All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2007 // Companies will have an easier time searching a database for property/casualty products. The Minnesota Department of Commerce Commissioner Glenn Wilson announced on Friday, Sept.28th that the department has launched its...
Sep 28 2007 // State highway officials around the country want the government to stop scaring the public by using dire-sounding phrases such as “structurally deficient” and “functionally obsolete” to describe...
Sep 27 2007 // Safeco has deployed claims professionals to help customers in Minnesota and North Dakota recover from a damaging hail storm that occurred September 20-21. Safeco claims representatives arrived in the area shortly after the...
Sep 25 2007 // Penn.-based Erie Insurance recently announced that the company plans to write business in Minnesota beginning in the fourth quarter of 2009. .“We are looking forward to entering Minnesota because of the substantial...
Sep 17 2007 // A statewide crackdown on people driving while intoxicated resulted in at least 2,270 arrests, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety reported. More than 400 agencies across the state participated in the...
Sep 13 2007 // When Jim Johnson turned 65 last spring, the executive vice president at Securian Financial Group could have joined several colleagues who decided to retire. But when the company asked him to stay in charge of its group...
Sep 12 2007 // Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker, recently announced the appointments of Jackie Lantry and Rick Storms to vice president of the Employee Benefits Practice for Willis’ operations in Minneapolis.In...
Sep 3 2007 // Years ago in the late ’60s after Chicago had received in excess of 27 inches of snow, bringing the city to a quiet halt, then NBC-TV Tonight talk show host Johnny Carson in his opening monologue said, “I...
Sep 3 2007 // Years ago in the late ’60s after Chicago had received in excess of 27 inches of snow, bringing the city to a quiet halt, then NBC-TV Tonight talk show host Johnny Carson in his opening monologue said, “I...
Aug 31 2007 // Data on 313 Minnesota bridges can be found online, thanks to the work of an environmental group that compiled information from state and federal sources.The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy organized the data...
Aug 30 2007 // A month after the deadly Minneapolis bridge collapse, Missouri lawmakers are poised to approve a massive bridge repair project that could serve as a national roadmap for renovating aging infrastructure.Missouri plans to...
Aug 29 2007 // Public and private property damage from recent flooding across seven southern Minnesota counties has topped $67 million. Gov. Tim Pawlenty provided the figure in a letter to state lawmakers. Fillmore, Winona, Houston,...
Aug 23 2007 // Widespread flooding continued this week across northern and central Iowa as thunderstorms and strong winds destroyed buildings, cut off power and left roads and homes underwater.Northern Iowa, already flooded from storms...
Aug 22 2007 // A retired insurance company executive will take the lead role in promoting and raising money for the 2008 Republican National Convention.The local host committee planning for the GOP gathering announced that Doug...
Aug 22 2007 // From its northern tip to its southern border, Minnesota is getting roughed up in 2007.The state has seen fire, floods and a fallen bridge. “It has been one thing after another,” said Judson Freed, past...
Aug 16 2007 // A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over the fatal shooting of two Rocori High school students in 2003, but still needs court approval.The families of Aaron Rollins and Seth Bartell had sued the school, its former...
Aug 15 2007 // The mayor and a key state lawmaker on Monday cautioned that the Minnesota transportation officials’ swift timetable to replace the collapsed interstate bridge could overlook safety and the unique elements necessary...
Aug 13 2007 // Seventy-eight people died from work-related injuries in Minnesota last year, a decrease of nine work-related deaths from the year before, the state Department of Labor and Industry announced on Thursday, Aug. 9th. The 2006...
Aug 13 2007 // Divers took another body from the wreckage of a freeway bridge, shrinking to five the number of people known missing and presumed dead in the collapse.Meanwhile, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters on Friday, Aug....
Aug 10 2007 // Federal officials cautioned transportation authorities across the U.S. to re-examine bridges after investigators probing a deadly interstate bridge collapse in Minnesota said they found a potential design flaw.The National...