All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Feb 5 2013 // The family of a man who was among six people gunned down at his Minneapolis, Minn., office last year is suing the company, claiming it botched the firing of the employee who carried out the attack and should have known...
Jan 15 2013 // A St. Paul, Minn., man has been sentenced for filing a false insurance claim for artwork he had reported as stolen.Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Sheedy was sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation on one...
Jan 15 2013 // Millions of dollars in relief loan money sit unclaimed more than six months after heavy flooding hit northeastern Minnesota.Most of the $12 million allocated by the Legislature for disaster loans to homeowners remains...
Jan 10 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating to A (Excellent) from B (Fair) and the issuer credit rating to “a+” from “bb+” of Austin Mutual Insurance Co. (Austin) in Maple Grove, Minn....
Jan 4 2013 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc., has acquired Liscomb Hood Mason Co., a $2.2 million revenue agency based in Duluth, Minn.With roots dating back to 1927, Liscomb Hood...
Dec 20 2012 // Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety says about 1,300 people have been arrested for driving while intoxicated so far in December. State law enforcement agencies are working overtime hours this month as part of a...
Dec 11 2012 // Some school districts in Minnesota want parents to pick up the tab for insuring expensive tablet computers that are given to students. More and more electronics are replacing textbooks, paper and pencils. Farmington...
Dec 4 2012 // A monthly economic index report suggests an economic slump will continue over the next three to six months for nine Midwest and Plains states.The Mid-America Business Conditions index rose slightly in November to a weak...