All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 2 2011 // Attorneys for Toyota Motor Corp. asked a federal judge this week to dismiss most of the claims filed by a Minnesota man who was incarcerated after a fatal crash involving a 1996 Camry, saying the automaker had no direct...
Jan 24 2011 // Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton appointed Mike Rothman as the new Commissioner of Commerce. The Department of Commerce and Revenue regulates the business of insurance in the state.Rothman was most recently an attorney with the...
Jan 7 2011 // Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has appointed Mike Rothman the new Commissioner of Commerce. The Department of Commerce and Revenue regulates the business of insurance in the state. Rothman was most recently an attorney with...
Jan 6 2011 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc., announced it has RJF Agencies Inc., one of the largest independent insurance agencies in the upper Midwest. Terms of the transaction were...
Dec 28 2010 // The Minnesota Department of Commerce said it stands to receive more than $2 million in its share of a $146 million settlement with American International Group over misreporting of workers’ compensation insurance...
Dec 23 2010 // Minnesota Governor-Elect Mark Dayton has appointed Ken Peterson to head the Department of Labor and Industry. Peterson brings public service experience to the position, including serving the last DFL Governor, Rudy...
Dec 8 2010 // Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson sued Discover on Dec. 6, accusing one of the nation’s biggest credit card companies of billing tens of thousands of Minnesota customers for account protection programs they...
Nov 30 2010 // ISU International announced that Superior Insurance Agency of St. Cloud, Minn., has joined the ISU Network. ISU Superior Insurance Agency is owned by Yussuf Hamid. The ISU Network, founded in 1979 and headquartered in San...
Nov 14 2010 // Republicans made big gains across the United States – and the Midwest was no exception – in the November 2 midterm elections. Across the country, GOP gains gave the party its largest number of seats in state...
Nov 8 2010 // Minnesota can claim this touchdown record.It leads all others in the number of tornadoes that have swept through the state this year. The National Weather Service says 104 tornadoes touched down in Minnesota in 2010,...
Oct 15 2010 // The federal government has declared 21 counties in southern Minnesota disaster areas, prompting Gov. Tim Pawlenty to convene a special session for Oct. 18.The Federal Emergency Management Agency says funds are available to...
Sep 14 2010 // Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, Minneapolis has named Jason Wellmann as the new senior vice president of Life Insurance Sales. In this role, Wellmann will be responsible for leading Allianz life insurance...
Aug 3 2010 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions.The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
Jul 20 2010 // Milltown Insurance Group, a new specialty insurance and weather brokerage in Lakeville, Minn., recently was opened for business by Dana D’Arrigo. The firm specializes in niche property and casualty program business...
Jun 30 2010 // The Minnesota Department of Commerce announced that a stamping fee of 0.0008 on all premium bearing surplus line placements made on or after Jan. 1, 2011 will need to be paid by the insured to the surplus lines...
Jun 18 2010 // A Minneapolis, Minn., man has been sentenced to nine years for a shotgun robbery attempt at an insurance in Roseville last December.The complaint says 41-year-old Michael Kevin Jones walked into an office building, pointed...
Jun 1 2010 // The May Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in the...
Jun 1 2010 // Royanna G. Carle of Berkley Risk Administrators Company LLC has been installed as president of the Minnesota Chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society. Other elected and installed officers for...
May 28 2010 // Ag States Group, the insurance subsidiary of CHS Inc., a Fortune 100 energy, grains and foods company, has been honored as Agency of the Year by the Minnesota Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers (MIIAB) association.In...
Apr 6 2010 // The Minnesota Department of Public Safety is estimating that the spring flooding caused about $14 million in damage in the state.Teams of officials from the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency came up with...