The Iowa Council of NAIW dba International Association of Insurance Professionals (IAIP) has elected its representatives for the next term. They are as follows: Iowa Council Director-elect Michele Sparks of LaMair-Mulock-Condon Co, W. Des Moines Membership Chair Joyce Nelson of …
A motorist was injured by a pumpkin that crashed through her windshield after it fell from or was dropped off an overpass north of Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids television station KCRG reports that the incident occurred on Interstate 380 a …
State officials have agreed to pay nearly $400,000 to settle two medical malpractice lawsuits stemming from treatments at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 2004. The State Appeals Board approved a $300,000 settlement in the case of a mother …
Iowa won’t pursue criminal charges against a Texas company that’s accused of exploiting developmentally disabled workers at a turkey plant in eastern Iowa. According to the Des Moines Register, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office says the civil penalties that other …
The southwest Iowa town of Hamburg may lose many of its roughly 1,100 residents after the summer-long flood along the Missouri River. Floodwaters have limited access to the town since June, and earlier this month ConAgra Foods announced it would …
A leading Iowa health insurer isn’t sure yet whether it will participate in the state’s planned insurance exchange. The exchanges are expected to be a key part of the national health care overhaul. Some people would be required to use …
A leak in a natural gas liquids pipeline operated by Enterprise Products Partners spilled fuel into the Missouri River in Iowa, the company said Monday. The leak was on the Iowa side of Enterprise’s Conway North line in Monona County …
Gov. Terry Branstad has asked President Barack Obama for a major disaster declaration or Dubuque and Jackson counties after storms dumped more than a foot of rain late last month in Iowa. Branstad on Wednesday requested a declaration for public …
Deadly livestock-related accidents in Iowa are not that unusual, so farmers need to be cautious and have an escape route, a workplace safety expert said. John Lundell of the University of Iowa Prevention Research Center said that one person dies …
Teachers in the Charles City School District in Iowa will get a pay cut under their new contract. Superintendent Andy Pattee told the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier that teacher salaries will be about $221 less this year and they’ll have higher …
