Latest Missouri Headlines
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Missouri Judge Says Hospital Corp. Owes Foundation $162M
Jan 28 2013 // Hospital Corp. of America, the largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, has been ordered to pay a charitable foundation $162 million for failing to spend enough money on capital improvements at the Kansas...
Missouri Department of Insurance Closes Two Receiverships
Jan 28 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced the conclusion of the legal cases of two insurance companies that went into receivership due to insolvency. A Cole County judge ordered Transit Casualty Co. into receivership...
Missouri Cops Investigating Smash-and-Grab Crimes
Jan 18 2013 // Police in several St. Louis, Mo.- area towns are investigating a string of smash-and-grab crimes with a twist: In many cases, nothing is taken. In six instances over the past few weeks, suspects have busted through the...
Kansas, Missouri Could Be Hit by Disaster Aid Fight
Jan 18 2013 // Midwesterners accustomed to generous government aid after ice storms, floods and tornadoes may soon have to look somewhere else for help when disaster strikes. Even as the U.S. House on Jan. 15 passed a $50.7 billion aid...
USI Insurance Services Acquires 2 St. Louis, Missouri, Brokerages
Jan 16 2013 // Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Saint Louis, Mo.-based brokerages Welsch Flatness and Lutz Inc. (WFL) and Construction Insurance Partners (CIP). By combining the existing USI office in Saint Louis with WFL and CIP,...
Mississippi Rock Blasting Puts River in Ship Shape
Jan 14 2013 // Crews have completed the most critical phase of removing bedrock that threatened barges along a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi River, staving off the shipping industry’s fears that the treacherous...
2013 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 14 2013 // JANUARY P/C Insurance Joint Industry Forum Jan 15 Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY Insurance Information Institute www.iii.org 2013 Big ‘I’ Winter Meeting Jan 16-20 The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa,...
Missouri Regulator: Barton County Mutual Back on Solid Ground
Jan 14 2013 // Financial conditions at Missouri’s Barton County Mutual Insurance Co. are strong enough that the company can be released from state oversight, a judge has ruled. A Barton County judge has granted a motion by the...
Missouri Department of Insurance Closes Two Receiverships
Jan 11 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced the conclusion of the legal cases of two insurance companies that went into receivership due to insolvency. A Cole County judge ordered Transit Casualty Co. into receivership...
Digital Insurance Acquires Missouri-based Health Star Consulting
Jan 9 2013 // Digital Insurance announced the acquisition of Health Star Consulting of Clayton, Mo. The benefits firm merged with the St. Louis office of Digital Benefit Advisors (DBA), a division of Digital Insurance. Health Star...
Missouri Regulator: Barton County Mutual Back on Solid Ground
Jan 8 2013 // Financial conditions at Missouri’s Barton County Mutual Insurance Co. are strong enough that the company can be released from state oversight, a judge has ruled. A Barton County judge has granted a motion by the...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Insurance Risk Managers of Missouri
Jan 8 2013 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Insurance Risk Managers of Missouri Inc. in St. Louis. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1996, Insurance Risk Managers of Missouri (IRM) is a retail...
Missouri Lawmakers to Pursue Medical Liability Limits
Jan 7 2013 // Missouri lawmakers have their eyes on reinstating liability caps for medical malpractice cases after the state Supreme Court struck down the limits last summer. The high court concluded a 2005 law was unconstitutional. It...
Kalmer Named to Leadership Post at Missouri Insurance Department
Jan 3 2013 // Emily Kalmer has been named legislative affairs counsel for the Insurance, Finance and Credit Unions Divisions at the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions & Professional Registration. Kalmer served...
Missouri Republicans to Tackle Workers’ Compensation
Dec 28 2012 // Nearly two dozen years after Monroe Gunter retired from a long career at a Missouri power company, he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer often caused by exposure to asbestos. Gunter sued his former employer, claiming...
Insurance Firm in Missouri Changes Benefit Plan After Charges
Dec 27 2012 // An insurance company in Missouri that provides coverage to Kansas City and Jackson County employees has changed its wellness incentives after seven people were indicted on charges of abusing the program. Blue Cross and...
OSHA Cites Postal Service in Missouri Carrier’s Death
Dec 20 2012 // Federal regulators have proposed a $70,000 fine against the U.S. Postal Service in the death of a mail carrier who had complained about feeling ill from the heat. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced...
Missouri Hospitals Provided $1.1B in Uncompensated Care in 2011
Dec 14 2012 // Missouri hospitals report providing a record $1.1 billion of uncompensated care to patients in 2011. The Missouri Hospital Association says the figure includes $623 million of charity care provided at 129 hospitals, an...
Missouri Insurance Firm Gets $5M to Move 1 Mile, Into Kansas
Dec 7 2012 // An insurance marketing company is receiving $5 million in incentives to move one mile from Kansas City, Mo., across the border to Lenexa, Kan., the latest in a series of business moves that has raised questions about the...
Midwest Economic Index Rises Slightly
Dec 4 2012 // A monthly economic index report suggests an economic slump will continue over the next three to six months for nine Midwest and Plains states. The Mid-America Business Conditions index rose slightly in November to a weak...
