All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 13 2018 // A.M. Best has upgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “bbb+” from “bbb” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) of Hartland Mutual Insurance Co. (Hartland Mutual), based in...
Apr 11 2018 // A.M. Best has upgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “a+” from “a” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) of Nodak Insurance Company (Nodak...
Apr 9 2018 // A project meant to provide affordable housing for Minot, North Dakota, residents displaced by the 2011 Souris River flood or buyouts has been shelved.The City Council has rejected developer proposals and set the idea aside...
Apr 6 2018 // North Dakota’s Great Depression-era law banning corporate farming won’t preclude horticulture operations from growing medical marijuana, provided it’s not done on agricultural land, the state’s...
Mar 21 2018 // The North Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a $500,000 cap on damages in a 2015 fatal school bus-train crash near Larimore.The bus driver and a student died when the Larimore school bus with 13 students collided with a BNSF...
Mar 6 2018 // North Dakota-based insurance holding company, NI Holdings Inc. announced its board of directors has authorized a repurchase of up to approximately $10 million of the company’s outstanding common stock.The company...
Feb 12 2018 // Some Minot, N.D., homeowners are expressing difficulty selling property after discovering city building inspectors failed to identify flawed construction before issuing certificates of occupancy.Then, they discovered the...
Jan 22 2018 // Federal investigators believe a broken wheel caused a May 2015 oil train derailment that prompted the evacuation of Heimdal, North Dakota.The National Transportation Safety Board says in a recently released report that...
Jan 22 2018 // A state district judge has ruled as unconstitutional North Dakota’s law limiting damages in medical malpractice cases.The Bismarck Tribune reports the ruling came in a case involving a Fort Yates woman who suffered a...
Jan 16 2018 // Federal investigators believe a broken wheel caused a May 2015 oil train derailment that prompted the evacuation of Heimdal, North Dakota.The National Transportation Safety Board says investigators found a mark on the...
Jan 16 2018 // A federal mandate requiring many motor carriers to install electronic logging devices could cost be costly to North Dakota’s cattle industry.Warren Zenker, who runs a cattle feeding operation near Elgin, told the...
Jan 11 2018 // A state district judge has ruled that North Dakota’s law limiting damages in medical malpractice cases is unconstitutional.The Bismarck Tribune reports the ruling came in a case involving a Fort Yates woman who...
Jan 5 2018 // A Wyoming-based company that illegally dumped oilfield waste in western North Dakota has paid the state more than $950,000 after the state Supreme Court affirmed the fine last month.Black Hills Trucking paid $951,526 to...
Dec 22 2017 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread says veterans who have taken or plan to take any of the nine North Dakota insurance producer exams after June 1, 2017, qualify to be reimbursed for their exam fee through a...
Dec 11 2017 // A $4 million flood protection project in Bismarck set for next year will affect nearly two dozen properties that won’t be protected by the levee that’s being built.The Burleigh County Water Resource...
Oct 24 2017 // U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to send more workers to western North Dakota, where she says understaffed Farm Service Agency offices are dealing with an overwhelming workload...
Oct 20 2017 // Hundreds of farmers in the Upper Midwest are reporting damage from the controversial herbicide dicamba, and state officials are considering restrictions for the 2018 growing season that might surpass even new federal...
Oct 20 2017 // North Dakota’s insurance commissioner is bullish on the technological innovations that are occurring within the insurance industry and wants his state to be in the forefront of experimenting with and testing new...
Aug 24 2017 // The company building the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace and other groups on Aug. 22, alleging that they disseminated false and misleading information about the project and interfered...
Aug 18 2017 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread has said that since taking office at the beginning of this year he has focused on ensuring the agency he runs is available and responsive to insurance consumers, producers...