All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 1 2008 // North Dakota’s workers compensation agency plans to resume using independent judges to review disputes over benefits for workers who are hurt on the job, its director says.Two attorneys who represent injured workers...
Jul 31 2008 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm should stop a new television and radio ad that advertises his agency’s assistance programs, because they promote the Republican’s election campaign, Democratic...
Jul 18 2008 // A preliminary estimate of damage from the tornado that struck Rolla, Norht Dakota last week now tops $1 million.Rolette County Tax Director Diane Schwandt expects that estimate to grow. Schwandt says property owners are...
Jul 16 2008 // North Dakota legislators say the spending policies of state agencies should get a fresh look to make sure other administrators don’t find themselves facing criminal charges and prison time.Sandy Blunt, the former...
Jul 14 2008 // Complaints about North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) agency may not translate into support for making WSI a private business and allowing competition from other insurers, state lawmakers say.The...
Jun 24 2008 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation board approved giving $77 million in dividends to most of its business customers over the next year, which could reduce their annual insurance bills by 62 percent.The...
Jun 20 2008 // A former North Dakota Workforce Safety and Insurance executive says he walked in on an illegal meeting of agency board members in a restaurant, and he has asked Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem to investigate.“They...
Jun 17 2008 // Officials in Grand Forks are reaching out to their counterparts in flooded Iowa, offering advice learned from the devastating 1997 Red River flood that swamped their city.“Every disaster is unique, every recovery is...
Jun 10 2008 // A delegation from St. Bernard Parish in Louisiana is to visit the Grand Forks area this week to share disaster lessons.St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro is to lead the delegation of about a dozen people in...
Jun 4 2008 // Some North Dakota workers’ compensation benefit recipients will see a 5.6 percent increase next month.Workforce Safety and Insurance says it is the largest yearly inflation adjustment in at least 20 years. The...
Jun 2 2008 // $3.2 MillionA Baldwin, Wis., man was awarded $3.2 million in a malpractice case after losing part of his left leg. Jim Lang went to Dr. Gregory Estlund in 2003 after injuring his leg while working at a factory in Hammond....
May 27 2008 // In the first of what may be several lawsuits by former employees of North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) agency, a former fraud investigator says several top WSI officials illegally schemed to fire...
May 23 2008 // The North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance (WSI) board of directors approved the 2008-2009 premium rate plan on Thursday, May 22nd. While the new rating plan begins July 1, 2008, it calls for no change in statewide...
May 5 2008 // At least 23 people in 14 states, including North Dakota, have been sickened by the same strain of salmonella found in two breakfast cereals recalled by Malt-O-Meal, the federal Food and Drug Administration said.Officials...
Apr 23 2008 // A prosecutor has decided not to seek criminal charges for the firings of two North Dakota workers compensation agency employees, saying he does not believe he could prove they were victims of illegal retaliation.James...
Apr 23 2008 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services recently announced the addition of staff in its North Dakota office. Deb Galt was named Insurance Brokerage supervisor for Wells Fargo Insurance Services’ Midwest region, and Gail Hayes...
Apr 21 2008 // Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. named Michael LaRocco president and CEO. He will report to Chuck Kavitsky, president and CEO of Allianz of America, parent of Fireman’s Fund, and will also...
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Apr 16 2008 // At least 23 people in 14 states, including North Dakota, have been sickened by the same strain of salmonella found in two breakfast cereals recalled by Malt-O-Meal, the federal Food and Drug Administration said...
Apr 15 2008 // A state auditor is doing another check of North Dakota injured workers’ claims to see how many were inappropriately denied. A consultant’s review found only a “handful” of questionable claim...