Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tornadoes Give Mo. Businesses Insurance, Record-Keeping Lessons
Apr 10 2009 // Businesses in Southwest Missouri learned a lot about insurance, record-keeping and personal safety from tornadoes that tore through the area last spring. In many ways, walking into Bill Lant’s feed store in Seneca,...
Missouri House OKs Bill Requiring Fire-Safe Cigarettes
Apr 1 2009 // Cigarettes sold in Missouri would have to be self-extinguishing under a bill receiving first-round approval in the House. The goal is to lower the chances of a fire breaking out if a smoker falls asleep with a lit...
Missouri Senate Repeals Fire Marshal Inspection Rule
Mar 27 2009 // On March 25, Missouri Senators endorsed legislation that would repeal a requirement that fire safety inspections in Missouri long-term care facilities be performed by local fire departments or the state fire...
North Dakota Flooding Prompts Federal Disaster Designation
Mar 26 2009 // President Barack Obama has declared North Dakota a federal disaster area because of statewide flooding. North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven says the move means the federal government will pay 75 percent of state and local...
Missouri Plan Would Create Tax Breaks for Added Jobs, Health Coverage
Mar 13 2009 // Lawmakers in the Missouri State Senate have come up with a plan that would add tax credits for businesses that add jobs with above-average wages and health insurance. The plan is a dramatic overhaul of the job-creation...
Former Missouri Gov. Blunt Claims Immunity From Defamation Suit
Mar 12 2009 // Attorneys for former Gov. Matt Blunt are citing executive privilege while asking an appeals court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a former staff lawyer. Blunt lost a similar argument before a trial judge last fall, but...
Readiness of Some Rebuilt Levees in Midwest Questioned
Mar 10 2009 // With the prospect of another season of spring flooding fast approaching, the Army Corps of Engineers insists the earthen flood levees outmatched by the Mississippi River last summer are rebuilt and ready. Not...
Missouri Unions Suffer Setback in Challenge to Workers’ Comp Law
Mar 9 2009 // The Missouri Supreme Court recently rejected labor union challenges to a 2005 law that limited the ability of some injured workers to get benefits under the workers’ compensation system. Business groups praised the...
Declarations
Mar 9 2009 // Can’t Figure “I can’t figure out what amount (Blunt) is convicted of.” —District Judge Bruce Romanick in ordering Sandy Blunt, the former director of North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and...
Areas with Flood Insurance Policy Sales Potential Include Iowa, Missouri
Mar 9 2009 // GAO compared the number of NFIP policies in a given area, as of September 2006, with the total number of county flood declarations from January 1980 to June 2008, cumulative flood claims payments from January 1978 to April...
Missouri’s Ascension Insurance Buys Florida’s Bartlett Agency
Mar 5 2009 // Kansas City-headquarted Ascension Insurance, Inc. has acquired Dennis Bartlett agency of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Bartlett agency specializes in medical malpractice coverage and will join Employers Mutual, Inc., a...
Missouri Court Rejects Labor Challenge to Workers’ Compensation Law
Feb 26 2009 // The state Supreme Court rejected labor union challenges Tuesday to a 2005 law that limited the ability of some injured Missourians to get benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation system. Business groups...
Missouri Deals with Rash of Cattle Thefts; Farm Bureau Offers Reward
Feb 24 2009 // A rash of cattle thefts in southwest Missouri has prompted two organizations to offer a total of $10,000 in rewards for help catching the crooks. Authorities report that hundreds of animals have been loaded onto trucks and...
Swiss Re Claims Executive Huff Named Missouri Commissioner
Feb 22 2009 // Gov. Jay Nixon has picked a Swiss Re insurance claims executive to lead the Missouri insurance department. John Huff, a Missouri native, has worked since July 2008 at the Zurich headquarters of Swiss Re, one of the...
State Auto Mutual Completes Acquisition of Missouri’s Rockhill
Feb 10 2009 // State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. of Columbus, Ohio, has completed its purchase of Rockhill Insurance Group of Kansas City, Mo. Rockhill writes approximately $120 million in specialty property and casualty direct...
Swiss Re Claims Exec Huff Named Missouri Insurance Commissioner
Feb 9 2009 // Gov. Jay Nixon has picked a Swiss Re insurance claims executive to lead the Missouri insurance department. John Huff, a Missouri native, has worked since July 2008 at the Zurich headquarters of Swiss Re, one of the...
Missouri Transportation Chief Pushes for Tougher Seat Belt Law
Feb 6 2009 // It’s failed repeatedly in the past, but state Transportation Director Pete Rahn is optimistic that a bill stepping up Missouri’s seat belt enforcement may pass this year. Rahn wants lawmakers to allow police to...
Kentucky Reeling from Ice Storm; Slow FEMA Response Hit
Feb 2 2009 // In some parts of rural Kentucky, they’re getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There’s not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their...
Hub’s Forystek Named President of Missouri’s UMB Insurance
Jan 29 2009 // Kansas City-based UMB Financial Corp. reported that Roger Forystek has joined the company as president of its insurance subsidiary, UMB Insurance. He will be responsible for overseeing the insurance company and managing...
Missouri Homeowners Need Insurance to Go Green
Jan 25 2009 // A new Missouri law was supposed to make it easy for residents powering their own homes to put in wind turbines or solar panels but the lack of specialized insurance is proving to be an obstacle. The idea was for the...
