All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 3 2016 // Influential Iowa business leaders are urging state legislators to pass a bill that would expand the state’s medical marijuana laws.The Des Moines Register reports that more than 90 business leaders sent lawmakers a...
Feb 22 2016 // The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that a man who pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for sex but later had the conviction overturned can sue his defense attorney for legal malpractice without being required to prove...
Feb 17 2016 // Ohio-based Demotech Inc. recently affirmed the financial stability ratings (FSRs) assigned to six self-funded public entity pools in the Midwest.Demotech reviews and rates more than 415 insurers, writing every line of...
Feb 8 2016 // The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that a man who pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for sex but later had the conviction overturned can sue his defense attorney for legal malpractice without being required to prove...
Jan 29 2016 // An appeals court said that a northeastern Iowa farmer may pursue a breach of contract lawsuit against a natural gas pipeline company and seek damages for decreased crop productivity on the ground above the pipeline.Roger...
Jan 26 2016 // Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA), a Des Moines, Iowa-based global business accelerator focused on developing and growing innovative insurance-centric startups, has announced its 2016 portfolio.With a global pool of twice...
Jan 25 2016 // Iowa will hold its third annual Global Insurance Symposium April 26-28, 2016, in downtown Des Moines.This year’s symposium is themed “Inspiring Innovation in the Insurance Industry.” Planners say...
Jan 11 2016 // The city of Waterloo, Iowa, has settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a man shot to death in 2012 by a police officer.A judge signed off on the $2.5 million settlement with the city’s insurance...
Jan 11 2016 // The state must pay nearly $1 million after losing a discrimination lawsuit filed by a longtime Iowa Department of Natural Resources employee who said he was fired because he sought disability accommodations for a job...
Dec 21 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Dec 4 2015 // Researchers are opposing a petition to allow all-terrain vehicles on Louisa County’s secondary roads, citing public safety.The proposal for roadway use was presented to the Louisa County Board of Supervisors on Nov....
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Nov 20 2015 // The former city clerk for the small western Iowa city of Casey has been indicted on federal charges alleging she used city funds for personal use and burned down City Hall the night before state auditors were to arrive to...
Nov 19 2015 // Des Moines, Iowa-based hospital and medical clinic company UnityPoint Health is getting into the health insurance business.The company said it has partnered with Bloomington, Minn., health care provider and insurer...
Nov 19 2015 // Bettendorf, Iowa, officials are seeking federal funding that would allow the city to buy and demolish homes in flood zones.The Quad-City Times reports Bettendorf City Planner John Soenksen presented the plan to apply for...
Nov 8 2015 // Most commercial chicken and turkey farms that were infected by the bird flu have been cleared to restock, agriculture officials said, but scientists still will keep a close eye on migrating birds and test thousands to see...
Oct 7 2015 // Iowa’s dominant health insurer has agreed to start selling policies for 2017 that will qualify for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, the company announced.Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield has not...
Oct 2 2015 // In Iowa, one of the largest U.S. egg processors has started to buy foreign supplies for the first time. Elsewhere in the Midwest, a free-range egg producer says it may build automatic car washes to scour vehicles accessing...
Sep 30 2015 // John Paul, president/treasurer of Western Iowa Mutual Insurance in Council Bluffs, Iowa, was presented the Chairman’s Award by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Company’s at its 120th Annual...
Sep 22 2015 // An effort to build cable barriers on Iowa’s highways has helped reduce the number of cross-median fatal crashes.After 21 people died as a result of cross-median collisions in 2010, state officials installed 177 miles...