Insurance

Climate change-driven weather events are causing more damage and wear and tear to school buildings in Missouri, driving up districts’ property insurance costs.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker celebrated a partial legislative victory late last week when the House passed his initiative to end some practices health insurance companies use to control the amount and cost of health care services individual patients receive.

The state-funded health care programs serving certain low-income noncitizens have declined by tens of millions of dollars in recent months as the state rolled out new copay and coinsurance requirements this week.

The case involved a 14-year-old Chicago boy, who was struck by a hit-and-run driver in 2020 while riding his bicycle on a public street. He suffered injuries to his right arm, shoulder and thigh that required medical attention.

The Legal Roundtable analyzes the big award given to a woman who says she contracted HPV after having sex in a car insured by Geico.

Only about 12% of homes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone in Missouri’s southeastern tip have earthquake insurance, a dramatic decline since 2000.

Voters in Missouri and Oklahoma approved Medicaid expansion to begin in 2021. But while Oklahoma has enrolled over 200,000 people so far, Missouri has enrolled fewer than 20,000. Why are two such similar states handling the public insurance rollout so differently?

A traveling medical clinic is expanding its reach to better meet the need in rural areas of eastern Missouri. The Rural Parish Clinic’s team of volunteer doctors and nurses treat low-income, uninsured adults out of a 40-foot converted van.

Children and teenagers diagnosed with cancer in the U.S. can have a very different chance of survival based on the type of health insurance they have,…

Every day, Amanda Moller scoops powdered formula out of a can and shakes it up with water from her kitchen sink. It's like mixing a cocktail, she said,…