All the headlines from our South Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 8 2012 // Cover the Dog“We believe that policyholders will benefit from having an independent agent review their insurance coverages to ensure they have adequate protection against the alarming increase in lawsuits over bites...
Oct 8 2012 // A Watertown, S.D., insurance company has been placed into litigation by state insurance regulators.A liquidation order issued by the South Dakota Division of Insurance for Northern Plains Insurance Co. was approved on...
Oct 5 2012 // As Stephanie Bowers sifted through the charred remains of her mother’s books, she paused and cried. Bowers’ mother, Cheryl Roop, 59, died in a trailer home fire in Mitchell, S.C. early on Sept. 29.Now living in...
Sep 28 2012 // South Dakota will not set up its own health insurance exchange, instead deferring to the federal government to operate and pay for a key component required by the federal health care overhaul, Gov. Dennis Daugaard...
Sep 25 2012 // A Massachusetts architectural firm has sued a competitor in South Dakota, accusing it of using the firm’s copyrighted designs in a planned upgrade to the University of South Dakota’s student center.Charles Rose...
Sep 24 2012 // A Watertown, S.D., insurance company has been placed into liquidation by state insurance regulators.A liquidation order issued by the South Dakota Division of Insurance for Northern Plains Insurance Co. was approved on...
Sep 13 2012 // ABC News was hit with a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit on Thursday by a South Dakota meat processor that accused it of misleading viewers into believing that a product that critics have dubbed “pink slime” was...
Sep 6 2012 // South Dakota’s biggest city has banned texting while driving.The Sioux Falls City Council voted to make sending and receiving electronic messages while operating a vehicle a crime within city limits. The ordinance...
Sep 5 2012 // An August survey suggests that the continuing drought and lessening export demand for U.S. products are among the drains on the economy in nine Midwest and Plains states, according to a report released Tuesday.The...
Aug 15 2012 // A 21-year-old man accused of fatally injuring a motorcyclist while he was speeding and texting has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges.Brent O’Neal was indicted by a grand jury on the traffic violations and on...
Jul 30 2012 // A man accused of fatally injuring a motorcyclist while he was speeding and texting is facing manslaughter charges in a case that could fuel efforts to ban texting while driving in South Dakota’s largest...
Jul 27 2012 // Police say a Sioux Falls, S.D., man was texting and driving too fast when he hit a motorcycle, three other vehicles and a light pole, and then ran from the accident scene.Brent O’Neal faces charges of felony hit and...
May 18 2012 // South Dakota has been awarded a $5.9 million federal grant to continue research into the possibility of a state-run health insurance exchange.But Gov. Dennis Daugaard says the state will continue to wait for the outcome of...
May 15 2012 // Madison residents continue to clean up a week after a storm dropped six inches of rain that caused flash flooding, and some want to ensure it never happens again.They plan to ask city leaders to consider building a water...
May 3 2012 // Federal safety regulators have labeled a southeast South Dakota company a “severe violator” after a worker died and two others were seriously injured.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is...
May 2 2012 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is looking into the death of a worker at a Rapid City, S.D. steel business. Twenty-six-year-old Adam Klynsma was killed at TrueNorth Steel on Friday. Pennington County...
Apr 10 2012 // Health officials want the Sioux Falls City Council to require home day care centers to carry at least $1 million in liability insurance. It’s part of a package of rules the council are considering. It includes higher...
Mar 15 2012 // A South Dakota sheriff’s deputy and former insurance producer who pleaded guilty in an insurance fraud case has been sentenced to about 2 1/2 months in jail and 2 1/2 years of probation. Forty-two-year-old Rob...
Mar 14 2012 // The Indiana and Nebraska legislatures recently passed much needed legislation that could help protect homeowners from contractor fraud and abuse, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
Jan 19 2012 // A South Dakota deputy sheriff who pleaded guilty in an insurance fraud case has resigned.The Press & Dakotan newspaper reports that Douglas County Deputy Rob Hotchkiss stepped down on Jan. 14, and county commissioners...