All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 6 2015 // Minnesota’s health exchange has named an experienced former insurance executive as the sole finalist to take over as the fourth CEO of the embattled, three-year-old organization.MNsure board members publicly...
Oct 19 2015 // A Minnesota jury has awarded $9.1 million to a former auto mechanic who sued his anesthesiologists after suffering spinal cord damage and paralysis in a 2012 surgery.Joseph Lakoskey’s attorney argued that an...
Oct 16 2015 // Ask truck drivers about the most important aspect of their job and chances are you will get the same answer: safety.Last year, about 78,000 total crashes were reported to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. Of those...
Oct 11 2015 // Minnesota insurers have routed thousands of customers away from MNsure, a financial boon for the companies but one that creates enrollment and revenue headaches for an exchange already confronting concerns about long-term...
Sep 23 2015 // Safety officials in Minnesota are urging motorists to safely share the road with farm equipment as the harvest gears up. The Minnesota Department of Transportation says drivers need to watch out for slow-moving farm...
Sep 8 2015 // The Science Museum of Minnesota has conceded defeat in its legal fight with a design firm over persistent and costly water damage to the $100 million building that is one of the state’s top tourist...
Aug 28 2015 // The subcontractor involved in a fatal accident at the Minnesota Vikings stadium construction site has received nine citations for worksite safety violations in the past five years, according to public records.A Berwald...
Aug 6 2015 // A concentrated law enforcement effort against speeding on Minnesota roadways has yielded more than 16,000 citations.The Department of Public Safety says more than 300 law enforcement agencies participated in the crackdown...
Jul 24 2015 // About one in five railroad bridges that pass over Minnesota roadways are structurally deficient, according to state and local inspections last year.Railroad bridges are in worse condition than road bridges, with just over...
Jul 17 2015 // Dozens of parishes in the Twin Cities want the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to pay their costs for settling clergy abuse claims.About 120 parishes want the archdiocese to reimburse them for paying too much into...
Jul 16 2015 // Storms that tore through the Brainerd, Minn.-area closed resorts, displaced more than 900 vacationers around Gull Lake and left thousands without power during the height of the summer vacation season.Two popular resorts,...
Jul 14 2015 // Several Midwest states have been hit with damaging winds, tornadoes and flooding over the past several days.Forecasters say at least four unconfirmed tornadoes may touched down in western Minnesota when strong storms moved...
Jun 29 2015 // The Science Museum of Minnesota, a major tourist attraction that opened its new, $100 million home just 15 years ago, has serious water infiltration problems that could leave state taxpayers with a hefty repair bill.Museum...
Jun 26 2015 // Construction of a ring levee that’s related to a Red River diversion project around the Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., area must remain on hold, a federal judge from Minnesota has ruled.U.S. District Judge John Tunheim...
Jun 26 2015 // Lawyers for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis are warning that criminal charges against the corporation could jeopardize insurance coverage that’s being counted on to pay some claims of victims of clergy...
Jun 17 2015 // Minnesota now has two new laws that allow civil actions against those who commit insurance fraud, the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud announced.The strong anti-fraud measures became law when Gov. Mark Dayton signed a...
Jun 12 2015 // There’s relief ahead for U.S. poultry farmers suffering through the worst ever domestic outbreak of bird flu.As the weather warms, there’s likely to be fewer instances of the disease, which has already left 47...
Jun 8 2015 // A lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges a Minnesota company subjected a transgender employee to sex discrimination.The lawsuit was filed against Shoreview-based Deluxe Financial Services Corp....
Jun 3 2015 // A jury has awarded nearly $2.5 million to Waverly, Minn., dairy farmers who say stray voltage from their power company’s faulty equipment cut deeply into their production.After a long legal fight that included a...
Jun 2 2015 // Slower economic growth is likely through the end of the third quarter this year for nine Midwestern and Plains states, according to a report issued on June 1.The survey report says the overall Mid-America Business...