Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri Bill to Raise Seat Belt Fines Gains Support
Feb 15 2013 // A long-running proposal to raise Missouri’s fines for seat belt violations gained support on Feb. 13 from police, doctors, truckers, insurers and – perhaps most importantly – the chairman of a committee...
Missouri Senate Backs Bill to Replenish Second Injury Fund
Feb 14 2013 // Missouri senators have endorsed a two-part plan to replenish an insolvent fund for disabled workers and stop people with job-related diseases from bringing big-dollar lawsuits against their employers. The legislation...
Missouri House Panel Mulls Bill on Work Discrimination Lawsuits
Feb 13 2013 // Republicans are hoping the third time is a charm for a measure a Missouri House committee considered that would make it harder for employees to win lawsuits alleging workplace discrimination. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon has...
Missouri Senate to Debate Future of Disability Fund
Feb 5 2013 // Missouri senators are preparing to debate legislation to revive an insolvent fund for disabled workers. The state’s Second Injury Fund has a deficit of about $25 million that is expected to keep growing. The fund...
Missouri Insurance Department Returns Nearly $11M to Consumers in 2012
Jan 29 2013 // Consumers who filed complaints with the Missouri Department of Insurance received nearly $11 million in additional claim payments from their insurance companies in 2012, the department reported. Health insurance generated...
Missouri Judge Says Hospital Corp. Owes Foundation $162M
Jan 28 2013 // Hospital Corp. of America, the largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, has been ordered to pay a charitable foundation $162 million for failing to spend enough money on capital improvements at the Kansas...
Missouri Department of Insurance Closes Two Receiverships
Jan 28 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced the conclusion of the legal cases of two insurance companies that went into receivership due to insolvency. A Cole County judge ordered Transit Casualty Co. into receivership...
Missouri Cops Investigating Smash-and-Grab Crimes
Jan 18 2013 // Police in several St. Louis, Mo.- area towns are investigating a string of smash-and-grab crimes with a twist: In many cases, nothing is taken. In six instances over the past few weeks, suspects have busted through the...
Kansas, Missouri Could Be Hit by Disaster Aid Fight
Jan 18 2013 // Midwesterners accustomed to generous government aid after ice storms, floods and tornadoes may soon have to look somewhere else for help when disaster strikes. Even as the U.S. House on Jan. 15 passed a $50.7 billion aid...
USI Insurance Services Acquires 2 St. Louis, Missouri, Brokerages
Jan 16 2013 // Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Saint Louis, Mo.-based brokerages Welsch Flatness and Lutz Inc. (WFL) and Construction Insurance Partners (CIP). By combining the existing USI office in Saint Louis with WFL and CIP,...
Mississippi Rock Blasting Puts River in Ship Shape
Jan 14 2013 // Crews have completed the most critical phase of removing bedrock that threatened barges along a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi River, staving off the shipping industry’s fears that the treacherous...
2013 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 14 2013 // JANUARY P/C Insurance Joint Industry Forum Jan 15 Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY Insurance Information Institute www.iii.org 2013 Big ‘I’ Winter Meeting Jan 16-20 The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa,...
Missouri Regulator: Barton County Mutual Back on Solid Ground
Jan 14 2013 // Financial conditions at Missouri’s Barton County Mutual Insurance Co. are strong enough that the company can be released from state oversight, a judge has ruled. A Barton County judge has granted a motion by the...
Missouri Department of Insurance Closes Two Receiverships
Jan 11 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced the conclusion of the legal cases of two insurance companies that went into receivership due to insolvency. A Cole County judge ordered Transit Casualty Co. into receivership...
Digital Insurance Acquires Missouri-based Health Star Consulting
Jan 9 2013 // Digital Insurance announced the acquisition of Health Star Consulting of Clayton, Mo. The benefits firm merged with the St. Louis office of Digital Benefit Advisors (DBA), a division of Digital Insurance. Health Star...
Missouri Regulator: Barton County Mutual Back on Solid Ground
Jan 8 2013 // Financial conditions at Missouri’s Barton County Mutual Insurance Co. are strong enough that the company can be released from state oversight, a judge has ruled. A Barton County judge has granted a motion by the...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Insurance Risk Managers of Missouri
Jan 8 2013 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Insurance Risk Managers of Missouri Inc. in St. Louis. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1996, Insurance Risk Managers of Missouri (IRM) is a retail...
Missouri Lawmakers to Pursue Medical Liability Limits
Jan 7 2013 // Missouri lawmakers have their eyes on reinstating liability caps for medical malpractice cases after the state Supreme Court struck down the limits last summer. The high court concluded a 2005 law was unconstitutional. It...
Kalmer Named to Leadership Post at Missouri Insurance Department
Jan 3 2013 // Emily Kalmer has been named legislative affairs counsel for the Insurance, Finance and Credit Unions Divisions at the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions & Professional Registration. Kalmer served...
Missouri Republicans to Tackle Workers’ Compensation
Dec 28 2012 // Nearly two dozen years after Monroe Gunter retired from a long career at a Missouri power company, he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer often caused by exposure to asbestos. Gunter sued his former employer, claiming...
