All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 8 2018 // USI Insurance Services (USI), based in Valhalla, N.Y., has closed the acquisition of CHS Insurance, formerly part of Minnesota-based fuel, grain and food cooperative, CHS Inc.CHS Insurance is one of the nation’s...
May 2 2018 // Green Bay, Wisconsin-based Associated Banc-Corp (Associated) announced its Associated Benefits and Risk Consulting (ABRC) group will acquire Anderson Insurance & Investment Agency Inc. (Anderson), an independent...
May 1 2018 // Newly released documents show the University of Minnesota paid nearly $300,000 to settle sexual harassment complaints related to former athletic director Norwood Teague. He resigned in 2015 after two high-ranking...
Apr 16 2018 // A Minnesota woman who lost her lower left leg in a boating accident is advocating for a change in state law after she was excluded from her husband’s insurance policy on the boat.Courtney Godfrey lost part of her leg...
Apr 6 2018 // The former head of the Washington-based Financial Services Roundtable (FSR), Tim Pawlenty, has thrown his hat into the ring in a bid to get a previous job back: that of governor of Minnesota.Pawlenty resigned from his post...
Apr 4 2018 // Minnesota-based Polaris Industries will pay a more than $27 million civil penalty to settle two 2016 late-reporting claims involving defective recreational vehicles.The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the...
Apr 3 2018 // A Minnesota woman who lost her lower left leg in a boating accident is advocating for a change in state law after she was excluded from her husband’s insurance policy on the boat.Courtney Godfrey lost part of her leg...
Apr 2 2018 // Four state senators want to prevent driverless vehicles from being tested in Minnesota until their developers can prove they’re safe. Republican Sen. Jim Abeler says the death of a woman who was struck by a...
Mar 26 2018 // Investigators say unextinguished cigarettes caused a fatal house fire in northeast Minneapolis last weekend. The Minneapolis Fire Department says the fire was started on the first floor by cigarettes that ignited a sofa in...
Mar 23 2018 // A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed against a St. Paul hospital after staff accidentally discarded a woman’s stillborn baby in dirty laundry instead of cremating the remains.Regions Hospital’s...
Feb 22 2018 // The number of Minnesota residents without health insurance jumped by 116,000 in the past two years, the state Department of Health said.A biennial survey by the department and the University of Minnesota School of Public...
Feb 21 2018 // 3M Co. has settled a lawsuit with Minnesota’s Attorney General Lori Swanson for $850 million, putting an end to eight years of litigation over a former Scotchgard ingredient that got into the state’s drinking...
Feb 7 2018 // Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty said Tuesday he’s resigning his lucrative position as the head of the Washington-based Financial Services Roundtable as he contemplates running for his old job.Pawlenty, 57, has...
Feb 2 2018 // Assessing and managing risk for an event like the Super Bowl is more than a matter of just looking around the venue for possible slip and fall hazards and hiring a few security guards to ensure no one enters the stadium...
Feb 1 2018 // Concrete barriers and chain-link fencing are going up around the site of the Super Bowl in downtown Minneapolis, where a contingent of local, state and national agencies is working to ensure that the game and dozens of...
Jan 10 2018 // Two independent Minneapolis, Minnesota-area employee benefits firms, SevenHills Benefit Partners and The Cleveland Company, have merged to offer broader services to local clients.The new firm, SevenHills Cleveland Benefit...
Jan 8 2018 // An Edina, Minnesota, chiropractor and his recruiters have been found guilty of auto insurance fraud, the Minnesota Department of Commerce announced in late December 2017.Federal prosecutors reported that Adam John Burke, a...
Jan 2 2018 // A federal jury has found an Edina, Minnesota, chiropractor and his recruiters guilty of insurance fraud conspiracy, the Minnesota Department of Commerce announced in late December 2017.According to Acting United States...
Dec 20 2017 // A massive fire in northern Minnesota has destroyed a heating oil and fuel company near the Canadian border. Rainy Lake Oil Co. erupted in huge balls of fire fueled by eight or nine tanks inside the company’s...
Dec 18 2017 // John Keane, president of The Keane Insurance Group, founded the Keane Charitable Group in 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti. Since then, The Keane Group has raised more than $1 million to build an orphanage, a well, a...