Latest North Dakota Headlines
All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Poolman Orders Benefits Company to Stop Selling in N.D.
Nov 3 2003 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman issued a cease and desist order today against My Smart Benefits Inc., an Indiana company that administers self-funded employee benefit plans for several employers in the...
WC Fraud Earns N.D. Man One-Year Jail Time
Sep 22 2003 // A Williston, N.D., man has become the first employer ever sentenced to serve jail time for committing workers’ compensation fraud in state history, according to a statement from the Insurance Department. Robert...
North Dakota’s Session Ends Positive for Insurers
May 12 2003 // North Dakota’s 2003 legislative session was reportedly a very positive session for property/casualty insurers highlighted by the passage of legislation dealing with the payment of attorney fees in uninsured motorist...
Trost to Lead Nodak Mutual
Apr 14 2003 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman and Nodak Mutual Insurance Company President Doug Goehring announced today that insurance executive Bruce A. Trost will be the new Chief Executive Officer of the company....
N.D. Enacts NCOIL Insurance Scoring Model; Kan. Bill Sent To Governor
Apr 10 2003 // Legislation regulating the use of credit-based insurance scores was recently signed by North Dakota’s governor and has passed the Kansas legislature. Three other states, Colorado, Virginia and Wyoming have enacted...
Several Midwestern States Revisit Insurance Scoring
Mar 6 2003 // The issue of credit-based insurance scoring is being revisited in many Midwestern states that considered legislation or regulations on the subject in previous years, according to the National Association of Independent...
N.D. Work Comp to Cover Smallpox Vaccine Reactions
Mar 3 2003 // North Dakota Workers’ Compensation (NDWC) plans to cover potential health-care workers’ and emergency responders’ adverse reactions to the smallpox vaccine during phase two of the national program to...
NAII Notes All States Have Addressed Privacy Legislation, While Handful Have Proposals Pending
Feb 11 2003 // Insurance companies with systems in place to meet state and Federal Privacy standards may need to do some “tweaking” down the road to assure continued regulatory compliance, according to the National...
N. Dakota Has Lowest Workers’ Comp Premiums
Feb 5 2003 // North Dakota employers paid the lowest workers’ compensation premiums in the nation, according to a new survey by the Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services. National premium rates ranged from North...
ND Insurance Dept. Sets 2003 Crop Hail Coverage Filing Dates
Dec 31 2002 // The North Dakota Insurance Department has issued a bulletin informing all insurers “seeking to market policies for the coverage of crop hail insurance” in the state, that March 1, 2003 is the deadline for all...
Santa Claus Issued Special Two Day ND Workers Comp Certificate
Dec 24 2002 // The following press bulletin was received from Mark Armstrong of North Dakota Workers Compensation. Due to the timely nature of the dispatch, and the hope that regulators in other states will take notice, we are taking the...
N. Dak. Construction Compliance Task Force Deemed a Success, Program Will Continue
Dec 10 2002 // A report, issued jointly by North Dakota’s Workers Compensation Executive Director and CEO Brent Edison and Secretary of State Al Jaeger, indicates that the inter-agency effort, the Construction Compliance Task...
N. Dak. Ins. Commissioner Issues Order Against Agent Following Fraud Convictions
Dec 9 2002 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman announced that his Department has issued a “Cease and Desist Order” against former Wimbledon insurance agent Duane Huber, following his recent conviction on 19...
N. Dak. Man Sentenced for Workers Comp Violations
Nov 19 2002 // The Northeast Judicial Court of Devils Lake, North Dakota sentenced Myron Wittwer to serve 30 days in the Bottineau County Jail with 30 days suspended for a period of 1 year, and placed him on unsupervised probation for a...
No. Dakota Approves Plan for Workers Comp in Minnesota
Oct 14 2002 // The North Dakota Workers Compensation (NDWC) announced that the Budget Section of the Legislature has given its approval to a proposal to allow the employers of North Dakota the flexibility to obtain workers’...
North Dakota’s BNCCORP Inc. To Acquire Ariz. Agency
Apr 1 2002 // BNCCORP Inc. of Bismarck, N.D., announced plans for its insurance subsidiary to acquire Milne & Company Insurance, Inc., d/b/a Milne Scali & Company, one of the largest independent insurance agencies in...
AAA North Dakota Affiliates with Auto Club Group
Oct 1 2001 // During a brief closing ceremony Sept. 25, at its Fargo headquarters, AAA North Dakota officially sealed its affiliation with The Auto Club Group. The 65,000-member statewide organization joined AAA Chicago Motor Club, AAA...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Bureau Wants Budget Autonomy
Feb 26 2001 // The North Dakota Workers Compensation Bureau’s request to set its own budget without legislative oversight has critics saying the move would diminish public accountability. Supporters contend that removing the budget...
