Latest Minnesota Headlines
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Minnesota Legislature Settles on Plan for Health Insurance Help
Jan 27 2017 // After months of back and forth and uncertainty over whether lawmakers would help more than 100,000 shoppers offset skyrocketing health insurance premiums, Minnesota’s Legislature has closed in on a plan that will...
Tennessee Insurance Dept. Wraps Up 2016 With Disciplinary Actions Against 5 Agents
Jan 24 2017 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) has taken disciplinary actions including fines totaling more than $77,000, license revocation and other punishments against five Tennessee insurance licensees for...
Minnesota May Tap Rainy-Day Fund to Help Cover Insurance Hikes
Jan 24 2017 // Minnesota would use state money to offset the health premium hikes for more than 100,000 residents under a measure legislators were considering on Jan. 19, a novel approach as states across the country grapple with the...
Explosion at Minnesota Truck Plant Injures 6
Jan 13 2017 // A truck plant explosion in a small southeastern Minnesota town injured six people on Jan. 11 but many more employees could have been hurt, authorities said. Many employees at McNeilus Truck & Manufacturing Inc. in...
Health Insurance Relief a Challenge for Minnesota Lawmakers
Jan 12 2017 // Minnesota lawmakers scrambled on Jan. 10 to begin cobbling together a relief plan for residents facing massive health insurance premium hikes, but logistical hurdles and disagreements between the Republican-controlled...
Midwest Regulation Report Card: States’ Grades Range from A to D
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Work-Related Fatalities in Minnesota Rose 12% in 2015
Dec 20 2016 // The number of work-related fatalities in Minnesota last year was up 12 percent from the recent five-year average. The state Department of Labor and Industry says there were 74 work-related fatalities in 2015, up from 62...
Contractors to Pay $147.5K after Worker Injury, Death at Vikings Stadium
Dec 13 2016 // Two construction companies have agreed to pay a combined $147,500 in fines over safety violations in the death of one worker and injuries to another during construction of the Minnesota Vikings’ new stadium last...
Lockton Dunning Benefits Relocates Minnesota Pharmacy Consulting Practice
Nov 15 2016 // Dallas-based Lockton Dunning Benefits (LDB) has relocated Excelsior Solutions, its main pharmacy consulting practice, to a new home at 7650 Edinborough Way, Suite 100, Edina, Minnesota. In 2012, LDB merged with Excelsior...
Uncompensated Minnesota Hospital Care Costs Drop 17%, Report Says
Nov 2 2016 // A new report released by the state Department of Health shows the cost of uncompensated care at Minnesota hospitals has dropped nearly 17 percent since the federal Affordable Care Act was implemented. Health Commissioner...
Number of Minnesota Fire Deaths Decrease Dramatically from 2015
Oct 31 2016 // Fire deaths in Minnesota have decreased this year, down dramatically from 2015. State Fire Marshal Bruce West told Minnesota Public Radio News that there have been 24 deaths from fires so far this year, compared with 49 at...
Ag Cooperatives’ Profits Rise in 2015 to a Record $7B
Oct 7 2016 // Agriculture cooperatives posted record profits last year highlighting the business model the U.S. Department of Agriculture says provides more than 2 million jobs. The USDA says in a report on Oct. 4 net income for the...
Rail Lines in Minnesota Getting Automatic Braking Technology
Oct 6 2016 // New safety technology that may have prevented last week’s deadly train crash in New Jersey is being implemented along some rail lines in Minnesota and elsewhere. The new technology, known as positive train control,...
Minnesota Rep. Paulsen Named NAMIC Federal Legislator of the Year
Oct 3 2016 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies named Rep. Erik Paulsen, R-Minn., as the association’s Federal Legislator of the Year for his work to win passage of the Small Mutual Inflation Update. Paulsen...
Flood Estimates Rise in Minnesota; South Dakota Storms Damage 18 Homes
Sep 28 2016 // Estimates of flood damage from last week’s flood are rising in Waseca, Minnesota, officials say, and in neighboring South Dakota weekend storms damaged homes in the Oglala area. In Minnesota, Waseca County’s...
Minnesotans on Employer Health Insurance Plans See Modest Rate Hikes
Sep 16 2016 // The majority of Minnesota residents aren’t experiencing the hefty health insurance rate hikes that shoppers who buy their coverage individually will see, according to data released by the federal government. More...
Minnesota School District to Pay $50K to Resolve Pay Discrimination Case
Sep 14 2016 // A school district in Minnesota has agreed to pay $50,000 to a female employee and reclassify her position to resolve federal charges of equal pay discrimination. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said...
Council Conflicts Lead to Much Higher Insurance Deductible for Minnesota City
Sep 9 2016 // Insurers say they’ve significantly raised the deductible on insuring Lake Elmo, Minn., because the city is being managed in a way that creates too much of a risk of lawsuits. The Insurance Trust Board of the League...
Lawyers Say St. Jude’s Lawsuit Against Short-Seller Faces Steep Climb
Sep 8 2016 // St. Jude Medical will face an uphill battle in its corporate defamation lawsuit over a short-seller’s report that said the medical device company’s heart implants were vulnerable to cyber attacks, lawyers...
St. Jude Files Suit in Minnesota over Heart Device Allegations
Sep 7 2016 // St. Jude Medical Inc. said it had filed a lawsuit against short-selling firm Muddy Waters and cyber security company MedSec Holdings Ltd. alleging they intentionally disseminated false and misleading information in order...
