All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 3 2006 // The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud is reporting that the Kansas and Missouri legislatures are considering proposals that would require insurers to report suspected frauds and allow the insurance department to issue...
Mar 31 2006 // First Bank, a Missouri state chartered bank and wholly owned subsidiary of First Banks Inc. headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, and Clayton, Mo.-based insurance brokerage Adrian N. Baker & Company, announced that...
Mar 17 2006 // The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud is reporting that the Kansas and Missouri legislatures are considering proposals that would require insurers to report suspected frauds and allow the insurance department to issue...
Mar 16 2006 // Gov. Matt Blunt said this week that representatives from the Consumer Services section of the Missouri Department of Insurance will be visiting areas of the state hardest hit by the recent severe weather.Major insurers...
Mar 14 2006 // Insurance companies in the Midwest are beginning to tally claims connected to hundreds of tornadoes and severe storms that hit a five state region in the Midwest late Saturday and early Sunday. Illinois, Indiana, Missouri,...
Mar 9 2006 // A Southern Illinois University cheerleading accident has spurred on the group that sets standards at the school to call for new restrictions on the types of stunts cheerleaders perform.The fall from a 15 foot human pyramid...
Mar 3 2006 // The statue of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn that overlooks the Hannibal, Missouri historic district will be off limits to tourists until the foundation that holds the statue is replaced.An engineering company and the...
Mar 1 2006 // Mo.-based Lockton Companies recently announced that Kerry R. Martin will be its new vice president, Commercial Insurance Division. Martin will be based in Chicago and focus on client development. Formerly, Martin was the...
Feb 24 2006 // Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon has filed suit against a Springfield man who allegedly took advantage of a local woman by claiming to be an attorney for the NAACP. The lawsuit, filed in Greene County Circuit Court,...
Feb 17 2006 // Authorities in Grain Valley, Mo. have arrested two people suspected of making illegal license tags.Police believe the large-scale operation has already brought in $10,000 to $20,000 for those involved. The investigation...
Feb 13 2006 // A campaign flier showed him pushing a big round bale of hay past an onlooking cow. His red-and-white signs featured farm animals, a horse, sheep and pig, absent the Democratic Party donkey.The Associated Press said that...
Feb 7 2006 // New research from the University of Missouri-Columbia shows that a shift to primary enforcement along with a fine increase could significantly boost seat belt use among motorists.Since New York first adopted a mandatory...
Feb 2 2006 // Missouri Governor Matt Blunt, through an executive order, has created a new department to regulate finances, merging the duties previously performed by the Economic Development Department with those of the state Insurance...
Jan 31 2006 // A Springfield, Mo. insurance agent was found guilty this month of illegally selling unregistered investments, a crime that contributed to dozens of Ozark area residents losing millions of dollars. Former insurance agent...
Jan 19 2006 // Missouri’s Cole County Circuit Court has ruled that despite a legislative drafting error, the workers’ compensation reforms enacted last year have been in effect since Senate Bills 1 and 130 became effective in...
Jan 2 2006 // The Missouri Attorney General’s office recently released a statement saying that a record number of Missouri businesses were ordered to obtain workers’ compensation insurance in 2005. According to the Attorney...
Dec 29 2005 // The Missouri Department of Insurance recently released its review of the annual loss cost filing submitted by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. Insurers and self-insurers use loss costs to establish final...
Dec 19 2005 // Barely four out of every 10 Missouri homeowners carry earthquake insurance, a cause of concern cited as Gov. Matt Blunt heard briefings on the state’s earthquake preparations.Blunt held a closed-door Cabinet meeting...
Dec 18 2005 // MISSOURIInsurer to Pay $8 Million: State Farm Insurance has been ordered to pay more than $8 million to a tow truck driver and his sister-in-law who were acquitted of insurance fraud after being accused of faking the theft...
Dec 12 2005 // Barely four out of every 10 Missouri homeowners carry earthquake insurance, a cause of concern cited Friday as Gov. Matt Blunt heard briefings on the state’s earthquake preparations.Blunt held a closed-door Cabinet...