All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 11 2017 // Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway has released a report alleging a rural hospital under financial strain in northern Missouri billed insurance companies for lab tests that didn’t occur at the hospital and received a...
Aug 10 2017 // St. Louis, Mo.-based Midland Commerce Insurance has joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a network of independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois. Owned by Matt Naumann, Midland Commerce Insurance is...
Aug 9 2017 // Columbia Insurance Group has named Doug Duncan vice president and chief information officer. Duncan is located in the company’s home office in Columbia, Mo. is responsible for directing the information technology...
Aug 9 2017 // As the U.S. growing season entered its peak this summer, farmers began posting startling pictures on social media: fields of beans, peach orchards and vegetable gardens withering away.The photographs served as early...
Aug 4 2017 // Willis Towers Watson has appointed John Campbell corporate risk and broking market leader and construction leader for St. Louis, Mo. Campbell will be responsible for driving the overall CRB growth strategy, value...
Aug 2 2017 // Larry Martin in Illinois says he’s never seen anything like it in his 35 years of farming. Arkansas soybean grower Joe McLemore says he faces the loss of his life savings.They’re among farmers across the U.S....
Jul 27 2017 // Fire officials in the southeast Missouri town of Poplar Bluff are investigating a rash of arson fires at vacant homes. The Poplar Bluff Daily American Republic reports that 16 vacant houses have been set on fire since...
Jul 24 2017 // The Missouri Department of Insurance helped consumers who filed complaints against their insurance company receive an additional $4 million in claim payments in the first half of 2017.Health insurance generated the most...
Jul 24 2017 // AF Group, headquartered in Lansing, Mich., has appointed Eric Halter director of AF Specialty, a new brand focused on providing fronting capacity to insurance carriers, managing general agents, reinsurance intermediaries...
Jul 20 2017 // Missouri became the final state to create a prescription drug-monitoring program on July 17 when Republican Gov. Eric Greitens signed an executive order aimed at combatting a scourge that killed more than 900 residents...
Jul 19 2017 // Keystone Mutual Insurance Co., a Missouri-based medical malpractice carrier, has appointed David von Gontard as the company’s general counsel. In this position, von Gontard will be responsible for the legal affairs...
Jul 14 2017 // Tennessee on Thursday imposed restrictions on the use of dicamba, a flagship pesticide for Monsanto Co., becoming the fourth state to take action as problems spread over damage the weed killer causes to crops not...
Jul 14 2017 // Brent Lombardi has joined National Real Estate Insurance Group (NREIG) in Kansas City, Mo., as president, effective July 1.Lombardi oversees all NREIG departments: sales, service, loss prevention, claims and quality...
Jul 13 2017 // Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has signed legislation that the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America says will help improve the legal climate in that state.According to PCI, SS/SCS/HCS/HB339 and 714 is...
Jul 13 2017 // A former inmate who alleged guards at a troubled jail in Kansas City, Mo., beat him so severely that he suffered nine broken ribs, fractured wrists and a collapsed lung has settled a lawsuit for $437,500.Jackson County...
Jun 29 2017 // One Call Care Management (One Call), a provider of workers’ compensation care management services, is opening a new office in Springfield, Mo.One Call will begin operations in August 2017 in 31,512 square feet of an...
Jun 28 2017 // A month after a 33-year-old worker died while working in an unprotected trench, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found another employee of the same Missouri plumbing...
Jun 28 2017 // No state goes far enough to protect its residents from leading causes of preventable deaths and injuries – commonly known as “accidents” – on the road, in homes and communities and at work, according to the...
Jun 26 2017 // A federal judge in St. Louis on June 20 approved a $1.5 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael Brown Sr. and Lezley McSpadden. Their 18-year-old son was unarmed on Aug. 9, 2014, when he was fatally...
Jun 23 2017 // Missouri on June 21 became the third U.S. state to accuse major drug manufacturers of fraudulently misrepresenting the risks of opioid painkillers now at the center of a national addiction epidemic.Missouri Attorney...