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 Holdeman during …
The city of West Des Moines, Iowa, has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to a police officer who sued, saying the department’s former police chief discriminated against her because she’s a woman. The city announced the $1.9 million settlement …
A group of healthcare stakeholders have asked Gov. Scott Walker to consider how self-insuring state workers could affect Wisconsin’s economy and its health care market. The Wisconsin Hospital Association, the Wisconsin Medical Society and a dozen other groups said the …
Managing general agency and surplus lines insurance broker, J.M. Wilson Corp., has promoted Adam Mandwee to fleet underwriter in its Portage, Michigan, office. Mandwee is responsible for quoting new and renewal fleet transportation accounts, setting up and binding policies and …
A lawsuit has been filed by 18 passengers who were aboard an American Airlines aircraft that caught fire last month on the tarmac of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after an engine failed. The lawsuit filed Nov. 14 in Cook County …
More than 22,000 chickens are dead after a fire at a barn in north-central Ohio. The smoke was visible for miles as the fire burned Nov. 14 at a Mennonite poultry operation in Nova Township, north of Ashland. It took …
Britton Gallagher, a Cleveland based employee benefits and commercial insurance broker, has appointed Jeremy Bryant president. Bryant has been with Britton Gallagher since 2012, most recently serving as one of the agency’s executive vice presidents. He has more than 20 …
Leathers Insurance Agency has joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance, a network of more than 100 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois. Founded in April 2016, Leathers Insurance Agency is a full-service insurance agency located in California, Mo., that specializes …
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 Affairs Division received 3,182 formal complaints. …
Federal safety regulators have proposed nearly $527,000 in penalties against the operators of a northeast Nebraska grain facility where a worker was fatally injured. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in a news release that it cited Prinz Grain …
