All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 5 2004 // Tort reform continued to advance in the Midwest as legislators in the House of Representatives in Iowa and Missouri passed measures that would put caps on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases. The Iowa House...
Mar 17 2004 // The Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) has re-awarded a contract to administer its licensure examination program to St. Paul-based Experior Assessments.Under the new contract, Experior will continue to design and...
Mar 16 2004 // Tort reform continued to advance in the Midwest last week as legislators in the House of Representatives in Iowa and Missouri passed measures that would put caps on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases. The Iowa...
Mar 12 2004 // The issue of credit-based insurance scoring will once again reportedly be the subject of much discussion and attention during the spring meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in New York,...
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Mar 8 2004 // Insurers are applying the brakes to workers’ compensation rate increases in Missouri, according to the state’s insurance department. After almost one-third of such insurers filed rate changes in January,...
Mar 3 2004 // Supporters of tort reform won a victory recently as the Missouri Supreme Court blocked an attempt to move a medical malpractice case to St. Louis, which is known to be a very plaintiff-friendly jurisdiction.“Putting...
Feb 23 2004 // Insurers’ use of credit scoring in underwriting and rating personal lines insurance harms poor and minority policyholders in Missouri, according to a study released by the state’s insurance department.The...
Feb 23 2004 // A new report by the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) shows that residual market plans for private passenger auto insurance continue to result in significant losses for insurance companies, and...
Feb 23 2004 // In the last year, policymakers have crafted more measured responses to political concerns about insurers’ use of credit information. Such a balance is lacking in the Missouri proposal. Property/casualty...
Feb 17 2004 // Insurers are applying the brakes to workers’ compensation rate increases in Missouri, according to the state’s insurance department. After almost one-third of such insurers filed rate changes in January,...
Feb 2 2004 // Insurers’ use of credit scoring in underwriting and rating personal lines insurance harms poor and minority policyholders in Missouri, according to a study released by the state’s insurance department.The...
Jan 26 2004 // State regulators and the insurance industry’s principal workers’ compensation trade group have called for a reduction in Missouri workers’ compensation insurance rates, providing financial relief for the...
Dec 15 2003 // A Missouri court has ruled against the Missouri Department of Insurance, enjoining the department from enforcing rules requiring workers’ compensation insurers to pay for managed care organizations’ services,...
Dec 11 2003 // Severity of patient injuries reached an all-time high for medical malpractice payments in 2002, but victim awards have not kept pace with inflation and increasing disabilities, the Missouri Department of Insurance said in...
Dec 5 2003 // Missouri’s House Bill 600 has taken effect, requiring persons with professional licenses to file and pay their state taxes or face license revocation.Affected under the legislation are Missouri Department of...
Oct 29 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers has urged the Missouri Department of Insurance not to issue a proposed bulletin that would require insurers to provide coverage for mold damage in personal lines policies.“The...
Oct 23 2003 // Missouri Gov. Bob Holden announced that the administrative tax on Missouri workers’ compensation insurance premiums will drop 50 percent in 2004, saving employers more than $12 million. The administrative tax will...
Sep 29 2003 // Missouri Gov. Bob Holden announced the creation the 17-member Missouri Commission on Patient Safety to improve the quality of health care and further reduce the number of medical malpractice claims in the...
Sep 29 2003 // A Cole County, Mo., Circuit Court judge has granted the Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) a permanent injunction that prohibits a Virgin Islands-based insurer from soliciting or making medical malpractice sales until...