Latest Missouri Headlines
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J&J Vows to Appeal After Missouri Judge Affirms $4.69B Talc Verdict
Aug 23 2018 // A Missouri trial court judge has affirmed the massive $4.69 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a case involving 22 women and their families who alleged the company’s talc-based products, including its...
Missouri Insurance Department: Medical Professional Liability Insurers Saw Tiny Profit in 2017
Aug 22 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...
Missouri Man Files Lawsuit Over Deadly 2015 Shooting of Son
Aug 21 2018 // The father of a man killed in a St. Louis, Mo. police shooting has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the federal lawsuit alleges that Mansur Ball-Bey was unarmed in August 2015 when...
Weather Service Confirms Tornado in Southwest Missouri
Aug 21 2018 // Authorities say storms have damaged trees, downed power lines and churned up at least one small tornado in southwest Missouri. National Weather Service meteorologist Drew Albert says an EF-0 tornado has been confirmed near...
Missouri Corrections Officers Awarded $113.7M in Overtime Lawsuit
Aug 17 2018 // A jury has awarded Missouri prison guards compensation for work they performed before and after their shifts. A Cole County jury on Aug. 14 awarded $113.7 million to 13,000 current corrections officers or those who worked...
Survivor of Missouri Duck Boat Sinking Wants Them Banned
Aug 16 2018 // An Indiana woman whose husband and three children died when a duck boat sank last month in Missouri said she hopes to save lives by backing an effort to ban the amphibious tourist boats. Tia Coleman, speaking through tears...
34 Sickened by Salmonella Outbreak in Southeast Missouri County
Aug 15 2018 // A southeast Missouri county is investigating a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 34 people. The Southeast Missourian reports that the cause hasn’t been determined. Perry County Health Department communicable...
Insurer for Missouri City Must Pay $5.3M to Man with Overturned Conviction
Aug 15 2018 // A judge has ordered a former insurance carrier for the city of Columbia to pay $5.3 million to a man who served 10 years in prison before his conviction for killing a sports editor in Columbia was thrown out. The Columbia...
Church Van Crashes in Missouri; 3 Dead, 10 Injured
Aug 13 2018 // Three teenagers from Kansas were killed and 10 other people were injured Friday after a church van heading for an outing crashed in southwestern Missouri. The wreck happened around 10:40 a.m. on Missouri Route 13, five...
Feds: Missouri Farmworkers Kept in Inhumane Conditions
Aug 13 2018 // A Florida company kept more than 100 temporary farmworkers in “inhumane” and “unsanitary” working conditions while not paying them what they were due as they harvested watermelons in southeast...
Missouri Voters Reject Attempt to Weaken Labor Unions
Aug 10 2018 // The steady march of new “right-to-work” laws in Republican-led states hit a wall in Missouri, where voters resoundingly rejected a measure that could have weakened union finances after national and local labor...
Feds Examining Electronic Devices as Missouri Duck Boat Inquiry Continues
Aug 9 2018 // Federal officials are reviewing cellphones, a camera and a recording device found with a duck boat that sank in a storm last month in southern Missouri, as part of investigations into the disaster that killed 17...
Coast Guard: Missouri Duck Boat in Violation of Inspection Terms
Aug 3 2018 // A tourist boat was on the lake despite wind speeds far exceeding allowable limits when it sank last month in Missouri, killing 17 people, according to a certificate of inspection made public on Aug. 1. The U.S. Coast Guard...
Family Who Lost 9 Files 2nd Lawsuit Over Missouri Duck Boat Tragedy
Aug 2 2018 // Fifty-three members of an Indiana family who lost nine relatives when a duck boat sank in Missouri described their pain and unfathomable loss on July 31 while calling for a ban on the amphibious tourist boats that their...
Huffman Insurance Group in Missouri Adds Neal
Aug 1 2018 // Huffman Insurance Group, based in Moberly, Missouri, recently hired Sheri Neal as its new customer service representative (CSR). In this position, Neal will handle the collection, processing, and distribution of all agency...
$100M Lawsuit Filed in Fatal Missouri Duck Boat Sinking
Jul 31 2018 // The owners and operators of a tourist boat that sank this month in Missouri, killing 17 people, put profits over people’s safety when they decided to put the Ride the Ducks boat on a lake despite design problems and...
Missouri’s U.S. Sen. McCaskill Wants Tighter Rules on Duck Boats After Accident
Jul 26 2018 // Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill announced that she wants to enshrine into law federal recommendations to improve duck boat safety such as getting rid of canopies that can trap passengers if the vehicles sink, a move...
Inspector Last Year Reported Sunken Missouri Duck Boat Had Design Flaws
Jul 23 2018 // A private inspector said Saturday that he warned the company operating duck boats on a Missouri lake about design flaws putting the watercraft at greater risk of sinking, less than a year before the accident that killed 17...
Missouri Employers Mutual’s Walleck Named to NCCI Underwriting Committee
Jul 19 2018 // Roger Walleck, vice president of Underwriting at Missouri Employers Mutual, has been elected to serve on the national underwriting committee for the workers’ compensation rate making organization, National Council on...
Legal Experts See Obstacles for J&J Appeal of $4.7 Billion Talc Verdict
Jul 16 2018 // Johnson & Johnson has vowed to appeal a $4.7 billion verdict awarded to 22 women who claim asbestos-contaminated talc in the company’s products gave them ovarian cancer by arguing the plaintiffs’ science...
