All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2014 // Independent Insurance Agents of Nebraska (IIAN) has selected Iowa Mutual Insurance Co. as the 2014 Five-Star Company of the Year for its dedication and service to independent agents. The award recipient is selected by IIAN...
Sep 4 2014 // Former Iowa resident Christina M. Pender and California resident Robert K. Taylor have pled guilty to defrauding insurance company AIG out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...
Sep 3 2014 // A storm spotter was hospitalized in Iowa on Sept. 1 after he was struck by lightning while watching a system that left swollen rivers, power outages, trees down and campers overturned.More strong storms rumbled through the...
Sep 2 2014 // Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group (IA&B) in Mechanicsburg, Penn., and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania announced officers for the new administrative year...
Aug 12 2014 // The U.S. Coast Guard says it’s investigating a water taxi accident in Iowa that injured 12 people, including two children who were sent to the hospital.Passengers told KWQC-TV and the Quad-City Times that a Channel...
Aug 6 2014 // Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Christopher J. Godfrey will resign to take a federal position, but will continue pursuing a lawsuit alleging Gov. Terry Branstad and aides illegally bullied him, he...
Jul 25 2014 // A low bridge in Council Bluffs, Iowa, is proving challenging to motorists.Drivers of tall vehicles have hit the Canadian National Railroad bridge twice this week and at least five times this year. The bridge is on the...
Jul 23 2014 // The city of Eddyville, Iowa, is getting more than $1 million to improve its stormwater handling system to protect the city from Des Moines River flooding. The funding, announced by U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack, comes from the...
Jul 21 2014 // A former Des Moines, Iowa, insurance agent was sentenced to 41 months in prison for insurance fraud.Melissa Ilene Williams, of Dike, Iowa, also was ordered to pay restitution for fabricating and submitting life insurance...
Jul 15 2014 // The Iowa Insurance Division is considering a possible change in the crop insurance filing deadline and is inviting informal comments to assist the division in its deliberation.The IID said it is mulling the crop insurance...
Jul 15 2014 // A former Des Moines, Iowa, insurance agent was sentenced to 41 months in prison for insurance fraud, the Iowa Insurance Division announced.Melissa Ilene Williams, of Dike, Iowa, also was ordered to pay restitution for...
Jul 11 2014 // Officials in several Mississippi River towns were cautiously optimistic on July 10 that they’ll soon emerge from this year’s flood with relatively minor damage.Water levels were dropping in several places,...
Jul 7 2014 // Damage to public roads, bridges and buildings is estimated at more than $15 million from storms and flooding in June, Iowa’s top emergency management official said.Those estimates include only public facilities, said...
Jul 3 2014 // Area farmers are dealing with damage to their crops and fences after all the recent heavy rain and flooding.Farmers in northwest Iowa, southeast South Dakota and northeast Nebraska face significant work ahead because of...
Jul 2 2014 // Ian Bullion was named vice president of human resources and training and development at Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. Bullion joined the Grinnell, Iowa-based company in 2012 and most recently served as the assistant vice...
Jun 30 2014 // Rising flood waters were expected to make 11 locks and dams impassable on the mid- and upper-Mississippi River and force the closure of the river later on Monday from Bellevue, Iowa, to Saverton, Missouri, the U.S. Army...
Jun 30 2014 // Forecasters are watching a potential tropical system that may skirt the U.S. East Coast this week, brushing past major Northeastern cities in time for the Fourth of July holiday.The collection of thunderstorms now about...
Jun 24 2014 // Iowa’s top emergency management official says up to 150 homes in Iowa have major flood damage and his department continues to monitor river levels as Iowa’s ground is water saturated and more rain could cause...
Jun 10 2014 // Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and top aides could be held personally liable if a jury decides that they defamed the workers’ compensation commissioner and improperly cut his salary during an attempt to force his...
Jun 9 2014 // Weather officials say a strong tornado touched down last week in western Iowa’s Pottawattamie County.The National Weather Service says investigators surveying debris concluded an EF-2 tornado landed June 3 about nine...