State Farm Insurance will lay off 88 employees in Mendota Heights, virtually its entire workforce there, as it shutters the office as part of a wave of nationwide cutbacks.
The Bloominton, Ill.-based insurer disclosed the pending layoffs at its State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. operations to state regulators last week, the Star Tribune reports. The job cuts have been a long time coming; the company had announced back in 2016 that it planned to shutter the Mendota Heights office, but didn't…