Latest Missouri Headlines
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Mo. DOI to Hold Meetings for May Tornado Victims
Jul 23 2003 // Missouri Department of Insurance Director Scott Lakin announced that his staff will conduct “town hall” meetings Aug. 7 in Hillsboro and Aug. 11 in Stockton for Missourians who suffered tornado damage in early...
Alliance Disappointed in Mo. Gov.’s Veto of Tort Reform Bill
Jul 11 2003 // Yesterday’s veto of a comprehensive civil justice reform bill will not only hurt insurers, but also consumers in the long run, according to the Alliance of American Insurers, an industry lobbying group. The bill (SB...
Mo. WC Pool Will See Average Rates Fall
Jul 3 2003 // For the next year, average workers’ compensation rates will fall slightly for Missouri employers that buy coverage through the state’s “pool” of last resort, according to Scott Lakin, director of...
Mo. Commish to Examine Need for Med Mal JUA
Jun 30 2003 // Missouri Director of Insurance Scott Lakin will hold a public hearing on whether the need exists for a state-sponsored medical malpractice insurance program at 10:30 a.m., Friday, July 11 in Room 492 of the Truman State...
Mo. DOI to Counsel Storm Victims in 7 Towns
Jun 9 2003 // Missouri Department of Insurance Director Scott B. Lakin said consumer service representatives will counsel victims of the state’s May tornados in seven communities later this month. The counselors will visit...
New Medical Malpractice Insurer Approved in Missouri
Jun 3 2003 // The Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) announced it licensed a new medical malpractice insurer in the state, the seventh to be okayed this year. The newly approved entity is a physician-organized carrier organized in...
Mo. Tort Reform Bill May Get Gov’s Veto
May 27 2003 // In the final hours of the 2003 Missouri legislative session lawmakers pushed through a tort reform bill designed to overturn the effects of a devastating court case that is largely responsible for sharp increases in...
Mo. Storms Hit Insurers for $400 Million, Says Commish
May 14 2003 // Missouri’s insurers are likely to pay at least $400 million to more than 60,000 Missourians for insured property damage from last week’s tornadoes and other violent storms, according to Insurance Commissioner...
Mo. Med Mal Data Show Court’s Caps Ruling Needs Reversal: Commish
May 14 2003 // Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) Director Scott B. Lakin today said the state must act quickly to reverse a 2002 court ruling that has seriously disrupted Missouri’s medical malpractice market. Under the...
Unlicensed Mo. Insurer Reportedly Marketing in Kansas City Area
Apr 9 2003 // First Actual American Insurance Co., which has no license to sell in Missouri, reportedly is soliciting medical malpractice business in the Kansas City area. If doctors or other health-care providers are approached, they...
Mo. Young Agent Awarded IIABA Scholarship
Mar 7 2003 // Kevin B. Hutchinson, CIC, CRM , a producer with C. J. Thomas Company in St. Louis, is the inaugural recipient of the Maurice Herndon scholarship established by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America...
Several Midwestern States Revisit Insurance Scoring
Mar 6 2003 // The issue of credit-based insurance scoring is being revisited in many Midwestern states that considered legislation or regulations on the subject in previous years, according to the National Association of Independent...
Ill., Mo. Join AMA’s Crisis List
Mar 6 2003 // Illinois and Missouri, along with six other states, have been added to the American Medical Association’s list of states whose medical liability system are deemed to be in crisis. In Illinois, where the state Supreme...
Mo. House Passes Med Mal Tort Reforms
Mar 6 2003 // The Missouri House of Representatives has passed a bill that would limit lawyers’ contingency fees, damages against emergency-room personnel, and require a signed affidavit from a board-certified physician in the...
Missouri Work Comp Reform Bill Passes First Test
Feb 24 2003 // A Missouri bill that would tighten the state’s workers’ compensation rules has won first-round approval from the House of Representatives on a 79-62 vote. HB321 would only cover occupational injuries if work is...
Missouri May Tighten Workers’ Comp Rules
Feb 10 2003 // A bill before the Missouri legislature would narrow the kinds of injuries covered by the state’s workers’ compensation system, according to the Associated Press. The state has lost 90,000 jobs in the last 20...
Meadowbrook Concludes Agreements with MO Ins. Dept.
Jan 9 2003 // Michigan’s Meadowbrook Insurance Group announced that its operating subsidiary, Meadowbrook, Inc. has entered into two new fee-for-service agreements with the Director of the Missouri Department of Insurance [MDI] in...
MO Dept. of Insurance Takes Over two KC-based Workers Comp Companies
Dec 23 2002 // Cole County Circuit Judge Thomas Brown granted the petition of Scott B. Lakin, the Director of the Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI), and placed two Kansas City-based workers compensation insurers in receivership as...
NAII Counsel Responds to MO News Article on Credit Scoring
Dec 20 2002 // Ann Weber, General Counsel for the National Association of Independent Insurers, has written an open letter to Will Connaghan, the Editor of the St. Louis Daily Record in response to an article that appeared in the...
MO Dept. of Insurance Re-accredited by NAIC for Financial Oversight
Dec 12 2002 // The Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) has been re-accredited for five years by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, who certified the MDI’s work on monitoring the financial health of insurers and...
