All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 31 2003 // Kansas City Life Insurance Company and The GuideOne Group of Companies, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, have signed a definitive agreement under which Kansas City Life will buy all of GuideOne Life Insurance...
Mar 14 2003 // The Iowa Insurance Division (IID) has entered a consent order against Sandra Daugherty of Madrid after she was charged in Story County District Court with three counts of criminal misconduct.Daugherty, who served as office...
Mar 7 2003 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) said today that it strongly supports a five-year extension of the law that allows insurer assessments for Iowa’s workers’ compensation second injury fund to be based on...
Jan 21 2003 // Iowa Commissioner Therese Vaughan, outgoing president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), will deliver the keynote address at the 2003 American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS) Annual...
Dec 10 2002 // National Association of Independent Insurers Counsel Ann Weber has asked Iowa’s Insurance Department to delete a sentence that the NAII feels, “could open the door for some auto repair shops to charge a fee for...
Nov 19 2002 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that it has acquired the Grandy Pratt Company, headquartered in Sioux City, Iowa, and their affiliate Grandy Pratt McCoy, Rosenberg and Associates of Des Moines, Iowa. Terms of the...
Nov 7 2002 // Iowa and Utah have adopted consumer privacy regulations that closely follow a National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) model.National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) Counsel Ann Weber...
Oct 16 2002 // The Iowa Insurance Division (IID) has published a list of the complaints lodged by consumers against insurance companies in the year 2001.The list breaks down the complaints into six categories: Private Passenger...
Sep 13 2002 // Iowa insurance agent Edwin Pace was ordered to reimburse $302,000 to investors, and $30,000 in commissions to the state, plus costs and attorney’s fees, following a court ruling that he had sold fraudulent...
Sep 2 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) urged the Iowa Insurance Division to abandon several proposed changes in its unfair trade practices regulation, as it sees no need and no benefits from the...
Aug 14 2002 // Under Iowa’s proposed regulation on consumer privacy, an insurer could be penalized for a single instance of failing to comply with its requirements, according to the National Association of Independent Insurers...
Jun 3 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) is urging the Iowa Division of Insurance to refrain from issuing new directives on claims involving hail damage to buildings and diminished value of vehicles damaged...
May 14 2002 // Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack has vetoed a bill that would have remedied a court ruling that requires insurers to pay again for a first injury when a worker suffers a second injury.“Senate File 2190 would have corrected a...
May 13 2002 // Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack signed Senate File 2318, which will cut the premium tax for P/C insurers from 2 percent to 1 percent over a four-year period, beginning in 2004. National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII)...
May 2 2002 // State National Specialty Insurance Company, a Fort Worth, Texas-based unit of State National Companies, has received authorization to write multiple lines of insurance in West Virginia and Iowa. The West Virginia...
Apr 18 2002 // In the closing days of the Legislative session, Iowa lawmakers passed two bills that will cut the premium tax for property/casualty insurers and rectify a court decision that adversely impacted workers’ compensation...
Apr 15 2002 // Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies It’s your misfortune, and none of my own.Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies, For you know Wyoming will be your new home. That trail song, used by historian Walter...
Apr 15 2002 // Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies It’s your misfortune, and none of my own.Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies, For you know Wyoming will be your new home. That trail song, used by historian Walter...
Apr 1 2002 // The state Senate passed March 27 Senate File 2318, which would cut the premium tax for property/casualty insurers from 2 percent to 1 percent over a four-year period, beginning in 2004. National Association of Independent...
Mar 4 2002 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the “B+” (Very Good) financial strength rating of Le Mars Mutual Insurance Company of Iowa and removed it from under review with developing implications, as both parties have signed...