All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 28 2022 // Three women were charged with insurance fraud following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau.Danesha Minor, 37, of Des Moines was charged with presenting false information (Class D Felony),...
Jun 28 2022 // Burlington, Iowa, has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the mother of a man who was shot to death by police nearly five years ago, the two sides said.The settlement comes nearly five...
Jun 24 2022 // Crews recovered the body of a man who was buried under piles of grain and debris from a collapsed grain silo in southeastern Iowa on Wednesday.The collapse happened just before 8 a.m. Tuesday at a grain elevator at...
Jun 20 2022 // An Iowa workers’ compensation insurance carrier is not entitled to retroactive reimbursement from another insurer for benefits it paid in error, the state Supreme Court ruled this month.American Home Assurance paid...
Jun 7 2022 // The 911 dispatch center that employed Mandy Tripp denied her workers’ compensation claim for post-traumatic stress syndrome because fielding calls involving death and injury are part of the job.A divided Iowa Supreme...
May 26 2022 // Deer hunters would be able to use semi-automatic rifles during a newly created antlerless season in January under a bill approved by lawmakers Tuesday and sent to the governor.The measure given final approval by the House...
May 18 2022 // The Justice Department announced that it has secured an agreement to resolve a lawsuit alleging that Davenport, Iowa, landlord Juan Goitia violated the Fair Housing Act by sexually harassing female tenants. The settlement...
May 13 2022 // IA&B Welcomes John Savant as Government Affairs DirectorThe independent insurance agents’ trade association for Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware has a new lobbyist. The Insurance Agents & Brokers...
May 12 2022 // First MainStreet Insurance L.C. (FMSI), an affiliate of TrueNorth Companies L.C., added three new agency partners.L.B. Anderson Agency joined FMSI at the end of January. Located in Newhall, IA, L.B. Anderson Agency has...
May 4 2022 // D’Alan Thurmond, age 41, of Waterloo, Iowa pled guilty on April 25, 2022, to one count of Presenting False Information, a class “D” Felony, following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance...
May 4 2022 // An Iowa state board has approved an $8 million payment to an Illinois man who was left permanently disabled when he was hit in 2019 by an Iowa Transportation Department snow plow.On Monday, the three-member Iowa State...
Apr 26 2022 // The Iowa Supreme Court last week ruled in two separate decisions that COVID-19 did not cause a physical loss or damage that would allow a private golf club or a restaurant and bar to recoup income lost during COVID-19...
Apr 14 2022 // A tornado hit near Gilmore City in rural north-central Iowa as a strong line of storms moved across the state overnight, the National Weather Service confirmed Wednesday.The tornado was confirmed by a trained spotter...
Apr 7 2022 // Bird flu has infected two more farms in Iowa, forcing the killing of 5.3 million hens and 88,000 turkeys, officials said.The new cases mean that across the nation, farmers have had to kill about 22 million birds, mostly...
Apr 5 2022 // A state court judge said environmental groups may proceed with a lawsuit seeking to halt expansion of a cattle farm in northeast Iowa near a prized trout stream.Judge Michael Huppert on Monday ruled against the Iowa...
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Apr 4 2022 // Iowa Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen recently issued an enforcement order against Gary D. Marcum formerly of Clive, Iowa, and now a resident of Kodak, Tennessee. The enforcement order permanently revokes Marcum’s...
Apr 4 2022 // Iowa agriculture officials announced two more bird flu outbreaks in commercial flocks that will require the killing of more than 1.5 million hens and turkeys.One of the new outbreaks will lead to the killing of 1.5 million...
Mar 28 2022 // The family of a boy whose brain was severely injured during birth at an Iowa City hospital has been awarded $97.4 million _ believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict in Iowa’s history.A Johnson County...
Mar 11 2022 // The U.S. Attorney’s Office in North Dakota says it has reached a settlement with a bus transit service to resolve a complaint that the company violated the federal law that protects the disabled against...