All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 26 2020 // A federal judge has ruled that State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. does not have to return premiums to a small business customer because of the insured’s reduced business during the pandemic.The judge in Missouri found...
Oct 9 2020 // A massive fire at an eastern Missouri marina destroyed or damaged nearly 200 boats and left at least one person injured, authorities there said.The fire broke out Wednesday at the Woodland Marina along the Mississippi...
Oct 5 2020 // A St. Louis, Mo., suburb has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a federal lawsuit with a suspected shoplifter who was shot in the back by a police officer who said she intended to use her stun gun but pulled out her...
Sep 28 2020 // The Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals has again construed the effect of the 2017 amendments to Mo. Rev. Stat. § 537.065, which gave insurers a limited right to intervene and protect their interest when...
Sep 21 2020 // Municipalities, their insurers and risk pools should be heeding the current public re-examination of police and prosecutorial actions taking place across the country, according to an insurance policyholder attorney who...
Sep 17 2020 // The family of a worker killed in 2018 when a nearly 2,000-foot tall TV tower in southwest Missouri collapsed is suing Missouri State University for wrongful death.The April 19, 2018, tower collapse happened in Fordland,...
Sep 16 2020 // Keystone Agency Investors (KAI), a new strategic partnership formed by Keystone Insurers Group and Bain Capital Credit, has acquired four St. Louis, Missouri-based insurance agencies, which together will form Midwest Risk...
Sep 16 2020 // Columbia Insurance Group, based in Columbia, Missouri, has appointed Claire Owen as vice president and general counsel.Owen has served as corporate legal counsel since joining the company in 2017. In her new role, Owen has...
Sep 9 2020 // Another federal court has dismissed a COVID-19 business interruption lawsuit, finding that a closure order does not constitute a covered “direct physical loss” and that the policy excluded damages caused by...
Sep 2 2020 // More than four months after Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sought to hold China and the Chinese Communist Party accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic, the lawsuit remains stalled in federal court.Neither the...
Sep 2 2020 // Municipalities, their insurers and risk pools should be heeding the current public re-examination of police and prosecutorial actions taking place across the country, according to an insurance policyholder attorney who...
Aug 26 2020 // Missouri lawmakers have advanced a bill that would legally allow people to give firearms to children without their parents’ permission after the governor had initially sought to increase the penalty for the...
Aug 21 2020 // St. Louis-based independent insurance agency network organization, Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), has named Susan Piccione as its regional manager for Missouri.Piccione will oversee new business development and...
Aug 19 2020 // Karen O’Connor Corrigan, owner president of O’Connor Insurance in St. Louis, Missouri, has been honored by the Missouri Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) as Person of the Year.The award is presented to an...
Aug 12 2020 // A federal judge in Missouri said on Wednesday a group of hair salons and restaurants can sue their insurance carrier for business interruption losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic, which they say caused a...
Aug 11 2020 // The DoubleTree Hotel in Jefferson City, Mo., will pay $45,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed, federal employment officials say.According to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Aug 7 2020 // A fired Kansas City Public Schools secretary who was among several employees accused of falsifying attendance data in a bid to help the district regain accreditation is suing. The Kansas City Star reports that LaQuyn...
Aug 3 2020 // Two new lawsuits allege that the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph in Missouri covered up abuse by two priests who were known to be sexual predators.The lawsuits, one filed on July 28 and the other on July 20, were...
Jul 30 2020 // Bayer AG contended in court papers that a jury verdict in favor of a Missouri peach farmer was based on a false premise because a private investigator it hired found the farmer was still in business.A jury in U.S. District...
Jul 22 2020 // Insurance Plus LLC, a newly formed agency based in Columbia, Mo., has joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a network more than 130 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois.Insurance Plus, which...