Latest Missouri Headlines
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Feet of Sand Leave Midwest Farms Wasteland After Flooding
Jun 5 2012 // Mason Hansen guns his pickup and cranks the steering wheel to spin through sand up to 4 feet high, but this is no day at the beach. Hanson once grew corn and soybeans in the sandy wasteland in western Iowa, and his...
Missouri Session Ends with Some of Business ‘6’ Fixed
Jun 4 2012 // Despite repeated attempts during two legislative sessions, the Republicans who control Missouri’s General Assembly have passed only part of the six-point, pro-business agenda outlined by the state’s main...
Business Moves – Midwest
Jun 4 2012 // SIAA, Thomas Insurance Group The Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance has signed its 4,000th member agency, the Thomas Insurance Group of Cape Girardeau, Mo. Recruited by master agency Valley Insurance Agency Alliance of...
Missouri Issues Warning About Agent Barred from Insurance Business
Jun 1 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance says it has received reports that an agent previously barred from the insurance business has been selling policies illegally. The department revoked the insurance license of former...
Missouri County Passes Copper Theft Ordinance
May 31 2012 // A new law in St. Louis County, Mo., addresses the frequent theft of copper, catalytic converters and air conditioner parts. The St. Louis County Council unanimously passed the measure that seeks to restrict the purchase...
After Joplin Tornado, Town Looked Like a War Zone, Adjusters Say
May 22 2012 // “One of the eeriest things was … the lack of noise. There were no birds. There was no sound. There was no vegetation. There was nothing. There were no dogs. There were no cars. It was just mounds of rubble,”...
No Changes Made for Missouri Injured Worker Fund
May 22 2012 // Missouri’s financially troubled fund for injured workers will get no relief from the state Legislature for at least another year. The state Second Injury Fund takes businesses off the hook for paying the claims of...
Thousands in St. Louis, Missouri, Area Claim Hail Damage
May 21 2012 // The number of insurance claims resulting from the damaging hail storm that struck the St. Louis region in late April could top 100,000. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the region’s two largest insurance...
Joplin, Missouri: One Year Later
May 21 2012 // After the Tornado, Town Looked Like a War Zone, Adjusters Say “One of the eeriest things was … the lack of noise. There were no birds. There was no sound. There was no vegetation. There was nothing. There were...
Missouri Insurance Regulators Recover $2M in First Quarter
May 21 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance reported that it has recovered more than $2 million to consumers in first quarter of 2012. Health insurance and claim denial are the major sources of complaints, the department...
Missouri’s Vetoes, Overrides
May 21 2012 // Missouri’s legislature and its governor have been back and forth so far this year on legislation that would effect changes in the state’s workers’ compensation system. Among them, bills that would prevent...
A Year after Joplin Tornadoes, $2.16B in Insurance Claims Paid
May 18 2012 // The tornado that swept through Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011, has generated $2.16 billion in insurance claims payouts to Missouri policyholders, according to an Insurance Information Institute analysis of data from...
Missouri House Approves Bill on Suing Co-Workers
May 16 2012 // Missouri lawmakers likely will not pass any legislation moving claims related to deadly work-related diseases into the workers’ compensation system, Senate Majority Leader Tom Dempsey said. The state Legislature will...
Missouri Regulators: Joplin Insurance Claims Deadline Approaching
May 14 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance is sending an urgent message to Joplin residents with incomplete insurance claims related to the May 22, 2011, EF-5 tornado. The department says many homeowners insurance policies...
Correction: SIAA Signs 4,000th Agency
May 10 2012 // The Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance has signed its 4,000th member agency, the Thomas Insurance Group of Cape Girardeau, Mo. Recruited by master agency Valley Insurance Agency Alliance of Clayton, Mo., Thomas Insurance...
Missouri Insurance Department Recovers $2M in Q1 2012
May 9 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance reported that it has recovered more than $2 million to consumers in first quarter of 2012. Health insurance and claim denial are the major sources of complaints, the department...
Kansas Insurance Investigator Receives Meritorious Service Award
May 9 2012 // Randy Adair, chief investigator for the Kansas Insurance Department’s Anti-Fraud Division, and a retired deputy chief of police for Topeka, is the recipient of the 2012 Clarence M. Kelley Meritorious Service Award...
Missouri Efforts to Expand Texting Law Again Fall Short
May 7 2012 // Late last year, federal safety officials made a deadly crash in rural eastern Missouri a focal point in a nationwide call to ban drivers from using their cellphones while behind the wheel. The National Transportation...
Hail Storm Depletes St. Louis, Missouri Rental Fleet
May 7 2012 // A recent hail storm damaged thousands of vehicles in the St. Louis area, but good luck trying to find a rental. That’s because car rental companies are scrambling to fix or replace their own fleets. Hail as big as...
AT&T to Pay Missouri Muslim Woman $5M in Harassment Case
May 7 2012 // A former Kansas City woman who converted to Islam in 2005 said she was harassed for years at AT&T, and that the abuse boiled over in 2008 when her boss snatched her head scarf and exposed her hair. A Jackson County...
