All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 3 2014 // Independent insurance wholesaler, All Risks Ltd. announced it has acquired Stonebridge Underwriters, a national general agency and program administrator, based in St. Paul, Minn.Stonebridge Underwriters offers a variety of...
Dec 27 2013 // One of the priorities of Minnesota’s highway plan for the next two decades calls for investing in safety-related road improvements.The Department of Transportation recently wrapped up a 20-year state highway...
Dec 27 2013 // A Georgia couple is suing Duluth’s steam plant after they say their 2-year-old son received second-degree burns from a hot manhole cover.Megan and Troy Brown, from Canton, Ga., are seeking more than $50,000 from the...
Dec 23 2013 // Gov. Mark Dayton declined to say Dec. 18 whether he asked for the resignation of the former CEO of Minnesota’s health insurance exchange, adding that he ultimately feels responsible for the success or failure of the...
Dec 19 2013 // The chief of Minnesota’s health insurance marketplace resigned Dec. 17 after facing criticism over the troubled rollout and a questionably timed international vacation.April Todd-Malmlov submitted her resignation...
Dec 9 2013 // The family of a worker who died in a fall at a grain facility in Buffalo Lake, Minn., has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.Andrew Burnett, 28, of New Ulm, died Oct. 27, 2012, when he fell about 60 feet while working at the...
Dec 2 2013 // Eastern Insurance Group, Westover InsuranceEastern Insurance Group, an insurance agency and a subsidiary of Eastern Bank based in Natick, Mass., acquired Westover Insurance Agency in Lynnfield, Mass. Eastern Insurance said...
Nov 11 2013 // AssuredPartners Inc. through its subsidiary AssuredPartners of Minnesota has acquired the Lee F. Murphy Inc. insurance firm based in St. Paul, Minn. As part of the acquisition, 50 Lee F. Murphy employees will join...
Nov 6 2013 // A Minnesota philanthropist has been fighting to preserve a historical village after county officials learned the buildings sit in a flood plain and could jeopardize residents’ ability to get federally subsidized...
Nov 4 2013 // Minnesota road surfaces that were supposed to last for 30 years are beginning to crumble in half that time, raising concerns that cities could have to spend millions of dollars to fix deteriorating streets.The state made...
Nov 4 2013 // Worker’s Comp Fraud“Thranow cheated both his workers’ compensation insurer and the state of California out of nearly $100,000, and by doing so passed the cost of his fraud onto consumers across the...
Oct 28 2013 // Allina Health in Minnesota is notifying thousands of patients that a medical assistant at its Inver Grove Heights clinic viewed their medical records without authorization.The Minneapolis-based hospital and clinic system...
Oct 21 2013 // An insurance trust representing Minnesota counties has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit over driver’s license data snooping.The proposed settlement was presented on Oct. 3 in federal court. The case...
Oct 18 2013 // When cattle producer Jason Zahn aims his pickup across the gravel roads of North Dakota, he doesn’t see as many native grasses dancing along the prairie. Instead, he sees more and more black.He sees tilled dirt or...
Oct 17 2013 // Years away from the field, former National Football League players including Jim Brown, Preston Pearson and Reggie Rucker are set to clash in court with retirees Mark Gastineau, Dan Pastorini, Dave Casper and others.At...
Oct 16 2013 // A federal lawsuit filed Oct. 14 accuses a diagnostic imaging company and 46 chiropractors of engaging in an elaborate kickback scheme aimed at defrauding Minnesota’s no-fault insurance system.The Insurance Federation...
Oct 7 2013 // An insurance trust representing Minnesota counties has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit over driver’s license data snooping.The proposed settlement was presented on Oct. 3 in federal court. The case...
Oct 4 2013 // Minnesota Department of Public Safety is reminding motorists and motorcyclists to be especially cautious of deer in coming months, as they are breeding and more active this time of year.DPS says seven people have been...
Sep 26 2013 // The employee of Minnesota’s health insurance exchange who released private data on about 1,600 insurance agents no longer works for the state.Minnesota Management and Budget provided the information on Sept. 24 to...
Sep 13 2013 // A September tornado has been spotted in far northern Minnesota. The National Weather Service says a trained spotter reported the tornado two miles northwest of Williams in Lake of the Woods County before 3:30 p.m....