All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 9 2007 // Iowa’s largest health insurance company filed a lawsuit this week to stop three health care organizations from building hospitals without seeking state approval.Wellmark Inc., widely known as Wellmark Blue Cross and...
Feb 8 2007 // Employment in the state’s insurance industry doubled during a 15-year period ending in 2005, with workers in the industry making far more than other nonfarm employees, a new study found.The study, by Iowa State...
Jan 31 2007 // Washington’s Office of the Insurance Commissioner has ordered UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. of Minneapolis to pay a $59,000 fine following an agency investigation into the company’s use of unapproved contracts...
Jan 15 2007 // Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co. is moving the bulk of its Kansas City operations to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, costing 500 jobs and alarming city officials trying to bring businesses back downtown.The company’s...
Jan 3 2007 // In light of food poisoning outbreaks involving spinach and lettuce, the government and the produce industry are scrambling to make leafy greens safer before the spring planting season.New guidelines from the industry are...
Jan 2 2007 // In light of food poisoning outbreaks involving spinach and lettuce, the government and the produce industry are scrambling to make leafy greens safer before the spring planting season.New guidelines from the industry are...
Dec 21 2006 // The head of Taco John’s International offered this week to pay medical bills for customers who got ill from E. coli bacteria at three of the chain’s Mexican restaurants.Some 76 people were sickened after eating...
Dec 15 2006 // Hawkeye-Security Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, recently announced the recent appointment of six new agencies to its group of independent agents in Missouri.The following appointments broaden Hawkeye-Security...
Dec 15 2006 // Iowa motorists’ ability to avoid accidents has made the state one of the cheapest place to buy auto insurance, an industry report says.A survey by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, found that in...
Dec 12 2006 // A recent 48-page study by the Connecticut Economic Resource Center Inc. said that Iowa now surpasses Connecticut for insurance company job growth.From 1995 to 2005, insurance jobs in insurance companies in Connecticut...
Nov 20 2006 // 2 percent Four of the Ohio’s five largest medical malpractice insurers have revised their rates to produce an average decrease of almost 2 percent for Ohio doctors this year, following years of increases, the Ohio...
Nov 14 2006 // It will likely cost $10 million for the University of Northern Iowa to restore a building that was damaged in a fire more than a year ago. At a Board of Regents meeting, officials said the Legislature paid $2 million to...
Nov 8 2006 // The two major parties are no longer locked in parity in state legislatures. Wresting control from the GOP in all the chambers that changed hands outright, the Democrats now control the legislatures in more states than they...
Oct 30 2006 // Des Moines, Iowa-based Wellmark Inc. has committed $5 million in venture capital to help encourage business development and expansion in rural Iowa communities.The effort is through the Iowa Farm Bureau’s Renew Rural...
Oct 30 2006 // Democratic and Republican state Senate leaders in Oklahoma may follow the lead of their counterparts in other states and share power if the chamber has a tie in membership after the Nov. 7 general election, officials...
Oct 13 2006 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, the fourth diocese in the nation to seek financial protection to deal with priest sex abuse cases.Bishop William Franklin said the diocese...
Oct 2 2006 // Principal Financial Group Inc. is expanding its Des Moines operations and anticipates hiring at least 200 more workers by the end of 2007. The Des Moines-based insurance and financial services company said Friday it...
Sep 28 2006 // The next time you go to church, you may notice security guards, controlled access, or a secure drop box for collections. These are just some of the innovative safety and security measures being implemented by churches...
Sep 28 2006 // Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. can no longer give free Farm Bureau memberships to customers who agree to buy insurance, state insurance regulators said.Susan Voss, commissioner of the the Iowa insurance division, said a...
Sep 27 2006 // Hawkeye-Security Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, has added Blue Valley Insurance Agency located in Overland Park, Kan., and Garry & Associates Insurance Agency located in North Kansas City, Mo. to its...