has pleaded guilty in the 2007 death of a Missouri insurance agent. Cleo S. Hines pleaded guilty on Aug. 24 in St. Charles County Court to charges of robbery and second-degree murder. Hines and...
Joplin Tornado Spurs Change in Missouri Mutual Insurance Rules
Aug 23 2012 // State regulators say mutual insurance companies that provide property coverage to rural Missourians will be financially stronger because of a new reinsurance requirement. Missouri Department of Insurance reports that a new...
Suit Alleges Missouri Jail Guards Made Inmates Fight
Aug 20 2012 // A lawsuit filed on Aug. 17 alleges that St. Louis, Mo., jailers forced inmates to fight each other for the amusement of guards and bet on the outcomes. At least one attack was captured on camera, according to the suit...
