Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Mo. Ins. Dept. Closes the Books on Commonwealth General
Oct 25 2002 // The Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) Director, Scott B. Lakin, announced that he is “closing the books on the Commonwealth General Insurance Co. receivership after paying claimants and creditors and returning...
Copart Opens Facility in Springfield, Missouri
Oct 23 2002 // Copart, Inc. announced that it has opened its second auction facility in the state of Missouri in the southeast section of Springfield along Interstate 60. Willis J. Johnson, Copart’s CEO stated that, “The new...
Missouri Dept. of Insurance Opens Public Internet Portal
Oct 21 2002 // Missouri’s Director of Insurance, Scott B. Lakin, announced that the department has opened a new Internet connection, “The Public Portal,” which will “gather comment on pending issues, beginning...
Mo. Insurance Director to Hold Hearing on Increase in Med-Mal Costs
Oct 9 2002 // Missouri Department of Insurance Director Scott B. Lakin announced that he will hold a public hearing on Oct. 30 to examine why medical malpractice insurance rates for the state’s doctors are rising sharply despite...
NAII Applauds Missouri Judge’s Decision Blocking Workers’ Comp Regulation
Sep 30 2002 // The NAII lauded Missouri Circuit Judge Thomas Brown’s decision to grant the request of the state’s workers’ compensation insurers for a temporary injunction blocking the state Insurance Department from...
Employers, Insurers Slow To Report Claims Says Missouri Audit Report
Sep 30 2002 // A report from Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill has found that a “vast majority of injuries” are reported late or not at all. The audit evaluated the management of the state’s workers’...
NAII Questions Mo. Insurance Dept.’s. Proposed Contract Regulations
Sep 19 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a statement that a regulation proposed by the State of Missouri’s Insurance Department requiring insurers to enter into contracts with all third party...
Mo. Ranks 32nd in Costs for Insuring Passenger Cars, Trucks
Aug 16 2002 // Residents of 30 states and the District of Columbia on average paid more in 2000 to insure their autos than Missourians, according to a new national study. With about 4 million passenger cars and trucks on the road in the...
