Latest Missouri Headlines
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Business Owner at Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks Defends Weekend Actions
May 28 2020 // The owner of a business that hosted crowded pool parties over the Memorial Day weekend at Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks says no laws were broken and safety measures were in place to protect against the spread of the...
Wrongfully Convicted Missouri Man Gets $8M Settlement
May 18 2020 // A southeastern Missouri city has agreed to an $8 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by a man who spent 17 years in prison for murder before the state Supreme Court overturned his conviction. Jonathan Douglass, the city...
Missouri Family Files Workers’ Comp Claim in Nurse’s Death from Virus
May 14 2020 // Attorneys for the family of a Missouri nurse who died from COVID-19 filed a claim for death benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation laws. Celia Yap-Banago, 69, died April 21 after caring for a patient...
U.S. Businesses, Patients Sue China Seeking Damages From Coronavirus Outbreak
May 11 2020 // Before the coronavirus outbreak, Saundra Andringa-Meuer was a healthy 61-year-old mother of six who never smoked or drank alcohol. Then she became seriously ill with the disease after traveling from her Wisconsin home to...
Valley Insurance Agency Alliance Adds Missouri’s Strong Insurance Group
May 11 2020 // St. Charles, Mo.-based Strong Insurance Group has joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a network of more than 130 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois. Strong Insurance Group was founded by...
Lawsuit Over Worker Safety at Smithfield’s Missouri Pork Plant Dismissed
May 7 2020 // A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a worker advocacy group’s lawsuit accusing Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s largest pork processor, of failing to adequately protect employees from the novel coronavirus at...
Man Arrested, Charged with Hate Crime in Missouri Islamic Center Arson
May 1 2020 // Prosecutors have charged a 42-year-old man accused of setting fire to a Missouri mosque on April 24 with a hate crime and other counts. Nicholas Proffitt, who spent time in prison for defacing the Islamic Center of Cape...
Florida CFO Says China Owes State Financial Restitution from COVID-19 Outbreak
Apr 30 2020 // Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis has sent a demand letter to Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai demanding financial restitution from the Communist Party of China (CPC) for...
NTSB: Failure to Heed Warnings Led to Missouri Duck Boat Sinking
Apr 30 2020 // The primary cause of the sinking of a tourist-carrying duck boat on a Missouri lake in July 2018, in which 17 people were killed, was the continued operation of the vessel during severe weather, despite severe weather...
Missouri’s Blunt Named 2020 Outstanding Safety Educator by ASSP
Apr 28 2020 // Leigh Ann Blunt, a nationally recognized professor in the occupational safety and health field and member of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) for 14 years, has been named ASSP’s 2020 William E....
Suit Filed Against Smithfield Over Working Conditions at Missouri Plant
Apr 27 2020 // A lawsuit filed on behalf of workers at a Smithfield Food plant in Missouri claims conditions at the plant are putting workers and the public at risk of contracting the coronavirus. The lawsuit, filed on April 23 by an...
FBI Investigates Missouri Islamic Center Fire; Offers $5K Reward
Apr 27 2020 // The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone connected to a fire that badly damaged an Islamic center in southeastern Missouri and that coincided with the start of a holy month for...
Missouri Sues China Over Coronavirus Pandemic
Apr 23 2020 // The state of Missouri filed a lawsuit on April 21 against the Chinese government over the coronavirus, alleging that nation’s officials are to blame for the global pandemic. The lawsuit, filed in federal court by the...
China Slams Coronavirus Lawsuit Brought by Missouri as ‘Very Absurd’
Apr 23 2020 // China on Wednesday slammed a lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. state of Missouri over the coronavirus pandemic as “very absurd.” Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the legal action has “no...
Missouri’s Valley Insurance Agency Alliance Creates Scholarship for Rural Communities
Apr 21 2020 // Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), an insurance agency network organization with more than 130 independent insurance agency members in Missouri and Illinois, has created the Insuring Rural Communities Scholarship...
Missouri Lawsuit: Christian Ministries Aliera, Trinity Healthshare Pushed Deceptive Plans
Apr 20 2020 // A Christian health care sharing ministry sold “inherently unfair and deceptive health plans” to Missouri residents and failed to provide them with coverage, a class action lawsuit alleges. The federal lawsuit...
Midwest Insurance Agency Alliance Adds Stallard as Agency Development Specialist
Apr 17 2020 // Midwest Insurance Agency Alliance Inc. (MIAA), based in Lincoln, Neb., has hired Sam Stallard as an agency development field specialist for Kansas and Missouri. Stallard will be directly responsible for agency development...
Missouri’s Shelter Insurance Offering 30% Discount to Personal Auto Customers
Apr 14 2020 // Shelter Insurance, based in Columbia, Mo., and its subsidiaries AmShield Insurance, Haulers Insurance, and Say Insurance, is joining other insurers in offering assistance to auto insurance policyholders. The company said...
DOXA Acquires Specialty Insurance Agencies in Florida, Missouri
Apr 13 2020 // Specialty insurance agencies Lawrence E. Smith & Associates (LESA) of greater St. Louis, Mo., and Scholastic Insurance of Florida (SIF) of greater Orlando, Fla., have been acquired by DOXA Insurance Holdings LLC...
Corps Says Some Midwest Levees Damaged in 2019 Still Vulnerable
Apr 2 2020 // With flood concerns already high in the Midwest, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is warning that many levees on the Missouri and Kansas rivers that were damaged during devastating floods last spring remain vulnerable to...
