Latest Missouri Headlines
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Consumer Group Claims NAMIC Study on Credit Scoring ‘Flip-Flops’ Earlier Positions
Jul 9 2004 // The consumer group, Center for Economic Justice (CEJ), released a statement in response to a National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) study on credit scoring. CEJ’s Executive Director Birny Birnbaum...
Insurers Mount Legal Challenge to Multi-state Credit Scoring Study; Ask States to Withdraw Data Call
Jun 23 2004 // Two national insurance company trade organizations have expressed legal concerns about the recently initiated multi-state study on credit-based insurance scores and have asked regulators in eight states to withdraw their...
Mo. JUA Starts Taking Med-Mal Applications
Jun 21 2004 // Missouri’s new state-sponsored medical malpractice insurance program has begun accepting applications for coverage effective June 30 or later, the state’s insurance department announced recently. Physicians and...
SECURA: Looking to Sustain Hard-Market Success
Jun 18 2004 // The CEO of Appleton, Wis.-based SECURA Insurance Cos., John Bykowski, took some time recently to talk with IJ during the Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin’s annual convention. SECURA has total assets of $406...
Missouri Gov. Seeks Federal Assistance for Counties Impacted by May Storms
Jun 9 2004 // Missouri Gov. Bob Holden has requested a Federal Disaster Declaration for Individual Assistance for counties impacted by the severe storms and tornadoes from May 18 through Memorial Day weekend. “We are requesting...
Missouri’s Gov. Holden Again Vetoes Tort Reform
Jun 7 2004 // Midwest • May 5, 2004 “A typical response from a governor who is on the trial lawyers payroll!” — Kevin Maher, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Missouri’s Gov. Holden Again Vetoes Tort Reform
Jun 7 2004 // Midwest • May 5, 2004 “A typical response from a governor who is on the trial lawyers payroll!” — Kevin Maher, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Tornadoes Rip Through Storm-Weary Midwest
Jun 1 2004 // Powerful storms again swept across the Midwest, downing trees and power lines and spawning twisters that leveled houses and barns and sent mobile homes hurtling through the air. In Marengo, Ind., a town of 800 about 35...
Missouri Tort Reform Veto Override Falls Short
Jun 1 2004 // The effort to override Missouri Gov. Bob Holden’s veto of tort reform legislation fell short in the House of Representatives, thus ending this year’s attempt to address the state’s medical liability...
Missouri DOI to Give Agent Tax Scofflaws Extra Warning Before Revoking Licenses
May 28 2004 // The Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) announced it will provide an additional 15 days’ extra warning before it revokes licenses when agents have apparent unpaid tax liabilities to the state. MDI said it has...
Missouri GOP Looks to Override Gov. Holden’s Veto of Med-Mal Award Caps; Insurers Won’t Promise Rate Cuts
May 10 2004 // Missouri Republicans are trying to override a veto by Democratic Gov. Bob Holden of a bill that placed caps on pain-and-suffering awards in medical malpractice cases, according to the Associated Press. Holden vetoed a...
PCI Expresses Concerns on States’ Credit Scoring Study
May 5 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has issued a bulletin expressing serious legal and public policy concerns about a multi-state study being conducted by insurance regulators on the “impact of...
Mo. ‘Pool’ Businesses to Reportedly Save $3 Million from 3.7 Percent Workers’ Comp Rate Cut
Apr 12 2004 // Missouri “pool” businesses should reportedly save $3 million from 3.7 percent workers’ compensation rate cut The private insurer running Missouri’s workers’ “pool” for high-risk...
MED-MAL CAPS ADVANCE IN IOWA, MO.:
Apr 5 2004 // Tort reform continued to advance in the Midwest as legislators in the House of Representatives in Iowa and Missouri passed measures that would put caps on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases. The Iowa House...
Experior’s Mo. Licensure Contract Extended
Mar 17 2004 // The Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) has re-awarded a contract to administer its licensure examination program to St. Paul-based Experior Assessments. Under the new contract, Experior will continue to design and...
Med-Mal Caps Advance in Iowa, Mo.
Mar 16 2004 // Tort reform continued to advance in the Midwest last week as legislators in the House of Representatives in Iowa and Missouri passed measures that would put caps on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases. The Iowa...
Credit-Based Scoring Tops AIA Agenda at Spring NAIC Gathering in New York City
Mar 12 2004 // The issue of credit-based insurance scoring will once again reportedly be the subject of much discussion and attention during the spring meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in New York,...
Tort Reformers Look to Score in States after Washington Strikes Out
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
MO. COMP RATE HIKES ALMOST FLAT:
Mar 8 2004 // Insurers are applying the brakes to workers’ compensation rate increases in Missouri, according to the state’s insurance department. After almost one-third of such insurers filed rate changes in January,...
Mo. Court Cracks Down on Venue Shopping
Mar 3 2004 // Supporters of tort reform won a victory recently as the Missouri Supreme Court blocked an attempt to move a medical malpractice case to St. Louis, which is known to be a very plaintiff-friendly jurisdiction. “Putting...
