Latest Missouri Headlines

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ZestyAI Receives Approval From Missouri Department of Insurance

Jan 9 2025 // ZestyAI, a provider of AI-powered climate and property risk analytics solutions, has received regulatory approval from the Missouri Department of Insurance for its Severe Convective Storm suite, including Z-HAIL, Z-WIND,...

Campbell Named Acting Director of Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance

Jan 3 2025 // Governor Mike Parson announced that Mick Campbell will take over as the Acting Director of the Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) effective January 1, 2025. Campbell currently serves as the Commissioner of Finance...

Power Company to Pay $61M Over Emissions Violations at Eastern Missouri Plant

Dec 31 2024 // The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri entered an order on Dec. 17 requiring Ameren Missouri to spend $61 million on projects intended to mitigate violations of the federal Clean Air Act (CAA),...

Missouri Insurance Director Lindley-Myers to Retire at End of Year

Dec 17 2024 // Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) Director will retire at the end of the year, Missouri Governor Mike Parson announced.Lindley-Myers was appointed Director of the Missouri Department of Insurance,...

Missouri to See Reduction in Workers’ Comp Rates in 2025

Dec 6 2024 // The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) announced that employers should see a reduction in workers’ compensation rates in 2025, marking the fourth straight year of decreased rates.The projected rate...

Missouri Farmer Who Stars in TV Series Admits to Crop Insurance Fraud

Dec 2 2024 // A Missouri farmer who appears in a reality TV show about his family’s farming operation pleaded guilty this week to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving federal crop insurance benefits.Steve A. McBee, 52,...

Missouri Insurance Department Cautions Drivers to Look Out for Deer

Nov 25 2024 // The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance is cautioning drivers to be on the lookout for deer and other wild animals as temperatures drop and nights become longer.“Dawn and dusk are the most susceptible times...

Missouri Officers Arrested for Allegedly Searching Womens’ Phones for Nude Photos

Nov 19 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) โ€” Two Missouri police officers were indicted separately this week and accused of similar crimes โ€” pulling over women and searching their phones to find nude photos.The indictments of former Missouri...

Missouri Farmer Who Stars in Reality TV Series Pleads Guilty to Crop Insurance Fraud

Nov 7 2024 // A Missouri farmer who appears in a reality TV show about his family’s farming operation pleaded guilty this week to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving federal crop insurance benefits.Steve A. McBee, 52,...

Former Principal of Missouri Boarding School Charged with Sex Crimes Involving Student

Oct 31 2024 // A former principal at a Christian boarding school in Missouri that closed in March amid abuse allegations has been charged with sex crimes involving a former student.Craig Wesley Smith Jr. was charged by the prosecutor in...

Missouri Jury Asked to Award More Than $6B in Preterm Formula Case

Oct 31 2024 // A lawyer for a Missouri mother on Wednesday asked a jury to make Abbott ABT.N and Reckitt’s RKT.L Mead Johnson pay a total of more than $6 billion in the latest trial over claims that the companies’ formulas...

Missouri Farm Cooperative Fined $241K for Lacking Proper Equipment

Oct 30 2024 // A Missouri grain cooperative could have prevented an employee’s fatal engulfment in a storage bin in May 2024 had it followed federal workplace safety requirements, the U.S. Department of Labor determined.Responding...

Hub Acquires Missouri’s AIG Agency

Oct 8 2024 // Hub International Limited (Hub) announced that it has acquired the assets of AIG Agency Inc. (d/b/a Associated Insurance Group). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Maryland Heights, Missouri,...

Missouri Patient Infected with Bird Flu Without Animal Contact

Sep 10 2024 // A hospitalized patient in Missouri was infected with bird flu despite having had no known contact with dairy cows or other animals associated with an ongoing outbreak, health officials said Friday.This is the 14th person...

Court Tosses Missouri Law That Banned Police From Enforcing Federal Gun Laws

Aug 29 2024 // COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) โ€” Federal appellate judges overturned a Missouri law Monday that banned police from enforcing some federal gun laws.The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the Missouri law violated a section of...

Missouri Football Field to Feature Shelter Insurance Logo in New Form of Advertisement

Aug 28 2024 // When the nationally ranked University of Missouri Tigers football team takes the field Thursday for its season opener against Murray State, fans will notice something unusual on the field: sponsored logos.A new rule change...

AM Best Revises Outlook for Missouri Farm Bureau Group

Aug 22 2024 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICRs) of “a-” (Excellent) of Farm...

88-Year-Old Missouri Victim in Boar’s Head Deli Meat Outbreak Underscores Risk

Aug 16 2024 // A lifelong lover of liverwurst, Sue Fleming relished the smoked sausage her husband brought home every few weeks from the grocery store deli.Patrick Fleming always made sure to buy Boar’s Head braunschweiger, the...

Rapper Nelly Arrested in Missouri for Lack of Insurance, Possession of Ecstasy

Aug 9 2024 // Rapper Nelly was arrested early Wednesday at a St. Louis-area casino, and the Missouri Highway Patrol said an officer found four illegal ecstasy pills on him. The rapper’s attorney said an “overzealous”...

Missouri Trucking Company Sued for Refusing to Hire a Deaf Job Applicant

Aug 1 2024 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Missouri- based trucking company Transportation Management Group, doing business as Wilson Logistics, for violating federal law when it refused to hire a deaf...