All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 12 2020 // Insurance brokerage HUB International Limited (Hub) has acquired the employee benefits division of The Healy Group Inc. (Healy Benefits), based in South Bend, Indiana.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Healy...
May 12 2020 // Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill’s law license will be suspended for 30 days over an allegation that he drunkenly groped four women during a party, the state Supreme Court ruled.The unanimous court decision said...
May 12 2020 // Carmel, Indiana-based Protective Insurance Corp. (Protective) reported that a special committee of independent directors has been formed to evaluate a contingent sale agreement offered by certain Protective shareholders...
May 11 2020 // Indiana’s safety agency prematurely released Amazon from citations and fines in the death of a warehouse employee who was crushed by a forklift, a federal investigation has found.Indiana Occupational Safety and...
Apr 30 2020 // ClearPath Mutual Insurance has appointed Don Stoller as the company’s director of Underwriting, and Bob Korsan as vice president of Business Development.Stoller most recently held the position of master underwriter...
Apr 20 2020 // More Midwest-based insurers are offering premium payment relief to their auto insurance customers as a result of the COVID-19 health crisis.Branch Insurance, Grange Insurance, Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, Ohio Mutual...
Apr 9 2020 // The National Transportation Safety Board said that a northern Indiana school district is partially to blame for a 2018 crash that killed three siblings crossing a rural highway to reach their stopped school bus.The wreck...
Apr 3 2020 // Bloomington, Ind.-based senior living community operator Heart of CarDon LLC has been sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) by refusing to accommodate a qualified employee with a disability, which...
Apr 1 2020 // Crews and homeowners cleaning up after a weekend tornado swept a southwestern Indiana town are working under the watchful eye of local officials eager to make sure they adhere to social distancing amid the coronavirus...
Mar 23 2020 // Drivers will be banned from using handheld cellphones on Indiana roads starting in July under legislation Gov. Eric Holcomb has signed into law to combat distracted driving.Holcomb signed the measure on March 18, making...
Mar 17 2020 // In response to concerns that have apparently been raised regarding the status of liability insurance coverage for facilities that provide services such as childcare and meals to the community, the Indiana Department of...
Mar 16 2020 // A federal appellate court threw out most of the claims by automotive body shops in Indiana, Utah and Mississippi that alleged that major insurers violated antitrust laws and engaged in anticompetitive practices by steering...
Mar 13 2020 // Indiana State University has won first place in Selective Insurance’s Collegiate Competition. Second place was claimed by Middle Tennessee University, while Appalachian State University placed third.The month-long,...
Mar 12 2020 // The Indiana Supreme Court has ruled against a lawsuit filed by a West Virginia delegate over a 2006 parking lot brawl that left him blinded years before he was elected to office.The lawsuit said Cavanaugh’s Sports...
Mar 9 2020 // Kimberly O. Smith, J.D, president and CEO of Carmel, Indiana-based Indiana Farmers Insurance, has announced she will retire effective January 2022.The board of directors has engaged the Carlisle Group, an executive search...
Jan 28 2020 // First Acceptance Corp., a specialty auto insurance carrier with retail locations in 15 states, and Greenwood, Indiana-based Insurance Brokers Inc. (IBI) have made Acceptance auto insurance available to Indiana independent...
Jan 13 2020 // AXA XL Risk Consulting has appointed Sheri Wilbanks as its global Casualty & Environmental Lines of Business manager. Wilbanks will be responsible for building a global casualty and environmental risk consulting...
Jan 9 2020 // The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it is launching an investigation into the Dec. 29 crash of a Tesla Model 3 that left a passenger dead after the vehicle collided with a parked fire truck...
Dec 27 2019 // Bob Vetter has been appointed vice president and branch manager in the Indiana branch of property/casualty insurer Erie Insurance.Vetter joined ERIE as a commercial underwriter in 1993, later becoming district sales...
Dec 17 2019 // Two environmental groups are suing a steelmaker for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act at its northwestern Indiana facility more than 100 times in the past five years, including an August spill that killed more than...