Latest Missouri Headlines
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Criminal Counts Dismissed Against 3 Employees in Missouri Duck Boat Deaths
Dec 7 2020 // A federal judge has dismissed neglect and misconduct charges against three employees of a tourist boat that sank on a Missouri lake in 2018, killing 17 people. U.S. District Judge Doug Harpool filed an order on Dec. 2...
Missouri Nursing Home to Pay $40K to Settle Gender Pay Discrimination Claims
Dec 3 2020 // A Kansas City-area nursing home has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging it paid female nurses less than male nurses, federal authorities say. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported that Edgewood...
Rawlins to Succeed Moore as President, CEO at Missouri’s Shelter Mutual Insurance
Nov 30 2020 // The Shelter Insurance, based in Columbia, Mo., has named Randa Rawlins as president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2021. Rawlins will succeed current President and CEO Matt Moore, who will retire in June 2021. Upon Mr....
Rawlins to Become CEO of Shelter Mutual as Moore to Retire
Nov 25 2020 // Shelter Insurance announced that Randa Rawlins would become Shelter Mutual Insurance Co.’s next president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2021, in anticipation of the retirement of current President and CEO Matt Moore,...
Trucks Keep Striking Missouri Overpass, Again and Again
Nov 25 2020 // Despite the warning signs and flashing lights, trucks just can’t seem to stop hitting a Kansas City, Missouri, overpass. The Kansas City Star reports that the bridge on Independence Avenue is struck so often that it...
Missouri Couple Wins $4M Wrongful Death Suit Against Gun Dealer, Manufacturer
Nov 19 2020 // The parents of a Kansas City, Mo., man who died in a 2016 shooting have been awarded $4 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against a man who trafficked in firearms, as well as a gun dealer and manufacturer. Court...
28 Election Employees in 1 Missouri County Test Positive for Virus
Nov 13 2020 // Twenty-eight employees of the election board in one of Missouri’s largest counties have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent weeks, and a director believes they most likely got infected from voters, though...
Missouri High Court Rejects Johnson & Johnson Appeal of $2.12B Baby Powder Award
Nov 4 2020 // Missouri’s highest court on Tuesday refused to consider Johnson & Johnson’s appeal of a $2.12 billion damages award to women who blamed their ovarian cancer on asbestos in its baby powder and other talc...
Insureds After COVID Premium Cuts Must Ask State Regulator First, Judge Rules
Oct 26 2020 // A federal judge has ruled that State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. does not have to return premiums to a small business customer because of the insured’s reduced business during the pandemic. The judge in Missouri found...
Missouri Marina Fire Leaves 1 Injured, Nearly 200 Boats Damaged
Oct 9 2020 // A massive fire at an eastern Missouri marina destroyed or damaged nearly 200 boats and left at least one person injured, authorities there said. The fire broke out Wednesday at the Woodland Marina along the Mississippi...
Woman Shot in Back in Missouri Gets $2M Settlement
Oct 5 2020 // A St. Louis, Mo., suburb has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a federal lawsuit with a suspected shoplifter who was shot in the back by a police officer who said she intended to use her stun gun but pulled out her...
Opinion: Missouri Appeals Court Ruling Shrinks Insurers’ Right to Intervene
Sep 28 2020 // The Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals has again construed the effect of the 2017 amendments to Mo. Rev. Stat. § 537.065, which gave insurers a limited right to intervene and protect their interest when...
The Role Insurance Plays in Civil Rights Settlements Against Law Enforcement
Sep 21 2020 // Municipalities, their insurers and risk pools should be heeding the current public re-examination of police and prosecutorial actions taking place across the country, according to an insurance policyholder attorney who...
Family of Man Killed in 2018 Tower Collapse Sues Missouri State University
Sep 17 2020 // The family of a worker killed in 2018 when a nearly 2,000-foot tall TV tower in southwest Missouri collapsed is suing Missouri State University for wrongful death. The April 19, 2018, tower collapse happened in Fordland,...
Keystone Agency Investors Acquires 4 Missouri Agencies, Forms Midwest Risk Partners
Sep 16 2020 // Keystone Agency Investors (KAI), a new strategic partnership formed by Keystone Insurers Group and Bain Capital Credit, has acquired four St. Louis, Missouri-based insurance agencies, which together will form Midwest Risk...
Owen Named VP, General Cousel at Missouri’s Columbia Insurance Group
Sep 16 2020 // Columbia Insurance Group, based in Columbia, Missouri, has appointed Claire Owen as vice president and general counsel. Owen has served as corporate legal counsel since joining the company in 2017. In her new role, Owen...
Plaintiffs Suffer Another Loss in Michigan COVID-19 Business Interruption Suit
Sep 9 2020 // Another federal court has dismissed a COVID-19 business interruption lawsuit, finding that a closure order does not constitute a covered “direct physical loss” and that the policy excluded damages caused by...
Missouri’s COVID-19 Lawsuit Against China Stalled in Federal Court
Sep 2 2020 // More than four months after Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sought to hold China and the Chinese Communist Party accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic, the lawsuit remains stalled in federal court. Neither the...
Insurance Plays Key Role in Civil Rights Settlements Against Law Enforcement
Sep 2 2020 // Municipalities, their insurers and risk pools should be heeding the current public re-examination of police and prosecutorial actions taking place across the country, according to an insurance policyholder attorney who...
Missouri Bill Would Allow Giving Guns to Minors Without Parents’ Permission
Aug 26 2020 // Missouri lawmakers have advanced a bill that would legally allow people to give firearms to children without their parents’ permission after the governor had initially sought to increase the penalty for the...
