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Apr 16 2018 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group added Betty Shepherd as divisional senior vice president of Cyber Liability. She will oversee the company’s cyber initiatives and existing cyber underwriting...
Salmonella in Chicken Salad From Iowa Kills 1, Sickens 265 in 8 States
Apr 12 2018 // Chicken salad made by an Iowa food processing company and distributed by Fareway Stores in the Midwest sickened 265 people in eight states and caused one death in Iowa from salmonella contamination, the U.S. Centers for...
Iowa Riverboat Casino Settles Revenue-Sharing Lawsuit for $1.5M
Apr 9 2018 // The owners of a former Sioux City, Iowa, riverboat casino have agreed to pay $1.5 million to a nonprofit group that had filed a lawsuit over unpaid revenue-sharing funds. The Community Action Agency of Siouxland and the...
Iowa Law Allowing Health Plans to Skirt ACA Signed by Governor
Apr 4 2018 // Iowa will allow people to buy a cheaper form of health insurance that skirts Affordable Care Act rules, under legislation signed into law by the state’s Republican governor. The law will allow Iowa’s Farm...
Judge to Decide on Evidence to Allow in Monsanto Product Liability Litigation
Mar 14 2018 // Picture Iowa farmers bathing in Roundup weed killer. That was a federal judge’s takeaway after seeing slides that “sort of seared into my brain” that the main chemical in Monsanto Co.’s Roundup is...
Iowa Charges 2 Ex-Insurance Workers with Fraud
Mar 5 2018 // A former insurance agent and former claims representative have been charged with felonies following separate investigations by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau. Former insurance agent Nicholas Menough, 37,...
Man Injured by Gas in Iowa Hog Barn Awarded Nearly $1.2M
Mar 5 2018 // A man felled by toxic gas inside a northwest Iowa hog confinement barn has won nearly $1.2 million for his injuries. An O’Brien County jury hearing the lawsuit trial found property owner Patrick Probst negligent for...
Iowa Town: Flammable Stover at DowDuPont Plant Cause of Concern
Feb 27 2018 // Public safety officials are concerned about up to 500,000 bales of flammable stover that are stored across central Iowa and will be left over after a cellulosic ethanol plant is sold. The newly merged DowDuPont is selling...
Home Improvement, Imposter Scams Top Iowa 2017 Complaint List
Feb 26 2018 // While home improvement troubles topped the list of complaints consumers filed with the Iowa Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division in 2017, followed by imposter scams, insurance still made it into the top...
Iowa Father and Son Sentenced in Grinnell Mutual Insurance Fraud Case
Feb 26 2018 // A father and son were sentenced in early February in a case involving insurance fraud perpetrated against Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co., the Iowa Insurance Division reported. Richard H. Hartman, age 69, of Manchester,...
Fareway Chicken Salad Produced at Iowa Processing Plant Recalled
Feb 23 2018 // The federal government issued a recall of chicken salad made by an Iowa processing company and distributed by Fareway Stores which has now sickened more than 100 people in five states and prompted lawsuits in Illinois,...
Former Iowa Insurance Agent Sentenced for Ongoing Criminal Conduct
Feb 15 2018 // A former insurance agent in Bettendorf, Iowa, has been sentenced to five years’ supervised probation for insurance fraud, the Iowa Insurance Division reported Billie J. Holmberg pleaded guilty in Scott County...
Property Manager in Iowa City Ordered to Pay $5.6M in Worker’s Death
Feb 14 2018 // A prominent Iowa City landlord was ordered to pay $5.6 million in damages after jurors held him responsible for the 2014 death of a maintenance worker. A jury ruled that Jeffrey Clark, manager of Apartments Downtown Inc.,...
‘Dancing with the Stars’ Bus Crashes in Iowa Pileup
Feb 7 2018 // Officials say a bus carrying the touring cast and crew of “Dancing with the Stars” was involved in a large pileup during a snow storm in central Iowa, but no one on the bus was seriously hurt. Iowa State...
Man Admits to Damaging Iowa’s ‘Field of Dreams’ Site
Feb 5 2018 // A 20-year-old man has told authorities that he drove onto and damaged the Iowa baseball field made famous by the 1989 “Field of Dreams” movie. Court records say Austin Pape, of Dyersville, is charged with...
Vandal Causes Thousands of Dollars in Damage to ‘Field of Dreams’ Site in Iowa
Feb 5 2018 // A vandal has caused thousands of dollars in damage to the Field of Dreams in Iowa by driving a vehicle onto the site made famous by the 1989 movie. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports that workers at the site outside...
Iowa’s Holmes Murphy Adds Stewart, McCumber to Leadership Team
Jan 25 2018 // Des Moines, Iowa-based independent insurance brokerage Holmes Murphy & Associates has added Tom Stewart, president of Innovative Captive Strategies (a Holmes Murphy subsidiary) and Charisse McCumber, senior vice...
Investigation: Worker Killed in Iowa Mine Sought Crystals, Despite Warning
Jan 25 2018 // A federal investigation has concluded a worker wasn’t following safety protocols when he was killed last year in a limestone mine collapse in Iowa’s Scott County. The Quad-City Times reports a Mine Safety and...
Iowa School District Settles Wrongful Termination Suit for nearly $1M
Jan 25 2018 // School officials in central Iowa have reached a nearly $1 million settlement with a former employee who alleged he was wrongfully fired after reporting improper conduct by a high-ranking district officer. The Waukee Board...
Vandal Causes Thousands of Dollars in Damage to Iowa ‘Field of Dreams’ Site
Jan 25 2018 // A vandal has caused thousands of dollars in damage to the Field of Dreams in Iowa by driving a vehicle onto the site made famous by the 1989 movie. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports that workers at the site outside...
