Latest Missouri Headlines
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Joplin, Missouri: One Year Later
May 21 2012 // After the Tornado, Town Looked Like a War Zone, Adjusters Say “One of the eeriest things was … the lack of noise. There were no birds. There was no sound. There was no vegetation. There was nothing. There were...
Missouri Insurance Regulators Recover $2M in First Quarter
May 21 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance reported that it has recovered more than $2 million to consumers in first quarter of 2012. Health insurance and claim denial are the major sources of complaints, the department...
Missouri’s Vetoes, Overrides
May 21 2012 // Missouri’s legislature and its governor have been back and forth so far this year on legislation that would effect changes in the state’s workers’ compensation system. Among them, bills that would prevent...
A Year after Joplin Tornadoes, $2.16B in Insurance Claims Paid
May 18 2012 // The tornado that swept through Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011, has generated $2.16 billion in insurance claims payouts to Missouri policyholders, according to an Insurance Information Institute analysis of data from...
Missouri House Approves Bill on Suing Co-Workers
May 16 2012 // Missouri lawmakers likely will not pass any legislation moving claims related to deadly work-related diseases into the workers’ compensation system, Senate Majority Leader Tom Dempsey said. The state Legislature will...
Missouri Regulators: Joplin Insurance Claims Deadline Approaching
May 14 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance is sending an urgent message to Joplin residents with incomplete insurance claims related to the May 22, 2011, EF-5 tornado. The department says many homeowners insurance policies...
Correction: SIAA Signs 4,000th Agency
May 10 2012 // The Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance has signed its 4,000th member agency, the Thomas Insurance Group of Cape Girardeau, Mo. Recruited by master agency Valley Insurance Agency Alliance of Clayton, Mo., Thomas Insurance...
Missouri Insurance Department Recovers $2M in Q1 2012
May 9 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance reported that it has recovered more than $2 million to consumers in first quarter of 2012. Health insurance and claim denial are the major sources of complaints, the department...
Kansas Insurance Investigator Receives Meritorious Service Award
May 9 2012 // Randy Adair, chief investigator for the Kansas Insurance Department’s Anti-Fraud Division, and a retired deputy chief of police for Topeka, is the recipient of the 2012 Clarence M. Kelley Meritorious Service Award...
Missouri Efforts to Expand Texting Law Again Fall Short
May 7 2012 // Late last year, federal safety officials made a deadly crash in rural eastern Missouri a focal point in a nationwide call to ban drivers from using their cellphones while behind the wheel. The National Transportation...
Hail Storm Depletes St. Louis, Missouri Rental Fleet
May 7 2012 // A recent hail storm damaged thousands of vehicles in the St. Louis area, but good luck trying to find a rental. That’s because car rental companies are scrambling to fix or replace their own fleets. Hail as big as...
AT&T to Pay Missouri Muslim Woman $5M in Harassment Case
May 7 2012 // A former Kansas City woman who converted to Islam in 2005 said she was harassed for years at AT&T, and that the abuse boiled over in 2008 when her boss snatched her head scarf and exposed her hair. A Jackson County...
Insurance Premiums Climb to a Record $30 Billion in Missouri in 2011
May 7 2012 // Missouri experienced a number of insurance industry “firsts” in 2011, including a record number of premium sales dollars, the largest-ever amount in claims paid for a single event, and an historically high...
Declarations – Midwest
May 7 2012 // Can’t Get No … “Repair times … increased slightly from the last quarter. This, in addition to customers waiting longer for a more convenient time, or the weekend, to bring their vehicle to the...
Missouri Governor Signals Compromise On Workers’ Comp
May 3 2012 // About six weeks after he vetoed legislation that would have changed the state’s workers’ compensation system, Missouri’s Democratic governor is signaling that he would be open to compromise with...
More Families Building Their Own Tornado Shelters
May 2 2012 // When deadly twisters chewed through the South and Midwest in 2011, thousands of people in the killers’ paths had nowhere to hide. Now many of those families are taking an unusual extra step to be ready next time:...
A.M. Best Downgrades Ratings of Missouri’s Gateway Insurance
May 2 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B (Fair) from B+ (Good) and issuer credit rating to “bb” from “bbb-” of Gateway Insurance Co.y (Gateway) of St. Louis, Mo. The outlook...
Missouri House Passes Whistleblower, Work Comp Bills
Apr 30 2012 // The Missouri House passed two pieces of business legislation aimed at overcoming vetoes by Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon earlier this year. Both measures now go to the Senate, which approved similar measures earlier in the...
Missouri Woman Wins $5.8M in ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Case
Apr 30 2012 // A company that makes “Girls Gone Wild” DVDs is seeking to overturn a verdict awarding nearly $6 million to a St. Louis-area woman who claims her bare breasts were recorded without permission. St. Louis Circuit...
Missouri Bill Would Limit Whistleblower Protections
Apr 23 2012 // About a month after Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed changes to Missouri’s workplace discrimination law, Republicans lawmakers are pushing a pair of scaled-back measures that could make it more difficult for workers...
