All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 25 2017 // The Clark County coroner and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating the death of a worker at a southern Indiana auto parts manufacturing plant. The coroner’s office says 44-year-old...
Oct 25 2017 // Boca Raton, Florida-based Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired Williams & Associates Insurance, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Led by Scott Davis, Williams & Associates has offices in...
Oct 16 2017 // A contractor was fined $24,500 for safety violations after a worker died from a fall at a Richmond, Ind., factory.The Richmond Palladium-Item reports 23-year-old Jacob Bugg died June 27 after falling about 40 feet at a...
Oct 11 2017 // Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Employee Plans LLC has hired Donn Duhon as vice president of new business development.Duhon focuses on bringing creative and cost-effective solutions to employers pursuing a self-funded benefits...
Oct 6 2017 // An official says more than a million chickens died in a fire that destroyed several large barns at a northern Indiana egg-producing facility.Crews responded late on Oct. 2 to the fire at Hi-Grade Egg Producers near the...
Oct 4 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to an Indiana-based company to begin selling insurance products in Arkansas.Kerr has approved American Inter-Fidelity Exchange of...
Oct 2 2017 // Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill has joined a coalition of 37 states and territories urging health insurance companies to examine financial incentives that contribute to the opioid crisis.The bipartisan coalition is...
Sep 19 2017 // A U.S. Census Bureau report has found that Indiana had 373,000 fewer people without health insurance last year than three years earlier.The report released last week said about 8 percent of Indiana residents, or about...
Sep 14 2017 // Michigan investigators and out-of-state police are tracking down more than 30 recalled diesel vehicles that were stolen from the parking lot of a shuttered arena in southeastern Michigan.Indiana State Police Sgt. Jerry...
Sep 13 2017 // The Indiana Department of Transportation has proposed a way to make a deadly stretch of highway in western Indiana safer.Department officials told the Vincennes Sun-Commercial that an intersection of U.S. 41 near Oaktown...
Aug 7 2017 // Ron Lockton, who has served as vice chairman of global insurance broker Lockton Inc. for the past two years as part of the succession plan, is expanding his role to become president and chief executive officer of the...
Aug 7 2017 // Market Detail: Low Rate Workers’ Comp (www.LowRateWorkComp.com) serves Florida and throughout the USA. Eligible classes have one or more employees with $400/week minimum payroll. Pay as you go workers’ comp,...
Aug 2 2017 // A federal appeals court has ruled against 20 former Lake County employees who claimed their layoffs were driven by age discrimination.The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled that the plaintiffs, many of whom...
Jul 31 2017 // State regulators have fined a northern Indiana recreational vehicle manufacturer $10,000 for safety violations discovered following a worker’s April death.Fifty-four-year-old Ricky Schlabach died of blunt force...
Jul 27 2017 // ONI Risk Partners (ONI), headquartered in Indianapolis, Ind., is acquiring Franklin, Ind.-based Green Owens Insurance (Green Owens).In business since 1979, the Green Owens team joins ONI’s 300-plus insurance...
Jul 26 2017 // Chemtrusion Inc., a Houston-based manufacturing services company, will pay $145,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...
Jul 24 2017 // To ensure the safety of amusement rides in Indiana, state safety regulators conduct hundreds of inspections of amusement devices each year.The elevator and amusement ride division of the Indiana Department of Homeland...
Jul 21 2017 // Pennsylvania and Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Companies (PLM), a property and casualty insurance carrier based in Philadelphia, Penn., has named Erin Selfe vice president of information technology.With more than 20...
Jul 17 2017 // A former volunteer firefighter in Indiana was sentenced to at least two decades in prison after he was convicted of arson.Adam Selbee, 20, was sentenced after pleading guilty in May to four counts of arson. The Bloomington...
Jul 10 2017 // From 10 to 18 percent of injured workers never reach “substantial return to work,” according to new research by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) comparing outcomes for injured workers in six...