All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...