All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 8 2004 // Results from 2004’s first nine months indicate Missouri should post its lowest rate of premium increases for workers’ compensation insurance since 2000, according to Department of Insurance Director Scott...
Oct 28 2004 // Results from 2004’s first nine months indicate Missouri should post its lowest rate of premium increases for workers’ compensation insurance since 2000, according to Department of Insurance Director Scott...
Aug 12 2004 // The Myers Law Firm has opened an office in Lee’s Summit, Mo. Its principal, Ross S. Myers, served 5 1/2 years as senior counsel of insurance regulatory affairs for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners...
Jul 22 2004 // Suzanne SahakianProperty/casualty guaranty funds were created by state statutes beginning in the late 1960s to protect the public against financial losses to policyholders and claimants as a result of property and casualty...
Jul 22 2004 // Larry CaseIn working with and representing Missouri’s independent agent community over the past 17 years, I have always believed that agents deserve more and better. That not only goes for the service delivered by...
Jul 19 2004 // In working with and representing Missouri’s independent agent community over the past 17 years, I have always believed that agents deserve more and better. That not only goes for the service delivered by the Missouri...
Jul 19 2004 // Property/casualty guaranty funds were created by state statutes beginning in the late 1960s to protect the public against financial losses to policyholders and claimants as a result of property and casualty insurance...
Jul 9 2004 // The consumer group, Center for Economic Justice (CEJ), released a statement in response to a National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) study on credit scoring.CEJ’s Executive Director Birny Birnbaum...
Jun 23 2004 // Two national insurance company trade organizations have expressed legal concerns about the recently initiated multi-state study on credit-based insurance scores and have asked regulators in eight states to withdraw their...
Jun 21 2004 // Missouri’s new state-sponsored medical malpractice insurance program has begun accepting applications for coverage effective June 30 or later, the state’s insurance department announced recently.Physicians and...
Jun 18 2004 // The CEO of Appleton, Wis.-based SECURA Insurance Cos., John Bykowski, took some time recently to talk with IJ during the Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin’s annual convention. SECURA has total assets of $406...
Jun 9 2004 // Missouri Gov. Bob Holden has requested a Federal Disaster Declaration for Individual Assistance for counties impacted by the severe storms and tornadoes from May 18 through Memorial Day weekend.“We are requesting...
Jun 7 2004 // Midwest • May 5, 2004 “A typical response from a governor who is on the trial lawyers payroll!” — Kevin Maher, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Jun 7 2004 // Midwest • May 5, 2004 “A typical response from a governor who is on the trial lawyers payroll!” — Kevin Maher, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Jun 1 2004 // Powerful storms again swept across the Midwest, downing trees and power lines and spawning twisters that leveled houses and barns and sent mobile homes hurtling through the air.In Marengo, Ind., a town of 800 about 35...
Jun 1 2004 // The effort to override Missouri Gov. Bob Holden’s veto of tort reform legislation fell short in the House of Representatives, thus ending this year’s attempt to address the state’s medical liability...
May 28 2004 // The Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) announced it will provide an additional 15 days’ extra warning before it revokes licenses when agents have apparent unpaid tax liabilities to the state. MDI said it has...
May 10 2004 // Missouri Republicans are trying to override a veto by Democratic Gov. Bob Holden of a bill that placed caps on pain-and-suffering awards in medical malpractice cases, according to the Associated Press. Holden vetoed a...
May 5 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has issued a bulletin expressing serious legal and public policy concerns about a multi-state study being conducted by insurance regulators on the “impact of...
Apr 12 2004 // Missouri “pool” businesses should reportedly save $3 million from 3.7 percent workers’ compensation rate cutThe private insurer running Missouri’s workers’ “pool” for high-risk...