All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 21 2015 // U.S. District Chief Judge Jorge A. Solis issued an order on Sept. 11, 2015, to override a confidential settlement that would have re-directed nearly $600,000 away from a class of 32 intellectually disabled former employees...
Sep 18 2015 // The fall marks a new administrative year for the Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group (IA&B) in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and its partnership of agents’ associations. The following directors have...
Sep 16 2015 // Sufficient funds are not available to meet the liabilities of the Second Injury Fund in Iowa, the Iowa Insurance Division reported. As result, insurers and self-insured employers in Iowa are being assessed for $10 million....
Sep 7 2015 // Plymouth Rock Assurance — a Boston-based auto insurer serving Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire — launched a new online tool called “Prime.”The insurer says the new tool will give...
Sep 1 2015 // The owners of an Iowa hotel have been ordered to pay two former employees who complained about sexual harassment more than $1.2 million.An Iowa jury ruled against the owners of a Quality Inn and Suites in Peosta, Iowa, The...
Aug 26 2015 // A 38-year-old Kansas man has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for mail fraud connected to an insurance commissions scam in Iowa.Brian Henton, of Olathe, Kansas, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court in...
Aug 18 2015 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. has filed a workers’ compensation rate proposal in Iowa that would increase voluntary and assigned risk rates by 2.7 percent from the current rates that became...
Aug 7 2015 // An Iowa jury has awarded nearly $12 million to an Indianola woman who said in a lawsuit that her former co-workers at a toy company subjected her to graphic sexual comments and other harassment.The jury awarded $11.9...
Jul 10 2015 // The main building at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been closed as officials deal with the presence of asbestos. A contractor working in the building raised concerns with the Iowa Natural Resources...
Jul 6 2015 // A Clive, Iowa, auto repair business reported that 90 percent of the vehicles on its property have been ruined by a flash flood. Acheson Auto Works, which backs up to Walnut Creek, was flooded early on June 26, destroying...
Jul 1 2015 // Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has extended a state of disaster emergency through July 31 in response to the bird flu outbreak in the state. The declaration was the second extension of the original disaster proclamation. It...
Jun 25 2015 // Iowa’s three public universities cannot be sued for allegedly refusing to pay their share into a state program that subsidizes insurance for Iowa residents who have health risks, the Iowa Court of Appeals has...
Jun 25 2015 // A food supplier claims an Iowa egg farm breached a contract after bird flu disrupted the supply of eggs.Michael Foods Egg Products Co., a subsidiary of St. Louis-based cereal-maker Post Holdings Inc., filed a lawsuit in...
Jun 12 2015 // There’s relief ahead for U.S. poultry farmers suffering through the worst ever domestic outbreak of bird flu.As the weather warms, there’s likely to be fewer instances of the disease, which has already left 47...
Jun 12 2015 // A former sheriff’s deputy in Jones County, Iowa, has been given 13 years in prison for fraud linked to a fire he set at his vacant home. Prosecutors say 50-year-old James Plower, of Olin, was sentenced in U.S....