All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 21 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘B+’ (Good) and issuer credit rating of “bbb-” of Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company and its reinsured subsidiaries, Lone Star...
Dec 18 2012 // Saturday was an emotional, yet joyful day for Danielle Guthrie, when Habitat for Humanity handed her the keys to her new house in Henryville.“When they called to approve me, I was surprised. It was amazing,”...
Dec 17 2012 // A top state attorney defended Indiana’s punitive damages law on Dec. 13 against claims that it renders trials meaningless by forcing judges to reduce awards in lawsuits without telling jurors.Solicitor General Thomas...
Dec 11 2012 // The average cost of a workers’ compensation claim in Indiana grew rapidly in recent years, mainly driven by the high price of medical care, according to a new study, Benchmarks for Indiana, CompScope 13th Edition, by...
Dec 3 2012 // Dr. Therese M. Vaughan has stepped down earlier than previously announced from her post as chief executive officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). In August, she announced plans for...
Dec 3 2012 // Indiana’s high court has ruled that the state’s fund established to cover excess damages in medical malpractice cases may not dispute the existence or cause of a plaintiff’s injury in a case in which the...
Nov 30 2012 // Gary, Ind., is the most “underpoliced” city in the nation, a new study released this month shows.“Over a quarter of people’s income is lost due to crime. It’s very big relative to other...
Nov 29 2012 // The distance around the Earth at the equator is 24,901 miles. By Kokomo, Ind.-based truck driver Richard Batt’s estimate, he could have driven around the planet nearly 24,100 times.And he would have done it all in a...
Nov 19 2012 // The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles will stop requiring drivers chosen at random from a state registry to prove they are insured. BMV spokesman Dennis Rosebrough said the agency has agreed to a stay in a lawsuit filed by...
Nov 14 2012 // Indiana’s high court has ruled that the state’s fund established to cover excess damages in medical malpractice cases may not dispute the existence or cause of a plaintiff’s injury in a case in which the...
Nov 14 2012 // The current business environment for independent insurance agents in Indiana is pretty good thanks to the hard work and legislative involvement of agents and other industry professionals, according to one longtime agent...
Nov 12 2012 // City officials in Fort Wayne, Ind., are blaming staff cuts for the fire department not meeting its goal of inspecting high-risk buildings at least once a year.A city audit found that 60 percent of those buildings it...
Nov 9 2012 // A new Purdue University report says farm-related deaths in Indiana fell to 16 last year and none involved children for the first time in 13 years.The Indiana Farm fatality Summary says the 2011 deaths compared with 23 the...
Nov 7 2012 // Wells Fargo Insurance, part of Wells Fargo & Co., has named new regional leaders in the Midwest.Led by regional managing director John Meder, the team serves the Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,...
Nov 7 2012 // The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has agreed to stop requiring drivers chosen at random from a state registry to prove they are insured.BMV spokesman Dennis Rosebrough said the agency has agreed to a stay in a lawsuit...
Nov 5 2012 // The current business environment for independent insurance agents in Indiana is pretty good thanks to the hard work and legislative involvement of agents and other industry professionals, according to one longtime agent...
Oct 31 2012 // A year after a spectacular fire destroyed its main facility, a Fort Wayne, Ind., company has overcome a series of bureaucratic hurdles and begun to rebuild.“We had so many entities involved: the city, county, state,...
Oct 26 2012 // A northern Indiana county’s charitable foundation faces a daunting task in figuring out how best to use a $150 million donation from the estate of businessman who grew up there, the group’s president said.The...
Oct 19 2012 // Indiana has 32 cases of fungal meningitis linked to injections of a recalled back pain steroid, and authorities in Michigan are reporting 44 cases of fungal meningitis, along with four non-meningitis infection cases...
Oct 15 2012 // A former Indiana surgeon arrested on a snowy Italian mountainside after five years on the run was handed a stiff prison term Friday for billing insurers and patients for procedures he didn’t perform, with the federal...