All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2014 // Voldico Insurance, based in Osgood, Ind., has hired John Robinson as president.Robinson will oversee strategy setting, operational and revenue growth initiatives for the company. He will be the primary relationship manager...
Oct 15 2014 // A double-decker passenger bus flipped onto its side on a highway in suburban Indianapolis, Ind., on Oct. 14 after apparently swerving to avoid an earlier crash, badly injuring one person and hurting more than a dozen...
Oct 8 2014 // Crestbrook Insurance Co., an affluent market personal lines offering from Nationwide, announced its expansion into Indiana.Crestbrook offers insurance products through appointed agents and brokers that address the unique...
Oct 5 2014 // FedEx Corp. said a ruling by the Kansas Supreme Court that, under state law, its drivers are employees rather than independent contractors applies to a business practice it hasn’t been using since 2011.The company...
Sep 30 2014 // The downward trend of Indiana’s farm-related fatalities continued in 2013 as the state saw 18 deaths, according to a Purdue University report.The total is eight fewer than were reported in 2012, giving Indiana fewer...
Sep 17 2014 // State officials say the number of workplace deaths in Indiana was up in 2013, but it was still the third-lowest number of fatalities recorded in the past 22 years. The Indiana Department of Labor reports the state had 123...
Sep 15 2014 // By the end of next year, a forest planted in Franklin, Ind., to replace dozens of flood-damaged homes will have about twice the number of trees it has now.But residents will have to wait several years before the trees grow...
Aug 29 2014 // An explosion at a BP oil refinery in Indiana rattled nearby homes and sparked a fire that was later extinguished, but it didn’t cause any major injuries or halt production at the facility, a company official said.The...
Aug 28 2014 // The southern Indiana tourist town of Nashville has reached a settlement with a Michigan man who accused a deputy marshal of shocking him with a Taser gun while he was having a seizure.The Herald-Times reports the terms of...
Aug 26 2014 // Failure to procure insurance claims of agent malpractice typically involve agent conduct where the agent makes a promise of future activity and not representations about existing provisions related to actual coverages or...
Aug 25 2014 // Residents in central and northern Indiana battled fire and water after torrential rains overnight caused widespread flooding on Aug. 22.Firefighters in northeastern Indiana were cut off from a blaze at an auto repair shop...
Aug 20 2014 // J.M. Wilson has added Josh Mauk as a transportation underwriter in its Carmel, Ind., office. Mauk is responsible for quoting new and renewal trucking, non-trucking, business auto and public auto risks for Indiana...
Aug 14 2014 // WellPoint, one of the biggest players on the health care overhaul’s new insurance exchanges, wants to switch its corporate name back to the Anthem brand its customers know by the end of this year.The nation’s...
Jul 23 2014 // A trucking company wants the state appeals court to limit the Indiana Department of Transportation’s authority to sue over damage done to state highways.The challenge is in court as the highway agency is trying to...
Jul 17 2014 // A southwestern Indiana city will need to spend more than $2 million to repair its Wabash River flood levees, although that is much less than officials previously projected.Vincennes officials say the repairs are needed...
Jul 16 2014 // The Source Insurance Group & Financial Services LLC of Fishers, Ind., joined agency network The Iroquois Group on June 18. Iroquois, a network of property and casualty insurance agencies, now lists more than 2,000...
Jul 2 2014 // General Motors Co., the largest U.S. automaker, said one person died and eight people were taken to the hospital after a “small” chemical explosion at a factory near Fort Wayne, Indiana.Emergency officials...
Jun 30 2014 // A three-year-old law barring Indiana drivers from texting while driving has generated more frustration than tickets from police officers, who say the law makes it hard to prove a driver is in violation.The 2011 law was a...
Jun 26 2014 // ICW Group Insurance Cos., a multiline property/casualty insurer based in San Diego, Calif., announced it has begun writing workers’ compensation insurance in Georgia, Indiana and New Jersey. ICW Group said its...
Jun 26 2014 // A tornado-producing storm that hit central Indiana on June 24 damaged several homes in Indianapolis and its outskirts, downed power lines and uprooted trees, authorities said.It was one of several thunderstorms that sprang...