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Meeting Recap - February 7, 2017

George Winiecki opened the meeting with the Pledge and an Invocation.

 

Gerry Tietz announced that Todd Kruse has left the Twin Cities North Chamber and will be unable to continue his Rotary membership.  Gerry nominated Beverly Aplikowski to replace Todd as our Membership Director, effective immediately.  The club unanimously approved the nomination.  Congratulations, Beverly!

 

Beverly’s first official act as Membership Director was to pass out Rotary Club business cards that we can use to invite prospective members to visit the club.  Pick up some cards at our next meeting and give one to anyone you think would be a good Rotarian.

 

Gerry Tietz asked everyone to respond to a recent, one question, email survey about your willingness to attend a Thursday morning Rotary meeting.  Ten of you have not yet responded and he hopes you will do so soon.

 

Mary Stewart and Garry Johnson reported that our Homeless Student Initiatve Committee met recently with Tami Moberg, of Quincy Tree House, who has spoken to the club about high school student homelessness in our school district.  The meeting revealed common goals and the committee will investigate ways in which we might work cooperatively with Tami’s organization.

 

Remember that next week’s meeting will be held at Risdall Marketing’s new location.  Spouses/significant others are welcome.  Please contact Glenna ASAP if you haven’t RSVP’d yet.

 

At our February 28th meeting, you’ll have an opportunity to hear brief elevator pitches from our club’s financial services professionals.

 

George Winiecki introduced Mark Kulda, VP of Public Affairs for the Insurance Federation of Minnesota.  Mark began his presentation by assessing the changes in the power structure at the Minnesota Capitol following the recent elections.  For only the second time in the forty years since Minnesota politicians have declared party designations, Republicans have the majority in both the Senate and the House.  Mark appeared optimistic that Republican control would make insurance reform is more likely.  In fact, the first bill of this session was premium relief for families hit hard by the skyrocketing premiums in the individual health insurance market.  Mark said that MNSure is still broken and that much of the problem is due to a failure of the MNSure designers to consider the recommendations of the health insurance industry.  Time will tell what lessons have been learned but, hopefully, they will do a better job this time around.

 

Another area of concern for Minnesota is insurance fraud.  It’s estimated that insurance fraud costs the average Minnesota family $1,400 dollars per year in higher premiums and other costs.  Mark said that, as one of the few remaining no-fault auto insurance states, Minnesota has been a prime target for both individual and corporate insurance fraud.  The National Insurance Crime Bureau reports that Minnesota leads the nation in the amount of increase of organized crime in insurance fraud.  Also, the National Insurance Crime Bureau released a report showing suspected claims involving insurance fraud are up more than 26% over the last two years in the U.S.   The problem in Minnesota may be even higher.  As a result, Minnesota’s no-fault  auto insurance premiums are the fifteenth highest in the U.S.  Wisconsin and Iowa do not have no-fault coverage and their auto premiums are much lower, ranked at 48th and 44th highest, respectively.  Further complicating the Minnesota auto insurance premium picture are the numbers of uninsured drivers, estimated to be as high as 20%.  You can check out the Insurance Federation of Minnesota by clicking here. John, Mark and George are pictured below.

 

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