All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 22 2016 // A consumer advocacy organization says Terre Haute is the Indiana city with the fewest distracted and drunken driving fatalities. ConsumerAffairs conducted a nationwide study using the latest available data from 2014...
Feb 16 2016 // A Midwestern environmental group has followed through on its promise to formally challenge Peabody Energy’s ability to guarantee it has enough money for future cleanup of its Illinois and Indiana coal mines.The...
Feb 9 2016 // A consumer advocacy organization says Terre Haute is the Indiana city with the fewest distracted and drunken driving fatalities. The Tribune-Star reports that ConsumerAffairs conducted a nationwide study using the latest...
Jan 29 2016 // In the two weeks since bird flu reappeared in Indiana, U.S. veterinarians have swabbed the mouths of chickens and turkeys across the country, racing to uncover any more infections and contain the virus before it causes...
Jan 29 2016 // Insurance broker Hylant has appointed Kim Carpenter vice president of Hylant Select – Indiana.In her new role, she will manage and lead Hylant’s Select business within Indiana and she will be responsible for client...
Jan 25 2016 // Seymour Midwest, a Warsaw, Ind., hand tool manufacturing company, will pay $100,000 and furnish other relief to resolve an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the...
Jan 20 2016 // Animal health officials investigating a bird flu strain that affected 10 turkey farms in southwestern Indiana have added 156,000 chickens to the list of thousands of birds being euthanized.The Indiana State Board of Animal...
Jan 19 2016 // The U.S. government confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic H7N8 avian influenza in a commercial turkey flock in Indiana, the country’s first case since the end of last year’s outbreak that led to the...
Jan 18 2016 // A move to quickly quarantine and destroy Indiana turkey flocks infected with avian influenza may help prevent a repeat of last year’s outbreak that cost the industry $3.3 billion, according to...
Jan 11 2016 // The number of deaths caused by fire in Indiana declined by more than 10 percent last year, state officials said.The Indiana Department of Homeland Security recorded 73 fire deaths around the state during 2015, down from 84...
Jan 11 2016 // Seymour Midwest, a Warsaw, Ind., hand tool manufacturing company, will pay $100,000 and furnish other relief to resolve an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the...
Jan 11 2016 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group, headquartered in Detroit/Farmington Hills, Mich., named Wayne Bates president of Atain Insurance Cos. and corporate senior vice president of Kaufman Financial Group.Bates joins Atain following...
Jan 8 2016 // Indiana’s cap on medical malpractice payments would be increased for the first time in decades under a proposal in the state Legislature. A bill endorsed by Republicans who control the Indiana Senate would boost the...
Jan 5 2016 // Indiana highway officials are launching a pilot project to track unpermitted overweight vehicles that can damage highways and bridges.The Indiana Department of Transportation will install license plate-tracking technology...
Jan 5 2016 // An Evansville, Ind., couple is keeping up a decadelong legal fight over their claims of medical malpractice in their daughter’s birth that left her a quadriplegic and unable to speak.A Vanderburgh County jury in 2013...
Dec 21 2015 // A recently released survey of Indiana employers shows that 80 percent have been impacted by prescription drug misuse and abuse, including opioid painkillers, in their workplaces, the state attorney general’s office...
Dec 21 2015 // Indiana’s high court has confirmed a lower court’s summary judgment favoring a property insurer that denied a homeowner’s claim after discovering that misleading information about the condition of the...
Dec 8 2015 // The majority of Indiana companies that responded to a survey tied to the state’s growing woes with prescription medication abuse say their businesses are being affected by workplace abuse or misuse of those drugs,...
Dec 4 2015 // Indiana’s high court has confirmed a lower court’s summary judgment favoring a property insurer that denied a homeowner’s claim after discovering that misleading information about the condition of the...
Nov 18 2015 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Indiana were higher and rising faster than in most states examined in a recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI).The report, CompScope...