All the headlines from our South Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 6 2011 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm says auto insurance premiums paid by drivers in the Dakotas remain among the lowest in the nation. Hamm cites a new report issued by the National Association of Insurance...
Dec 1 2010 // A lack of equipment and personnel has left TransCanada unprepared to deal with a major spill of crude oil on its Keystone pipeline system, according to a report by a nonprofit environmental group.The 60-page report from...
Nov 23 2010 // The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports South Dakota’s preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October 2010 was 4.5 percent, a slight increase from the September 2010 rate of 4.4 percent.“The...
Sep 20 2010 // A flood-control project in the works for more than 20 years should be completed next year, removing 1,500 properties from Sioux Falls, S.D.’s flood plain, a city official said.Once the flood-control measures are in...
Sep 7 2010 // A flood-control project in the works for more than 20 years should be completed next year, removing 1,500 properties from Sioux Falls’ flood plain, a city official said.Once the flood-control measures are in place,...
Aug 19 2010 // A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that a South Dakota couple filed against the U.S. Forest Service over two disabled gold mines in the Black Hills. Arron and Judy Marston said the Forest Service illegally...
Aug 3 2010 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions.The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
Jun 1 2010 // The May Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in the...
May 20 2010 // South Dakota Insurance Division Director Merle Scheiber has ordered a company offering medical benefits insurance plans in the state to stop the practice.A temporary cease and desist order has been issued against Real...
Apr 22 2010 // Eric Castaneira, who went to prison in for kidnapping an executive at South Dakota-based Midland National Life Insurance Co. in 1991, has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $500,000 from the company, plus punitive damages...
Apr 5 2010 // South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds vetoed a bill that supporters said would have changed South Dakota insurance law to help give injured people a better chance of receiving compensation for their losses.The Associated Press...
Mar 26 2010 // South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds has vetoed legislation that would have prohibited insurers from recovering funds from liable parties and would have unfairly and unnecessarily increased insurance costs for South Dakotans...
Mar 26 2010 // South Dakota Division of Insurance Director Merle Scheiber is warning property/casualty insurers that auto policy forms that restrict the types of motor vehicles for which coverage may apply when an insured is struck as a...
Mar 17 2010 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has requested that South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds veto Senate Bill 169, which PCI says will increase litigation costs and cause higher insurance premiums for...
Feb 16 2010 // Two bills expected to be heard this week by the South Dakota legislature would favor attorney interests over consumers by changing important policies that control consumers’ insurance costs, according to the Property...
Nov 16 2009 // The South Dakota Agriculture Department says wet conditions have delayed what looks like a near-record harvest for many South Dakota farmers and raised concerns about a Dec. 10 harvest deadline for crop insurance. In a...
Nov 2 2009 // A national trade organization estimates the number of lost construction jobs in South Dakota at 1,400 during a year in which a weak economy and tight credit slowed developers and builders.The 6 percent drop in South Dakota...
Oct 26 2009 // More than a dozen organizations and state Sen. Ben Nesselhuf of Vermillion have formed Safe and Sound South Dakota, a coalition they say is designed to promote traffic safety legislation.In a release, the coalition said...
Sep 16 2009 // A South Dakota urology clinic and its owners have asked a judge to dismiss an amended lawsuit and its class-action request filed by five Iowans who claim they could have been exposed to blood-borne infections.State health...
Aug 18 2009 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm has issued a cease and desist order to Floyd Sheridan, a Baltic, S.D., insurance agent who is alleged to have sold, solicited or negotiated insurance to a Barnes County, N.D....