November 17, 2009
A Bismarck state senator says North Dakota’s insurance premium tax on nonprofit health insurance companies should be abolished. Democrat Tracy Potter is drafting the proposal for the Legislature’s interim Industry, Business and Labor Committee. He says it will give Blue …
November 17, 2009
Residents living downstream from Fargo, N.D., and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., along the Red River fear their towns would be sacrificed in a diversion plan to save the two larger cities from chronic flooding. Backers of the plan say it’s too …
November 15, 2009
$3 Million Officials in North Dakota’s Cavalier County estimate nearly $3 million worth of damage in their county from last spring’s flooding. Cavalier County Highway Supervisor Terry Johnston says the damage is spread countywide. He said most of it involves …
November 15, 2009
Opposed to Public Option “The House passed a bill today that includes a government-run health insurance plan (public option) that would unfairly compete with the private insurance marketplace, limit consumer choice and increase the taxpayer burden.” —Charles Symington, senior vice …
November 15, 2009
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November 13, 2009
PersonalUmbrella.com of Emeryville, Calif., announced that American Alternative Insurance Corp. (AAIC) will be the insurer of its online personal umbrella program. AAIC is a subsidiary of Munich Re America Corp. and an affiliate of Munich Reinsurance America Inc. The company …
November 13, 2009
High-tech mapping technology used to help Fargo-Moorhead, N.D., residents fight a record-setting flood last spring will be made available to the entire Red River Valley. The high-resolution elevation data, known as Light Detection and Ranging, or LiDAR, should be accurate …
November 12, 2009
New York-based program manager Irwin Siegel Agency Inc. (ISA) says it has added several new eligible classes to its worker’s compensation program for the social services, small business and healthcare industries. The coverage, which is available as a stand-alone policy …
November 9, 2009
Officials in North Dakota’s Cavalier County estimate nearly $3 million worth of damage in their county from last spring’s flooding. Cavalier County Highway Supervisor Terry Johnston says the damage is spread countywide. He said most of it involves washed out …
November 2, 2009
A national trade organization estimates the number of lost construction jobs in South Dakota at 1,400 during a year in which a weak economy and tight credit slowed developers and builders. The 6 percent drop in South Dakota jobs, from …