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Police in Minnetonka, Minnesota, Warn of Increase in Burglaries

Dec 8 2014 // Minnetonka, Minn., police are warning homeowners that eight burglaries have occurred in the Minneapolis suburb in less than a month.WCCO-TV reports the Minnetonka Police Department says it issued a crime alert after four...

Former Student, Minnesota School Settle Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

Dec 3 2014 // A private Catholic high school in St. Paul has settled a lawsuit filed by a former student who was sexually assaulted by a weight room instructor six years ago, a newspaper has reported.The Star Tribune reported that...

Banks Get OK for Suit Against Target to Recoup Data Breach Costs

Dec 3 2014 // A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Target Corp.’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by banks seeking to recoup money they spent reimbursing fraudulent charges and issuing new credit and debit cards because of the...

Minnesota Archdiocese Sues Insurance Companies for Coverage

Nov 26 2014 // The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota said it is suing some 20 insurance companies to try to force them to cover its liabilities for clergy sex abuse claims.The complaint, filed in federal court, says...

Target: Retailer Owes No Duty to Banks in Data Breach

Nov 23 2014 // A Target Corp. lawyer told a judge that the company had no legal obligation to banks that claim to have lost tens of millions of dollars after a hack last year on the retailer’s payment processing systems.Target...

Old Republic National Title Moving Domicile to Florida from Minnesota

Nov 21 2014 // One of the largest title insurance underwriters in America has decided to make Florida its new company home. Old Republic National Title Insurance Co., currently based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, already writes more title...

Minnesota’s North Risk Partners Merges with Thune Insurance Network

Nov 21 2014 // St. Paul, Minn.-based independent insurance brokerage, North Risk Partners, announced it has merged with Thune Insurance Network, located in Northwest Minnesota with offices in Thief River Falls, Roseau and Baudette.The...

Univ. of Minnesota Sues U.S. Wireless Carriers Over Patents

Nov 7 2014 // The University of Minnesota sued the four largest wireless carriers in the United States over alleged patent infringement.Complaints filed in U.S. District Court in Minnesota contend that AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and...

Judge: Honeywell May Penalize Minnesota Workers Who Refuse Health Tests

Nov 5 2014 // A federal judge in Minnesota has ruled that Honeywell Inc. could begin penalizing workers who refuse to take medical or biometric tests.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had asked the judge to block the...

Minnesota Farmers Awarded $6.3M in Suit Against Utility

Oct 28 2014 // A judge in Minnesota’s Cass County has awarded $6.3 million to a couple whose milk cows were injured or killed by stray voltage on their dairy farm from a Brainerd utility company. KTTC-TV reports the judge awarded...

Minnesota Seeing More, Costlier Farm Equipment Accidents

Oct 23 2014 // Increasingly large farm machinery is causing more costly and potentially dangerous collisions with power lines and poles, rural Minnesota electric co-ops say.More than 2,000 customers of Federated Rural Electric, based in...

NHL Concussion Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court in Minnesota

Oct 22 2014 // The consolidated class-action lawsuit by former NHL players against the league over concussion-related injuries has been filed in federal court. Attorneys for the ex-players filed the complaint in Minnesota. The case had...

Hail Claim Losses Increasing in Number, Severity

Oct 20 2014 // From 2002 through 2013 property/casualty insurers paid out $54 billion in claims losses on almost 9 million residential properties, but the majority of those losses occurred between 2008 and 2013, according to a report...

Minnesota Blue Cross to Open Retail Insurance Store in Edina

Oct 16 2014 // Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is preparing for the Nov. 8 grand opening of its first-ever retail store, where consumers can sign up for insurance coverage or get information on healthy living.The store in the...

People – Midwest

Oct 6 2014 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) appointed NAIC President and North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm to serve a two-year term as the state insurance commissioner representative on the...

More Minnesota Counties Qualify for Disaster Aid

Sep 26 2014 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 18 more Minnesota counties as primary natural disaster areas due to heavy rain, flooding and cold temperatures from May 1 through July 1. The designation makes farmers and...

Texas Extended Warranty Company Sued by Minnesota AG

Sep 26 2014 // Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is suing a Texas auto warranty company, alleging it uses deceptive tactics to avoid giving customers refunds.According to the lawsuit filed in Hennepin County District Court,...

Western National’s Henderson Assumes NAMIC Chairmanship

Sep 24 2014 // Stuart Henderson, president and CEO of Western National Insurance Group in Edina, Minn., assumed the chairmanship of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) at its annual meeting of members today...

Minnesota Man Settles Whistleblower Lawsuit for $990K

Sep 18 2014 // A Minnesota man who alerted the U.S. Department of Defense to a Humvee manufacturing change that could potentially put soldiers at risk has won nearly $1 million after settling his whistleblower lawsuit. David McIntosh...

Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange Losing Low-Cost Carrier

Sep 18 2014 // The insurance company that grabbed the most customers on Minnesota’s health care exchange by offering the lowest rates told state officials that it’s pulling out of MNsure, a major blow to the exchange as the...