Latest South Dakota Headlines
All the headlines from our South Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Experience Guides South Dakota’s New GSN Insurance Agency
Mar 25 2009 // GSN Insurance in Madison, South Dakota, only opened its doors on January 5 but already it has a veteran staff, a stable of loyal customers, and a carrier roster that would be the envy of many long-time independent...
South Dakota House Kills Tougher Seat Belt Law
Mar 4 2009 // Members of the South Dakota House have killed an attempt to revive a failed bill strengthening the state seat belt law. The House voted 35-33 to defeat an attempt to insert language creating a primary enforcement seat belt...
South Dakota Trucking Firm Operates Despite Insurance Violation Charges
Mar 2 2009 // A federal judge has signed a preliminary injunction that will allow a Sioux Falls trucking company to keep operating while a court case against it advances, as long as it carries insurance. Action Carrier Inc. was ordered...
Seat Belt Law Change Could Net South Dakota $5 Million
Feb 27 2009 // South Dakota could collect more than $5 million in federal money by passing a primary seat belt law, a state lawmaker says. Rep. Rich Engels, D-Hartford, testified on Wednesday for SB79. The House Judiciary Committee will...
South Dakota Weighs Change in Auto Damage Disclosure
Feb 19 2009 // There’s a move afoot in Pierre to change South Dakota’s damage disclosure law for motor vehicles. SB98 would require vehicle titles to contain a statement as to whether the vehicle had been damaged in excess of...
South Dakota Court: State Officials Immune in Fatal Highway Crash
Feb 18 2009 // State transportation officials are immune from a lawsuit filed by a brother of Gov. Mike Rounds over a fatal highway crash, the South Dakota Supreme Court says. The court’s 3-2 decision said the 2004 accident was...
South Dakota Court: State Officials Immune in Fatal Highway Crash
Feb 17 2009 // State transportation officials are immune from a lawsuit filed by a brother of Gov. Mike Rounds over a fatal highway crash, the South Dakota Supreme Court says. The court’s 3-2 decision said the 2004 accident was...
Starting a Business? Go Rural, Think Small
Feb 9 2009 // Question: How many people does it take to support an insurance agency? Answer: At least 1,089. One to run the agency and 1,088 townspeople. The population required to support different businesses varies greatly but...
Two South Dakota Fire Departments Receive $240,000 in FEMA Grants
Jan 6 2009 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded a total of more than $240,000 to two South Dakota fire departments. The McIntosh Volunteer Fire Department gets most of the money, over $180,000 for vehicle...
South Dakota Man Sent to Prison for Arson
Nov 10 2008 // A Sioux Falls man has been sent to prison for three years for paying a man to burn down his business in order to collect the insurance money. Chad Michael Blair pleaded guilty to conspiracy in May for the 2006 arson of...
South Dakota Creates 4 Disaster Management Teams
Oct 31 2008 // South Dakota officials have announced that the state now has four teams of emergency specialists to help communities respond to disasters. Gov. Mike Rounds says 41 people volunteered to be on the Incident Management...
South Dakota Supreme Court Allows New Medical Malpractice Trial
Oct 31 2008 // The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a circuit judge’s decision to grant a new trial in a medical malpractice lawsuit against a Huron doctor. The lawsuit arose out of complications suffered by Lillian Glanzer...
Chicago’s Mayor Hits AIG Bailout; Other Midwest Officials More Positive
Oct 6 2008 // Midwestern reaction to a proposed bail out of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) has been varied. In Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is not happy about the Federal Reserve Bank’s decision to provide an...
South Dakota Teepees Damaged in Storm Covered by Insurance
Sep 22 2008 // Officials of the Wakpa Sica (WAHK’-pah SEECH’-uh) Reconciliation Place on the outskirts of Fort Pierre, South Dakota will spend this fall and winter repairing teepees that were damaged by a summer storm. Hail,...
Chicago’s Mayor Hits AIG Bailout; Other Midwest Officials More Positive
Sep 19 2008 // Midwestern reaction to the bail out of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) varies by regions and officials. In Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is not happy about the Federal Reserve Bank’s decision to...
State Official Says Raising Minimum Age for Drivers Not Popular in S. D.
Sep 12 2008 // Balancing the need to drive and the need for safety is a tough call for South Dakota lawmakers, says state Rep. Garry Moore. But he says a call to raise the minimum age for driver’s licenses has never been warmly...
South Dakota: Drunken Driving Convictions Costly
Aug 26 2008 // The South Dakota Highway Patrol is placing special emphasis on catching intoxicated drivers through the coming Labor Day weekend. About 11,700 people were ticketed for drunken or drugged driving last year in the...
Lawsuit Challenges South Dakota’s Malpractice Cap
Aug 25 2008 // A medical malpractice complaint filed this month in Sioux Falls seeks to challenge the constitutionality of South Dakota’s cap on non-economic damages. South Dakota limits the amount of such damages to $500,000. That...
South Dakota Neurosurgeon Loses 2 Malpractice Appeals
Aug 25 2008 // A Rapid City neurosurgeon who said he had been sued more than 30 times for malpractice lost two appeals on August 21 in the South Dakota Supreme Court. The court upheld a jury verdict awarding a woman nearly $552,000 in...
Federal Grants Go to South Dakota Insurance Risk Pool
Aug 22 2008 // Federal grants totaling nearly $725,000 will be used to help defray costs of South Dakota’s insurance risk pool and establish a vaccination program for those covered by the risk pool. South Dakota is one of 30 states...
