All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 1 2017 // Missouri consumers and small businesses received an additional $29 million from their insurance companies in 2016, exceeding the insurance department’s previous record of $27.4 million set in 2014.The monies were...
Jan 26 2017 // POWERS Insurance and Benefits, headquartered in the St. Louis, Mo., area, has hired Robin Bender as a personal account manager.Bender will assist producers in acquiring new business, as well as handling the sales and...
Jan 23 2017 // A former Missouri State University student who said he was the victim of a so-called “knockout game” attack outside a 2012 fraternity party has been awarded $1.63 million in damages, though he likely will only...
Jan 11 2017 // On a sunny November afternoon in St. Joseph, Missouri, birthplace of the Pony Express and death spot of Jesse James, Lauranda Mignery watched her son Kadin, 2, dig in their front yard. As he played, she scolded him for...
Jan 9 2017 // Employers in Missouri should see a continued decrease in workers’ compensation insurance costs.The Missouri Department of Insurance is recommending a 4.6 percent decrease in workers’ comp insurance loss costs...
Dec 27 2016 // Employers in Missouri should see a continued decrease in workers’ compensation insurance costs. The Missouri Department of Insurance is recommending a 4.6 percent decrease in workers’ comp insurance loss costs...
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Dec 15 2016 // The boards of Missouri-based mutual insurance companies, CFM Insurance Inc. and Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of Grundy County, have approved a plan to merge the two companies.Pending formal approval by Missouri...
Dec 14 2016 // A Missouri woman who sued American Family Insurance for retaliation and age and sex discrimination has been awarded $20 million in punitive damages.Deborah Miller, 60, of Blue Springs, also was awarded $450,000 in actual...
Dec 8 2016 // The Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration (DIFP) reported that San Francisco-based employee benefits products and services provider, Zenefits, has agreed to pay a penalty of...
Dec 5 2016 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11 categories...
Dec 5 2016 // The Missouri Department of Insurance reported it recovered over $9 million for consumers who filed complaints against their insurance companies during the first nine months of 2016. In the first three quarters of 2016, the...
Nov 23 2016 // A pawn shop that sold a gun to a mentally ill Missouri woman who used it to fatally shoot her father will settle in a wrongful death case, according to the attorney for the woman’s mother.Washington, D.C.-based Brady...
Nov 18 2016 // The state of Missouri will pay $9 million to the family of an Iowa man who drowned after he fell out of a boat handcuffed and in an improperly secured life vest while he was in custody of a state trooper, an attorney for...
Nov 17 2016 // A Missouri jury has awarded a $37.5 million judgment to a man left a paraplegic after a 2014 accident involving a vehicle and a tractor-trailer.The Kansas City Star reports that the Jackson County jury sided with Steve...
Nov 15 2016 // The Missouri Department of Insurance recovered over $9 million for consumers who filed complaints against their insurance companies during the first nine months of 2016.In the first three quarters of 2016, the Consumer...
Nov 8 2016 // After a $67.5 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson on Oct. 27 marked its third straight trial defeat in an onslaught of lawsuits claiming its talc-based products cause ovarian cancer, the company is hoping to...
Oct 31 2016 // A St. Louis jury has awarded a California woman more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder caused her cancer, the latest case raising concerns about the...
Oct 28 2016 // An $80 million settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit over removal of asbestos during renovation of the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City. The Kansas City Star reports $25 million will go toward...
Oct 28 2016 // Wallace & Associates Insurance Agency, based in Jackson, Mo., recently hired Ron Brown as its property/casualty producer. In this position, Brown will handle automobile and home insurance for new and existing accounts,...