Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri Supreme Court Reverses Decision on Emotional Distress Case
Aug 18 2008 // The Missouri Supreme Court recently reversed a case involving emotional distress of one party after a major collision. The case involves the grant of summary judgment to the defendant in a negligence case where the...
Missouri City Residents Help Police in Speed Check
Aug 13 2008 // Police officers can’t be everywhere at once, so citizens’ groups in St. Joseph, Mo. are taking the matter of checking for speeders into their own hands. Armed with radar guns issued by the St. Joseph Police...
Koster Claims Victory in Missouri Attorney General Race
Aug 7 2008 // Attorney general candidate Chris Koster was dogged throughout the Democratic primary about whether he was a true-blue Democrat. Enough Democrats decided he was. Koster, a state senator who switched from the Republican to...
Missouri Judge Dismisses $7 Million in Fines Against Allstate
Aug 4 2008 // A Jackson County, Mo., judge agreed on July 23, 2008, to throw out a contempt order against Allstate Insurance after determining the company had finally complied with his directions to release confidential documents. The...
Missouri Court Upholds $16 Million Bad Faith Award Against Allstate
Jul 30 2008 // Allstate Insurance Co. has lost its appeal of a $16 million judgment against it for not settling a claim for the $50,000 limit on an auto insurance policy. The Missouri Court of Appeals this week upheld an award of more...
Missouri Judge Dismisses $7 Million in Fines Against Allstate
Jul 25 2008 // A Jackson County judge agreed on Wednesday, July 23 to throw out a contempt order against Allstate Insurance after determining the company had finally complied with his directions to release confidential documents. The...
Mo. Seeks Buyouts for 9 Flooded Areas; Legislative Session Needed
Jul 22 2008 // The state of Missouri is asking the federal government for buyouts in nine areas hit hard by flooding in March, officials said on July 18. All told, the State Emergency Management Agency is seeking buyouts of 150 homes at...
Heffernan Insurance Brokers Establishes Missouri Branch
Jul 21 2008 // California-based Heffernan Insurance Brokers today announced that it has opened a new branch office in Chesterfield, Mo. Tom Hebson, formerly of Tangram Insurance Services, Inc., will manage the branch and its growing team...
Allstate Settles In Missouri Disputed Records Case
Jul 15 2008 // Northbrook, Ill.-based Allstate Insurance Co. has agreed to settle an insurance case involving a Hawaii man that had attracted national attention over the insurer’s refusal, and eventual agreement, to provide key...
FEMA Opens 2 Disaster Recovery Centers in Missouri
Jul 3 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is opening two disaster recovery centers in eastern Missouri to help those affected by recent Mississippi River flooding. The centers will are at the Clarksville Visitors Center and...
Mo. Gov. Blunt Asks Insurance Companies to Give Grace Period to Flood Victims
Jun 30 2008 // Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt and the Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration (DIFP) called on insurance companies to provide maximum consideration to flood victims in the coming days....
Midwest Flood Losses Sink In as Mississippi River Water Levels Recede
Jun 30 2008 // Farmhouses appear to float on lakes, and farmers use boats to get to their barns. Businesses are shuttered as flooded roadways cut off customers. Rail lines, factories, river locks are shut down. Homeowners, who watched...
Midwest Flooding Not Over as Missouri Levee Breaks
Jun 27 2008 // A levee near Winfield, Missouri, that was holding back the flood waters of the Mississippi River broke early Friday morning, said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The levee broke at its south end at 5:20 a.m. CDT (1020...
Levees Hold Back Cresting Mississippi River; Aid Requests Mount
Jun 23 2008 // Walls and levees held back the cresting Mississippi River Sunday as requests for government aid poured in from homeowners and businesses swamped by the worst Midwest flooding in 15 years. Across from St. Louis, where the...
Illinois, Missouri Residents Prepare for Floods with Sandbags, Sweat
Jun 19 2008 // Hundreds of volunteers stacked sandbags atop a levee in small Missouri towns on the evening of June 18, hoping the extra few feet of protection would save the town from record-level flood crests expected to hit this week....
Insurance Agency Joins Missouri Auto Dealer
Jun 16 2008 // First-Time Partnership Offers Agents in Small or Medium Agencies Wider Choices of Companies to Represent When buying a new or used car, cost is always an issue and car insurance shopping is always a stressful task. Just as...
Missouri Attorney General Police Safety Group to Pay State $450,000
Jun 13 2008 // A nonprofit group that promotes police officer safety is to pay $450,000 to Missouri after allegations from the attorney general’s office that it continued to solicit money from residents who had asked it to...
American Family Says Losses in Midwest $143 Million Since May 1
Jun 10 2008 // One insurance company based in the Midwest says weather-related losses are adding up quickly. Madison, Wis.-based American Family Insurance Company says that claims are mounting in the Midwest since tornados, windstorms,...
Insurance Agency Joins Mo. Auto Dealer in 1st Time Partnership
Jun 5 2008 // When buying a new or used car, cost is always an issue and car insurance shopping is always a stressful task. Just as banks now have agencies connected to mortgage lending, a new day has dawned when shoppers for...
Missouri Governor Names Bohrer Acting Director of Insurance Department
May 30 2008 // Gov. Matt Blunt recently announced that Linda Bohrer will serve as acting director for the Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration. Bohrer started working for the department in 1994...
