Latest Missouri Headlines
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Missouri Dealer to Settle Gun-Shop Liability Case
Nov 23 2016 // A pawn shop that sold a gun to a mentally ill Missouri woman who used it to fatally shoot her father will settle in a wrongful death case, according to the attorney for the woman’s mother. Washington, D.C.-based...
Missouri Settles Case of Man’s Drowning While in Patrol Custody for $9M
Nov 18 2016 // The state of Missouri will pay $9 million to the family of an Iowa man who drowned after he fell out of a boat handcuffed and in an improperly secured life vest while he was in custody of a state trooper, an attorney for...
Jury Awards $37.5M to Man Paralyzed in Missouri Tractor-Trailer Crash
Nov 17 2016 // A Missouri jury has awarded a $37.5 million judgment to a man left a paraplegic after a 2014 accident involving a vehicle and a tractor-trailer. The Kansas City Star reports that the Jackson County jury sided with Steve...
Missouri Insurance Regulators Recover More Than $9M by Q3 2016
Nov 15 2016 // The Missouri Department of Insurance recovered over $9 million for consumers who filed complaints against their insurance companies during the first nine months of 2016. In the first three quarters of 2016, the Consumer...
J&J Tries to Switch to Court Outside Missouri After $195 Million in Talc Verdicts
Nov 8 2016 // After a $67.5 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson on Oct. 27 marked its third straight trial defeat in an onslaught of lawsuits claiming its talc-based products cause ovarian cancer, the company is hoping to...
Missouri Jury Hands Down Another Big Baby Powder Award – $70M
Oct 31 2016 // A St. Louis jury has awarded a California woman more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder caused her cancer, the latest case raising concerns about the...
Missouri Courthouse Asbestos Case Settles for $80M
Oct 28 2016 // An $80 million settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit over removal of asbestos during renovation of the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City. The Kansas City Star reports $25 million will go toward...
Missouri-Based Wallace & Associates Adds Brown as Property/Casualty Producer
Oct 28 2016 // Wallace & Associates Insurance Agency, based in Jackson, Mo., recently hired Ron Brown as its property/casualty producer. In this position, Brown will handle automobile and home insurance for new and existing accounts,...
Kansas to Appeal $120K Jury Award Linked to Deadly 2007 Crash
Oct 20 2016 // The state of Kansas plans to appeal a jury’s ruling that ordered it to pay $120,000 to the family of a 2007 car crash victim who died after a state trooper demanded she be sent to Missouri hospitals rather than a...
McDonald’s to Pay $56.5K to Settle Federal Discrimination Case in Missouri
Oct 19 2016 // McDonald’s will pay a $56,500 settlement after a southeast Missouri restaurant manager refused to interview a deaf job applicant. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the settlement with...
Insurance Agents Among Missouri’s Top 10 New Business Creators
Oct 3 2016 // Missouri saw an increase in private sector employers last year, and insurance agents and brokers were among the top 10 new business creators in the state. In 2015, Missouri gained more than 8,700 private-sector employers,...
Jason Cohen
Oct 3 2016 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group promoted Jason M. Cohen to divisional president of Strategic Comp, succeeding Stephen Rosenthal, who will retire at the end of 2016. Cohen joined Great American in 2006...
Midwest Employment Profile: Missouri
Oct 3 2016 // In 2015 the state of Missouri gained more than 8,700 private-sector employers compared with the previous year, according to a report by the state’s economic development agency. That gain represents a 5 percent growth...
JenCap Holdings Acquires Missouri-Based M.J. Kelly Co.
Sep 22 2016 // New York-based JenCap Holdings LLC has acquired privately held M. J. Kelly Co. (MJK), a managing general agency and wholesale insurance brokerage based in Springfield, Missouri, with offices in nine states throughout the...
Workplace Deaths on Rise in Missouri
Sep 19 2016 // Missouri has seen an increase in the number of workers killed while on the job, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Agency officials said 24 workplace deaths have been reported since...
Missouri Lawmakers Override Veto, Loosen Gun Laws
Sep 16 2016 // Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature has used its supermajority to significantly loosen the state’s gun laws and potentially tighten its voting requirements as lawmakers overrode numerous vetoes of Democratic...
Powell Named Missouri VP for Keystone Insurers Group
Sep 13 2016 // Keystone Insurers Group has named Andrea Powell as its state vice president for Missouri. Powell brings 16 years of experience in the insurance industry. Most recently, she was the Missouri marketing representative for...
Jury Awards Missouri Woman $507K in Needle-in-Back Case
Sep 6 2016 // A Missouri woman who has lived with a hypodermic needle lodged in her back for nearly seven years has been awarded a $507,000 judgment in a medical malpractice lawsuit. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a St. Louis...
Missouri Insurance Department Expects Lower Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates
Sep 6 2016 // Missouri insurance regulators say employers in that state should see lower workers’ compensation insurance rates for the third straight year in 2017. The Missouri Department of Insurance says the National Council on...
Illinois, Missouri Handle Problem of Uninsured Drivers Differently
Sep 6 2016 // Dan McMullen is an insurance agent in Ferguson, Mo. His Solo Insurance office is on West Florissant Avenue, the epicenter of the trouble two years ago. The building next to his office burned into ruins. There aren’t...
