Latest Minnesota Headlines
All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Former Financial Services Lobbyist, Pawlenty, to Run for Governor of Minnesota
Apr 6 2018 // The former head of the Washington-based Financial Services Roundtable (FSR), Tim Pawlenty, has thrown his hat into the ring in a bid to get a previous job back: that of governor of Minnesota. Pawlenty resigned from his...
Minnesota’s Polaris to Pay $27M for not Reporting Vehicle Problems
Apr 4 2018 // Minnesota-based Polaris Industries will pay a more than $27 million civil penalty to settle two 2016 late-reporting claims involving defective recreational vehicles. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the...
Minnesota Woman Pushes for Change in Boat Insurance Law After Accident
Apr 3 2018 // A Minnesota woman who lost her lower left leg in a boating accident is advocating for a change in state law after she was excluded from her husband’s insurance policy on the boat. Courtney Godfrey lost part of her...
Bill Would Ban Driverless Vehicle Tests in Minnesota
Apr 2 2018 // Four state senators want to prevent driverless vehicles from being tested in Minnesota until their developers can prove they’re safe. Republican Sen. Jim Abeler says the death of a woman who was struck by a...
Unextinguished Cigarettes Caused Fatal Fire in Minnesota, Investigators Say
Mar 26 2018 // Investigators say unextinguished cigarettes caused a fatal house fire in northeast Minneapolis last weekend. The Minneapolis Fire Department says the fire was started on the first floor by cigarettes that ignited a sofa in...
Settlement Reached in Suit Against Minnesota Hospital over Discarded Baby Remains
Mar 23 2018 // A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed against a St. Paul hospital after staff accidentally discarded a woman’s stillborn baby in dirty laundry instead of cremating the remains. Regions Hospital’s...
Survey: Minnesota’s Jump in Uninsured Led by Drop in Private Coverage
Feb 22 2018 // The number of Minnesota residents without health insurance jumped by 116,000 in the past two years, the state Department of Health said. A biennial survey by the department and the University of Minnesota School of Public...
3M Settles Minnesota Scotchgard Lawsuit for $850M
Feb 21 2018 // 3M Co. has settled a lawsuit with Minnesota’s Attorney General Lori Swanson for $850 million, putting an end to eight years of litigation over a former Scotchgard ingredient that got into the state’s drinking...
Financial Services Lobbyist Pawlenty Steps Down
Feb 7 2018 // Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty said Tuesday he’s resigning his lucrative position as the head of the Washington-based Financial Services Roundtable as he contemplates running for his old job. Pawlenty, 57,...
Risk Management for Super Bowl Requires Team Effort
Feb 2 2018 // Assessing and managing risk for an event like the Super Bowl is more than a matter of just looking around the venue for possible slip and fall hazards and hiring a few security guards to ensure no one enters the stadium...
Minneapolis Awash in Security Forces for Super Bowl
Feb 1 2018 // Concrete barriers and chain-link fencing are going up around the site of the Super Bowl in downtown Minneapolis, where a contingent of local, state and national agencies is working to ensure that the game and dozens of...
2 Minnesota Employee Benefit Agencies Merge
Jan 10 2018 // Two independent Minneapolis, Minnesota-area employee benefits firms, SevenHills Benefit Partners and The Cleveland Company, have merged to offer broader services to local clients. The new firm, SevenHills Cleveland Benefit...
Minnesota Chiropractor, Runners Convicted in Auto Insurance Fraud Scheme
Jan 8 2018 // An Edina, Minnesota, chiropractor and his recruiters have been found guilty of auto insurance fraud, the Minnesota Department of Commerce announced in late December 2017. Federal prosecutors reported that Adam John Burke,...
Minnesota Chiropractor, Patient Recruiters Found Guilty of Insurance Fraud
Jan 2 2018 // A federal jury has found an Edina, Minnesota, chiropractor and his recruiters guilty of insurance fraud conspiracy, the Minnesota Department of Commerce announced in late December 2017. According to Acting United States...
Oil Company Destroyed by Fire in International Falls, Minnesota
Dec 20 2017 // A massive fire in northern Minnesota has destroyed a heating oil and fuel company near the Canadian border. Rainy Lake Oil Co. erupted in huge balls of fire fueled by eight or nine tanks inside the company’s...
The Charity Issue: Photos of Giving
Dec 18 2017 // The Keane Insurance Group John Keane, president of The Keane Insurance Group, founded the Keane Charitable Group in 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti. Since then, The Keane Group has raised more than $1 million to build...
PolyMet Secures $544M in Surety Bonds, Funding for Wisconsin Mine Costs
Dec 15 2017 // PolyMet Mining Corp. is offering the state a $544 million package of financial assurances to serve as an insurance policy to protect taxpayers from potentially having to cover the costs of closing and cleaning up a...
3M Says it Underreported Chemical Discharge in Tennessee River
Dec 4 2017 // For more than three years, 3M Co. underreported its discharge of a class of potentially toxic chemicals into the Tennessee River by a factor of 1,000, according to a letter sent by a 3M official to regulators at the...
Minnesota Names Looman as Commerce Commissioner
Nov 21 2017 // Gov. Mark Dayton has appointed Jessica Looman to serve as Minnesota Commerce Commissioner to replace Mike Rothman who resigned from the post last week when he announced he is launching a campaign to become the...
3M Faces New Cancer Claims in Minnesota’s $5B Lawsuit
Nov 21 2017 // Chemicals once used by 3M Co. for Scotchgard, fire retardants and other products have shown links to cancers and premature births, Minnesota’s State Attorney General said in a request to update a $5 billion lawsuit...
