All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 25 2009 // A Michigan man has filed a lawsuit against the University of Iowa and its College of Law claiming he was the victim of age discrimination. Donald Dobkin, 56, of West Bloomfield, Mich., filed his lawsuit in U.S. District...
Aug 24 2009 // The Iowa Insurance Division reported that the National Council on Compensation Insurance has made a rate filing which affects the premium rates for workers’ compensation insurance.The rate filing proposes an overall...
Aug 21 2009 // Residents began cleaning up Aug. 20 after tornadoes and severe storms slammed a large part of the Midwest, tearing the roofs from buildings and overturning vehicles.The National Weather Service in Davenport, Iowa,...
Aug 17 2009 // The Rebuild Iowa Office plans to help residents wade through information about recovery programs available for those affected by last year’s devastating floods.Officials from the Iowa Finance Authority, Department of...
Aug 13 2009 // Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Utah and Virginia do the best job handling workers’ compensation injuries, while Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas and Wyoming perform the worst.That’s...
Aug 4 2009 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions.The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
Jul 21 2009 // Damage from last year’s record flooding in Iowa is estimated to be between $8 billion and $10 billion, and the total amount of federal disaster money allocated to the state is now more than $3 billion.Half of that...
Jul 10 2009 // Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company, through its independent agency force, has recently awarded 50 Road to Success scholarships to high school seniors throughout its 10-state writing area including Iowa, Illinois, Indiana,...
Jun 19 2009 // With only a few days left before the official beginning of summer, strong spring storms have been pummeling the Midwest this week with tornadoes, strong winds, rain and hail, and leaving behind widespread damage.Golf-ball...
Jun 15 2009 // Kansas City-based insurance broker Lockton has added Michael Todorovich II as vice president and producer in its St. Louis office.With more than 11 years of experience in the insurance industry, Todorovich’s...
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May 21 2009 // Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based United Fire & Casualty Company announced that four directors have been elected for full terms on the company’s 13-member board, Brad M. Sayre was appointed an assistant vice president,...
May 20 2009 // Trusted Choice has awarded the inaugural Dan Fulwider Award for Community Involvement to Kevin and Kathy Flynn of K. Flynn Insurance Agency in Troy, Mo., the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America announced.In...
May 11 2009 // Iowa Gov. Chet Culver signed into law a measure expanding benefits for police and firefighters who get cancer and some other infectious diseases.Under the measure, the diseases are presumed to be job-related, an assumption...
Apr 21 2009 // Dan F. Agnew, president and CEO of Iowa-based Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company, will be inducted into the Iowa Insurance Hall of Fame on May 21, 2009. The induction ceremony will take place at the Olmsted Center on the...
Apr 16 2009 // Responding to as situation in Atalissa, Iowa, where 21 mentally disabled Texas men lived in a dilapidated house while they worked at a nearby turkey processing plant operated by Texas-based Henry’s Turkey Service, an...
Apr 6 2009 // 225The weight of a 61-year-old Bloomfield Hills, Mich., man who is suing his former employer, claiming he was fired from a $75,000-a-year salesman’s job because of his waistline. The employer says Patrick J. Ronayne...
Apr 3 2009 // The Cedar Rapids, Iowa, City Council has voted to buy $25 million of flood insurance.The coverage, through the National Flood Insurance Program, would pay to clean up any buildings damaged by last summer’s flood if...
Mar 27 2009 // The Iowa General Assembly is considering several insurance-related bills that could pose threats to consumers, including one that would expand wrongful death claims to allow recovery of highly speculative damages, which...
Mar 24 2009 // Two Des Moines area insurance companies have called off plans for a merger.American Enterprise Group Inc. of Des Moines and Homesteaders Life Co. of West Des Moines said in a joint statement that they’ve nixed the...