Latest Minnesota Headlines
All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Cancerous Transplant Malpractice Case Revived by Minnesota Court
Jan 4 2015 // A malpractice case for a Minnesota woman who died after receiving a transplant of a cancerous pancreas may be headed for a trial. The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled the case against Dr. Ty Dunn should head to court...
CNA Seeks to Limit Liability in Minnesota Priest Abuse Case
Jan 2 2015 // An insurance company has asked a court to limit or eliminate its responsibility to cover some clergy sex abuse claims against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Last month, the archdiocese sued about 20 insurers...
Minnesota Archdiocese Sues Insurance Companies for Coverage
Dec 15 2014 // The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota said it is suing some 20 insurance companies to try to force them to cover its liabilities for clergy sex abuse claims. The complaint, filed in federal court, says...
Minnesota Task Force Seeks to Identify Uninsured Drivers
Dec 11 2014 // State legislators are working on ways to better identify Minnesota residents who drive without auto insurance. Motorists don’t have to show proof of insurance when renewing a vehicle’s registration. People who...
Police in Minnetonka, Minnesota, Warn of Increase in Burglaries
Dec 8 2014 // Minnetonka, Minn., police are warning homeowners that eight burglaries have occurred in the Minneapolis suburb in less than a month. WCCO-TV reports the Minnetonka Police Department says it issued a crime alert after four...
Former Student, Minnesota School Settle Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
Dec 3 2014 // A private Catholic high school in St. Paul has settled a lawsuit filed by a former student who was sexually assaulted by a weight room instructor six years ago, a newspaper has reported. The Star Tribune reported that...
Banks Get OK for Suit Against Target to Recoup Data Breach Costs
Dec 3 2014 // A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Target Corp.’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by banks seeking to recoup money they spent reimbursing fraudulent charges and issuing new credit and debit cards because of the...
Minnesota Archdiocese Sues Insurance Companies for Coverage
Nov 26 2014 // The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota said it is suing some 20 insurance companies to try to force them to cover its liabilities for clergy sex abuse claims. The complaint, filed in federal court, says...
Target: Retailer Owes No Duty to Banks in Data Breach
Nov 23 2014 // A Target Corp. lawyer told a judge that the company had no legal obligation to banks that claim to have lost tens of millions of dollars after a hack last year on the retailer’s payment processing systems. Target...
Old Republic National Title Moving Domicile to Florida from Minnesota
Nov 21 2014 // One of the largest title insurance underwriters in America has decided to make Florida its new company home. Old Republic National Title Insurance Co., currently based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, already writes more title...
Minnesota’s North Risk Partners Merges with Thune Insurance Network
Nov 21 2014 // St. Paul, Minn.-based independent insurance brokerage, North Risk Partners, announced it has merged with Thune Insurance Network, located in Northwest Minnesota with offices in Thief River Falls, Roseau and Baudette. The...
Univ. of Minnesota Sues U.S. Wireless Carriers Over Patents
Nov 7 2014 // The University of Minnesota sued the four largest wireless carriers in the United States over alleged patent infringement. Complaints filed in U.S. District Court in Minnesota contend that AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and...
Judge: Honeywell May Penalize Minnesota Workers Who Refuse Health Tests
Nov 5 2014 // A federal judge in Minnesota has ruled that Honeywell Inc. could begin penalizing workers who refuse to take medical or biometric tests. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had asked the judge to block the...
Minnesota Farmers Awarded $6.3M in Suit Against Utility
Oct 28 2014 // A judge in Minnesota’s Cass County has awarded $6.3 million to a couple whose milk cows were injured or killed by stray voltage on their dairy farm from a Brainerd utility company. KTTC-TV reports the judge awarded...
Minnesota Seeing More, Costlier Farm Equipment Accidents
Oct 23 2014 // Increasingly large farm machinery is causing more costly and potentially dangerous collisions with power lines and poles, rural Minnesota electric co-ops say. More than 2,000 customers of Federated Rural Electric, based in...
NHL Concussion Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court in Minnesota
Oct 22 2014 // The consolidated class-action lawsuit by former NHL players against the league over concussion-related injuries has been filed in federal court. Attorneys for the ex-players filed the complaint in Minnesota. The case had...
Hail Claim Losses Increasing in Number, Severity
Oct 20 2014 // From 2002 through 2013 property/casualty insurers paid out $54 billion in claims losses on almost 9 million residential properties, but the majority of those losses occurred between 2008 and 2013, according to a report...
Minnesota Blue Cross to Open Retail Insurance Store in Edina
Oct 16 2014 // Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is preparing for the Nov. 8 grand opening of its first-ever retail store, where consumers can sign up for insurance coverage or get information on healthy living. The store in the...
People – Midwest
Oct 6 2014 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) appointed NAIC President and North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm to serve a two-year term as the state insurance commissioner representative on the...
More Minnesota Counties Qualify for Disaster Aid
Sep 26 2014 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 18 more Minnesota counties as primary natural disaster areas due to heavy rain, flooding and cold temperatures from May 1 through July 1. The designation makes farmers and...
