Latest Missouri Headlines
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Missouri Insurance Department Recovers nearly $25M in 2014
Feb 17 2015 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced it recovered approximately $11.7 million for consumers who filed complaints against their insurance companies and an additional $12.7 million for Missourians through...
Missouri Insurance Director Named NAIC President-Elect
Feb 10 2015 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) have elected Missouri Insurance Director John M. Huff to fill the vacant position of the office of president-elect. The office was vacated on Jan. 20...
Ferguson, Missouri, Receives $500K for Rebuilding
Feb 5 2015 // St. Louis County, Mo., has allocated $500,000 to help Ferguson raze and rebuild property that was damaged in the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown. Residents and county officials want several blighted...
Cost of Safety Mandate Places Missouri Passenger Rail Service at Risk
Feb 2 2015 // The expense of installing mandated train collision avoidance technology is putting passenger service in Missouri at risk, according to the state Department of Transportation. The equipment, which is designed to override...
Republican Lawmakers in Missouri Considering Lawsuit Caps Again
Jan 20 2015 // Nearly a decade after Missouri last limited some civil lawsuit awards, Republican lawmakers are organizing to reinstate caps overturned by the state’s highest court. Businesses can now face lawsuits with unlimited...
Boating, Traffic Fatalities Down in Missouri in 2014
Jan 12 2015 // Authorities say fewer people died on Missouri’s roads and waterways last year. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says preliminary statistics count 753 traffic fatalities in 2014, compared with 757 fatalities in 2013...
Missouri Fines Insurer Nearly $162K for Misstatements to Policyholders
Jan 7 2015 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced that a regulatory settlement agreement has been reached with Humana Insurance Co. under which the company will pay a $161,800 fine to the Missouri State School Fund. Missouri...
Safety Of Guardrails Questioned by Kansas, Missouri
Dec 30 2014 // Missouri and Kansas transportation officials have suspended installations of a guardrail system after concerns that parts of the guardrails break off on impact and run through vehicles, causing injuries to drivers and...
Missouri Company Cited in Death of Teen Worker
Dec 24 2014 // A southeast Missouri construction company has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 13 serious safety violations in an investigation that began after the death of a 16-year-old worker. The...
Missouri DOI Recommends Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease
Dec 15 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance is recommending a 4.4 percent decrease in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs for 2015. The key driver of the decrease is the favorable loss experience in 2012, according...
Unlicensed Uber Drivers Ticketed by Plainclothes Officers in Missouri Town
Dec 9 2014 // Plainclothes Columbia, Mo., police officers have started issuing tickets to drivers with Internet ridesharing company Uber. City staff and Uber had been negotiating regulations that would have licensed rideshare drivers...
Rewards Offered for Information in Missouri Protest Arsons
Dec 9 2014 // The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering rewards up to $10,000 for information leading to arrests in the intentional fires set after the grand jury announcement in the Ferguson, Mo.,...
USI Acquires Holmes Murphy in Missouri
Dec 2 2014 // USI Insurance Services has acquired the Saint Louis, Mo. operation of Holmes Murphy. The business and its employees will join USI’s Saint Louis office. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquired business was...
2014 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed
Dec 1 2014 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by the companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11...
Missouri Regulators Urge Ferguson Business Owners to Check Insurance Policies
Nov 26 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance is urging business owners in Ferguson, Mo., to check for coverage under their commercial insurance policies if they have suffered damage in the recent civil unrest. Many businesses in...
Missouri Seeking Administrator/Insurer for Workers’ Comp Residual Market
Nov 25 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions & Professional Registration is seeking to contract with one or more entities to administer and provide workers’ compensation insurance for the...
Missouri Insurance Director Huff Honored for Distinguished Service
Nov 21 2014 // Missouri Department of Insurance Director John M. Huff has received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He was recognized for his tenure on the U.S. Department of...
Missouri-Based Cameron Mutual Names Lindquist CFO/Treasurer
Nov 17 2014 // Cameron, Mo.-based Cameron Mutual Insurance Co. has appointed Peter A. Lindquist as chief financial officer/treasurer. Peter Lindquist Lindquist, a CPA who holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU)...
A.M. Best Assigns ‘A’ Rating to Missouri’s American Shield Insurance
Oct 30 2014 // A.M. Best announced it assigned a financial strength rating of A (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of “a+” to American Shield Insurance Co. (American Shield) in Columbia, Mo. The outlook assigned to both...
Trinity Industries Facing Another Liability Trial Over Guardrails
Oct 14 2014 // Trinity Industries Inc. is set to defend itself a second time at trial against $1 billion in claims that its highway guardrail systems lock up and puncture cars on impact — sometimes with fatal consequences. Joshua...
