Latest Minnesota Headlines
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Digital Signs to Warn Minn. Drivers About Tornadoes
Apr 18 2013 // Digital billboards in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties will be a new way to warn motorists about tornado warnings. The billboard warnings are a joint venture of the counties, billboard owners ClearChannel Outdoor, and the...
Severe Storms Hit Midwest With Snow, Ice, Winds
Apr 12 2013 // Strong storms sweeping across the Midwest damaged homes and businesses in St. Louis, toppled mobile homes and ripped the roof off a Missouri church, while burying other areas in more than a foot of snow. Missouri Gov. Jay...
Lobbyists Keep Battling As Obamacare Turns 3
Mar 25 2013 // Eight months before President Barack Obama’s health care law goes prime time, a confederation of industry and business groups is ramping up its lobbying apparatus for an 11th-hour assault on the web of new taxes and...
Minnesota Bills Would Allow Driver Licenses for Illegal Immigrants
Mar 20 2013 // Bills that would let illegal immigrants get a Minnesota driver’s license are moving forward at the Capitol. The Senate Transportation and Public Safety Committee has passed a bill to ease restrictions on...
Minnesota House Passes Health Exchange Proposal
Mar 6 2013 // The Minnesota House passed a bill establishing the state’s health insurance exchange, the first step toward enactment of an online marketplace that aims to give more than a million Minnesotans a new place to purchase...
Ratings Recap: American General, Philadelphia Indemnity, First Hawaii, Minnesota Lawyers Mutual, Workmen’s Auto
Mar 1 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘B+’ (Good) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “bbb-” of American General Property Insurance Company (AGPIC), based in Nashville,...
Minnesota Jury Awards $4.7 Million in Ship Lawsuit
Feb 25 2013 // A Duluth, Minn., dock company owes nearly $4.7 million for repairs and lost profits to the owner of a coal freighter that partially sunk in the Duluth-Superior Harbor. The Duluth News Tribune reports the jury made the...
Business Moves – Midwest
Feb 25 2013 // Johnson McCann, C.O. Brown, Apollo Insurance Agency Three Minnesota insurance agencies — Johnson McCann of St. Paul, C.O. Brown of Rochester and the Apollo Insurance Agency of St. Cloud — have joined forces to become...
Insurers: False Auto Claims on the Rise in Minnesota
Feb 12 2013 // Auto insurance companies say false and exaggerated injury claims are on the rise in Minnesota. The National Insurance Crime Bureau says suspicious personal injury claims have tripled since 2008. Minnesota ranked tenth in...
Minnesota’s Johnson McCann, C.O. Brown, Apollo Insurance Agency Merge
Feb 7 2013 // Three Minnesota insurance agencies – Johnson McCann of St. Paul, C.O. Brown of Rochester and the Apollo Insurance Agency of St. Cloud – have joined forces to become the second largest private insurance...
Vande Hey Appointed Deputy Insurance Commissioner in Minnesota
Feb 7 2013 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman has promoted Tim Vande Hey to deputy commissioner of the Insurance Division for the Commerce Department. Vande Hey was first appointed assistant commissioner in April 2012, the...
Family Sues Company Over Minnesota Office Attack
Feb 5 2013 // The family of a man who was among six people gunned down at his Minneapolis, Minn., office last year is suing the company, claiming it botched the firing of the employee who carried out the attack and should have known...
Minnesota Man Sentenced for $275K False Insurance Claim
Jan 15 2013 // A St. Paul, Minn., man has been sentenced for filing a false insurance claim for artwork he had reported as stolen. Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Sheedy was sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation on one...
Millions of Flood Relief Dollars Sit Untapped in Minnesota
Jan 15 2013 // Millions of dollars in relief loan money sit unclaimed more than six months after heavy flooding hit northeastern Minnesota. Most of the $12 million allocated by the Legislature for disaster loans to homeowners remains...
A.M. Best Upgrades Ratings of Minnesota’s Austin Mutual Insurance
Jan 10 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating to A (Excellent) from B (Fair) and the issuer credit rating to “a+” from “bb+” of Austin Mutual Insurance Co. (Austin) in Maple Grove, Minn....
Marsh & McLennan Agency Acquires Minnesota-Based Liscomb Hood Mason
Jan 4 2013 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc., has acquired Liscomb Hood Mason Co., a $2.2 million revenue agency based in Duluth, Minn. With roots dating back to 1927, Liscomb Hood...
December Enforcement Brings 1,300 DWI Arrests in Minnesota
Dec 20 2012 // Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety says about 1,300 people have been arrested for driving while intoxicated so far in December. State law enforcement agencies are working overtime hours this month as part of a...
Minnesota Parents Asked to Insure Students’ Electronics
Dec 11 2012 // Some school districts in Minnesota want parents to pick up the tab for insuring expensive tablet computers that are given to students. More and more electronics are replacing textbooks, paper and pencils. Farmington...
Midwest Economic Index Rises Slightly
Dec 4 2012 // A monthly economic index report suggests an economic slump will continue over the next three to six months for nine Midwest and Plains states. The Mid-America Business Conditions index rose slightly in November to a weak...
Unlicensed Minnesota Drivers Involved in More Fatal Crashes
Nov 19 2012 // The Minnesota State Patrol says unlicensed drivers are more likely to be involved in a deadly crash. Lt. Eric Roeske says statistics from 2011 show unlicensed drivers are twice as likely to be involved in fatal...
