All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 12 2014 // Federal and state officials are having trouble collecting the multimillion-dollar judgment a Texas company was ordered to pay for mistreating 32 mentally disabled workers at an Iowa labor camp.The Des Moines Register...
Mar 11 2014 // Repairs and improvements on Council Bluffs river and creek levees in Iowa could cost the city $50 million. The Daily Nonpareil reported the estimate comes from a study on the work needed to repair river and creek levees to...
Mar 7 2014 // Two inspectors are responsible for making sure thousands of asbestos-removal projects are being properly handled in Iowa each year.The Des Moines Register reported that the lack of inspections at asbestos removal projects...
Mar 6 2014 // Jurors acquitted an Iowa pharmacist of health care fraud, rejecting allegations that he fraudulently billed Iowa’s largest health insurance company for life-saving drugs sent to hemophilia patients.The federal jury...
Mar 5 2014 // The City Council in Sioux City, Iowa, has discussed setting up an insurance fund to cover the costs of water service repairs.The Sioux City Journal says dozens of homeowners have had to pay hundreds or even thousands of...
Mar 5 2014 // An insurance agent in northeast Iowa accused of creating fake life insurance policies to make more money has pleaded guilty to mail fraud. U.S. Attorney Kevin W. Techau says in a press release that 46-year-old Melissa...
Mar 4 2014 // Two inspectors are responsible for making sure thousands of asbestos removal projects are being properly handled in Iowa each year.The Des Moines Register reports that the lack of inspections at asbestos removal projects...
Feb 26 2014 // The Iowa Supreme Court has set a date to hear arguments in a lawsuit filed by the state’s workers’ compensation commissioner against Gov. Terry Branstad.Justices say they’ll hear attorney arguments at 7...
Feb 26 2014 // A 46-year-old insurance agent in northeast Iowa has been accused of creating fake life insurance policies so she could make more in commissions. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier says Melissa Williams, of Dike, is charged...
Feb 24 2014 // A Texas woman has been awarded more than $1 million for a fall on ice outside a Bettendorf, Iowa, hotel that shattered her right ankle and left her with limp.A Scott County jury awarded 54-year-old Brenda Alcala of Dallas...
Feb 24 2014 // Merrill, Wis.-based Church Mutual Insurance Co., an insurer of religious organizations, named Bob Buckley as vice president – underwriting and policyholder services and Cheryl Kryshak as vice president – risk...
Feb 20 2014 // Iowa lawmakers granted initial approval of a bill that would further crack down on texting while driving by allowing officers to pull over motorists suspected of that sole offense.A three-member Senate transportation...
Feb 12 2014 // Iowa Mutual Insurance Co. has selected Amy Gilmore as vice president, underwriting. Gilmore most recently served as vice president and product manager of underwriting at another casualty company. She previously held...
Feb 11 2014 // Georgia Puls has been appointed as the new president of Iowa Mutual Insurance Co.Puls has 27 years of experience in the insurance industry, including 17 years at Iowa Mutual in the personal and commercial lines divisions....
Feb 10 2014 // The IMA Financial Group Inc., headquartered in Wichita, Kan., announced that Kyle Orndorff has returned to the company as senior vice president of human resources. Based in IMA’s Wichita office, Orndorff will oversee...
Feb 7 2014 // The Iowa Court of Appeals on Feb. 5 weighed into the murky issue of how to define a storm in Iowa when it ruled that a Cedar Falls mall wasn’t at fault for a woman who fell in its parking lot as freezing rain fell in...
Jan 29 2014 // Joseph L. Walsh has been hired as a deputy workers’ compensation commissioner with the Iowa Division of Workers’ Compensation.Walsh previously was in private practice as a workers’ compensation and...
Jan 26 2014 // Keynote speakers at a global insurance symposium scheduled for May in Des Moines, Iowa, will include high ranking insurance officials from Japan and India.Gov. Terry Branstad says Japan’s Vice Commissioner Masamichi...
Jan 17 2014 // Motorists Insurance Group President and CEO David L. Kaufman announced a new functional structure for the Columbus, Ohio-based group’s 10 property/casualty insurance, life insurance and insurance brokerage...
Jan 13 2014 // Iowa officials say a new insurance symposium set for next year in Des Moines is aimed at bringing top industry experts to the area.Iowa Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart said the two-day Global Insurance Symposium will...