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 …
Aon Corporation recently announced that Karen Reutter has joined Aon Construction Services Group in a newly created position of senior vice president. Based in Minneapolis, Reutter is one of a number of strategic hires employed by Aon Construction Services Group …
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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 state. “The goal of the increased effort …
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 includes what’s commonly thought of as pain …
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 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 receiving a portion …
Residents in Sioux Falls, S.D., continued to top the chart as the safest drivers in the U.S., according to the fourth annual Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report. The average driver in Sioux Falls experiences an auto collision every 14.6 years. …
F5 Tornado damage in Parkersburg, Iowa, May 25, 2008. Tornado damage, Windsor, Colo. Prior to 1990, the average number of tornadoes per year in the Continental US was 772. In the period from 1990 through 2007, the average was 1,215. …
