Latest Indiana Headlines

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Indiana-Based Zimmer Wins First NexGen Flex Knee Devices Case

Nov 10 2015 // Indiana-based medical device manufacturer Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. has been cleared of liability in the first of more than 900 U.S. lawsuits to go to trial over claims that its NexGen Flex knee replacements were prone...

Preventable Medical Errors Increase in Indiana

Nov 2 2015 // New data released from the Indiana State Department of Health shows that the state has set another record for medical errors.There were 114 preventable adverse medical incidents in hospitals and health care facilities in...

Indiana Judge OKs Facebook Messages in Marina Fire Trial

Oct 28 2015 // A judge has declined to prevent private Facebook messages from being considered during a trial of two people charged in an Evansville, Ind., marina fire. The Evansville Courier & Press reports the judge denied the...

Indiana Sets New Record for Preventable Medical Errors

Oct 26 2015 // New data released from the Indiana State Department of Health shows that the state has set another record for medical errors.The state agency said there were 114 preventable adverse medical incidents in hospitals and...

Ameriana Bancorp to Sell Ameriana Insurance Agency to Indiana Group

Oct 23 2015 // Ameriana Bancorp announced it has agreed to sell Ameriana Insurance Agency (AIA) to Pfenninger, Claxton and Estelle Insurance Group of New Castle, Ind. The transaction value is $1,950,000 and is expected to close in the...

Indiana’s Butler University Creating Student-Run Insurer

Oct 14 2015 // Almost a quarter of the insurance industry is set to retire by 2022, and Butler University’s College of Business in Indianapolis is preparing its graduates to fill those voids by establishing its own student-run...

Indiana Insurance Agent Tapped to Lead State House GOP

Oct 8 2015 // Indiana House Republicans have chosen Rep. Matt Lehman to replace former House Majority Leader Jud McMillin.Republicans announced Lehman’s election shortly after emerging from a closed-door meeting on Oct. 6. Lehman,...

Carmel, Indiana OKs LGBT Anti-Discrimination Ordinance

Oct 7 2015 // The Carmel City Council in Indiana has passed an ordinance banning discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation, narrowly defeating efforts by social conservatives to defeat the measure in the affluent...

NAMIC Legislators of the Year from Indiana, Missouri

Oct 5 2015 // Missouri Rep. Don Gosen and Indiana Rep. Matt Lehman were named Legislators of the Year for the 2015 legislative session by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies.Gosen is chairman of the Missouri House...

Pending Mergers Will Harm Health Insurance Competition: AMA

Sep 8 2015 // The nation’s doctors say the proposed mergers among four of the nation’s largest health insurance companies would violate federal antitrust guidelines and seriously erode health insurance competition.According...

Assessment of Storm Damage in 29 Indiana Counties Begins

Aug 20 2015 // Federal, state and local officials have begun assessing the damage from severe storms and flooding in 29 Indiana counties between June 7 and July 29. The Indiana Department of Homeland Security said the preliminary damage...

Appeals Court: Indiana Police Department Can Be Held Liable

Aug 17 2015 // A federal appeals court has ruled the Evansville Police Department in Indiana committed too many mistakes” to be shielded from liability in a lawsuit filed over a SWAT raid on her home in 2012. The 7th U.S. Circuit...

J.M. Wilson Promotes Shepherd to P/C Underwriter in Indiana

Aug 7 2015 // J.M. Wilson has promoted Robyn Shepherd to property/casualty underwriter in the wholesale insurance broker’s Carmel, Ind., office. In her new role, Shepherd will quote new and renewal property/casualty risks, and...

Appeals Court: Indiana Police Department Can Be Held Liable

Aug 3 2015 // A federal appeals court has ruled the Evansville Police Department in Indiana committed too many mistakes” to be shielded from liability in a lawsuit filed over a SWAT raid on her home in 2012. The Evansville Courier...

Some Crops Falter in Record Midwest Rains

Aug 3 2015 // Weeks of record rainfalls drenched Don Lamb’s cornfields this summer, drowning some plants and leaving others yellowed, 2 feet tall and capable of producing little, if any, grain.The 48-year-old central Indiana...

Driver in Deadly Indiana Bus Crash Had Suspended License: Police

Jul 30 2015 // A 6-year-old boy died and 11 others were hurt this week when their church bus overturned near Indianapolis in an accident that police said appeared to be the result of an error by a driver with a suspended license.The boy...

Worley Claims Services to Acquire Indiana-Based NCA Group

Jul 30 2015 // Hammond, La.-based insurance claims services provider, Worley Claims Services (Worley), is acquiring NCA Group Inc. (NCA), which provides daily and catastrophe residential and commercial property claims services throughout...

Multi-State Cargo Theft Ring Busted in Indiana; 8 Charged

Jul 29 2015 // Eight individuals have been charged in a 23-count indictment in an organized scheme to steal tens of millions of dollars in merchandise from shipments of cargo moving through the state of Indiana and elsewhere, United...

Indiana School to Build Tornado Safe Room with $1.6M Grant

Jul 28 2015 // Federal officials have awarded a southern Indiana school district $1.6 million to build a tornado safe room at an elementary school. The grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will allow Salem Community Schools...

Indiana Now Requires Scooter Registration; Thousands Comply

Jul 27 2015 // Thousands of motor-driven cycles, the vast majority mopeds and scooters, have been registered with the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles since a new law went into effect in January that placed more stringent requirements on...