All the headlines from our South Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 20 2015 // More than 400 homeowners whose property lies along the Missouri River in southeast South Dakota could end up paying a $50 surcharge on their flood insurance if officials in Union County do not meet a federal deadline to...
Mar 16 2015 // Federal transportation regulators have ordered a South Dakota trucking company and its owner to stop all commercial operations.The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has deemed commercial driver Lonnie Roth and...
Mar 2 2015 // Thirteen Spearfish, S.D., residents have sued the city over years of sewer backups.Plaintiffs say in their lawsuit that they have suffered through a series of sewer backups stretching back to 2008, leading to stinky,...
Feb 17 2015 // The mood in the community of Lennox, S.D., is somber and likely will remain that way for a while, as residents prepare for the funeral of a man killed in a workplace shooting.The funeral for Jon Richter, 45, is scheduled...
Feb 17 2015 // A recent slide in oil prices is leading to fewer jobs in the western North Dakota oil patch, but officials there and in northwestern South Dakota say the regional industry is resilient and will ride out the slump.Openings...
Feb 4 2015 // Jennifer Eastman already was in anguish when she went to the hospital on Jan. 4, 2013, to have the dead fetus she was carrying removed from her uterus.The procedure and the loss of a child were bad enough. But it got...
Jan 30 2015 // State lawmakers want to make bicycling safer in South Dakota, but they’re having trouble figuring out how exactly to do it.The House Transportation Committee on Jan. 27 for the second time was unable to reach a...
Jan 26 2015 // Hays Companies announced that Steve Topel has joined its Chicago operations as president of property and casualty.Topel joins Hays Companies with extensive leadership experience. He served as the president and chief sales...
Jan 12 2015 // South Dakota Labor and Regulation Secretary Marcia Hultman announced that Larry Deiter has been named the new director of the Division of Insurance.As director, Deiter will continue to be active at the national level in...
Dec 8 2014 // South Dakota Insurance Director Merle Scheiber plans to step down from his post on Dec. 29. He has been insurance director since 2005. Larry Deiter, currently the division’s assistant director of property and...
Oct 24 2014 // Activists on both sides of the “any willing provider” ballot measure that would give South Dakota patients more choice of in-network doctors say the issue is too complicated for sound bites, but have still...
Oct 15 2014 // Cecil Y. Ray Jr., chairman of AFS/IBEX and former chairman of The Rigg Group, has announced the sale of substantially all of the loan portfolio and related assets of Dallas-based AFS/IBEX Financial Services Inc. –...
Oct 13 2014 // City leaders in Spearfish, S.D., have approved the construction of a $5.8 million facility to replace a city-owned call center that collapsed during a blizzard last year.The City Council this week also signed a seven-year...
Oct 9 2014 // South Dakota patients could have more choice of doctors within their health insurance networks if voters approve a ballot measure that is drawing strong opposition from the health insurance industry.The proposal on the...
Oct 2 2014 // Event organizers often do more than hold their breath and hope for success. Sometimes, they hedge their bets when they plan an entertainment venture.Insurance seems like such a dull subject that it would have no place in...
Sep 16 2014 // Brown County is receiving more than $150,000 in grant funding to help install a new floodgate where Crow Creek meets the James River. The American News in Aberdeen reports that Brown County has been planning for several...
Sep 9 2014 // Merle Scheiber, director of South Dakota’s Insurance Division, has issued a reminder to workers’ compensation insurers that bona fide independent contractors are not required to carry workers’ comp...
Sep 8 2014 // The South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation’s Division of Insurance (DOI) office has relocated to 124 S. Euclid Avenue, 2nd floor in Pierre. The office was previously located at 445 E. Capitol Ave.Official...
Aug 15 2014 // Things have changed a bit for the surplus lines industry since the Non-admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act, (NRRA) part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform legislation, passed in 2010.The NRRA’s implementation has...
Aug 14 2014 // The National Weather Service says a weak tornado caused minor damage at Lake Cochrane in South Dakota’s Deuel County over the weekend. The afternoon twister had estimated peak winds of 75 mph and was rated an EF-0,...