All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 2 2013 // Grandville, Mich-based Grand General Agency has welcomed Marva Wrightsman to its marketing team. She will be working with independent agents in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Wrightsman has a diverse background working with...
Jun 20 2013 // Traffic safety officials say Minnesota last year saw its first increase in traffic deaths since 2007.The final crash report shows Minnesota had 395 traffic deaths in 2012. That’s a 7 percent increase from 2011, when...
Jun 5 2013 // With just four months to go before Minnesota’s health insurance exchange goes live, it remains to be seen how many new choices consumers will get.The companies that will offer competing plans via MNsure haven’t...
May 29 2013 // More than 4,000 motorists stopped for minor traffic offenses in Wabasha County, Minn. have avoided a citation by taking a driver safety course. The county is among a number of other Minnesota counties offering the classes...
May 20 2013 // Matt Sundeen, vice president of sales and commercial lines producer at Maguire Agency, has been named Agent of the Year for 2013 by the Minnesota Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers (MIIAB).Sundeen was chosen for...
May 17 2013 // The family of a National Hockey League player who died of an accidental overdose of pain medication and alcohol has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Illinois against the NHL, blaming it for brain damage he suffered as an...
May 7 2013 // CBIZ Inc. announced it acquired Associated Insurance Agents (AIA), of Minneapolis, Minn., effective May 1, 2013.Established in 1982, AIA is an insurance brokerage agency specializing in property and casualty insurance,...
May 3 2013 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and MGA, has expanded operations in its New Brighton, Minn., office with the addition of Jeff Olson as a producer/broker. Olson began his career in the insurance industry...
Apr 23 2013 // Liability claims for improper uses of Minnesota’s driver’s license database could reach several million dollars.Many cities, counties and state agencies involved in recent privacy breaches are backstopped by...
Apr 18 2013 // Digital billboards in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties will be a new way to warn motorists about tornado warnings.The billboard warnings are a joint venture of the counties, billboard owners ClearChannel Outdoor, and the...
Apr 12 2013 // Strong storms sweeping across the Midwest damaged homes and businesses in St. Louis, toppled mobile homes and ripped the roof off a Missouri church, while burying other areas in more than a foot of snow.Missouri Gov. Jay...
Mar 25 2013 // Eight months before President Barack Obama’s health care law goes prime time, a confederation of industry and business groups is ramping up its lobbying apparatus for an 11th-hour assault on the web of new taxes and...
Mar 20 2013 // Bills that would let illegal immigrants get a Minnesota driver’s license are moving forward at the Capitol.The Senate Transportation and Public Safety Committee has passed a bill to ease restrictions on...
Mar 6 2013 // The Minnesota House passed a bill establishing the state’s health insurance exchange, the first step toward enactment of an online marketplace that aims to give more than a million Minnesotans a new place to purchase...
Mar 1 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘B+’ (Good) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “bbb-” of American General Property Insurance Company (AGPIC), based in Nashville,...
Feb 25 2013 // A Duluth, Minn., dock company owes nearly $4.7 million for repairs and lost profits to the owner of a coal freighter that partially sunk in the Duluth-Superior Harbor.The Duluth News Tribune reports the jury made the...
Feb 25 2013 // Johnson McCann, C.O. Brown, Apollo Insurance AgencyThree Minnesota insurance agencies — Johnson McCann of St. Paul, C.O. Brown of Rochester and the Apollo Insurance Agency of St. Cloud — have joined forces to become...
Feb 12 2013 // Auto insurance companies say false and exaggerated injury claims are on the rise in Minnesota. The National Insurance Crime Bureau says suspicious personal injury claims have tripled since 2008. Minnesota ranked tenth in...
Feb 7 2013 // Three Minnesota insurance agencies – Johnson McCann of St. Paul, C.O. Brown of Rochester and the Apollo Insurance Agency of St. Cloud – have joined forces to become the second largest private insurance...
Feb 7 2013 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman has promoted Tim Vande Hey to deputy commissioner of the Insurance Division for the Commerce Department.Vande Hey was first appointed assistant commissioner in April 2012, the...