All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2012 // Republican and incumbent Commissioner Adam Hamm will continue to lead the North Dakota Department of Insurance after winning re-election against his Democrat challenger Tom Potter.Hamm received just over 63 percent of the...
Nov 16 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited utility company Missouri American Water for two willful safety violations following the May 16, 2012, death of a worker. Proposed...
Oct 31 2012 // Attorney General Chris Koster announced he has reached a settlement with Innovative Wealth Builders Inc., requiring the Florida business to pay $36,000 in penalties and to abide by Missouri telemarketing laws. Koster filed...
Oct 31 2012 // A St. Louis man was sentenced to two life terms for his part in the robbery and murder of St. Charles, Mo., insurance agent in 2007.Before being sentenced, 33-year-old Cleo S. Hines testified that he was forced to drive...
Oct 23 2012 // Some municipal officials in Missouri and Kansas want to permanently ground lanterns that float through the night sky, saying they are dangerous balls of fire that could spark blazes when they land.The lanterns have become...
Oct 22 2012 // Farmers this spring were able to plant all but a few thousand acres of the land deluged by last year’s flooding along on the Missouri River and the intentional breaching of a Mississippi River levee in southeast...
Oct 19 2012 // Missouri’s Insurance Department says it has recovered $7.7 million so far this year for consumers with complaints about their insurance companies or coverage. The department said this week it fielded more than 10,000...
Oct 18 2012 // The families of a three babies sickened by a rare bacterial infection, including a 10-day-old Missouri infant who died, filed a lawsuit against the Illinois-based manufacturer of a powdered baby formula that they believe...
Oct 17 2012 // Lines of drinkers recently waited on a weekend night to have their intoxication levels checked and it doesn’t have anything to do with a sobriety checkpoint. Kansas City, Mo., police allowed drinkers to measure their...
Oct 17 2012 // Consumers who filed complaints with the Missouri Department of Insurance have received almost $8 million in additional claims payments from their insurance companies in the nine months of 2012.The department said it has...
Oct 16 2012 // A southwest Missouri couple who won a $20 million verdict from the makers of a butter flavoring used at a popcorn plant have filed for bankruptcy. The Joplin Globe reports Eric and Cassandra Peoples of Carthage also are...
Oct 8 2012 // A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder’s lawsuit challenging the federal health care law. The Kansas City Star reported that a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit...
Oct 8 2012 // A federal jury in in St. Louis has ordered an insurance company to pay $11 million to a Joplin, Mo., company for damages caused by an oil pipeline leak. TAMKO Building Products Inc. said in a lawsuit that Factory Mutual...
Oct 2 2012 // The co-founders of defunct St. Louis-area auto service contract seller, US Fidelis, has been sentenced to prison on charges of stealing consumers’ refunds, insurance fraud and consumer fraud.Missouri Attorney General...
Sep 30 2012 // A federal jury ordered an insurance company to pay $11 million to a Joplin, Mo., company for damages caused by an oil pipeline leak.A federal jury in St. Louis returned the verdict. TAMKO Building Products Inc. said in a...
Sep 28 2012 // Missouri insurance regulators said that insurer Aetna agreed to pay a $1.5 million penalty to settle allegations that the company violated requirements for health coverage of autism, contraception and abortions.The state...
Sep 24 2012 // Is a person hired to perform seasonal, part-time tasks for a company owner, based on a referral from an employee of the company, an employee or a temporary worker? It depends, according to Missouri’s high court...
Sep 19 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced it has licensed its 25th captive insurance company. The state began allowing captive formation in 2007 and had just three licensees before Gov. Jay Nixon signed House Bill 577...
Sep 12 2012 // A former lawyer in Missouri’s St. Louis County is going to prison after embezzling nearly $500,000 in insurance settlements from dozens of clients. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 53-year-old Jonathan McKee was...
Sep 10 2012 // State regulators say mutual insurance companies that provide property coverage to rural Missourians will be financially stronger because of a new reinsurance requirement.Missouri Department of Insurance reports that a new...