All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 15 2017 // PolyMet Mining Corp. is offering the state a $544 million package of financial assurances to serve as an insurance policy to protect taxpayers from potentially having to cover the costs of closing and cleaning up a...
Dec 4 2017 // For more than three years, 3M Co. underreported its discharge of a class of potentially toxic chemicals into the Tennessee River by a factor of 1,000, according to a letter sent by a 3M official to regulators at the...
Nov 21 2017 // Gov. Mark Dayton has appointed Jessica Looman to serve as Minnesota Commerce Commissioner to replace Mike Rothman who resigned from the post last week when he announced he is launching a campaign to become the...
Nov 21 2017 // Chemicals once used by 3M Co. for Scotchgard, fire retardants and other products have shown links to cancers and premature births, Minnesota’s State Attorney General said in a request to update a $5 billion lawsuit...
Nov 20 2017 // The Minnesota Commerce Department has reached a settlement agreement with a major life insurance company that owed money to Minnesotans for unpaid insurance policies, annuity contracts and retained asset accounts.The...
Nov 17 2017 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman announced that he is leaving his post to run a campaign for state attorney general. In a statement, Rothman said he is stepping down as of 11 a.m. today.“I have made the...
Nov 6 2017 // Minnesota has surpassed 300 traffic deaths for the year so far.According to preliminary data, the state Office of Traffic Safety says 309 people have died on Minnesota roads since Jan. 1. Of those deaths, 201 were people...
Nov 1 2017 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman says fraudsters have been operating a large-scale fraud scheme in the state using a fake insurance agency as a cover.The commerce department said recently that it has received...
Oct 18 2017 // The Des Moines, Iowa-based Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA) announced that SFM Mutual Insurance Company (SFM), a workers’ compensation specialty provider headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota, will join the GIA...
Oct 16 2017 // Minnesota chiropractor and two co-defendants have been convicted by a federal jury for their roles in an insurance fraud conspiracy, state Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman announced.Chiropractor Preston Ellard Forthun,...
Sep 28 2017 // Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta said it has agreed to settle tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits by farmers over the company’s rollout of a genetically engineered corn seed variety before China approved it for...
Sep 22 2017 // Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton blasted federal health officials on Sept. 20 for holding up approval of a program meant to lower health insurance costs and threatening millions of dollars in cuts to health care for the working...
Sep 21 2017 // The city of Rochester, Minnesota, will pay a police officer $1 million to settle a discrimination and retaliation claim.Lt. Elisa Umpierre filed the claim saying she was suspended for comments she made on Facebook in...
Sep 13 2017 // A Hugo, Minn., construction company will pay $125,000 to settle a racial harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency reported.The EEOC’s lawsuit charged...
Aug 17 2017 // Southern Minnesota residents are on edge after another quarry blast from a nearby mining operation sent a barrage of rocks through a neighborhood.A blast at Jefferson Quarry sent chunks of limestone — some as large as...
Aug 7 2017 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman has fined two insurance companies for violating state consumer protection laws by refusing to pay auto accident claims for damage caused by drivers they insured.In recent...
Aug 7 2017 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman has ordered an insurance company to refund more than $300,000 to Minnesota drivers who were charged higher auto insurance rates solely because they were renters rather than...
Aug 4 2017 // Anita Borgerding of North Risk Partners – Apollo Division in Albany, Minn., has been named 2017 Outstanding Customer Service Representative (CSR) of the Year for the state of Minnesota by the National Alliance for...
Aug 3 2017 // Brown & Brown of Minnesota Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired the assets of Clairmont Financial in Minnesota. Clairmont Financial will transition into Brown & Brown’s profit center in...
Aug 2 2017 // Minnesota residents suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder can start buying medical marijuana. This week brought the latest expansion of the state’s medical marijuana program that launched in July 2015....