All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2015 // Bryan Lewis has been named director of sales for St. Paul, Minn.-based CHS Insurance, an agribusiness insurance broker and full-service insurance subsidiary of CHS Inc.Lewis will have responsibility for the...
Apr 9 2015 // The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that an insurer created by the Legislature does not have to make its records public.The decision ends a two-year legal battle between the Star Tribune and the Minnesota Joint...
Apr 8 2015 // A Minneapolis-based distributor will pay $50,000 to settle a claim that it fired a man after he had a heart attack.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the settlement with Baldwin Supply Co. The...
Apr 6 2015 // Two tenured professors at William Mitchell College of Law are suing over potential layoffs connected to a planned merger with Hamline University School of Law.The two schools are seeking authorization to create the...
Mar 10 2015 // Minnesota and Michigan both are confronting significant problems with scammers defrauding auto insurance systems they perceive have relatively soft defenses.Minnesota faces a surge in organized fraud rings that fleece auto...
Mar 9 2015 // An annual report on patient safety shows more errors but fewer deaths in Minnesota hospitals in the past year.The Department of Health found 277 so-called “adverse events” in categories that have long been...
Mar 6 2015 // Officials in the south-central Minnesota city of Gaylord have agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to a Mexican immigrant to settle a federal lawsuit that alleged racial profiling.Minnesota Public Radio News reports...
Feb 26 2015 // An annual report on patient safety shows more errors but fewer deaths in Minnesota hospitals in the past year.The Department of Health found 277 so-called “adverse events” in categories long been tracked, such...
Feb 20 2015 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has presented its State Legislator of the Year Award to Minnesota state Sen. James Metzen.NAMIC said it honored Metzen for his support of free-market principles and...
Feb 19 2015 // A lack of adequate testing before the Minnesota’s health insurance exchange launched in 2013 and other issues meant the exchange’s “failures outweighed its achievements” in its first year, the...
Feb 17 2015 // The end of Target’s Canadian operations is having a financial impact on businesses in Minnesota that supplied the retailer.Target’s Canadian division filed for bankruptcy protection last month and owes nearly...
Feb 13 2015 // Minnesota lawmakers could decide whether to regulate the ride-hailing industry this year.House and Senate legislators say they plan to introduce bills soon to toughen insurance regulations for companies like Uber and Lyft....
Feb 13 2015 // The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld a state law making it illegal for suspected drunken drivers to refuse a breath test.The high court rejected a man’s claim that the law violated due process by preventing him...
Feb 12 2015 // State public safety officials say it’s been a deadly start to the month on Minnesota roads.The Department of Public Safety says 13 people have died since February 1. Seven of those deaths happened during a four-day...
Feb 9 2015 // The Builders Association of the Twin Cities is suing the state of Minnesota over a new sprinkler mandate. The law requires a sprinkler system for all new homes that are 4,500 square feet or larger. The Builders Association...
Feb 5 2015 // A federal jury in Minneapolis found that Toyota Motor Corp. must pay nearly $11 million to victims of a fatal 2006 crash after deciding that a design flaw in the 1996 Camry was partly to blame for the Minnesota...
Feb 4 2015 // A jury in Hennepin County, Minn., has awarded more than $13 million to the family of a young boy who was beaten and sexually assaulted at a child care center at the Grand Casino Mille Lacs in 2008. A lawyer for the family...
Jan 29 2015 // The Builders Association of the Twin Cities is suing the state over a new sprinkler mandate. The law which took effect requires a sprinkler system for all new homes that are 4,500 square feet or larger. The Builders...
Jan 20 2015 // Associated Banc-Corp (Associated) announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Ahmann & Martin Co., a risk and benefits consulting firm in Minnesota, through Associated’s subsidiary, Associated Financial...
Jan 20 2015 // The Archdiocese of Saint Paul & Minneapolis is the 12th U.S. diocese to seek bankruptcy protection to deal with sexual-abuse claims.The Chapter 11 filing on Jan. 16 in St. Paul follows legislation passed by Minnesota...