All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 4 2006 // Western National Insurance Group (WNIG), based in Edina, Minn., today announced that its President and CEO Stuart C. Henderson, JD, CPCU, has been re-elected for a three-year term as a director for the Insurance Federation...
Sep 19 2006 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) recently awarded Pricilla “Cilla” Hughes, manager, Hope Mutual Insurance Company, Tyler, Minn., the Professional Farm Mutual Manager (PFMM) of the...
Sep 18 2006 // Minnesota State University, Mankato,and an insurance company have agreed to a $5.25 million settlement stemming from a crash that killed three students and injured four other students last year in Michigan.Attorney Nick...
Sep 14 2006 // Minn.-based Travelers Insurance is offering increased protection for employee dishonesty fraud and other related losses under a newly-enhanced product recently introduced by the company.Travelers SelectOne(SM) for...
Sep 8 2006 // Rande Yeager, president and CEO of Old Republic National Title Insurance Company, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., has announced the acquisition by Old Republic National Title Holding Company of Troon Management Corp....
Sep 4 2006 // 1 million Enrollment in insured HMO benefit plans declined again in 2005, dropping below 1 million, the lowest level since 1985. Premium revenue increases slowed and profitability for HMOs decreased from its peak in 2004....
Sep 1 2006 // Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group Inc. said an investor in its debt securities sent it a notice of default on Monday, following the health insurer’s delay in filing a quarterly report with the Securities and Exchange...
Aug 25 2006 // Enrollment in insured HMO benefit plans declined again in 2005, dropping below 1 million, the lowest level since 1985. Premium revenue increases slowed and profitability for HMOs decreased from its peak in 2004.Part One of...
Aug 22 2006 // John B. Collins Associates, Inc. has opened a new facility to provide help to regional insurers writing umbrella coverage.According to the Collins’ written statement the goal was to help insurers across the United...
Aug 21 2006 // ‘Dumb driving’ fines“You crash, you pay … your insurance premium is probably going to go up, but what about the penalty being paid by 25,000 drivers who are sitting in traffic waiting for you to get...
Aug 14 2006 // The police chief in Elk River said an insurance violation was a good enough reason for his officers to lock up a man who was later beaten to death in the Sherburne County jail.A story in the Associated Press last week...
Aug 11 2006 // An Elk River, Minnesota man being held at the Sherburne County Jail on a gross misdemeanor traffic violation died after being beaten by another prisoner, the sheriff’s office said Wednesday.Carl Edward Moyle, 28, had...
Aug 10 2006 // State Fund Mutual Companies, a workers’ compensation iinsurer in the Minnesota-Wisconsin market and the largest in Minnesota, has changed its name to SFM, the Minneapolis-based company announced today.“We are a...
Aug 4 2006 // Houston-based HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. announced today that the Company had reached an agreement to acquire the assets of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America’s Health Products Division for a cash...
Aug 4 2006 // Drivers who cause crashes because they’re wolfing down hamburgers or applying mascara would face fines under a transportation plan outlined recently by Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Peter...
Jul 28 2006 // At a rate of about three a day, state Commerce Department regulators have been posting enforcement actions against insurance agencies and companies, real estate agents, mortgage originators, security brokers and others.But...
Jul 21 2006 // UnitedHealth Group Inc., America’s second-largest health insurer, said its quarterly profits grew 26.5 percent, as the company benefited from the acquisition of PacifiCare Health Systems and growth across its other...
Jul 21 2006 // Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has announced a new policy to issue refunds to nonsmoking individual policyholders who, although eligible, have not been paying tobacco-free premium rates.“Blue Cross has done...
Jul 19 2006 // Minnesota-based Western National Insurance Group has been named to the 2006 Ward’s 50 group of top performing property/casualty companies in the United States. The designation recognizes Western National for...
Jul 3 2006 // Minneapolis, Minn.-based ING named Susan Anderson president and CEO of ING Trust USA. Anderson will report to ING Advisors Network President Valerie Brown.Anderson will lead the growth and development of personal trust and...