The flood outlook for the Red River in eastern North Dakota is focusing on a word that hasn’t been used much by the National Weather Service in recent years: minor. Figures released Thursday show the chances for minor flooding along …
A company with three manufacturing plants in southern Minnesota wants a change in state law in order to shield itself from future asbestos claims. Crown Holdings Inc. says its 1963 merger with a rival company left it with assets as …
A Minnesota state board that’s responsible for protecting the public from physician errors often shies away from punishing doctors whose mistakes harm patients or who demonstrate a pattern of substandard care, according to a Star Tribune investigation published Feb. 5. …
Minnesota food company said it is recalling more than a million hard-cooked eggs distributed to 34 states after testing revealed some may be contaminated with listeria. Some 15,000 pails of eggs in brine, sold for institutional use, are being recalled, …
The risk of significant flooding in the Red River Valley is down from recent years and even lower than last month’s forecast due to the lack of snow, forecasters said on Jan. 26 — bolstering hopes the region may be …
Serious mistakes in Minnesota hospitals rose slightly in 2011, but they led to fewer serious injuries and deaths than the year before, according to an annual report. Hospitals reported 316 so-called “adverse health events,” up from 305 the year before. …
Minnesota-based Austin Mutual Insurance Co. has promoted Kody Kirkendall to director of commercial lines underwriting. Kirkendall will continue to oversee the agribusiness division underwriting and will add Austin Mutual’s other commercial lines of business to his jurisdiction. Kirkendall joined Cooperative …
Two members have been added to the board of Minnesota’s FAIR plan and one new member has been added to the state’s workers’ comp insurance association. The FAIR Plan is Minnesota’s statutorily created limited property insurer for those properties not …
A recent science demonstration that went bad in a Maple Grove, Minn., middle school has drawn attention to the fact that there’s little official oversight of experiments in classroom labs. Four students were burned, including one seriously, when a teacher …
The Minnesota Department of Commerce has reported that insurance companies have resolved about 80 percent of the claims generated after a tornado swept through north Minneapolis in May. The agency said that policyholders filed 4,530 claims following the May 22 …
