Latest North Dakota Headlines
All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Former North Dakota Agent Gets Probation, Makes Restitution
Nov 29 2010 // An insurance agent who conned a Grand Forks, N.D., real estate company into paying for nonexistent home insurance policies has been given four years of probation. A judge also ordered 44-year-old David Glessner to have...
Washington, Oregon Rank High in Promoting Roadway Safety
Nov 18 2010 // Many states are making progress toward making roads safer, but Oregon and Washington do the best of promoting roadway safety with traffic laws, according to a new report by the Emergency Nurses Association. The report...
North Dakota Agent Pleads Guilty, Loses License, Now on Probation
Nov 14 2010 // A North Dakota insurance agent has pleaded guilty to conning a Grand Forks real estate company into paying more than $64,000 for nonexistent home policies. David Glessner of Grand Forks reached a plea agreement with...
Two North Dakota Insurance Agents Lose Licenses
Nov 9 2010 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm has revoked the licenses of two insurance agents. Hamm has barred a Fargo insurance agent Janet Lulay from doing insurance work in the state. He says Lulay accepted a check...
North Dakota Insurance Agent Accused of Theft
Nov 8 2010 // Bond has been set at $17,500 for a Minot, N.D., insurance agent facing a felony theft charge. State Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm says 57-year-old Alan Henning allegedly stole more than $800,000 by obtaining...
Flood Buyouts May Alter North Dakota Neighborhoods
Nov 8 2010 // Kolbjorn and Solvi Rommesmo moved to the Heritage Hills subdivision along the Red River south of Fargo, N.D., because it was peaceful and close to nature. Recently, it became even more peaceful, as their neighbors left,...
North Dakota Agent Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Nov 5 2010 // An insurance agent has pleaded guilty to conning a Grand Forks real estate company into paying more than $64,000 for nonexistent home policies. Forty-four-year-old David Glessner of Grand Forks reached a plea agreement...
North Dakota Democrat Wants Stronger Grain Insurance
Oct 12 2010 // North Dakota’s Democratic candidate for the state Public Service Commission said the Legislature should strengthen a $6.9 million insurance fund that compensates farmers if a grain elevator goes broke. Recent data...
Former North Dakota Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO Found Dead
Sep 15 2010 // Mike Unhjem, a longtime Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota chief executive who was fired last year because of publicity about an employee trip to the Grand Cayman Islands, was found dead at his Fargo home, police said...
Former North Dakota Work Comp Director Demands New Trial
Aug 30 2010 // Former North Dakota workers’ compensation director Sandy Blunt should have his felony conviction for misspending public funds dismissed because prosecutors withheld evidence before his trial, Blunt’s lawyer...
Court Rules North Dakota Farm Fraudster Entitled to Benefit
Aug 20 2010 // North Dakota’s Supreme Court says an insurance agent who was convicted of running a federal farm payment scam is entitled to some retirement money. Duane Huber of Wimbledon contended North Dakota Farmers Union...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Director Says Reviews Too Frequent
Aug 17 2010 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation director says outside reviews of his agency are too frequent and expensive. North Dakota law says the performance reviews of Workforce Safety and Insurance must be done...
Report: Improve Benefits for Injured North Dakota Workers
Aug 16 2010 // An unusual North Dakota workers’ compensation law provides reduced benefits when a job injury worsens a medical problem the employee already has, and a consultant told state lawmakers on Friday they should repeal...
North Dakota Flood Project in Hands of Landowners
Aug 16 2010 // Landowners are voting on a proposed $2.7 million flood control project to divert pooling sheet water away from the northeast North Dakota city of Michigan. Officials say the Michigan Spillway project also would relieve...
Snapshot: Declarations
Aug 16 2010 // Health Care Challenge “While this case raises a host of complex constitutional issues, all seem to distill to the single question of whether or not Congress has the power to regulate — and tax — a...
Declarations
Aug 16 2010 // Health Care Challenge “While this case raises a host of complex constitutional issues, all seem to distill to the single question of whether or not Congress has the power to regulate — and tax — a citizen’s...
Ex-North Dakota Workers’ Comp Director Wants to Reopen Case
Aug 13 2010 // The attorney for a former North Dakota official who was convicted of misusing public funds says he will ask that the case be reopened because of a prosecutor’s questionable conduct. Mike Hoffman, an attorney for...
Denials of Workers’ Comp Claims Jump in North Dakota
Aug 10 2010 // A review of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation program shows claim denials jumped between 2005 and 2009. Still, the review found claim practices were generally sound. In the reviewed period, denied claims...
Midwest Economy: North Dakota Tops Region in Job Growth
Aug 3 2010 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
Declarations
Aug 2 2010 // Low Seismicity “North Dakota is one of the lower seismicity areas of the country.” —Bob Woodward, a project director with The National Science Foundation’s EarthScope project in Washington, D.C.,...
