Latest North Dakota Headlines
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Midwest Regulation Report Card: States’ Grades Range from A to D
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
U.S. Regulators Order Action to be Taken for North Dakota Oil Spill
Dec 21 2016 // U.S. pipeline regulators on Wednesday ordered Belle Fourche Pipeline Co. to improve leak detection, along with other actions, after a Dec. 5 incident that spilled about 4,200 barrels of oil in North Dakota. Of that total,...
Nodak Mutual Seeking to Convert to a Stock Company
Dec 19 2016 // A North Dakota mutual insurer with ties to the Farm Bureau is awaiting a decision from the state insurance commissioner as to whether it can proceed with a plan to convert to a stock insurance company. Nodak Mutual...
Cleanup Ongoing after North Dakota Pipeline Oil Spill
Dec 14 2016 // Roughly a third of the more than 3,000 barrels of oil that spilled into a North Dakota creek following a pipeline leak last week has been recovered, a local official said. An estimated 4,200 barrels of oil leaked from the...
Hepatitis C Victims Reach Settlement with North Dakota Hospital
Dec 13 2016 // Nearly two dozen victims of one of the largest hepatitis C outbreaks in recent U.S. history have settled their claims against a Minot, N.D., hospital out of court. Neither plaintiffs’ attorney Behdad Sadeghi nor...
North Dakota’s Nodak Mutual Seeking to Convert to a Stock Company
Dec 12 2016 // A North Dakota mutual insurer with ties to the Farm Bureau is awaiting a decision from the state insurance commissioner as to whether it can proceed with a plan to convert to a stock insurance company. Nodak Mutual...
North Dakota Ranks 47th in Firefighting Ability; Volunteers Needed
Dec 5 2016 // North Dakota ranks 47th in the country in being equipped to fight fires and it’s not helping that fewer people are signing up to be volunteer firefighters. Most fire departments in North Dakota are made up of...
Task Force Submits Cybersecurity Recommendations to North Dakota Governor
Dec 2 2016 // A state task force on capital cybersecurity has submitted its recommendations to North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple. Topics in the report include improving monitoring and scanning of the state’s information technology...
North Dakota, with Fewer Volunteers, Ranks 47th in Firefighting Capability
Nov 21 2016 // North Dakota ranks 47th in the country in being equipped to fight fires and it’s not helping that fewer people are signing up to be volunteer firefighters. Most fire departments in North Dakota are made up of...
Godfread to Become North Dakota’s Next Insurance Commissioner
Nov 9 2016 // Republican Jon Godfread has won the election for insurance commissioner in North Dakota. He will replace Adam Hamm who did not seek re-election. Godfread won with 64.4 percent of the vote, according to the North Dakota...
North Dakota Seeks to Increase Safety of Rail-Transported Crude, Adds Inspectors
Oct 31 2016 // North Dakota has added another step to help ensure the safety of crude transported by rail with the addition of two inspectors. The inspectors have so far completed a combined 76 inspections covering more than 1,000 miles...
North Dakota Voters to Decide on Medical Marijuana
Oct 24 2016 // North Dakota voters will decide next month whether to legalize marijuana for medical use, by siding with opponents who say sciences is on their side or with supporters like a desperate grandmother who illegally purchased...
Report Shows California and New Jersey Have Highest Workers’ Comp Rates
Oct 18 2016 // California and New Jersey had the nation’s most expensive workers’ compensation rates, while North Dakota had the lowest rates in the nation, a new report shows. A report released this week by the Oregon...
Hub International Acquires North Dakota-Based Mayport Insurance & Realty
Oct 5 2016 // Chicago-based insurance brokerage, Hub International Limited (Hub), has acquired the assets of Mayport Insurance & Realty Inc. (Mayport) in North Dakota. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Portland,...
North Dakota Nonprofit to Open $6M Heavy Equipment Safety Training Facility
Oct 5 2016 // The North Dakota Safety Council is beginning construction on a nearly 23,500-square-foot, hands-on heavy equipment safety training facility in Bismarck. The Bismarck Tribune reported that until now, companies have had to...
Dakota Access Pipeline Worker Killed in Accident, Official Says
Aug 30 2016 // A man working on the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline was killed in an apparent accident in western North Dakota, a state regulator said. North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Brian Kalk said the man, whose name...
20-Foot Drone Being Tested in North Dakota for Post-Disaster Use
Aug 24 2016 // A 20-foot-long drone that was brought to North Dakota to test precision agriculture methods is now part of a trial run to see if can help crews restore power to areas hit by natural disasters. The Israeli-manufactured...
North Dakota Lawmaker: Where’s the Reserve in Workers’ Comp Opt-Out Plans?
Aug 22 2016 // A state representative from North Dakota, who serves on the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Committee at the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), says he’s concerned about reserves for paying...
North Dakota Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Oilfield Death Lawsuit
Aug 22 2016 // An appeals court has upheld a judge’s decision to throw out a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a South Dakota man who was killed in an accident in the North Dakota oil patch five years ago. Joseph...
