Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Former Missouri Gov. Blunt Claims Immunity From Defamation Suit
Mar 12 2009 // Attorneys for former Gov. Matt Blunt are citing executive privilege while asking an appeals court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a former staff lawyer. Blunt lost a similar argument before a trial judge last fall, but...
Readiness of Some Rebuilt Levees in Midwest Questioned
Mar 10 2009 // With the prospect of another season of spring flooding fast approaching, the Army Corps of Engineers insists the earthen flood levees outmatched by the Mississippi River last summer are rebuilt and ready. Not...
Missouri Unions Suffer Setback in Challenge to Workers’ Comp Law
Mar 9 2009 // The Missouri Supreme Court recently rejected labor union challenges to a 2005 law that limited the ability of some injured workers to get benefits under the workers’ compensation system. Business groups praised the...
Declarations
Mar 9 2009 // Can’t Figure “I can’t figure out what amount (Blunt) is convicted of.” —District Judge Bruce Romanick in ordering Sandy Blunt, the former director of North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and...
Areas with Flood Insurance Policy Sales Potential Include Iowa, Missouri
Mar 9 2009 // GAO compared the number of NFIP policies in a given area, as of September 2006, with the total number of county flood declarations from January 1980 to June 2008, cumulative flood claims payments from January 1978 to April...
Missouri’s Ascension Insurance Buys Florida’s Bartlett Agency
Mar 5 2009 // Kansas City-headquarted Ascension Insurance, Inc. has acquired Dennis Bartlett agency of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Bartlett agency specializes in medical malpractice coverage and will join Employers Mutual, Inc., a...
Missouri Court Rejects Labor Challenge to Workers’ Compensation Law
Feb 26 2009 // The state Supreme Court rejected labor union challenges Tuesday to a 2005 law that limited the ability of some injured Missourians to get benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation system. Business groups...
Missouri Deals with Rash of Cattle Thefts; Farm Bureau Offers Reward
Feb 24 2009 // A rash of cattle thefts in southwest Missouri has prompted two organizations to offer a total of $10,000 in rewards for help catching the crooks. Authorities report that hundreds of animals have been loaded onto trucks and...
Swiss Re Claims Executive Huff Named Missouri Commissioner
Feb 22 2009 // Gov. Jay Nixon has picked a Swiss Re insurance claims executive to lead the Missouri insurance department. John Huff, a Missouri native, has worked since July 2008 at the Zurich headquarters of Swiss Re, one of the...
State Auto Mutual Completes Acquisition of Missouri’s Rockhill
Feb 10 2009 // State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. of Columbus, Ohio, has completed its purchase of Rockhill Insurance Group of Kansas City, Mo. Rockhill writes approximately $120 million in specialty property and casualty direct...
Swiss Re Claims Exec Huff Named Missouri Insurance Commissioner
Feb 9 2009 // Gov. Jay Nixon has picked a Swiss Re insurance claims executive to lead the Missouri insurance department. John Huff, a Missouri native, has worked since July 2008 at the Zurich headquarters of Swiss Re, one of the...
Missouri Transportation Chief Pushes for Tougher Seat Belt Law
Feb 6 2009 // It’s failed repeatedly in the past, but state Transportation Director Pete Rahn is optimistic that a bill stepping up Missouri’s seat belt enforcement may pass this year. Rahn wants lawmakers to allow police to...
Kentucky Reeling from Ice Storm; Slow FEMA Response Hit
Feb 2 2009 // In some parts of rural Kentucky, they’re getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There’s not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their...
Hub’s Forystek Named President of Missouri’s UMB Insurance
Jan 29 2009 // Kansas City-based UMB Financial Corp. reported that Roger Forystek has joined the company as president of its insurance subsidiary, UMB Insurance. He will be responsible for overseeing the insurance company and managing...
Missouri Homeowners Need Insurance to Go Green
Jan 25 2009 // A new Missouri law was supposed to make it easy for residents powering their own homes to put in wind turbines or solar panels but the lack of specialized insurance is proving to be an obstacle. The idea was for the...
Declarations
Jan 11 2009 // Lighting Up “We are hoping this will reduce the number of fire fatalities.” —Iowa State Fire Marshall James Kenkel comments on a new law that he and others hope will reduce the number of fatal fires in the...
Missouri Attorney General-elect Adds Former Director Ommen to Staff
Jan 8 2009 // Incoming Attorney General Chris Koster picks a western Missouri prosecutor and a former member of Gov. Matt Blunt’s Cabinet for top staff positions. On Jan. 6 Koster said that Lafayette County prosecutor Page Bellamy...
Insurance at Issue for Mo. Homeowners Using Wind Turbines, Solar Panels
Jan 5 2009 // Problems have arisen with a new Missouri law that was supposed to make it easy for residents powering their own homes to put in wind turbines or solar panels. The idea was for the homeowners to be able to send any excess...
Missouri Company Recalls 750 Pounds of Sausage
Dec 30 2008 // A St. Louis company is recalling 750 pounds of sausage products that may be contaminated with a bacteria that can cause a potentially fatal illness. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the sausage products were...
Missouri Lawsuit Questions Insurance Law’s Effect on Energy Production
Dec 29 2008 // A legal center has filed suit against a Missouri commission because it believes a new insurance rule will discourage people from trying to produce their own solar or wind power. The Great Rivers Environmental Law Center...
