All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 15 2019 // Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has vetoed a bill that would have allowed some motorcycle riders to drive without helmets, citing opposition to an unrelated provision in the measure.The legislation would have repealed...
Jul 12 2019 // Missouri officials say widespread flooding has cost an estimated $29 million in damages to roads and bridges, and dozens of other sites haven’t even been evaluated yet.Missouri Department of Transportation records...
Jul 11 2019 // A federal lawsuit says Mississippi is violating free-speech rights by banning makers of plant-based foods from using terms such as “meatless meatballs” and “vegan bacon.”The lawsuit against...
Jul 10 2019 // New figures show that more than 600 homes, businesses and government buildings were damaged by a tornado that tore through Missouri’s capital city earlier this year.A report released jointly by Jefferson City and...
Jul 10 2019 // Missouri insurance regulators say insured losses following May tornadoes in that state are predicted to reach $139 million or more.Tornadoes ravaged several areas of the state in May, including Missouri’s capitol...
Jul 9 2019 // A new report issued by the Missouri Department of Insurance shows that earthquake insurance coverage in the highest risk areas of Missouri has dropped to just under 14 percent.According to the department, the Earthquake...
Jul 3 2019 // Florida-based workers’ compensation carrier Normandy Insurance Company is now offering workers’ compensation insurance to small, mid-size, and large businesses in Missouri. With the addition of Missouri,...
Jun 24 2019 // Missourians looking for physicians to certify them to buy medical marijuana when it becomes available next year are running into resistance from doctors who are reluctant to prescribe the substance.Instead, would-be users...
Jun 24 2019 // A federal grand jury has indicted two more employees of a company that owns a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake last summer, killing 17 people.Curtis Lanham, the general manager at Ride the Ducks Branson, and Charles...
Jun 6 2019 // The flooding Missouri and Mississippi rivers tested sandbag fortifications on June 5 as surging waters making their way downstream rose to some of their highest levels in more than two decades in parts of Missouri.The...
Jun 5 2019 // State Farm said last week it had received over 6,000 homeowner claims and more than 5,000 auto claims related to severe weather that pummeled the Midwest on May 27 and 28.The company reported around 6,110 total homeowner...
Jun 5 2019 // Communities along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers are piling up sandbags as another round of flooding strains levees.The Kansas City Star reports that more than 40 levees have been overtopped across Missouri in less...
May 24 2019 // A tornado tore apart buildings in Missouri’s capital city as part of an outbreak of severe weather across the state overnight that left at least three people dead and dozens injured.The National Weather Service...
May 23 2019 // The residents of the small riverside town of Mosby, Missouri, have become accustomed to watching floods swamp their streets, transform their homes into islands and ruin their floors and furniture.Elmer Sullivan has...
May 23 2019 // A flooded Oklahoma was deluged once again on Wednesday following days of severe weather that’s blamed for at least three deaths after also battering Iowa, Kansas and Missouri,“The biggest concern is more rain....
May 22 2019 // The Hilb Group LLC has acquired Missouri-based The Keane Insurance Group Inc.The transaction became effective May 1. Terms were not disclosed. KIG’s associates and John Keane, the agency leader, are joining THG under...
May 21 2019 // Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to a measure that could relax a pair of roadway safety provisions.The legislation sent to Gov. Mike Parson on Friday would do away with the need for vehicle safety inspections...
May 21 2019 // The heavy rain, high winds and hail that swept across the southern Great Plains is now headed to Arkansas and Missouri, where farmers are already struggling to get crops in the ground in a brutally wet spring.The massive...
May 17 2019 // In Missouri, insurance companies owe a contractual duty to defend civil actions that allege liability of their insureds that is potentially covered under the terms of the subject insurance policy.As part of that duty, the...
May 13 2019 // An entertainment company that owned a duck boat involved in a fatal sinking on a Missouri lake last summer disputes that an independent investigator told it its vehicles did not comply with a government standard.Ripley...