Latest Iowa Headlines
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Iowa Man Charged With Insurance Fraud
Jul 11 2022 // Stephen Allen Allgood Jr., age 33, of Eddyville, was charged with one count of Insurance Fraud – Presenting False Information (Class D Felony) following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud...
Family of Boy Killed in Iowa Amusement Park Accident Sues Facility
Jul 5 2022 // The family of an 11-year old boy who died on a water ride at an Iowa amusement park a year ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit in state court last week, alleging the park failed to properly maintain and repair its...
Three Iowa Women Charged with Insurance Fraud
Jun 28 2022 // Three women were charged with insurance fraud following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau. Danesha Minor, 37, of Des Moines was charged with presenting false information (Class D Felony),...
Iowa City Settles Fatal Police Shooting Suit for $5M
Jun 28 2022 // Burlington, Iowa, has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the mother of a man who was shot to death by police nearly five years ago, the two sides said. The settlement comes nearly five...
Crews Find Body of Worker Under Collapsed Iowa Grain Silo
Jun 24 2022 // Crews recovered the body of a man who was buried under piles of grain and debris from a collapsed grain silo in southeastern Iowa on Wednesday. The collapse happened just before 8 a.m. Tuesday at a grain elevator at...
Iowa Court: Carrier Ineligible For Retroactive Reimbursement on Mistaken Workers’ Comp Claim
Jun 20 2022 // An Iowa workers’ compensation insurance carrier is not entitled to retroactive reimbursement from another insurer for benefits it paid in error, the state Supreme Court ruled this month. American Home Assurance paid...
Iowa Supreme Court: 911 Dispatcher’s PTSD Claim Compensable
Jun 7 2022 // The 911 dispatch center that employed Mandy Tripp denied her workers’ compensation claim for post-traumatic stress syndrome because fielding calls involving death and injury are part of the job. A divided Iowa...
Iowa Lawmakers Approve Deer Hunting With Semi-Automatic Rifles
May 26 2022 // Deer hunters would be able to use semi-automatic rifles during a newly created antlerless season in January under a bill approved by lawmakers Tuesday and sent to the governor. The measure given final approval by the House...
Iowa Landlord Settles $135,000 Sexual Harassment Suit
May 18 2022 // The Justice Department announced that it has secured an agreement to resolve a lawsuit alleging that Davenport, Iowa, landlord Juan Goitia violated the Fair Housing Act by sexually harassing female tenants. The settlement...
People Moves: IA&B Hires Lobbyist; Concord Specialty Promotes 3; IMUA Elects Officers
May 13 2022 // IA&B Welcomes John Savant as Government Affairs Director The independent insurance agents’ trade association for Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware has a new lobbyist. The Insurance Agents & Brokers...
Iowa’s First MainStreet Adds 3 Agency Partners
May 12 2022 // First MainStreet Insurance L.C. (FMSI), an affiliate of TrueNorth Companies L.C., added three new agency partners. L.B. Anderson Agency joined FMSI at the end of January. Located in Newhall, IA, L.B. Anderson Agency has...
Iowa Man Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
May 4 2022 // D’Alan Thurmond, age 41, of Waterloo, Iowa pled guilty on April 25, 2022, to one count of Presenting False Information, a class “D” Felony, following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance...
Iowa to Pay $8M Settlement to Man Hit by Snow Plow
May 4 2022 // An Iowa state board has approved an $8 million payment to an Illinois man who was left permanently disabled when he was hit in 2019 by an Iowa Transportation Department snow plow. On Monday, the three-member Iowa State...
Iowa Court Finds No Coverage for COVID Income Loss in 2 Decisions
Apr 26 2022 // The Iowa Supreme Court last week ruled in two separate decisions that COVID-19 did not cause a physical loss or damage that would allow a private golf club or a restaurant and bar to recoup income lost during COVID-19...
Tornado Confirmed in North-Central Iowa
Apr 14 2022 // A tornado hit near Gilmore City in rural north-central Iowa as a strong line of storms moved across the state overnight, the National Weather Service confirmed Wednesday. The tornado was confirmed by a trained spotter...
Iowa Egg, Turkey Farms to Lose 5M Birds to Bird Flu
Apr 7 2022 // Bird flu has infected two more farms in Iowa, forcing the killing of 5.3 million hens and 88,000 turkeys, officials said. The new cases mean that across the nation, farmers have had to kill about 22 million birds, mostly...
Lawsuit Over Iowa Beef Farm in Trout Stream Watershed May Proceed
Apr 5 2022 // A state court judge said environmental groups may proceed with a lawsuit seeking to halt expansion of a cattle farm in northeast Iowa near a prized trout stream. Judge Michael Huppert on Monday ruled against the Iowa...
PartsTrader Launches SurePart, A New Instant Parts Pricing Platform, Which Puts Accuracy at the Heart of Staff Written/IA Estimates
Apr 5 2022 // SurePart from PartsTrader gives appraisers unprecedented access to real market pricing quotes and live inventory feeds, greater accuracy and price guarantees from PartsTrader’s network of suppliers. Chicago, IL.,...
Iowa Insurance Agent’s License Permanently Revoked After Violating Order
Apr 4 2022 // Iowa Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen recently issued an enforcement order against Gary D. Marcum formerly of Clive, Iowa, and now a resident of Kodak, Tennessee. The enforcement order permanently revokes Marcum’s...
Iowa to Kill 1.5 Million More Hens and Turkeys Because of Bird Flu
Apr 4 2022 // Iowa agriculture officials announced two more bird flu outbreaks in commercial flocks that will require the killing of more than 1.5 million hens and turkeys. One of the new outbreaks will lead to the killing of 1.5...
