Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jury Awards Missouri Man $5M in Lawsuit Against BNSF
May 3 2018 // A southwest Missouri man who was injured twice at the BNSF Railway Co. rail yard in Springfield has been awarded more than $5 million in damages. A Greene County jury found for former conductor James Mitchell last week...
Missouri Employers Mutual: More Businesses Injury-Free in 2017
Apr 26 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance (MEM), says it experienced an all-time high in injury-free policyholders last year. MEM’s 2017 workplace safety data show the company increased...
J.M. Wilson Adds Assistant Underwriters in Indiana, Missouri
Apr 25 2018 // J.M. Wilson has added Shelly Tucker-Lorenz as assistant surety underwriter in its Indiana office and Michelle Smith as assistant transportation underwriter in Kansas City, Missouri. Tucker-Lorenz has 15 years of previous...
Missouri’s Midland Commerce Insurance Buys Dublin Insurance Agency
Apr 24 2018 // St. Louis, Missouri-based Midland Commerce Insurance has purchased Dublin Insurance Agency, a family owned and operated company that was founded in 1964 by Tom Mooney and later bought by owner Eileen Markham in...
OSHA Investigating Fatal Missouri TV Tower Collapse
Apr 23 2018 // Federal safety investigators are on the scene of a TV tower collapse in southwest Missouri that left one person dead. OSHA investigators are trying to determine what caused the 1,980-foot tower to collapse Thursday near...
Buildings Damaged as Tornadoes Hit Southern Missouri County
Apr 16 2018 // The National Weather Service says two tornadoes hit sparsely-populated rural areas of Wright County in southern Missouri as strong storms raked states from Texas north to Iowa. Springfield television station KOLR reports...
Missouri’s Nelson Honored with National Insurance Regulator Award
Apr 13 2018 // Angela Nelson, director of the Division of Market Regulation and Chief Industry Liaison at the Missouri Department of Insurance has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the Paul DeAngelo Memorial Teaching Award given by...
Missouri Prison Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Costs State $600K
Apr 5 2018 // The state of Missouri has paid out nearly $600,000 to a female corrections officer to settle another sexual harassment lawsuit. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday cited a report issued by the Missouri attorney...
Lawsuits Against Facebook Pile Up Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Apr 5 2018 // Facebook Inc. finds itself in the eye of a rapidly building legal storm over the disclosure of user data to political research firm Cambridge Analytica. Lawsuits are piling up from users and investors. U.S. lawmakers are...
Missouri Passes Measure to Limit Insurance Company Payouts
Apr 4 2018 // A bill on Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ desk would limit how much money insurance companies would have to pay after vehicle accidents. The proposal affects cases where multiple people are owed money from an insurance...
Workers’ Compensation Insurer Stonetrust Enters Missouri, Tennessee
Apr 3 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurer Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co. has begun writing business in Missouri and Tennessee. Stonetrust, which is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is also writing in Louisiana,...
People
Apr 2 2018 // Independent insurance broker ONI Risk Partners (ONI) has hired Mike Loveless as a commercial risk adviser in ONI’s Fort Wayne, Indiana, office. Loveless most recently worked for JPMorgan Chase as a branch manager. He...
Declarations
Apr 2 2018 // Autonomous Caution “Unlike Arizona, California has taken a safety driven approach when developing autonomous vehicle regulations.” — Jim Frazier, a California Assemblyman, urged caution in his state...
Missouri Bill Backing Workplace Arbitration Fails to Advance
Mar 27 2018 // A Missouri bill to strengthen employment contracts that require sexual harassment, discrimination and other work-related issues to be decided through arbitration has died an unusually early death that came as Congress...
‘Plaintiff-Friendly’ St. Louis Targeted in Missouri Bill
Mar 26 2018 // Business groups are praising a bill under consideration in the Missouri Senate that would restrict when people can join together to sue over injuries. The bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Glen Kolkmeyer of Odessa,...
Judge Says Corps Is Responsible for Flooding, Damage in 4 Midwest States
Mar 15 2018 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should act immediately to make flood control the top priority on the Missouri River, an attorney for hundreds of farmers, landowners and business operators said after a federal judge ruled...
Burton Joins Missouri’s Wiley Insurance Agency
Mar 14 2018 // Wiley Insurance Agency in West Plains, Mo., has hired Melissa Burton as customer service representative/agent. Burton will write policies and enter information into the agency’s management system for new and existing...
Missouri House Passes Bill Aimed at Limiting Asbestos Lawsuit Awards
Mar 12 2018 // The Missouri House has passed legislation to change the rules for lawsuits over asbestos exposure, an effort praised by supporters as a way to stop plaintiffs from being overcompensated but criticized by others as limiting...
Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Acquires Self Insurance in Missouri
Mar 8 2018 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc., headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, has acquired a Sikeston, Missouri-based agency, Tri-Star of Sikeston Inc., doing business as Self Insurance. Now led by Brian Self, the...
Missouri’s Valley Insurance Agency Alliance Adds 4 Team Members
Mar 2 2018 // St. Louis, Missouri-based Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), with 100 independent insurance agency members in Missouri and Illinois, recently hired four new employees. Clinton Mudd and Michael Thornton will serve as...
