All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 2 2019 // The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld a $4.9 million jury verdict awarded to a Texas woman after she fell outside a hotel on an icy sidewalk.The court in its ruling last week rejected arguments by Marriott International...
Nov 21 2019 // Accel Wealth Management LLC, a financial services division of Accel Holdings Inc., has acquired Premier Advisors LLC, an independent financial management consulting firm located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.The Accel Group, an...
Nov 20 2019 // The longtime vice chairman of an insurance pool for Iowa municipalities will not seek re-election, following scrutiny of its travel and his arrest for domestic violence.Gary Mahannah said earlier this year he would seek...
Nov 14 2019 // Waukee, Iowa-based employee-owned and controlled insurance broker, Holmes Murphy, has launched a new company focused on employee wellbeing — ethOs.Led by Ali Payne, EthOs will focus on improving workplace culture,...
Nov 13 2019 // Regulators have recommended a nearly $73,000 fine against the Iowa Department of Human Services after finding serious workplace safety violations at a state-run psychiatric hospital where several employees have been...
Nov 7 2019 // An Iowa government insurance program under fire for spending lavishly on out-of-state travel says it would cost $22,000 for the public to see how it’s been using money to settle recent legal cases.The Iowa...
Nov 4 2019 // An Iowa state board has recommended that medical marijuana should be a prescription option for treating post-traumatic stress disorder and intellectual disability with aggression, but it rejected the drug for two other...
Oct 28 2019 // An Arizona insurance agent has lost his Iowa insurance license and is barred for reapplying for 10 years after the Iowa Insurance Division found he fleeced elderly Iowa residents. The division said in a news release that...
Oct 25 2019 // Board members of an insurance program for Iowa’s municipal governments are rethinking their long-standing practice of holding public meetings at resorts in other states.Directors of the Iowa Communities Assurance...
Oct 22 2019 // GuideOne Insurance in West Des Moines, Iowa, has appointed Mark Groenheide as senior vice president, Specialty.In this role, Groenheide is responsible for growing and managing the business by focusing on niche specialty...
Oct 21 2019 // Terry Ann McIntosh’s financial nightmare began four years ago, soon after she hired a caregiver through a family services website. McIntosh, then 75 and in a wheelchair, had assumed that the young woman who...
Oct 18 2019 // Ensuring safety on the skywalk system in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, has become tougher in recent years, in part because funding for security officers has been cut, a security contractor said after a gang of young men...
Oct 18 2019 // The Waukee, Iowa, school district has settled the last of three lawsuits filed by former employees who alleged they were retaliated against for exposing wrongdoing by the district’s former chief operating officer.The...
Oct 8 2019 // An Iowa pork processing plant is working to address Micronesia’s concerns about the treatment of some of its citizens who work at the plant.Seaboard Triumph Foods said that it follows all employment laws and it is...
Oct 4 2019 // The island nation of Micronesia is raising concerns about how some of its citizens working at an Iowa pork processing plant are being treated.Micronesia sent a formal letter to the U.S. State Department asking U.S....
Oct 4 2019 // Des Moines, Iowa-based BrokerTech Ventures, a broker-led investor group and accelerator program, is has added four new investor partners, including Assurance, Graham Company, InterWest Insurance Services, and Hylant...
Sep 30 2019 // Des Moines, Iowa, will pay $90,000 to settle a lawsuit over the death of a man killed when the vehicle he was driving was struck by a car being chased by police. The City Council has approved settling the October 2017...
Sep 27 2019 // Injured Iowa workers seeking benefits from their employers are waiting longer to get their hearing dates as a state agency transitions to a new filing system.Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Joseph Cortese...
Sep 24 2019 // Waukee, Iowa-based Holmes Murphy, an employee-owned and controlled insurance brokerage, has expanded its footprint into the international space by acquiring Global Captive Management (GCM).GCM is no stranger to Holmes...
Sep 23 2019 // The chairman of an Iowa government insurance program is defending its long practice of holding public meetings at resorts in Michigan and Florida and private clubs in Iowa.Jody Smith, board chairman of the Iowa Communities...