Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tower Hill Specialty Expands Property Insurance Offerings to Missouri
Nov 15 2018 // Ohio-based insurance provider Tower Hill Specialty LLC says its property insurance products available are now available in Missouri. A subsidiary of Tower Hill Insurance Group LLC headquartered in Gainesville, Florida,...
Missouri Plumbing Contractor Admits to Safety Violations; Will Pay $225K Penalty
Nov 2 2018 // Arrow Plumbing LLC has admitted to willfully violating federal safety standards by failing to require and enforce the use of trench boxes or other trench protection techniques at a home construction site in Belton,...
Appalachian Underwriters Names Schnarre as Midwest External Marketing Rep
Oct 23 2018 // Appalachian Underwriters Inc. has named Nick Schnarre as external marketing representative for Illinois, Indiana and Missouri agents. He will be working remotely in the St. Louis, Missouri, area, helping agents in those...
Seeman Holtz P&C Acquires Missouri Agency, Redel Insurance
Oct 18 2018 // Boca Raton, Florida-based Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired Redel Insurance Agency Inc., headquartered in Ballwin, Missouri. Redel Insurance Agency has been operating in Missouri for three-quarters of...
Firms Sued Over Missouri Duck Boat Sinking Seek Mediation, Cite 1851 Law
Oct 18 2018 // Two companies facing multiple lawsuits over a summer tourist boat accident in Missouri that killed 17 people have invoked an 1851 law that allows vessel owners to try to avoid or limit legal damages as they also seek...
Lockton Names Gibson Sr. VP, Director of Marketing, Communications, External Affairs
Oct 17 2018 // Kansas City, Missouri-based insurance services firm, Lockton Companies, has named Julie Gibson senior vice president, director of marketing, communications and external affairs. She is based in Kansas City. Gibson will...
Missouri School District Settles Age Discrimination Lawsuit for $116.4K
Oct 15 2018 // The Springfield, Missouri, school district has reached a settlement with a longtime secretary who claimed in a lawsuit that the district tried to fire her because of her age. The Springfield News-Leader reports the...
Duck Boat Company Wants Some Missouri Boat Death Lawsuits Dropped
Oct 3 2018 // The company that owns the Ride the Ducks operation in Branson has asked a judge to dismiss some of the lawsuits filed after one of its boats sank in a Missouri lake in July, killing 17 people. Ripley Entertainment said in...
Missouri’s POWERS Insurance and Risk Management Adds Smith
Oct 2 2018 // St. Louis, Missouri-based POWERS Insurance and Risk has hired Shari Smith as commercial lines account manager. Smith will be responsible for the ongoing management of commercial clients, retaining new and renewal clients,...
Personal Injury Insurance Actions in Missouri and a New Definition of ‘Reasonable Value’
Oct 1 2018 // A change in a Missouri state statute has created a new, interpretable definition of reasonable value of medical care in personal injury litigation. Although the change was likely intended to provide more clarity, competing...
Missouri District to Pay $423K to Settle With Teen Injured in Mud Pit
Sep 28 2018 // Springfield Public Schools in Missouri has agreed to pay $423,106 to a settle a lawsuit alleging that a teen was critically injured in a mud pit because staff failed to properly supervise students at a back-to-school...
Missouri Sawmill Cited for Safety Violations; Faces Nearly $200K in Penalties
Sep 19 2018 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed penalties of $199,183 to Missouri-based American Walnut Company LLC for two repeated and 14 serious safety violations....
Insurer Fights Paying $5.3M to Man Wrongly Convicted in Missouri
Sep 17 2018 // A former insurance carrier for the city of Columbia, Missouri, is appealing a ruling that it owes $5.3 million to a man who served 10 years in prison before his conviction for killing a sports editor in Columbia was thrown...
Duck Boat Operators Fight Back, Call Missouri AG’s Lawsuit ‘Irresponsible’
Sep 12 2018 // The operators of a Missouri duck boat that sank in July, killing 17 people, say in a court filing that a lawsuit from Missouri’s attorney general is “irresponsible” and “littered with factual...
Missouri Worker Awarded $8.5M in Racial Discrimination Suit
Sep 11 2018 // A St. Joseph, Missouri, woman has been awarded $8.5 million in a racial discrimination lawsuit she brought against Missouri gas utility Spire. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a St. Louis jury awarded $1.3 million...
Missouri AG Sues Over Deadly Duck Boat Sinking
Sep 4 2018 // Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley on Aug. 31 sued the owners and operators of a tourist boat that sank in a Missouri lake, killing 17 people, alleging that the companies violated the state’s consumer protection...
Former Illinois Insurance Broker Sentenced to Prison, Must Repay Nearly $1M
Sep 3 2018 // The former owner of multiple property/casualty insurance operations in northern Illinois has been sentenced to more than four years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1 million in restitution for insurance fraud. U.S....
Report: Missouri Medical Professional Liability Insurers Saw Slight Profit in 2017
Sep 3 2018 // In 2017, poor underwriting results for medical professional liability insurers in Missouri were partially offset by higher investment returns, and insurers barely eked out a profit, earning a 0.2 percent return on net...
Prosecutors: Possible Negligence in Missouri Duck Boat Sinking
Aug 31 2018 // The U.S. Coast Guard has found probable cause that the sinking of a tourist boat on a Missouri lake last month that killed 17 people “resulted from the misconduct, negligence, or inattention to the duties” by...
Credit Ratings Assigned to New Horizons Insurance Co. of Missouri
Aug 29 2018 // A.M. Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “a-” to New Horizons Insurance Company of Missouri (New Horizons). The outlook...
