All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 18 2018 // Boca Raton, Florida-based Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired Redel Insurance Agency Inc., headquartered in Ballwin, Missouri.Redel Insurance Agency has been operating in Missouri for three-quarters of a...
Oct 18 2018 // Two companies facing multiple lawsuits over a summer tourist boat accident in Missouri that killed 17 people have invoked an 1851 law that allows vessel owners to try to avoid or limit legal damages as they also seek...
Oct 17 2018 // Kansas City, Missouri-based insurance services firm, Lockton Companies, has named Julie Gibson senior vice president, director of marketing, communications and external affairs. She is based in Kansas City.Gibson will...
Oct 15 2018 // The Springfield, Missouri, school district has reached a settlement with a longtime secretary who claimed in a lawsuit that the district tried to fire her because of her age. The Springfield News-Leader reports the...
Oct 3 2018 // The company that owns the Ride the Ducks operation in Branson has asked a judge to dismiss some of the lawsuits filed after one of its boats sank in a Missouri lake in July, killing 17 people.Ripley Entertainment said in...
Oct 2 2018 // St. Louis, Missouri-based POWERS Insurance and Risk has hired Shari Smith as commercial lines account manager.Smith will be responsible for the ongoing management of commercial clients, retaining new and renewal clients,...
Oct 1 2018 // A change in a Missouri state statute has created a new, interpretable definition of reasonable value of medical care in personal injury litigation. Although the change was likely intended to provide more clarity, competing...
Sep 28 2018 // Springfield Public Schools in Missouri has agreed to pay $423,106 to a settle a lawsuit alleging that a teen was critically injured in a mud pit because staff failed to properly supervise students at a back-to-school...
Sep 19 2018 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed penalties of $199,183 to Missouri-based American Walnut Company LLC for two repeated and 14 serious safety violations....
Sep 17 2018 // A former insurance carrier for the city of Columbia, Missouri, is appealing a ruling that it owes $5.3 million to a man who served 10 years in prison before his conviction for killing a sports editor in Columbia was thrown...
Sep 12 2018 // The operators of a Missouri duck boat that sank in July, killing 17 people, say in a court filing that a lawsuit from Missouri’s attorney general is “irresponsible” and “littered with factual...
Sep 11 2018 // A St. Joseph, Missouri, woman has been awarded $8.5 million in a racial discrimination lawsuit she brought against Missouri gas utility Spire.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a St. Louis jury awarded $1.3 million...
Sep 4 2018 // Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley on Aug. 31 sued the owners and operators of a tourist boat that sank in a Missouri lake, killing 17 people, alleging that the companies violated the state’s consumer protection...
Sep 3 2018 // The former owner of multiple property/casualty insurance operations in northern Illinois has been sentenced to more than four years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1 million in restitution for insurance fraud.U.S....
Sep 3 2018 // In 2017, poor underwriting results for medical professional liability insurers in Missouri were partially offset by higher investment returns, and insurers barely eked out a profit, earning a 0.2 percent return on net...
Aug 31 2018 // The U.S. Coast Guard has found probable cause that the sinking of a tourist boat on a Missouri lake last month that killed 17 people “resulted from the misconduct, negligence, or inattention to the duties” by...
Aug 29 2018 // A.M. Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “a-” to New Horizons Insurance Company of Missouri (New Horizons). The outlook...
Aug 23 2018 // A Missouri trial court judge has affirmed the massive $4.69 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a case involving 22 women and their families who alleged the company’s talc-based products, including its...
Aug 22 2018 // In 2017, poor underwriting results for medical professional liability insurers in Missouri were partially offset by higher investment returns, and insurers barely eked out a profit, earning a 0.2 percent return on net...
Aug 21 2018 // The father of a man killed in a St. Louis, Mo. police shooting has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the federal lawsuit alleges that Mansur Ball-Bey was unarmed in August 2015 when...