Latest Iowa Headlines
All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Scoring Legislation Sent to Iowa Governor
Apr 1 2004 // Iowa is the first state this year to pass credit-based insurance scoring legislation based on the National Conference of Insurance Legislators’ (NCOIL) model act. The governor is expected to sign the legislation, the...
Iowa Senate OKs NCOIL Approach to Credit Scoring
Mar 22 2004 // Following a week of intense negotiations, the Iowa Senate approved a bill to restrict credit-based insurance scoring by a vote of 49 to 0. A coalition of industry advocates, led by captive-agent carrier State Farm,...
Med-Mal Caps Advance in Iowa, Mo.
Mar 16 2004 // Tort reform continued to advance in the Midwest last week as legislators in the House of Representatives in Iowa and Missouri passed measures that would put caps on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases. The Iowa...
Gallagher Acquires Iowa Agency
Mar 10 2004 // Itasca, Ill.-based brokerage giant Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Don Laster Agency Inc. of Urbandale, Iowa. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. In business since 1983, the Don Laster...
Tort Reformers Look to Score in States after Washington Strikes Out
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Pair of State Staffers Earn NAIC’s Highest Individual Award
Dec 9 2003 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has presented its most prestigious individual award to Rosanne Mead, Assistant Iowa Insurance Commissioner, and Fred Nepple, General Counsel in the Wisconsin...
Iowa Agent Gets 4 Years for Securities Fraud
Nov 25 2003 // A Marion, Iowa, insurance agent was sentenced to four years in prison for selling fraudulent securities, according to The Marion Star. Paul L. Edwards, 68, received three years for reportedly engaging in a pattern of...
Insurers Seek Review of Iowa Diminished Value Rule
Aug 14 2003 // The Iowa Administrative Rules Review Committee is being urged by insurer lobbyists to issue a session delay on rule changes to Iowa Code 191-15 that pertain to diminished value in third party claims so that the legislature...
Iowa Pols Sue Guv For Veto of WC & Tort Reforms
Aug 7 2003 // Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack’s line item veto of legislation that supporters say would have improved the state’s business climate is being challenged in court. Republican legislators filed a lawsuit late last week...
Best Places Iowa Mutual Under Positive Review
Aug 4 2003 // A.M. Best Co. has placed the financial strength rating of “B” (Fair) of Dewitt-based Iowa Mutual Group under review with positive implications. This rating action acknowledges the agreement between Iowa Mutual...
N.H., Iowa Doctors to Promote Med-Mal Reform in Early Primary States
Aug 4 2003 // New Hampshire and Iowa traditionally hold the earliest primary elections of the presidential campaign, and doctors associations in the two states are planning to take advantage of the fact to promote medical malpractice...
N.H. Doctors to Promote Med-Mal Reform in Early Primary States
Jul 10 2003 // New Hampshire and Iowa traditionally hold the earliest primary elections of the presidential campaign, and doctors associations in the two states are planning to take advantage of the fact to promote medical malpractice...
Best Places Iowa Mutual Under Positive Review
Jul 7 2003 // A.M. Best Co. has placed the financial strength rating of “B” (Fair) of Dewitt-based Iowa Mutual Group under review with positive implications. This rating action acknowledges the agreement between Iowa Mutual...
Alliance Argues Against Iowa Diminished Value Bill
Apr 25 2003 // A pending Iowa regulation that would regulate the way insurers settle automobile claims is flawed and should be changed, according to the Alliance of American Insurers. “In its current version, IAC 191-15 would force...
Kansas City Life and GuideOne Group of Companies sign Stock purchase agreement for GuideOne Life Insurance Co.
Mar 31 2003 // Kansas City Life Insurance Company and The GuideOne Group of Companies, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, have signed a definitive agreement under which Kansas City Life will buy all of GuideOne Life Insurance...
Kansas City Life and GuideOne Group of Companies Sign Stock Purchase Agreement for GuideOne Life Insurance Co.
Mar 31 2003 // Kansas City Life Insurance Company and The GuideOne Group of Companies, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, have signed a definitive agreement under which Kansas City Life will buy all of GuideOne Life Insurance...
Alleged Thief Surrenders Iowa Producer’s License
Mar 14 2003 // The Iowa Insurance Division (IID) has entered a consent order against Sandra Daugherty of Madrid after she was charged in Story County District Court with three counts of criminal misconduct. Daugherty, who served as...
Workers’ Comp Second Injury Fund Sunset Extension Moves to Iowa Senate
Mar 7 2003 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) said today that it strongly supports a five-year extension of the law that allows insurer assessments for Iowa’s workers’ compensation second injury fund to be based on...
Iowa Commissioner to Deliver Keynote Address for AAIS Conf.
Jan 21 2003 // Iowa Commissioner Therese Vaughan, outgoing president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), will deliver the keynote address at the 2003 American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS) Annual...
NAII Asks Iowa to Alter Proposed Regs for Aftermarket Parts
Dec 10 2002 // National Association of Independent Insurers Counsel Ann Weber has asked Iowa’s Insurance Department to delete a sentence that the NAII feels, “could open the door for some auto repair shops to charge a fee for...
