All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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,...
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...
Sep 7 2016 // MJ Insurance has added Ryan Goodwin to its risk management and commercial insurance team in Indiana.Goodwin joins MJ from Morgan Insurance Group in Martinsville where he worked for the past five years. Previously, Goodwin...
Sep 2 2016 // The Indiana Supreme Court is considering whether a police officer’s lawsuit against the sporting goods store that sold a handgun later used to wound him can go forward despite a state law giving gun sellers...
Sep 2 2016 // A Kokomo, Ind. official says more than 60 mature trees at the city’s Highland park were uprooted during last week’s tornado.Parks and Recreation Superintendent Randy Morris told the Kokomo Tribune most of the...
Aug 26 2016 // A wave of severe storms produced at least a dozen tornadoes in Indiana and Ohio earlier this week, damaging homes and businesses but causing no serious injuries, authorities said as crews worked to restore power and remove...
Jul 12 2016 // Two recent crashes on the same road in Indiana’s Elkhart County highlight the dangers of distracted driving accidents involving motor vehicles and horse-drawn buggies.On May 29, a 17-year-old girl who rear-ended a...
Jul 6 2016 // An Evansville, Ind., man has been sentenced to more than 91/2 years in prison for paying people to stage car crashes to defraud insurance companies.U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young sentenced 57-year-old Michael W....
Jun 14 2016 // The mother of an Indiana girl who died in an all-terrain vehicle crash has started a nonprofit foundation in partnership with state lawmakers to draft a helmet law and mandatory safety education for children who ride...
Jun 7 2016 // Fort Wayne, Ind.-based DOXA Insurance Holdings LLC (DOXA) has named Timothy Wiggins as chief operating officer and managing partner.DOXA, launched in April 2016, is a holding company focused on managing general agents...
May 26 2016 // The health insurer Anthem Inc. announced it has received approval from Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner Stephen W. Robertson for the acquisition of Cigna HealthCare of Indiana Inc., a subsidiary of Cigna...
May 23 2016 // The Ohio Insurance Institute reports that preliminary estimates of an April storm outbreak caused insured property losses of up to $57.8 million in Ohio alone. Several other states, including Illinois and Indiana, were...
May 20 2016 // Office Concepts Inc., a Fort Wayne, Ind., office product and service store, will pay $45,000 and provide other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),...
May 6 2016 // The National Weather Service confirmed this week that a tornado touched down briefly in western Indiana on Sunday. The weather service rated the tornado as an EF-0, estimating it had peak winds of 70 mph. The weather...
May 3 2016 // Independent insurance agency network, Associated Risk Managers International Inc. (ARMI), have elected Greg Easley to serve as chairman of the ARMI board of directors.Easley currently serves as vice president and corporate...
Apr 5 2016 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Forest Sherer Insurance Inc. (Forrest Sherer) from First Financial Corp. Headquartered in Terre Haute, Ind., Forrest Sherer has been providing property-casualty, employee benefits...
Mar 21 2016 // A judge sentenced an Indianapolis man to more than two life sentences in prison for his role in a 2012 house explosion that killed two people and destroyed or damaged dozens of homes in a scheme to collect insurance...
Mar 2 2016 // Medical malpractice victims would be able to receive more compensation under a measure an Indiana House committee approved on Feb. 29 that would update the payment cap for the first time in nearly 18 years.The bill, which...
Feb 26 2016 // An Indianapolis man was convicted of murder, arson and insurance fraud on Feb. 24 for his role in a 2012 house explosion that killed two neighbors and devastated a subdivision in the southern part of the city.A northern...