Latest Minnesota Headlines
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Minnesota Supreme Court: Medical Liability Insurer Can Withhold Records
Apr 9 2015 // The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that an insurer created by the Legislature does not have to make its records public. The decision ends a two-year legal battle between the Star Tribune and the Minnesota Joint...
Minnesota Firm Settles Disability Discrimination Claim for $50K
Apr 8 2015 // A Minneapolis-based distributor will pay $50,000 to settle a claim that it fired a man after he had a heart attack. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the settlement with Baldwin Supply Co. The...
Professors Sue Minnesota College Over Law School Merger
Apr 6 2015 // Two tenured professors at William Mitchell College of Law are suing over potential layoffs connected to a planned merger with Hamline University School of Law. The two schools are seeking authorization to create the...
Anti-Insurance Fraud Measures Needed in Minnesota and Michigan
Mar 10 2015 // Minnesota and Michigan both are confronting significant problems with scammers defrauding auto insurance systems they perceive have relatively soft defenses. Minnesota faces a surge in organized fraud rings that fleece...
Report Shows More Errors, Fewer Deaths in Minnesota Hospitals
Mar 9 2015 // An annual report on patient safety shows more errors but fewer deaths in Minnesota hospitals in the past year. The Department of Health found 277 so-called “adverse events” in categories that have long been...
Gaylord, Sibley County in Minnesota Settle Racial Profiling Lawsuit
Mar 6 2015 // Officials in the south-central Minnesota city of Gaylord have agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to a Mexican immigrant to settle a federal lawsuit that alleged racial profiling. Minnesota Public Radio News reports...
Report: Errors Increase in Minnesota Hospitals but Deaths Decrease
Feb 26 2015 // An annual report on patient safety shows more errors but fewer deaths in Minnesota hospitals in the past year. The Department of Health found 277 so-called “adverse events” in categories long been tracked, such...
Mutual Insurers Group Names Minnesota’s Sen. Metzen Legislator of Year
Feb 20 2015 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has presented its State Legislator of the Year Award to Minnesota state Sen. James Metzen. NAMIC said it honored Metzen for his support of free-market principles and...
Minnesota Auditor: MNsure’s ‘Failures Outweighed its Achievements’
Feb 19 2015 // A lack of adequate testing before the Minnesota’s health insurance exchange launched in 2013 and other issues meant the exchange’s “failures outweighed its achievements” in its first year, the...
Minnesota Suppliers Hit by Target Canada Bankruptcy Filing
Feb 17 2015 // The end of Target’s Canadian operations is having a financial impact on businesses in Minnesota that supplied the retailer. Target’s Canadian division filed for bankruptcy protection last month and owes nearly...
Minnesota Lawmakers Expected to Debate Rideshare Insurance Gap
Feb 13 2015 // Minnesota lawmakers could decide whether to regulate the ride-hailing industry this year. House and Senate legislators say they plan to introduce bills soon to toughen insurance regulations for companies like Uber and...
Minnesota Supreme Court Upholds Breath Test Refusal Law
Feb 13 2015 // The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld a state law making it illegal for suspected drunken drivers to refuse a breath test. The high court rejected a man’s claim that the law violated due process by preventing him...
February Roadway Deaths Already Exceed January Total in Minnesota
Feb 12 2015 // State public safety officials say it’s been a deadly start to the month on Minnesota roads. The Department of Public Safety says 13 people have died since February 1. Seven of those deaths happened during a four-day...
Builders Association Files Suit over Minnesota’s Residential Sprinkler Law
Feb 9 2015 // The Builders Association of the Twin Cities is suing the state of Minnesota over a new sprinkler mandate. The law requires a sprinkler system for all new homes that are 4,500 square feet or larger. The Builders Association...
Jury: Toyota Must Pay $11M Fatal Minnesota Crash
Feb 5 2015 // A federal jury in Minneapolis found that Toyota Motor Corp. must pay nearly $11 million to victims of a fatal 2006 crash after deciding that a design flaw in the 1996 Camry was partly to blame for the Minnesota...
Minnesota Jury Awards $13.5M to Family in Day Care Assault
Feb 4 2015 // A jury in Hennepin County, Minn., has awarded more than $13 million to the family of a young boy who was beaten and sexually assaulted at a child care center at the Grand Casino Mille Lacs in 2008. A lawyer for the family...
Builders Association Sues over Minnesota’s Residential Sprinkler Law
Jan 29 2015 // The Builders Association of the Twin Cities is suing the state over a new sprinkler mandate. The law which took effect requires a sprinkler system for all new homes that are 4,500 square feet or larger. The Builders...
Associated Banc-Corp to Acquire Ahmann & Martin in Minnesota
Jan 20 2015 // Associated Banc-Corp (Associated) announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Ahmann & Martin Co., a risk and benefits consulting firm in Minnesota, through Associated’s subsidiary, Associated Financial...
Minnesota Diocese Files Chapter 11 over Sexual-Abuse Claims
Jan 20 2015 // The Archdiocese of Saint Paul & Minneapolis is the 12th U.S. diocese to seek bankruptcy protection to deal with sexual-abuse claims. The Chapter 11 filing on Jan. 16 in St. Paul follows legislation passed by Minnesota...
Minnesota Woman Charged in $2M Fake Death Insurance Scam
Jan 15 2015 // Prosecutors in Minnesota have accused a woman of defrauding an insurance company of $2 million in her ex-husband’s staged death and her son is accused of helping cover up the scheme. Irina Vorotinov, 47, is charged...
