Latest Minnesota Headlines
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Minnesota Safety Course Offers Alternative to Traffic Ticket
May 29 2013 // More than 4,000 motorists stopped for minor traffic offenses in Wabasha County, Minn. have avoided a citation by taking a driver safety course. The county is among a number of other Minnesota counties offering the classes...
Maguire Agency’s Sundeen Named Minnesota Agent of the Year
May 20 2013 // Matt Sundeen, vice president of sales and commercial lines producer at Maguire Agency, has been named Agent of the Year for 2013 by the Minnesota Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers (MIIAB). Sundeen was chosen for...
Boogaard Family Sues NHL for Son’s Death
May 17 2013 // The family of a National Hockey League player who died of an accidental overdose of pain medication and alcohol has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Illinois against the NHL, blaming it for brain damage he suffered as an...
CBIZ Acquires Minnesota’s Associated Insurance Agents
May 7 2013 // CBIZ Inc. announced it acquired Associated Insurance Agents (AIA), of Minneapolis, Minn., effective May 1, 2013. Established in 1982, AIA is an insurance brokerage agency specializing in property and casualty insurance,...
USG Adds Olson as Producer/Broker in Minnesota
May 3 2013 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and MGA, has expanded operations in its New Brighton, Minn., office with the addition of Jeff Olson as a producer/broker. Olson began his career in the insurance industry...
Minnesota Driver’s License Privacy Breaches Could Cost Millions
Apr 23 2013 // Liability claims for improper uses of Minnesota’s driver’s license database could reach several million dollars. Many cities, counties and state agencies involved in recent privacy breaches are backstopped by...
Digital Signs to Warn Minn. Drivers About Tornadoes
Apr 18 2013 // Digital billboards in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties will be a new way to warn motorists about tornado warnings. The billboard warnings are a joint venture of the counties, billboard owners ClearChannel Outdoor, and the...
Severe Storms Hit Midwest With Snow, Ice, Winds
Apr 12 2013 // Strong storms sweeping across the Midwest damaged homes and businesses in St. Louis, toppled mobile homes and ripped the roof off a Missouri church, while burying other areas in more than a foot of snow. Missouri Gov. Jay...
Lobbyists Keep Battling As Obamacare Turns 3
Mar 25 2013 // Eight months before President Barack Obama’s health care law goes prime time, a confederation of industry and business groups is ramping up its lobbying apparatus for an 11th-hour assault on the web of new taxes and...
Minnesota Bills Would Allow Driver Licenses for Illegal Immigrants
Mar 20 2013 // Bills that would let illegal immigrants get a Minnesota driver’s license are moving forward at the Capitol. The Senate Transportation and Public Safety Committee has passed a bill to ease restrictions on...
Minnesota House Passes Health Exchange Proposal
Mar 6 2013 // The Minnesota House passed a bill establishing the state’s health insurance exchange, the first step toward enactment of an online marketplace that aims to give more than a million Minnesotans a new place to purchase...
Ratings Recap: American General, Philadelphia Indemnity, First Hawaii, Minnesota Lawyers Mutual, Workmen’s Auto
Mar 1 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘B+’ (Good) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “bbb-” of American General Property Insurance Company (AGPIC), based in Nashville,...
Minnesota Jury Awards $4.7 Million in Ship Lawsuit
Feb 25 2013 // A Duluth, Minn., dock company owes nearly $4.7 million for repairs and lost profits to the owner of a coal freighter that partially sunk in the Duluth-Superior Harbor. The Duluth News Tribune reports the jury made the...
Business Moves – Midwest
Feb 25 2013 // Johnson McCann, C.O. Brown, Apollo Insurance Agency Three Minnesota insurance agencies — Johnson McCann of St. Paul, C.O. Brown of Rochester and the Apollo Insurance Agency of St. Cloud — have joined forces to become...
Insurers: False Auto Claims on the Rise in Minnesota
Feb 12 2013 // Auto insurance companies say false and exaggerated injury claims are on the rise in Minnesota. The National Insurance Crime Bureau says suspicious personal injury claims have tripled since 2008. Minnesota ranked tenth in...
Minnesota’s Johnson McCann, C.O. Brown, Apollo Insurance Agency Merge
Feb 7 2013 // Three Minnesota insurance agencies – Johnson McCann of St. Paul, C.O. Brown of Rochester and the Apollo Insurance Agency of St. Cloud – have joined forces to become the second largest private insurance...
Vande Hey Appointed Deputy Insurance Commissioner in Minnesota
Feb 7 2013 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman has promoted Tim Vande Hey to deputy commissioner of the Insurance Division for the Commerce Department. Vande Hey was first appointed assistant commissioner in April 2012, the...
Family Sues Company Over Minnesota Office Attack
Feb 5 2013 // The family of a man who was among six people gunned down at his Minneapolis, Minn., office last year is suing the company, claiming it botched the firing of the employee who carried out the attack and should have known...
Minnesota Man Sentenced for $275K False Insurance Claim
Jan 15 2013 // A St. Paul, Minn., man has been sentenced for filing a false insurance claim for artwork he had reported as stolen. Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Sheedy was sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation on one...
Millions of Flood Relief Dollars Sit Untapped in Minnesota
Jan 15 2013 // Millions of dollars in relief loan money sit unclaimed more than six months after heavy flooding hit northeastern Minnesota. Most of the $12 million allocated by the Legislature for disaster loans to homeowners remains...
