Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri May Tighten Workers’ Comp Rules
Feb 10 2003 // A bill before the Missouri legislature would narrow the kinds of injuries covered by the state’s workers’ compensation system, according to the Associated Press. The state has lost 90,000 jobs in the last 20...
Meadowbrook Concludes Agreements with MO Ins. Dept.
Jan 9 2003 // Michigan’s Meadowbrook Insurance Group announced that its operating subsidiary, Meadowbrook, Inc. has entered into two new fee-for-service agreements with the Director of the Missouri Department of Insurance [MDI] in...
MO Dept. of Insurance Takes Over two KC-based Workers Comp Companies
Dec 23 2002 // Cole County Circuit Judge Thomas Brown granted the petition of Scott B. Lakin, the Director of the Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI), and placed two Kansas City-based workers compensation insurers in receivership as...
NAII Counsel Responds to MO News Article on Credit Scoring
Dec 20 2002 // Ann Weber, General Counsel for the National Association of Independent Insurers, has written an open letter to Will Connaghan, the Editor of the St. Louis Daily Record in response to an article that appeared in the...
MO Dept. of Insurance Re-accredited by NAIC for Financial Oversight
Dec 12 2002 // The Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) has been re-accredited for five years by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, who certified the MDI’s work on monitoring the financial health of insurers and...
Mo. Ins. Dept. Closes the Books on Commonwealth General
Oct 25 2002 // The Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) Director, Scott B. Lakin, announced that he is “closing the books on the Commonwealth General Insurance Co. receivership after paying claimants and creditors and returning...
Copart Opens Facility in Springfield, Missouri
Oct 23 2002 // Copart, Inc. announced that it has opened its second auction facility in the state of Missouri in the southeast section of Springfield along Interstate 60. Willis J. Johnson, Copart’s CEO stated that, “The new...
Missouri Dept. of Insurance Opens Public Internet Portal
Oct 21 2002 // Missouri’s Director of Insurance, Scott B. Lakin, announced that the department has opened a new Internet connection, “The Public Portal,” which will “gather comment on pending issues, beginning...
Mo. Insurance Director to Hold Hearing on Increase in Med-Mal Costs
Oct 9 2002 // Missouri Department of Insurance Director Scott B. Lakin announced that he will hold a public hearing on Oct. 30 to examine why medical malpractice insurance rates for the state’s doctors are rising sharply despite...
NAII Applauds Missouri Judge’s Decision Blocking Workers’ Comp Regulation
Sep 30 2002 // The NAII lauded Missouri Circuit Judge Thomas Brown’s decision to grant the request of the state’s workers’ compensation insurers for a temporary injunction blocking the state Insurance Department from...
Employers, Insurers Slow To Report Claims Says Missouri Audit Report
Sep 30 2002 // A report from Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill has found that a “vast majority of injuries” are reported late or not at all. The audit evaluated the management of the state’s workers’...
NAII Questions Mo. Insurance Dept.’s. Proposed Contract Regulations
Sep 19 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a statement that a regulation proposed by the State of Missouri’s Insurance Department requiring insurers to enter into contracts with all third party...
Mo. Ranks 32nd in Costs for Insuring Passenger Cars, Trucks
Aug 16 2002 // Residents of 30 states and the District of Columbia on average paid more in 2000 to insure their autos than Missourians, according to a new national study. With about 4 million passenger cars and trucks on the road in the...
AIA Says Mo. Injured Workers Lose under Department’s Managed Care Proposal
Jul 26 2002 // Changes proposed by the Missouri Department of Insurance to the state’s workers’ compensation managed care rules would add significant costs and confusion to the system, ultimately undermining the quality of...
Insurance Auto Auctions Makes Mo. Acquisition
Jul 19 2002 // Illinois-based Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., a provider of automotive salvage and claims processing services in the United States, acquired Southern Missouri Insurance Pool, Inc., a 27-acre operation located in...
Mo. Gov. Signs Credit-Scoring Bill
Jul 16 2002 // Gov. Bob Holden late last week signed a bill regulating insurers’ use of credit- based insurance scores in auto and property insurance. National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) Counsel Ann Weber said...
Mo. Director Names Receiver for Transit Casualty
Jul 10 2002 // Missouri Department of Insurance Director Scott B. Lakin named Albert A. Riederer of Kansas City as the new special deputy receiver for the Transit Casualty Co. receivership. Transit Casualty—once the world’s...
Mo. Sees 2002 Workers’ Comp Rate Hikes in Private Market
Jul 9 2002 // Missouri workers’ compensation rates for most businesses have risen an average of 6.7 percent this year, based on data through mid-June, according to the Missouri Department of Insurance. Filings with that agency...
State Farm Shuns New Homeowners Policies in Kansas, Missouri
Jun 21 2002 // State Farm Insurance Company imposed a moratorium on new homeowners customers in Missouri and Kansas, expanding its ban against new residential policies to five states. According to the Kansas City Star, the company is the...
Insurers Focused on Credit Scoring During 2002 Missouri Legislative Session
May 27 2002 // Outside of credit-based insurance scoring, which was the subject of extensive negotiations, the state legislative session that concluded last week passed few matters of concern to the insurance industry, according to the...
