The high price of flood insurance can make it difficult for some Iowa residents to sell their homes. The Quad-City Times reports Duane Randleman has been trying to sell for a year-and-a-half and showed his house to more than 60 …
A Nebraska judge has ordered a lawyer to pay $15,000 for filing frivolous motions in a long-running lawsuit dispute over a defunct insurance company’s assets. The case that dates back to 1998 is far from over because that lawyer, Bill …
Overland Park, Kan.-based MutualAid eXchange (MAX) named Lisa Bage as its new chief operating officer. She will direct the enterprise’s sales, marketing and underwriting operations. Bage comes to MAX enterprise from Bankers Insurance of St. Petersburg, Fla., where she was …
Pinnacle Actuarial Resources Inc., headquartered in Bloomington, Ill., added Lyn Landon has as controller in its home office. Landon has more than 30 years of accounting and finance management experience, most recently working for 1st Farm Credit Services in Normal. …
The Elgin City Council in Illinois has approved rules that make it legal for Uber and other ride-hailing services to operate in the city. The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports the Elgin ordinance mirrors a state law taking effect today. …
Gov. Bruce Rauner says he will appoint the acting commissioner of the Connecticut Insurance Department to be director of the Illinois Department of Insurance. Rauner’s office made the announcement on May 29 about Anne Melissa Dowling. She has worked in …
A farmer in Beaver Dam, Wis., is being accused of defrauding a crop insurance company. The U.S. Justice Department said that a federal grand jury indicted 37-year-old Jeffrey Lewke on nine counts of crop insurance fraud. The indictment accuses Lewke …
A suburban Chicago contractor pleaded guilty to setting a fire at a radar facility in Aurora that forced the cancellation of thousands of flights and disrupted travel nationwide in September 2014. Prosecutors told a federal judge that Brian Howard, 37, …
Gov. Dennis Daugaard has requested a presidential disaster declaration to help South Dakotans whose homes and businesses were damaged by the severe storm and tornado May 10 in Douglas and Charles Mix counties. The tornado damaged or destroyed 84 structures …
W. Harold Petersen, founder of Petersen International Underwriters, has been inducted into the Iowa Insurance Hall of Fame. A pioneer of and advocate for the disability insurance industry, Petersen was one of five insurance professionals honored during the Iowa Insurance …
