All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2008 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation law is relatively tightfisted in paying claims from workers whose job injuries can be blamed on previous hurts and natural body aging, a consultant says.The state’s...
Oct 21 2008 // A new report says North Dakota’s former workers’ compensation director may have been ineligible for a $150,000 severance package because he resigned before the agency’s board of directors approved the...
Oct 17 2008 // North Dakota’s candidates for insurance commissioner agree that protecting the consumer is their top priority but disagree over who best can get it done.Republican Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm and Democratic...
Oct 15 2008 // North Dakota’s candidates for insurance commissioner will be competing for undecided voters in the campaign’s final weeks.In a poll commissioned by The Forum newspaper, 43 percent of the people surveyed said...
Oct 6 2008 // A Fargo insurance agent has pleaded not guilty to stealing more than $5 million from clients. Larry Atkins is charged with 78 felony counts, including engaging in fraudulent practices and selling unregistered securities....
Oct 6 2008 // Midwestern reaction to a proposed bail out of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) has been varied.In Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is not happy about the Federal Reserve Bank’s decision to provide an $85...
Oct 6 2008 // North Dakota’s Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm was appointed to fill the vacancy left by a popular Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman, who left 17 months early to take a job in the private sector. Amid the flack...
Oct 2 2008 // The interim chief executive of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency say he’s pleased with a new consultant’s report that found no evidence Workforce Safety and Insurance wrongly denied...
Sep 19 2008 // Midwestern reaction to the bail out of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) varies by regions and officials.In Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is not happy about the Federal Reserve Bank’s decision to...
Sep 19 2008 // A former North Dakota workers’ compensation executive claims in a lawsuit that agency attorneys and board members plotted to fire him for talking to investigators about possible crimes at Workforce Safety and...
Sep 11 2008 // North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says members of a North Dakota workers’ compensation panel broke the law with private discussions about raising their own pay.Stenehjem says an e-mail exchange between...
Sep 10 2008 // The Army Corps of Engineer says it has awarded a $5 million construction contract for a Fargo, North Dakota flood project. The corps says the contract is going to Rising Sun Construction, Inc., of Fargo for a project in...
Sep 9 2008 // North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger says a proposal to change how North Dakota’s workers compensation agency is run will be on the statewide ballot in November. Jaeger says he has reviewed petitions submitted...
Aug 28 2008 // Former North Dakota workers compensation director Sandy Blunt pleaded not guilty to two felony charges of misspending agency funds, almost two months after the state Supreme Court ruled Blunt should go on trial.South...
Aug 27 2008 // North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says directors of the state’s workers’ compensation agency broke the law by meeting in a restaurant without public notice. Stenehjem ordered the Workforce Safety...
Aug 15 2008 // Fargo, North Dakota officials have approved an agreement with the Southeast Cass Water Resource District to build a $100 million system of levees and channels to control flooding. The commission’s vote Monday was...
Aug 11 2008 // North Dakota’s former workers’ compensation director is to be arraigned later this month on charges that he misspent more than $18,000 in agency funds.Sandy Blunt is accused of two felonies. He is charged with...
Aug 7 2008 // Supporters of changing how North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency is run have turned in petitions to put their idea on the November ballot. The initiative would put the governor in charge of appointing the...
Aug 4 2008 // The number of homes found damaged or destroyed in tornado-ravaged Rolette County in North Dakota continues to rise. The state Department of Emergency Services says 12 homes have been destroyed and 18 have been damaged in...
Aug 4 2008 // Buckle Up“There is an obvious correlation between safety belt use and the fatality rate.” —Illinois State Police Director Larry G. Trent comments on the announcement on July 15 that the number of motorists...