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The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today released a study on the number of animal-related insurance losses for the years 2014—2017. The data is gleaned from insurance claims for losses that occurred in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.

Officials said homes, businesses, streets, rail lines and schools in Park Hills suffered damage from floodwaters Monday. Park Hills City Administrator Mike McFarland said 41 homes were affected, one suffered serious damage and is considered unlivable.

A catastrophe report has found that the US re/insurance sector is on the hook for more than half of the total economic loss in April resulting from severe convective weather such as thunderstorms and tornados.

Smoke filled the air Tuesday for miles after a building in the heart of downtown North Kansas City caught fire.

The murder of a construction worker on the job in Kansas City now has others scared to go to work. A sub-contractor working on a project for Spire Energy was shot and killed Tuesday by a man who witnesses said asked for a cigarette.

A tanker-truck transporting ethanol burst into flames early Monday in St. Peters after crashing near Mid Rivers Mall. The driver escaped with moderate injuries, police say.

A fast-moving storm Friday left behind significant hail damage in south Kansas City and many areas of Johnson County, Kansas.

A bill on Gov. Eric Greitens’ desk would limit how much money insurance companies would have to pay after accidents.

The Neosho Board of Education and its insurance carrier have reached agreement on a settlement that will be used to rebuild Goodman Elementary School, which was destroyed by an EF2 tornado in April 2017.

Sixty-six homes were damaged and four people have moderate injuries after an EF2 tornado ripped through Malden on Saturday, February 24.

No immediate relief is in sight for a swath of the Midwest where heavy rain, melting snow and rising rivers have shuttered schools, closed roads and prompted several evacuations.

At least one person died and several were injured in multiple accidents that closed both directions of I-44 between Lebanon and Rolla Sunday.

Three people were caught on security video grabbing hammers at a Target here, using one to smash a glass display case and stealing electronic products inside worth about $28,000, police say.

Florida, thanks to a string of liability-expanding decisions, has earned itself the top spot in the newest Judicial Hellhole” rankings, according to an annual report issued by the American Tort Reform Association Tuesday.