All the headlines from our South Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 30 2005 // A federal district court judge in South Dakota ruled this week that the state’s countersignature law is unconstitutional. The ruling means that 50 states have taken action to eliminate the countersignature...
Oct 17 2005 // S.D. Farm Couple Pleads Guilty to $1.3 Million Scheme: A Rapid City, S.D. couple has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government out of more than $1.3 million in farm benefits.Connie...
Oct 3 2005 // Insurance representatives and legislators in South Dakota are concerned about how the state Division of Insurance is conducting its investigations in light of an ongoing conflict between the DOI and two life/health...
Oct 3 2005 // Insurance representatives and legislators in South Dakota are concerned about how the state Division of Insurance is conducting its investigations in light of an ongoing conflict between the DOI and two life/health...
Sep 23 2005 // According to the NAIC’s “State Average Expenditures & Premiums for Personal Auto Insurance in 2003,” North Dakota drivers enjoy the lowest average auto insurance premiums in the nation.North...
Sep 15 2005 // South Dakota state legislators have asked Division of Insurance officials to explain how they investigate agents and companies, and how they resolve conflicts with them, after hearing complaints this week from two...
Aug 29 2005 // About $3 million was returned to South Dakota consumers in fiscal year 2005 from the South Dakota Division of Insurance’s consumer assistance program, according to the department’s division director. According...
Jul 20 2005 // A Sioux Falls insurance executive has been appointed as the new director of the South Dakota Division of Insurance, the Argus Leader reported.Merle Scheiber will take over on Aug. 18 after departing his current position at...
Jul 22 2004 // Suzanne SahakianProperty/casualty guaranty funds were created by state statutes beginning in the late 1960s to protect the public against financial losses to policyholders and claimants as a result of property and casualty...
Jul 19 2004 // Property/casualty guaranty funds were created by state statutes beginning in the late 1960s to protect the public against financial losses to policyholders and claimants as a result of property and casualty insurance...
May 17 2004 // Michael Rounds was having trouble sleeping at night. An insurance agent by trade and a politician by passion, he had told close friends and associates that he would not run for the governorship of South Dakota. It was...
May 16 2004 // Michael Rounds was having trouble sleeping at night. An insurance agent by trade and a politician by passion, he had told close friends and associates that he would not run for the governorship of South Dakota. It was...
Apr 5 2004 // As expected, South Dakota Gov. Michael Rounds, a Republican, has signed a bill that converts personal lines rate filings from prior approval to file-and-use. South Dakota is the first state to do so this year. The bill...
Mar 10 2004 // As expected, South Dakota Gov. Michael Rounds, a Republican, has signed a bill that converts personal lines rate filings from prior approval to file-and-use. South Dakota is the first state to do so this year. The bill...
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Feb 5 2004 // The South Dakota legislature has killed a House bill that would have reportedly increased the cost of auto liability insurance by as much as 20 percent.“South Dakota is Number 46 among the 51 states in auto insurance...
Feb 3 2004 // The South Dakota Senate’s overwhelming approval of a bill to modernize the state’s property/casualty insurance rating system will lay the groundwork to attract new companies to the state.The Senate last week...
Jan 23 2004 // Due to corporate restructuring, Royal & SunAlliance has announced that they will dissolve their telephone claims operation of 55 claim professionals in Milbank SD. Located just 3 hours west of Minneapolis MN in a...
Nov 20 2002 // South Dakota’s Division of Insurance has adopted new rules governing the use of credit based insurance scoring that the National Association of Independent Insurers indicates “strikes a balance between...
Jun 10 2002 // Mike Rounds, a Pierre, South Dakota-based independent insurance agent, advanced to that state’s 2002 gubernatorial general election when he ousted two heavily financed Republican opponents in the primary runoff...