Latest Iowa Headlines
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Sweltering Heatwave Grips Central US, Record High Temperatures Recorded
Aug 21 2023 // HOUSTON (AP) – Sweltering temperatures lingered Sunday in a large swath of the central U.S., causing misery from the Gulf of Mexico almost to the Great Lakes. Record high temperatures were recorded in Texas and other...
Facts Are Friends
Aug 21 2023 // Recently, a carrier’s representatives walked into one of my client’s offices. This carrier announced they needed a 25% rate increase because of the carriers’ poor loss ratios. My top clients are well...
Missouri’s Cameron Mutual Placed Into Rehabilitation
Aug 10 2023 // Cameron Mutual Insurance Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Cameron National Insurance Company, were placed into rehabilitation this week by the Circuit Court of Cole County, Missouri. Missouri Department of Commerce...
Heat, Humidity Kill Hundreds of Cattle During World’s Hottest Month
Aug 9 2023 // Hundreds of cattle died in Iowa from extreme heat and humidity in late July, the state and livestock producers said, as the world recorded its hottest month ever. The deaths show the toll of severe weather on farm animals...
Report Says 3 Died of Blunt Force Injuries, Asphyxiation in Iowa Building Collapse
Aug 4 2023 // DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – Three men killed in a downtown Davenport apartment building collapse more than two months ago died of blunt-force injuries and asphyxiation, Iowa’s health agency said. The finding released...
AM Best Places Iowa’s GuideOne Under Review With Negative Implications
Jul 17 2023 // AM Best has placed under review with negative implications the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a-” (Excellent) of GuideOne Insurance...
Business Moves
Jul 3 2023 // National Acrisure, TEn Insurance Services Ltd., Eleven Network Acrisure, a financial technology and insurance company headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has acquired the UK-based insurance broker network TEn...
What You Need to Know to Thrive in an Ever-Changing Insurance Industry: Takeaways from the 2023 Global Insurance Symposium
Jun 21 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. More than 400 insurance professionals – state, federal, and international regulators; P&C, life, and health carriers; insurtech entrepreneurs; and college...
Davenport, Iowa Hires Outside Firms to Investigate Partial Building Collapse
Jun 16 2023 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Two companies have been tasked with investigating the partial collapse of a six-story apartment building in Iowa that left three dead, many injured and dozens displaced, the city of Davenport...
First MainStreet Adds Four Agencies in Iowa
Jun 15 2023 // First MainStreet Insurance L.C. (FMSI), an affiliate of TrueNorth Companies L.C., announced the addition of four new agencies. Lauer & Lauer Insurance, based in West Union, Iowa was FMSI’s first acquisition of...
Crews Begin Demolishing Remains of Collapsed Iowa Building
Jun 14 2023 // DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – Crews on Monday started demolishing the remains of a six- story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, that partially collapsed more than two weeks ago, killing three people and leaving dozens...
Residents Reported Cracked Floors, Bowed Walls at Iowa Building Before Deadly Collapse
Jun 12 2023 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – So many people knew something wasn’t right at the 116- year-old Davenport apartment building. The structural engineer who documented the shaky wall. The head of a masonry company who...
New Lawsuit Filed After Iowa Building Collapse
Jun 8 2023 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A woman whose leg was amputated in order to free her from the rubble of the partially collapsed building in Davenport, Iowa, filed a lawsuit with her wife Wednesday, accusing the city and the...
Week After Iowa Building Collapse, Minnesota Condo Evacuated Over Stability Concerns
Jun 7 2023 // ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) – Less than a week after an apartment building partially collapsed in Iowa, more than 140 people were evacuated from a condominium in Minnesota after a structural engineer expressed concerns...
3 Bodies Recovered in Iowa Building Collapse; Lawsuit Accuses City, Owners of Negligence
Jun 6 2023 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The bodies of three men have been removed from the site of a collapsed six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, about a week after part of the century-old structure tumbled to the...
Body of Missing Man Recovered at Iowa Apartment Collapse Site; Two Others Still Missing
Jun 5 2023 // DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – The body of one of three men who had been missing after the partial collapse of an apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, has been found, a city official confirmed Sunday. Branden Colvin...
People Moves: Alliant Adds McGrath to Chicago Team; UFG Appoints Allsup as Assistant VP
Jun 2 2023 // Alliant Insurance Services Names Matt McGrath as Vice President, Americas Division Matt McGrath has joined Alliant Insurance Services’ Alliant Americas division as vice president. Based in Chicago, McGrath will focus...
Amputation Frees Woman From Collapsed Iowa Building
Jun 2 2023 // DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – One moment Lexus Berry and her wife were rushing toward the door of their fourth-floor apartment, and the next, Quanishia “Peach” Berry was gone. Their apartment had disappeared...
Iowa Apartment Collapse Leaves Residents Missing, Rubble Too Dangerous to Search
Jun 1 2023 // DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – Five residents of a six-story apartment building that partially collapsed in eastern Iowa remained unaccounted for Tuesday, and authorities feared at least two of them might be stuck inside...
Mayor: 5 Unaccounted For, 2 Likely in Wreckage of Collapsed Iowa Apartment Building
May 31 2023 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Five people remain unaccounted for, including two people whose remains may be in a pile of rubble at the site of a partially collapsed apartment building, officials of the city of Davenport,...
