Corps Study Shows Higher Flows on Des Moines River January 25, 2011 By Melanie S. Welte The Des Moines River in Iowa is rising higher and more often, which means floods like those that swamped the...
ND, SD Auto Insurance Premiums Among Lowest January 6, 2011 North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm says auto insurance premiums paid by drivers in the Dakotas remain among the lowest...
Iowa to Allow Broad Public Access to Wellmark Rate Increase Hearing January 4, 2011 Iowa’s Insurance Commissioner Susan Voss announced that she has made arrangements for unprecedented access to a Jan. 6, 2011, hearing...
Judge Orders Ex-Owners of Iowa Kosher Plant to Pay $2M December 20, 2010 By Ryan Foley A federal judge has ordered members of the family that owned a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa to pay more than...
Study: Tort Reform May Not Curb Defensive Medicine or Fear of Suits December 17, 2010 Physicians’ fears of being sued for malpractice are out of proportion to their actual risk of being sued, according to...
Madison Ranked Safest Metropolitan Area to Live December 16, 2010 Madison, Wis., is the most secure U.S. community among large metropolitan areas (population of 500,000 or greater) according to the...
Coalition Calls for $60M for Iowa Flood Prevention December 10, 2010 A coalition of lawmakers, local officials, farmers and business people are calling on Iowa to invest $60 million to prevent...
Deaths, Injuries Among Midwest Grain Workers Hit Record December 5, 2010 By Alyce Hinton Accidents in grain silos, storage bins and other facilities killed and injured a record number of workers through October this...
Ratings: Cherokee/Oakland, Wayne Mutual, Executive, United Fire, Mercer December 3, 2010 A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating to ‘A’ (Excellent) from ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR)...
Crop Bounty Spurs Construction Boom at Midwest Grain Elevators December 3, 2010 By Roxana Hegeman A construction boom has been under way at grain elevators across the Great Plains, where farmers have grown more corn...