Latest Indiana Headlines

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Midwest Insurance Commissioners on the Move

Jan 23 2017 // Several Midwest states, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and North Dakota, experienced transitions among insurance commissioners as 2016 folded into 2017.Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner named Jennifer Hammer to head of the...

NFP Acquires City Securities Insurance in Indiana

Jan 18 2017 // New York-based insurance broker and consultant, NFP, has acquired City Securities Insurance LLC in Indianapolis.The transaction closed on Dec. 30, 2016. City Securities Insurance is a full service property/casualty and...

Indiana Slow to Address Expired Rules Drafted after Stage Collapse

Dec 29 2016 // Emergency rules drafted following the deadly 2011 Indiana State Fair stage collapse expired nearly a year ago and state regulators have not yet drafted a permanent rule intended to prevent such a disaster from happening...

Northern Indiana City Expanding Efforts to Deal with Underground Vault Threat

Dec 29 2016 // A northern Indiana city is extending a campaign to repair or fill old coal-storage vaults that pose a public safety threat.Goshen started its matching funds program in 2012 after a man walking on a downtown sidewalk fell...

Indiana Governor-Elect Reappoints Robertson as Insurance Commissioner

Dec 27 2016 // Indiana Governor-elect Eric Holcomb has reappointed Stephen Robertson as the commissioner of the state’s Department of Insurance.Robertson was appointed by Gov. Mitch Daniels as commissioner of the department in 2010...

Midwest Regulation Report Card: States’ Grades Range from A to D

Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...

Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Patent Litigants’ ‘Friendly Court’ Shopping

Dec 15 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide whether to limit where patent lawsuits may be filed, potentially threatening a years-long trend that critics say allows frequent and often-baseless litigants to sue in...

Central Indiana County’s Hacked Computer System Taking Weeks to Restore

Nov 29 2016 // Workers have spent weeks restoring a central Indiana county government’s computer system that was hacked by an unknown group demanding a ransom payment.Madison County officials decided to pay the undisclosed ransom...

Rep. Price, Obamacare Critic, Is Trump’s Choice to Lead Health Agency

Nov 29 2016 // President-elect Donald Trump said he’ll nominate U.S. Representative Tom Price, one of the main architects of legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human...

Ransomware Attack Freezes Indiana County’s Computers

Nov 8 2016 // A so-called ransomware attack has left police, fire and other government staff in a central Indiana county locked out of their computers.Madison County Commissioner Jeff Hardin tells The Herald Bulletin the county’s...

State Appeals $31M Verdict in Case Involving Death of Indiana Girl

Nov 3 2016 // Indiana officials are appealing a $31 million judgment awarded to parents falsely blamed for the death of their 14-year-old daughter.A federal court jury in Hammond determined last year that three Department of Child...

Medical Payments per Workers’ Comp Claim Flatten in Indiana

Nov 1 2016 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Indiana changed little from 2013 to 2014, a sharp contrast to the increases of the prior nine years, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research...

Indiana, Kansas to See Lower Workers’ Comp Rates Next Year

Oct 24 2016 // Indiana and Kansas employers will see workers’ compensation insurance rates decrease in 2017, according to the insurance departments in both states.The Kansas Insurance Department said the 2017 rate filing by the...

The Hilb Group Acquires Indiana Insurance Agency

Oct 19 2016 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Indianapolis, Indiana-based Fundamental Insurance & Retirement Planning Inc. (FIRP).The transaction was effective October 1, 2016. FIRP provides a range of insurance offerings from...

Indiana Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop 9.3% Next Year

Oct 17 2016 // Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner Stephen W. Robertson has approved a 9.3 percent reduction in workers’ compensation insurance rates that becomes effective Jan. 1, 2017. The approved rate decrease will...

Ex-CEO of Indiana Nursing Home Company Indicted for Fraud, Kickback Scheme

Oct 14 2016 // The former CEO of a company that operates dozens of Indiana nursing homes and three others face federal charges in a kickback scheme worth millions of dollars, according to an indictment released on Oct. 12.Grand jurors...

ICW Group Now Writing Workers’ Compensation in Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia

Sep 26 2016 // ICW Group Insurance Companies has begun writing workers’ compensation four additional states—Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia.The San Diego-based company says the move bolsters its presence across the...

Insurance Fight Prolongs Junk Yard Pollution in Indiana City

Sep 14 2016 // Five years of court battles haven’t resolved the blame game between a western Indiana junk yard and one of the nation’s largest insurance companies over water pollution.Valley Forge Insurance has spent millions...

U.S. Disaster Loans Approved After Indiana Tornadoes

Sep 12 2016 // Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says the U.S. Small Business Administration has approved low-interest disaster loans for tornado-stricken Howard County. Pence said that the contiguous counties of Cass, Carroll, Clinton, Tipton,...

Federal Suit Filed by Former Employees of Indiana-Based ITT Tech Institute

Sep 9 2016 // Two employees laid off by the parent company of Indiana-based for-profit college chain ITT Technical Institute have filed a lawsuit claiming the company violated federal law by not providing 60 days’ notice.Allen...