All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 15 2007 // Strap in the kids, buckle up and turn off the cell phone. The rules of the road in Minnesota might get more strict in 2007.In the name of highway safety, lawmakers are debating bills to increase the use of seat belts and...
Feb 14 2007 // Western National Insurance Group today announced their full year financial results through December 31, 2006. These results reflect the pooled financial results of all companies in the group. For year-to-year comparison...
Feb 11 2007 // 28 – AL,AK,CA,CO,CT,DE,DC,FL,GA,KS,LA,ME,MD,MI,MO,NV,NJ,NY,OH,OR,PA,TN,TX,VT,VA,WA,WV,WI22 – AL,AZ,CO,FL,GA,IL,IN,IA,KY,MI,MN,MO,NE,NC,ND,OH,SC,SD,TN,UT,VA,WI 14 –...
Feb 6 2007 // RJF Agencies have announced the hiring of Craig Bongart as its new executive vice president of business development. Prior to joining RJF, Bongart spent 20 years leading sales teams for financial services firms, including...
Jan 29 2007 // Amy and Ted Harrison Sr. are being sued over a car crash that left their son permanently disabled, and they hope they lose the case now before the Minnesota Supreme Court.The plaintiff is their son, Teddy Harrison, who was...
Jan 22 2007 // David Sipprell was recently named senior vice president of marketing at Allianz Income Management Services (AIMS), a Minneapolis-based company formed this past August by Allianz of America to respond to the retirement...
Jan 19 2007 // Four Northeast nuclear power plants have been alerted to check for potential safety problems following a failure at a sister plant here that caused a shutdown.The Nuclear Regulatory Commission notified managers of the four...
Jan 11 2007 // SFM President and CEO Pat Johnson plans to retire in 2007, the company announced today. Johnson, assumed the role of president and CEO in 1992. SFM describes itself as the largest writer of workers’ compensation in...
Jan 11 2007 // Lois Klofanda was 85 years old when she sunk almost half her life savings into a deferred annuity from Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America, not realizing she wouldn’t be able to get at the money again for a...
Dec 21 2006 // The head of Taco John’s International offered this week to pay medical bills for customers who got ill from E. coli bacteria at three of the chain’s Mexican restaurants.Some 76 people were sickened after eating...
Nov 30 2006 // Departing Minn.-basedUnitedHealth Group Inc. chief William McGuire is sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stock options. But a federal judge is weighing whether to make him get permission before cashing...
Nov 27 2006 // Oswald Companies, an insurance brokerage firm, announced the opening of a Minneapolis office. The focus of the new office is business insurance solutions in property & casualty and benefits for manufacturing, retail,...
Nov 16 2006 // After supporting cuts to subsidized health care in his first term, it appears Gov. Tim Pawlenty will use his second term to focus on expanding health insurance.The governor said Tuesday that the state should start moving...
Nov 8 2006 // A Las Vegas woman whose son was born in 2001 with cerebral palsy and other health problems has been awarded more than $15 million by a Ramsey County jury.J. Richard Bland, the attorney for the Minnesota Medical Insurance...
Oct 30 2006 // Western National Insurance Group today announced their 2006 financial results through Sept. 30, 2006. The Group results now include the Farmers Home Mutual group of companies due to the completion of that transaction in...
Oct 23 2006 // The Allstate Corporation announced a leadership transition, which will occur over the next 18 months. Edward M. Liddy, currently chairman and chief executive officer, plans to step down as CEO at the end of 2006. Thomas J....
Oct 19 2006 // Criminal charges could be part of the fallout from the apparent stock options backdating that led to the coming departure of the chief executive at UnitedHealth Group Inc., two former federal prosecutors said.They said...
Oct 9 2006 // Searching for ways to improve road safety without breaking the bank, state transportation officials in the U.S. have found inspiration in ideas being implemneted abroad.Low-cost devices increasingly popping up on...
Oct 9 2006 // Searching for ways to improve road safety without breaking the bank, state transportation officials in the U.S. have found inspiration in ideas being implemneted abroad.Low-cost devices increasingly popping up on...
Oct 6 2006 // St. Paul-based Minnesota Life Group Insurance recently announced the opening of a sales and service office at 450 N. Brand Blvd. in Glendale, Calif. The company provides web-based group life insurance and dental benefits...