All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 18 2016 // Proponents of a proposed $2.1 billion Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion project in North Dakota will have to do a better job of addressing concerns about how it would affect farmers and other residents upstream before...
May 18 2016 // Workers’ compensation is a no-fault system in Minnesota: the employee does not need to prove negligence on the part of the employer to establish liability and the employer cannot use negligence on the part of the...
May 6 2016 // Adrian Peterson grew up in Palestine, Texas, and has felt the support of its people as he rose to prominence in the NFL and when he endured the hardships that followed.Now, in his hometown’s hour of need, the...
May 6 2016 // Minnesota is expected to have eight medical marijuana clinics open this summer, but some observers are wondering whether there’s enough patient demand.Minnesota Public Radio News reported that the state had predicted...
May 5 2016 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Hanratty & Associates Inc. in Plymouth, Minn. The employees will remain at their current Plymouth location. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Hanratty & Associates has been...
May 3 2016 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Hanratty & Associates Inc., headquartered in Plymouth, Minn.Hanratty & Associates has been providing employee benefits and consulting for nearly 40 years. The employees...
Apr 20 2016 // Can you be charged with a crime for refusing to take a Breathalyzer test when stopped on suspicion of drunken driving? It’s hard to think of a constitutional rights question that affects more people. On Wednesday,...
Apr 18 2016 // Terry Miller has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer at Bloomington, Minn.-based SFM Mutual Insurance Co.Miller was the company’s original controller. He rose through the ranks in his...
Apr 13 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired the Charles Allen Agency Inc. in Waite Park, Minn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2010, the Charles Allen Agency Inc. (CAA) is a retail insurance broker...
Apr 10 2016 // A former top official at Minnesota’s Department of Commerce is suing the state over alleged sexual harassment and retaliation from a fellow agency executive whom he says ordered his staff to destroy documents — a...
Apr 8 2016 // A.M. Best has removed from under review with developing implications and upgraded the financial strength rating to A+ (Superior) from A (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating to “aa-” from “a+” of...
Mar 17 2016 // Property/casualty insurance trade groups, the American Insurance Association (AIA) and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), have submitted testimony to the Minnesota Legislature in opposition to...
Mar 14 2016 // A Chanhassen, Minn.-based medical device and equipment manufacturer will pay $1,020,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age and sex discrimination lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),...
Mar 14 2016 // HomeServices of America Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, has acquired Minnesota-based PCG Agencies Inc., a large independent personal insurance agency. Terms were not disclosed.Headquartered in St. Paul, PCG offers a...
Mar 11 2016 // State officials say Minnesota’s unemployment rate held steady at 3.7 percent in January even though employers cut 5,000 jobs.The Department of Employment and Economic Development says 3,800 of those jobs were...
Mar 2 2016 // The rate of people in Minnesota without health insurance has fallen to a record low, state health officials announced.As of 2015, only about 4.3 percent of people in Minnesota lacked health insurance, a nearly 4 percentage...
Feb 24 2016 // Minnesota’s attorney general is suing a Missouri company, accusing it of misleading consumers into unnecessarily buying coverage for auto repairs.The lawsuit by Attorney General Lori Swanson was filed in Dakota...
Feb 22 2016 // A new report shows that despite improvements in how medicine is dispensed at Minnesota hospitals, the risk of injury or death from errors still exists. Hospitals have disclosed four deaths and 10 serious injuries related...
Feb 16 2016 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman announced that his department has reached settlement agreements with three more life insurance companies that owed money to Minnesotans for unpaid insurance policies, annuity...
Feb 4 2016 // A fast-burning fire destroyed or damaged at least a half-dozen commercial buildings in a small southern Minnesota community before firefighters brought it under control on Feb. 3, city officials said.Stubborn winds from a...