All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 18 2024 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Smithfield Foods, one of the nation’s largest meat processors, has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations of child labor violations at a plant in Minnesota, officials announced...
Nov 13 2024 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota’s most populous county will pay $3.4 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged jail workers ignored the pleas of a 41-year-old man who died of a perforated bowel after spending days...
Nov 1 2024 // A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit against a white Minnesota state trooper who shot and killed a Black man during a traffic stop last year, ruling that the trooper’s actions did not violate the...
Oct 29 2024 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced last month a settlement with Underwater Creations Inc. of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, to stop the sale of unregistered pesticide products. The settlement requires the...
Oct 3 2024 // Brown & Brown announced the acquisition of the assets of The Canopy Group, a a multiline insurance agency focusing primarily on personal lines and commercial property and casualty for small businesses. Based in Le...
Sep 16 2024 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with Federal Cartridge Co. in Anoka, Minnesota, for alleged Clean Air Act violations.Federal Cartridge is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of...
Sep 9 2024 // The Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) violated federal law when it failed to provide reasonable accommodations for qualified, disabled ramp transport drivers with medical restrictions, and instead forced them to take...
Jul 30 2024 // Injured Minnesota employees who seek services from the Department of Labor and Industry’s Vocational Rehabilitation unit (VRU) while their disputed workers’ compensation claim goes through the litigation...
Jul 26 2024 // A Minnesota medical staffing company will pay $336,000 in back wages to nearly 1,000 employees after an investigation found the company charged its workers fees for missed or cancelled shifts.The Minnesota Department of...
Jul 17 2024 // Workers’ compensation claim rates and benefits paid in Minnesota continue to be stable or follow their long-term downward trajectories, a new Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) report shows.The 2024 Minnesota...
Jul 10 2024 // Ford Pro is expanding the availability of its commercial auto coverage, Ford Pro Insure, to Maryland and Minnesota. Ford Pro is underwritten by Ford Credit’s insurance subsidiary and powered by Pie...
Jul 3 2024 // Marsh McLennan Agency, a subsidiary of Marsh, announced the acquisition of AmeriStar Agency, Inc., a Wayzata, Minnesota-based independent agency. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 1987, AmeriStar...
Jun 28 2024 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A house that was teetering on the edge of an eroding riverbank near a Minnesota dam collapsed into the river in the latest jarring example of extreme weather gripping the upper Midwest.Video shows...
Jun 26 2024 // A dam holding back swollen flood waters in Minnesota was at risk of failure Monday as intense weather buffeted much of the US.The Blue Earth River has cut around the west side of the Rapidan Dam, local officials warned in...
Jun 10 2024 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury convicted five Minnesota residents and acquitted two others on Friday for their roles in a scheme to steal more than $40 million from a program that was supposed to feed children during the...
Jun 7 2024 // Brown & Brown, Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of McNamara Company. McNamara Company is a family-owned agency that has been servicing customers in all 50 states for four generations. Established in 1970 in...
May 30 2024 // Growing up we all watched television shows and movies pitting the good guy against the bad guy. Often the bad guy held some power over the good guy, either as the boss, the holder of all the money or the mortgagee. A level...
May 30 2024 // A strategy aimed at preventing Minnesota restaurants and bars from serving alcohol to patrons who are already intoxicated does not appear to be effective, according to a study recently published in Alcohol: Clinical and...
May 23 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that its U.S. wholesale brokerage, binding authority and programs division, Risk Placement Services, Inc. (RPS), has acquired Golden Valley, Minnesota-based CCI Surety, Inc. Terms of...
Apr 18 2024 // Unseasonably warm winter weather cost businesses and event planners in the northern Plains and upper Midwest billions of dollars in estimated losses, according to estimates from Accuweather.Minnesota, North Dakota,...