All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 4 2018 // The number of people covered by small group health insurance in Minnesota grew by 15 percent last year, ending a string of annual enrollment declines stretching back to 2004.Price hikes and tight limits last year on doctor...
Jun 1 2018 // The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has agreed to a $210 million settlement with 450 victims of clergy sexual abuse as part of its plan for bankruptcy reorganization, making it the second-largest U.S. payout in the...
Jun 1 2018 // Minnesota on May 30 became the latest state to sue Insys Therapeutics Inc., accusing the drugmaker of illegally marketing a powerful fentanyl-based pain medicine, while a former employee pleaded guilty in New Jersey over...
May 30 2018 // The number of people covered by small group health insurance in Minnesota grew by 15 percent last year, ending a string of annual enrollment declines stretching back to 2004.Price hikes and tight limits last year on doctor...
May 24 2018 // Family members of a school receptionist have settled their lawsuit over an explosion that killed her last summer at Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis, Minn.An attorney for Ruth Berg’s family and CenterPoint Energy...
May 21 2018 // A recent report shows the number of paid workers’ compensation claims in Minnesota fell 54 percent relative to the number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees from 1996 to 2016.The 2016 Minnesota Workers’...
May 9 2018 // A recent report shows the number of paid workers’ compensation claims in Minnesota fell 54 percent relative to the number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees from 1996 to 2016.The 2016 Minnesota Workers’...
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...