Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Flood-Prone Missouri Town Ready to Launch Mitigation Plan
Nov 18 2009 // Clarksville, Mo., is moving ahead with what Mayor Jo Anne Smiley calls the “monumental task” of never again having to worry about the Mississippi River ruining businesses and disrupting lives in this town of...
Missouri Town Left Off Flood Maps; Portions of Others Missing, Too
Oct 16 2009 // Officials from central Missouri towns say preliminary flood insurance maps presented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week were incomplete and based on old information. Huntsdale Mayor Debby Lancaster said...
Missouri Insurance Department Returns Nearly $11M to Consumers
Oct 14 2009 // The Missouri Department of Insurance reports that it has recovered almost $10.7 million from insurance companies during the first nine months of 2009. The money was returned to consumers who filed complaints with the...
Missouri, Illinois Collateral Source Rules Affect Bodily Injury Claims Differently
Oct 14 2009 // The ability to reasonably estimate the amount a plaintiff can recover for medical expenses is a key component in properly evaluating a personal injury claim. Because negotiations between the payor (the patient, a private...
AG: Solvency of Missouri’s Second Injury Fund Questionable
Oct 7 2009 // Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster reported that his office has temporarily stopped entering into new settlement agreements with claimants on Missouri’s Second Injury Fund. Additionally, Koster ordered the...
People
Oct 5 2009 // David Daniel was named chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”). He will lead the organization as chairman for the 2009-2010 term. Daniel is president of Daniel &...
Missouri: Medical Malpractice Insurers Profitable 5 Years in a Row
Sep 21 2009 // Insurance companies providing medical malpractice coverage in Missouri were profitable in 2008. It was the fifth consecutive year for positive earnings in that line of insurance, according to Missouri Department of...
Missouri to Study Timeliness of Health Insurers’ Reimbursements
Sep 14 2009 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has ordered the state Department of Insurance to determine whether health insurance companies in Missouri are withholding reimbursement payments to health care providers for unreasonable lengths of...
Missouri Judge Blocks Firing of 3 Workers’ Comp Judges
Sep 11 2009 // A Missouri judge has blocked the firing of three administrative law judges who decide workers’ compensation cases, saying the state could not eliminate their jobs as part of budget cuts. Cole County Judge Jon Beetem...
Atterberry Re-Appointed to Missouri Workers’ Comp Review Board
Sep 9 2009 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has re-appointed Jack D. Atterberry of Jefferson City to the Workers’ Compensation Determination Review Board. The board reviews determinations by an insurer or advisory organization regarding...
Missouri: Medical Malpractice Insurers Profitable for 5th Year in a Row
Sep 8 2009 // Insurance companies providing medical malpractice coverage in Missouri returned a profit in 2008, marking the fifth consecutive year of positive earnings, Missouri Department of Insurance says. The department said its...
Missouri Mortgage Insurers Suffer Large Losses
Sep 4 2009 // Companies that sell private mortgage insurance in Missouri suffered their largest losses last year in three decades of record-keeping. The state insurance department says mortgage guaranty insurers had net losses in 2008...
Missouri Sues Arkansas Insurer
Aug 31 2009 // Missouri insurance regulators have gone to court to stop an Arkansas-based life insurance company from illegally changing the terms of its cancer insurance policies, the Missouri Department of Insurance announced. The DOI...
Missouri Aviation Specialists Offer Pay-by-the-Hour Insurance Coverage
Aug 28 2009 // St. Louis, Mo.-based Travers and Associates is now offering pay-by-the-hour insurance coverage as a cost saving alternative to traditional commercial aviation insurance packages. Travers and Associates specializes in...
$200K Penalty Issued Against Universal Casualty in Illinois
Aug 13 2009 // The Illinois Department of Insurance has issued an order against Universal Casualty Company (UCC) for failing to adopt and maintain procedures for the prompt investigation and settlement of consumers’ claims. On Aug....
Survey: Midwest Economy Improving
Aug 4 2009 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
Missouri Raises Threshold for Home Power Generation Liability Coverage
Aug 3 2009 // The Missouri Public Service Commission has changed its rules to eliminate a requirement that customers generating 10 kilowatts or less of electricity must carry liability insurance. Under rules adopted last October,...
New Missouri Law Encourages Captive Insurance Operations
Jul 24 2009 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed a bill that makes improvements to the state’s captive insurance laws by simplifying the process of moving offshore captive operations to Missouri. House Bill 577, an omnibus...
State Regulation, Earthquake Coverage of Concern to Missouri’s Huff
Jul 24 2009 // In an address to some 130 members of the Missouri Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) Missouri Insurance Director John M. Huff made a strong argument that states, rather than the federal government, should continue to...
Declarations
Jul 20 2009 // Too High a Cost “In terms of lives and of dollars, the cost of repealing Missouri’s helmet law simply would have been too high.” —Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, who vetoed legislation that would have relaxed...
