Latest Minnesota Headlines
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Safeco Sends Claims Team to Aid Customers in Minn. and N.D.
Sep 27 2007 // Safeco has deployed claims professionals to help customers in Minnesota and North Dakota recover from a damaging hail storm that occurred September 20-21. Safeco claims representatives arrived in the area shortly after the...
Erie Insurance Announces Plans to Enter Minnesota Market in ’09
Sep 25 2007 // Penn.-based Erie Insurance recently announced that the company plans to write business in Minnesota beginning in the fourth quarter of 2009. . “We are looking forward to entering Minnesota because of the substantial...
Minn. Crackdown on DWI Drivers Nets 2,270 Tickets
Sep 17 2007 // A statewide crackdown on people driving while intoxicated resulted in at least 2,270 arrests, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety reported. More than 400 agencies across the state participated in the...
U.S. Census Figures Show Minn. Twin Cities with Older Workforce
Sep 13 2007 // When Jim Johnson turned 65 last spring, the executive vice president at Securian Financial Group could have joined several colleagues who decided to retire. But when the company asked him to stay in charge of its group...
Willis Expands Employee Benefits Practice in Minn. with Key Appointments
Sep 12 2007 // Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker, recently announced the appointments of Jackie Lantry and Rick Storms to vice president of the Employee Benefits Practice for Willis’ operations in Minneapolis. In...
Severe Midwestern weather may have some evoking ‘higher power’
Sep 3 2007 // Years ago in the late ’60s after Chicago had received in excess of 27 inches of snow, bringing the city to a quiet halt, then NBC-TV Tonight talk show host Johnny Carson in his opening monologue said, “I...
Editor’s Note: Severe Midwestern weather may have some evoking ‘higher power’
Sep 3 2007 // Years ago in the late ’60s after Chicago had received in excess of 27 inches of snow, bringing the city to a quiet halt, then NBC-TV Tonight talk show host Johnny Carson in his opening monologue said, “I...
Environmental Group Lists Data on 313 Minn. Bridges Online
Aug 31 2007 // Data on 313 Minnesota bridges can be found online, thanks to the work of an environmental group that compiled information from state and federal sources. The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy organized the data...
Mo. Bridge Project Could Serve as National Model on Repairs
Aug 30 2007 // A month after the deadly Minneapolis bridge collapse, Missouri lawmakers are poised to approve a massive bridge repair project that could serve as a national roadmap for renovating aging infrastructure. Missouri plans to...
Damage Estimate from Minn. Flooding Tops $67 Million
Aug 29 2007 // Public and private property damage from recent flooding across seven southern Minnesota counties has topped $67 million. Gov. Tim Pawlenty provided the figure in a letter to state lawmakers. Fillmore, Winona, Houston,...
Flooding Worsens in Iowa, Wis., Minn. as Storms Continue Across Midwest
Aug 23 2007 // Widespread flooding continued this week across northern and central Iowa as thunderstorms and strong winds destroyed buildings, cut off power and left roads and homes underwater. Northern Iowa, already flooded from storms...
Former Minn. Executive to Lead GOP Convention Fundraising Effort
Aug 22 2007 // A retired insurance company executive will take the lead role in promoting and raising money for the 2008 Republican National Convention. The local host committee planning for the GOP gathering announced that Doug...
Lawmakers Evaluate Minn. 2007 Disasters from Fires to Bridge Collapse
Aug 22 2007 // From its northern tip to its southern border, Minnesota is getting roughed up in 2007. The state has seen fire, floods and a fallen bridge. “It has been one thing after another,” said Judson Freed, past...
Settlement Reached in Minn. High School Killings Case
Aug 16 2007 // A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over the fatal shooting of two Rocori High school students in 2003, but still needs court approval. The families of Aaron Rollins and Seth Bartell had sued the school, its former...
Minn. Mayor Cautions Officials about Safety Issues in Bridge Repair
Aug 15 2007 // The mayor and a key state lawmaker on Monday cautioned that the Minnesota transportation officials’ swift timetable to replace the collapsed interstate bridge could overlook safety and the unique elements necessary...
Minn. Workplace Fatalities in 2006 Lower than Average
Aug 13 2007 // Seventy-eight people died from work-related injuries in Minnesota last year, a decrease of nine work-related deaths from the year before, the state Department of Labor and Industry announced on Thursday, Aug. 9th. The 2006...
Minn. Bridge Death Toll Rises to Eight Confirmed
Aug 13 2007 // Divers took another body from the wreckage of a freeway bridge, shrinking to five the number of people known missing and presumed dead in the collapse. Meanwhile, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters on Friday, Aug....
U.S. Warns States After Potential Flaw Found in Minn. Bridge Design
Aug 10 2007 // Federal officials cautioned transportation authorities across the U.S. to re-examine bridges after investigators probing a deadly interstate bridge collapse in Minnesota said they found a potential design flaw. The...
Minn. Nominee Named 2007 Outstanding Insurance CSR of the Year
Aug 8 2007 // Peggy S. Lund, CIC, of R. J. Ahmann Cos. in Eden Prairie, Minn. was recently awarded the most prestigious honor available to an insurance customer service representative (CSR)—the 2007 National Outstanding CSR of the...
Minn. groups sue AIG for $100 million in damages for fraud, violations
Aug 6 2007 // The Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Reinsurance Association (WCRA) and the Minnesota Workers’ Compen-sation Insurers Association (MWCIA) filed suit on July 17, 2007, against American International Group Inc....
