Latest Missouri Headlines
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Missouri Grand Jury Indicts Former US Fidelis Owners
Jun 17 2011 // The brothers who formerly owned one of the nation’s top marketers of auto service contracts have been indicted on charges that include stealing and insurance fraud. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster on June 15...
Crews Racing Floodwaters to Build Up Iowa Levee
Jun 15 2011 // Crews in Hamburg, Iowa, were busy June 14 building up a secondary barrier to protect the small Iowa town after the swollen Missouri River punched a massive hole in the main levee. The river ruptured two levees in northwest...
Missouri Insurance Director Elected to NAIC Executive Committee
Jun 10 2011 // John M. Huff, director of the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration, was elected June 6 as vice president of the Midwest Zone of the National Association of Insurance...
Missouri: 17,000 Insurance Claims Filed So Far From Joplin Tornado
Jun 8 2011 // The major insurance companies serving consumers in the Joplin area have received nearly 17,000 claims so far from residents and business owners with damage from the EF-5 tornado that struck the area on May 22, insurance...
Missouri Fund for Injured Workers Stops Paying Claims
Jun 7 2011 // Fifty-five people permanently disabled from workplace injuries are owed money from a Missouri fund but are not getting paid because of the fund’s financial troubles. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the...
Disastrous Spring Costing Missouri Billions of Dollars
Jun 7 2011 // A month packed with tornadoes and flooding has caused billions of dollars of damage in Missouri, and the economic effects may be felt for years. Experts say insurance premiums are likely to increase for home and vehicle...
Late May Storms to Cost Insurers Up to $7 Billion: AIR
Jun 6 2011 // The severe thunderstorms that struck the United States from May 20 to the 27 will result in insured losses to residential, commercial, and industrial properties and their contents, and to automobiles of between $4 billion...
Missouri Capital City Looking to Upgrade Tornado Sirens
Jun 6 2011 // Officials in Missouri’s capital city have decided to look into improving its aging storm warning system, after a deadly tornado hit the state’s southwest. Two of Jefferson City’s 15 warning sirens...
Tornado-Hit States Rank High in Uninsured
Jun 6 2011 // Many of the states hammered by what’s already the deadliest year for tornadoes in more than half a century have among the nation’s highest rates of homes without hazard insurance despite being among the most...
States Hit Hardest by Recent Tornadoes Among Least Insured
Jun 6 2011 // Many of the states hammered by what’s already the deadliest year for tornadoes in more than half a century have among the nation’s highest rates of homes without hazard insurance despite being among the most...
Obama Consoles Tornado-Ravaged Missouri City
Jun 6 2011 // Exactly a week after the Missouri city of Joplin was nearly leveled by the deadliest tornado to strike the United States in decades, President Barack Obama visited the area to offer hope to survivors and promises of...
9,000 Claims Already Filed for Cars Lost in Joplin, Missouri
Jun 3 2011 // Many Joplin, Mo., residents are trying to figure out how to recover from the devastating tornado with no means of transportation. City officials estimate that about 18,000 vehicles were damaged or lost during the May 22...
Wife of Slain Missouri Insurance Salesman Faces Charges
Jun 3 2011 // The widow of a western Missouri insurance salesman who was shot to death in his office is now charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Thirty-nine-year-old Teresa Stone, of Independence, is the second person charged in...
9 Days After Tornado, Rebuilding Begins in Joplin, Missouri
Jun 2 2011 // Electrical crews hoisted power poles, small businesses opened in tents and residents snatched up construction supplies as rebuilding got underway nine days after a tornado tore through the southwest Missouri town of...
President Obama Consoles Tornado-Ravaged Missouri City
May 31 2011 // Exactly a week after the Missouri city of Joplin was nearly leveled by the deadliest tornado to strike the U.S in decades, President Barack Obama visited to offer hope to survivors and promises of help. On May 29, Obama...
Joplin Tornado Death Toll Rises; Engineers Assess Hospital Damage
May 27 2011 // Rescue and recovery work in Joplin, Missouri was shadowed by uncertainty as crews still hoping to find survivors combed areas that had already been searched several times and engineers entered the battered Joplin hospital...
States Hit Hardest by Recent Tornadoes Among Least Insured
May 27 2011 // Many of the states hammered by what’s already the deadliest year for tornadoes in more than half a century have among the nation’s highest rates of homes without hazard insurance despite being among the most...
Kansas City Chiefs Gathering Aid for Missouri Tornado Victims
May 26 2011 // Hundreds of cars lined up all day on May 24 in the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot as the Kansas City Chiefs filled two semitrailer trucks with bottled water for tornado victims in Kansas and Missouri. Chiefs spokesman Brad...
Searchers, Dogs Scour Missouri Tornado Wreckage
May 25 2011 // First they found his dark blue teddy bear. Then frantic relatives searching for toddler Skyular Logsdon spotted his red T-shirt and pants, torn, rain-soaked and wrapped around a telephone pole. The little boy hasn’t...
Joplin, Missouri Tornado Insured Loss Estimate: $3 Billion
May 24 2011 // The tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri could cost the insurance industry between $1 billion and $3 billion, according to catastrophe modeling firm Eqecat. The tornado is the deadliest to hit the U.S. since 1947 and...
