All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 3 2022 // An Iowa-based youth basketball league agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by former players whose coach secretly recorded them undressing or obtained nude photos of them and is now serving a lengthy prison...
Jul 18 2022 // The family of an 11-year old boy who died on a water ride at an Iowa amusement park a year ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit in state court, alleging the park failed to properly maintain and repair its rides.David and...
Jul 18 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...
Jul 15 2022 // An assistant attorney general in Iowa is suing the city of Des Moines and its police chief over his arrest during a June 2020 racial justice protest, alleging he was tackled, pepper-sprayed and handcuffed for no reason.The...
Jul 14 2022 // An explosion Wednesday morning destroyed a house in the northwest Iowa city of Le Mars and injured three people.The 6:30 a.m. explosion largely demolished one house and caused a fire and other damage to neighboring homes,...
Jul 11 2022 // Stephen Allen Allgood Jr., age 33, of Eddyville, was charged with one count of Insurance Fraud – Presenting False Information (Class D Felony) following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud...
Jul 5 2022 // The family of an 11-year old boy who died on a water ride at an Iowa amusement park a year ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit in state court last week, alleging the park failed to properly maintain and repair its...
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...