All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 3 2024 // Nuclear verdicts of at least $10 million reached a 15-year high in 2023, while 27 verdicts were “thermonuclear,” or more than $100 million, according to a new study by research firm Marathon Strategies.The...
May 30 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving one person dead and about 1 million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe...
May 24 2024 // After failing in several U.S. states this year, global chemical manufacturer Bayer said Tuesday that it plans to amplify efforts to create a legal shield against a proliferation of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn that...
May 22 2024 // COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers will have to pay out of their own pockets if they lose defamation cases filed against them for falsely accusing a Kansas man of being one of the Kansas City Chiefs parade shooters...
May 15 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) — Advocates for victims of abuse at Missouri boarding schools on Monday urged the state’s attorney general to launch an investigation, work with local prosecutors and take other steps aimed at...
May 10 2024 // Federal workplace safety inspectors have cited a Missouri roofing contractor for 21 violations for illegally exposing roof workers — five times in seven weeks — at six Wentzville residential worksites to the dangers of...
May 10 2024 // Nuclear verdicts of at least $10 million reached a 15-year high in 2023, while 27 verdicts were “thermonuclear,” or more than $100 million, according to a new study by research firm Marathon Strategies.The...
May 2 2024 // The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday took the unusual step of striking down a 2022 voter-approved constitutional amendment that required Kansas City to spend a larger percentage of its money on the police department, and...
Apr 26 2024 // A federal jury on Thursday found a North Carolina insurance agent and two Missouri lawyers guilty on all counts in a $4 million tax evasion scheme that also defrauded an insurance carrier.The jury in Charlotte, said...
Apr 26 2024 // JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The manufacturer of a popular weedkiller won support Wednesday from the Missouri House for a proposal that could shield it from costly lawsuits alleging it failed to warn customers its product...
Apr 18 2024 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Stung by paying billions of dollars for settlements and trials, chemical giant Bayer has been lobbying lawmakers in three states to pass bills providing it a legal shield from lawsuits that claim...
Apr 8 2024 // Karen Nickel has been dealing with lupus and other illnesses for years, illnesses she blames on childhood exposure to a suburban St. Louis creek where Cold War-era nuclear waste was dumped decades ago. It’s time, she...
Apr 8 2024 // Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit persuaded a Missouri judge to cut almost $1 billion from a $1.5 billion jury verdict that was one of the largest in the six years the company has been fighting thousands of claims that its...
Apr 1 2024 // Novatae Risk Group, Bretton Woods InternationalDallas-based Novatae Risk Group is acquiring the Lloyd’s broker Bretton Woods International (BWI) of London. The transaction is subject to applicable regulatory approval...
Mar 20 2024 // A severe convective storm system spawned softball-sized hail and destructive tornadoes across the central U.S. last week, leaving meteorologists to speculate if warmer winter weather is behind the storm outbreak.As parts...
Mar 15 2024 // Massive chunks of hail pelted parts of Kansas and Missouri on Wednesday night, bringing traffic to a standstill along Interstate 70, as storms unleashed possible tornadoes and meteorologists urged residents to stay...
Mar 14 2024 // The Missouri Captive Insurance industry increased its gross written premium by 142% in 2023, the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) reported.The amount of written premiums in 2022 were $3,543,681,320 vs....
Mar 13 2024 // Brawner Insurance Agency recently acquired Armstrong Insurance, a four-year-old agency serving Northeast Missouri. Brawner Insurance owner Jared Brawner will continue to serve as president and hired Jake Bunker as Sales...
Mar 8 2024 // Two Columbia, Missouri residents were sentenced in federal court on March 6 for their roles in a $1.1 million insurance fraud scheme that involved false claims of injuries suffered in faked car accidents.Michael Lee Gene...
Mar 5 2024 // A unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was added on Monday to a lawsuit accusing the National Association of Realtors and several brokerages of conspiring to keep real estate commissions artificially high...