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Gogebic County Board ponders insurance

By P.J. GLISSON

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BESSEMER — Members of the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners used an April 12 meeting of their Economic and Capital Improvements Committee to concentrate solely on learning about how to use insurance to best protect the county, its property and its individual citizens.

It turns out that the solutions, for the most part, are not cheap.

The question-and-answer session was anchored by a representative of the Michigan Municipal Risk Management Authority — better known by its acronym of MMRMA — which markets itself as “a public entity risk pool for municip...