All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 8 2008 // Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency did not violate the state’s open records law when it denied a legal record to an agency critic. Stenehjem wrote in a legal...
Apr 7 2008 // Jasper Schneider remembers attending Democratic conventions as a small boy with his father, John, a former House Democratic leader and U.S. attorney during the Clinton administration.On Friday, the 28-year-old was on stage...
Apr 7 2008 // The Governing Board of the California Earthquake Authority has hired Glenn A. Pomeroy as CEO. Pomeroy has extensive experience in public service positions, including former commissioner of insurance of North Dakota. In...
Apr 7 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Liquor Liability with Assault and...
Apr 1 2008 // North Dakota’s Republican insurance commissioner is starting his first campaign for the job.Adam Hamm was appointed as insurance commissioner last October. He replaced Jim Poolman, who resigned to start his own...
Mar 24 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Contractors Nuts & Bolts: Lemac &...
Mar 24 2008 // Bruce Furness, who helped resolve some festering city personnel problems as mayor of Fargo, North Dakota was named the interim chief executive of North Dakota’s troubled workers’ compensation agency.The...
Mar 18 2008 // The Governing Board of the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) announced the hiring of Glenn A. Pomeroy as the CEA’s CEO. He will assume the position on April 1.Pomeroy has extensive experience in public service...
Mar 18 2008 // Six people, including a one-time Fargo mayor and a former vice president at Montana’s workers’ compensation fund, have applied to be the interim chief executive officer of North Dakota’s Workforce Safety...
Mar 14 2008 // Florida ranks the worst in terms of tort costs and litigation risks, while North Dakota ranks the best. In a separate ranking, Colorado has the best tort laws on its books, while Rhode Island has the worst.The free-market...
Mar 13 2008 // A judge has awarded civil damages of more than $881,000 in the case of a teenage driver involved in a Ransom County crash that killed another teenager two years ago.Southeast District Judge Daniel Narum ruled that Dillon...
Mar 13 2008 // An Associated Press story is reporting that the internal audit manager at North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency has been fired.Kay Grinsteinner had questioned whether the agency’s board of directors...
Mar 12 2008 // A former North Dakota workers’ compensation director and a one-time state House majority leader are among those interested in serving as a temporary chief executive at Workforce Safety and Insurance, agency directors...
Mar 10 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...
Feb 6 2008 // North Dakota’s Insurance Department should have authority to do regular reviews of the state’s workers’ compensation agency, says Commissioner Adam Hamm, who intends to seek legislators’ support for...
Feb 4 2008 // The North Dakota state Insurance Department says it has settled a claim for $7.9 million for damage to the Northwood school from the Aug. 26 tornado that ripped through the community.The department’s Fire and Tornado...
Jan 11 2008 // North Dakota’s whistleblower law, intended to prevent retaliation against employees who report alleged wrongdoing in the workplace, instead puts the burden on workers to protect themselves, lawyers say.“These...
Jan 9 2008 // The chairman of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency has resigned, less than three weeks after his Bottineau County employers requested an investigation of Robert Indvik’s use of county...
Nov 29 2007 // North Dakota’s unemployment insurance tax rates will be falling for the third straight year, with the average rate dropping below 1 percent for the first time since 1997, Gov. John Hoeven says.Maren Daley, director...
Nov 13 2007 // Gov. John Hoeven favors a proposed initiative that would give him power to hire North Dakota’s workers compensation director, but he won’t say whether he’ll campaign for the measure if it qualifies for...