All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 11 2012 // Gov. Mark Dayton has reiterated his intention to continue developing a health insurance exchange for Minnesota.The Democratic governor wrote to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius confirming his...
Jun 18 2012 // Dan Koshiol, a 15-year veteran of major reinsurance brokerage firms, announced the formation of StoneHill Reinsurance Partners LLC. The company is based in Bloomington, Minn.Koshiol serves as president and chief executive...
Jun 15 2012 // Safety officials say Minnesota’s traffic deaths in 2011 were the state’s lowest annual death count since 1944.Officials on June 13 released Minnesota’s final traffic crash report for 2011. It shows 368...
May 30 2012 // The Minnesota Department of Commerce is encouraging local law enforcement, county prosecutors, and community organizations to apply for a third round of auto theft prevention grants.The Minnesota Auto Theft Prevention...
May 25 2012 // Union Pacific Railroad and the family of a man killed in a Blue Earth County train crash have reached a legal settlement. Attorneys say Union Pacific has agreed to pay $650,000 to the family of Todd Ziegler. He and another...
May 7 2012 // The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research and the Minnesota Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers announced that the agents association will assume administrative leadership of the Certified Risk...
Apr 16 2012 // Great American Insurance GroupCincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group’s environmental division opened a regional office in New York City. The expansion complements the environmental division’s...
Apr 6 2012 // The Minnesota Legislature has selected an insurance agency owner to serve on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents.Thomas Devine was elected a regent during a recent joint House-Senate convention. He...
Apr 6 2012 // A federal judge in Minneapolis, Minn., has ruled a health insurer improperly denied benefits to a spouse who had undergone a sex change operation. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis said the health plan administrator for a...
Apr 4 2012 // Jeff Sibell has joined PCG Agencies Inc. in St. Paul, Minn., as vice president of finance. Sibell has many years of experience in the insurance, financial services and legal industries, and bring extensive IT skills, as...
Apr 4 2012 // Super-regional property/casualty insurance carrier The Main Street America Group announced that Minnesota-based Austin Mutual Insurance Co. will affiliate with Main Street America.The affiliation agreement, which has been...
Apr 2 2012 // Minnesota transportation officials have announced eight flood mitigation projects to be built over the next five years.The Minnesota Department of Transportation said the projects total $30 million and are part of a $50...
Mar 28 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B (Fair) from B++ (Good) and issuer credit rating to “bb” from “bbb” of Austin Mutual Insurance Co. (Austin Mutual) of Maple Grove,...
Mar 16 2012 // On average, 23 cars are stolen — or almost one car per hour — every day in Minnesota, state officials say.Nearly 8,400 vehicles were stolen in Minnesota in 2010 alone, totaling more than $21.3 million in stolen value,...
Mar 8 2012 // Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has vetoed a bill that would have expanded the cases in which people could use deadly force, siding with objections from law enforcement who said it could legalize murder in some cases.In his...
Feb 23 2012 // Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton announced that the state has received a $26 million grant to continue the design and development of a Minnesota-made health insurance exchange. An exchange is a marketplace where Minnesota...
Feb 22 2012 // A relatively snow-free winter in the Upper Midwest has some officials worried about damage to agriculture if the dry weather persists into spring planting.Minnesota’s agriculture and commerce commissioners, Dave...
Feb 20 2012 // Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has vetoed four Republican-sponsored lawsuit reform bills, and is again criticizing the GOP as “too extreme to lead.” Dayton said at a news conference that the bills ignored court...
Feb 16 2012 // A company with three manufacturing plants in southern Minnesota wants a change in state law in order to shield itself from future asbestos claims.Crown Holdings Inc. says its 1963 merger with a rival company left it with...
Feb 7 2012 // A Minnesota state board that’s responsible for protecting the public from physician errors often shies away from punishing doctors whose mistakes harm patients or who demonstrate a pattern of substandard care,...