All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 5 2018 // An employee has been seriously injured in an explosion at a pyrotechnics plant in southwest Missouri.KSPR-TV reports that a fire subsequently broke out on July 3 at the AM Pyrotechnics plant in Pleasant Hope, which...
Jul 3 2018 // Business remains strong in nine Midwest and Plains states, but a new monthly survey suggests growth is slowing as concerns about trade and tariffs increase.The region’s overall economic index decreased to 61.8 in...
Jul 2 2018 // Two sisters have reached a $1 million settlement in a lawsuit that alleged they were handcuffed to the wall of a Kansas City bar and battered because bouncers wrongly thought they had used a counterfeit $50 bill. The...
Jul 2 2018 // A Missouri appeals court on June 29 threw out a $55 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit by a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after using its talc-based products, including...
Jul 2 2018 // Missouri’s General Assembly has passed, and the governor has signed, a bill that exempts some commercial insurance policies and endorsements from rate filing requirements.The legislative summary of SB 594 states that...
Jun 28 2018 // A judge has ruled in favor of a Missouri-based brewery in a lawsuit alleging the company copied the name and can design of a Maine-based brewery’s signature export ale.U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey ruled in...
Jun 25 2018 // Thomas Insurance Advisors in Chesterfield, Missouri, has hired Travis Johnson as an insurance broker.Johnson will provide specialized insurance products and services to small and mid-sized businesses. He also will handle...
Jun 25 2018 // Missouri’s General Assembly has passed, and the governor has signed, a bill that exempts some commercial insurance policies and endorsements from rate filing requirements.The summary of SB 594 on the legislative...
Jun 20 2018 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. plans to lower auto insurance rates rates in Missouri by 3 percent overall.The company said the total statewide savings for all State Farm customers affected by this rate decrease...
Jun 19 2018 // Combined Agents of America (CAA) is expanding its presence in Missouri with the addition of GM Peters Agency, based in Liberty, Missouri. Current owners Shane Davolt and Peggy Marrs acquired the agency in 1999, however, GM...
Jun 14 2018 // A jury in St. Louis on Tuesday ordered the NFL’s Rams to pay former running back Reggie Bush $12.5 million for a severe knee injury he suffered in 2015, the team’s final season in St. Louis before moving to Los...
Jun 13 2018 // Missouri-based Insurance Group of St. Charles County has hired Brian Wies as a sales producer.Wies will generate leads and develop new business, as well as handle renewals and oversee existing accounts in the...
Jun 6 2018 // POWERS Insurance and Risk Management, based in St. Louis, Missouri, has added Jacki Malone as commercial lines account manager.Malone is responsible for the ongoing management of commercial clients, retaining new and...
May 31 2018 // Kelly Probert Insurance Agency in Webb City, Missouri, has hired Debra Holland as producer. She will identify and develop insurance prospects, design insurance plans, and recommend coverages to new and existing...
May 22 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Missouri Employers Mutual has awarded the company’s fourth round of safety grants to Missouri businesses this month to help them take the next step toward improving workplace...
May 21 2018 // Kansas City-based independent insurance broker, Lockton, named Said Taiym executive vice president and chief digital officer.Taiym will focus on digital innovation and new technologies to help Lockton. He most recently was...
May 15 2018 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc., based in Boca Raton, Florida has acquired First Choice Insurance Agency Inc., headquartered in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.First Choice Insurance has been serving the Poplar Bluff,...
May 3 2018 // A southwest Missouri man who was injured twice at the BNSF Railway Co. rail yard in Springfield has been awarded more than $5 million in damages.A Greene County jury found for former conductor James Mitchell last week...
Apr 26 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance (MEM), says it experienced an all-time high in injury-free policyholders last year.MEM’s 2017 workplace safety data show the company increased...
Apr 25 2018 // J.M. Wilson has added Shelly Tucker-Lorenz as assistant surety underwriter in its Indiana office and Michelle Smith as assistant transportation underwriter in Kansas City, Missouri.Tucker-Lorenz has 15 years of previous...