Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri Man Sues State Over Commercial Vehicle Search Law
Jun 8 2015 // A Missouri rancher and political activist is suing the state for the second time, alleging that a law allowing troopers and other officers to pull over and inspect commercial vehicles without cause is unconstitutional. Ron...
Economic Report Suggests Slower Growth in Midwest
Jun 2 2015 // Slower economic growth is likely through the end of the third quarter this year for nine Midwestern and Plains states, according to a report issued on June 1. The survey report says the overall Mid-America Business...
Business Moves
Jun 1 2015 // Confie Seguros Confie Seguros, based in Huntington Beach, Calif., has acquired three new insurance brokerages in Buffalo, N.Y. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed. Confie acquired three agencies all providing auto...
People – Midwest
Jun 1 2015 // Michael E. LaRocco has been officially named president and chief executive officer of State Auto Financial Corp., taking over those duties from Robert P. Restrepo Jr., who is retiring. LaRocco also has been elected as a...
Jury: Abbott Must Pay $23M in Punitive Damages Over Depakote
May 28 2015 // Abbott Laboratories was ordered to pay $23 million in punitive damages to a Minnesota girl whose family blamed the company’s epilepsy drug Depakote for causing her birth defects. It was the first verdict against the...
J.M. Wilson Adds Farr as P/C Underwriter in Missouri
May 27 2015 // Insurance wholesaler J.M. Wilson added Andrea Farr in its Kansas City, Mo., office, as a property/casualty underwriter. Farr will serve independent insurance agents in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi and...
Keystone Takes on Two New Missouri Partners
May 22 2015 // Keystone Insurers Group welcomed Springfield, Mo.-based agency Barker Phillips Jackson as its second franchise partner in the state and Winter-Dent & Company of Jefferson City as its third. Earlier in the week Keystone...
Missouri General Joins Keystone Insurers Group
May 20 2015 // St. Louis, Mo.-based agency Missouri General Insurance Agency has become a franchise partner in Keystone Insurers Group. Missouri General offers business and personal insurance, and benefits and financial...
Missouri Jury Assesses $82M Verdict Against Debt Collection Firm
May 18 2015 // A Jackson County, Mo. jury has assessed about $82 million in damages against a debt collection firm that demanded payment from the wrong woman. The jury awarded $251,000 in damages to Maria Guadalupe Mejia Alcantara and...
Missouri Woman Awarded $77M in Wells Fargo Case
May 14 2015 // A Missouri jury has awarded a woman $77 million in damages in a lawsuit alleging Wells Fargo Bank mismanaged her family trusts, costing her tens of millions of dollars. The St. Louis County jury, after a trial of more than...
Governor Signs Missouri Medical Malpractice Damage Caps into Law
May 11 2015 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed a measure capping some damage awards in medical malpractices cases, three years after the state’s Supreme Court struck down similar limits as unconstitutional. “This bipartisan...
Valley Insurance Agency Alliance Hires Gamble as Recruiter
May 7 2015 // St. Louis, Mo.-based Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), comprising nearly 100 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Southern Illinois, hired Grady Gamble as a recruiter for Missouri. Grady Gamble Gamble will...
Missouri Bill with Medical Malpractice Caps Sent to Governor
May 4 2015 // A measure to reinstate limits on lawsuit awards for pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases is heading to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s desk three years after the state Supreme Court overturned lower caps. The...
Parents of Missouri Teen Killed by Police Sue City of Ferguson
Apr 24 2015 // Ferguson, Mo., was sued by the family of an unarmed black teenager whose fatal shooting by a police officer triggered nationwide protests, while subsequent deaths at the hands of police fueled a national debate about how...
Missouri Bill with Medical Malpractice Caps Sent to Governor
Apr 23 2015 // A measure to reinstate limits on lawsuit awards for pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases is heading to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s desk three years after the state Supreme Court overturned lower caps. The...
Missouri’s POWERS Insurance and Benefits Opens Satellite Office
Apr 22 2015 // Independent insurance agency, POWERS Insurance and Benefits, headquartered in Clayton, Mo., announced it has opened a satellite office at 17998 Chesterfield Airport Rd. in Chesterfield, Mo. POWERS hired four new associates...
Court Blocks Parts of Restrictive Missouri Healthcare Navigator Law
Apr 20 2015 // An appeals court has ruled that Missouri can’t limit health insurance navigators’ ability to help people obtain insurance under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law. The 8th Circuit Court in St. Louis...
Missouri High Court Upholds Agricultural Liability Limit in Hog Farm Case
Apr 16 2015 // Missouri’s highest court has upheld limits to the damages property owners can recover in nuisance lawsuits against agricultural operations. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled in favor of a hog farm in a case where...
Missouri Lawsuit Targets Anthem Insurance Subsidiaries
Apr 15 2015 // A Missouri lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses three insurance subsidiaries of failing to safeguard sensitive consumer data from hackers who recently breached health insurer Anthem Inc.’s computer networks. A...
Adjusters Say Hundreds of Cars Damaged by Hail in Missouri
Apr 15 2015 // Insurance adjusters are still trying to figure out just how many cars on dealership lots and at private homes in the Farmington and Park Hills area of eastern Missouri were damaged by last week’s hail storm. Severe...
