All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 26 2003 // Farmers Insurance Group told the Missouri Department of Insurance that it is withdrawing from medical malpractice coverage in all 18 states where the firm operates. Affected in Missouri is physician and hospital business...
Jul 23 2003 // A Cole County, MO., Circuit Court judge will hear arguments Aug. 14 on whether to issue a preliminary injunction against medical malpractice insurance sales by an unlicensed Virgin Islands-based company, Security Trust...
Jul 23 2003 // Missouri Department of Insurance Director Scott Lakin announced that his staff will conduct “town hall” meetings Aug. 7 in Hillsboro and Aug. 11 in Stockton for Missourians who suffered tornado damage in early...
Jul 11 2003 // Yesterday’s veto of a comprehensive civil justice reform bill will not only hurt insurers, but also consumers in the long run, according to the Alliance of American Insurers, an industry lobbying group.The bill (SB...
Jul 3 2003 // For the next year, average workers’ compensation rates will fall slightly for Missouri employers that buy coverage through the state’s “pool” of last resort, according to Scott Lakin, director of...
Jun 30 2003 // Missouri Director of Insurance Scott Lakin will hold a public hearing on whether the need exists for a state-sponsored medical malpractice insurance program at 10:30 a.m., Friday, July 11 in Room 492 of the Truman State...
Jun 9 2003 // Missouri Department of Insurance Director Scott B. Lakin said consumer service representatives will counsel victims of the state’s May tornados in seven communities later this month.The counselors will visit...
Jun 3 2003 // The Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) announced it licensed a new medical malpractice insurer in the state, the seventh to be okayed this year. The newly approved entity is a physician-organized carrier organized in...
May 27 2003 // In the final hours of the 2003 Missouri legislative session lawmakers pushed through a tort reform bill designed to overturn the effects of a devastating court case that is largely responsible for sharp increases in...
May 14 2003 // Missouri’s insurers are likely to pay at least $400 million to more than 60,000 Missourians for insured property damage from last week’s tornadoes and other violent storms, according to Insurance Commissioner...
May 14 2003 // Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) Director Scott B. Lakin today said the state must act quickly to reverse a 2002 court ruling that has seriously disrupted Missouri’s medical malpractice market.Under the January...
Apr 9 2003 // First Actual American Insurance Co., which has no license to sell in Missouri, reportedly is soliciting medical malpractice business in the Kansas City area.If doctors or other health-care providers are approached, they...
Mar 7 2003 // Kevin B. Hutchinson, CIC, CRM , a producer with C. J. Thomas Company in St. Louis, is the inaugural recipient of the Maurice Herndon scholarship established by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America...
Mar 6 2003 // The issue of credit-based insurance scoring is being revisited in many Midwestern states that considered legislation or regulations on the subject in previous years, according to the National Association of Independent...
Mar 6 2003 // Illinois and Missouri, along with six other states, have been added to the American Medical Association’s list of states whose medical liability system are deemed to be in crisis. In Illinois, where the state Supreme...
Mar 6 2003 // The Missouri House of Representatives has passed a bill that would limit lawyers’ contingency fees, damages against emergency-room personnel, and require a signed affidavit from a board-certified physician in the...
Feb 24 2003 // A Missouri bill that would tighten the state’s workers’ compensation rules has won first-round approval from the House of Representatives on a 79-62 vote. HB321 would only cover occupational injuries if work is...
Feb 10 2003 // A bill before the Missouri legislature would narrow the kinds of injuries covered by the state’s workers’ compensation system, according to the Associated Press.The state has lost 90,000 jobs in the last 20...
Jan 9 2003 // Michigan’s Meadowbrook Insurance Group announced that its operating subsidiary, Meadowbrook, Inc. has entered into two new fee-for-service agreements with the Director of the Missouri Department of Insurance [MDI] in...
Dec 23 2002 // Cole County Circuit Judge Thomas Brown granted the petition of Scott B. Lakin, the Director of the Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI), and placed two Kansas City-based workers compensation insurers in receivership as...