All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 28 2012 // Jerry Cole II takes great pride in his career as a businessman, during which he’s sold millions of dollars in insurance policies.But there was one more thing he always wanted. Feeling as nervous as a 20-something,...
May 25 2012 // The family of a woman left with brain damage after an accident during the filming of “Transformers 3” in Indiana has reached an $18.5 million settlement with Paramount Pictures. Gabriela Cedillo was working as...
May 22 2012 // Concerns about weather, costs and new regulations on temporary stages sparked by last year’s deadly stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair have prompted organizers to cancel an annual Fourth of July picnic and...
May 21 2012 // Neace Lukens, Matrix BenefitsNeace Lukens has completed its acquisition of Matrix Benefits and Consulting Group, a Ft. Wayne, Ind.-based consulting firm. Matrix employees will report to the Neace Lukens Indianapolis office...
May 17 2012 // Approximately one year ago, on Sunday, May 22 at about 5:30 p.m., Joplin, Mo. was devastated by a massive EF 5 tornado that at times was one mile wide and traveled on the ground for more than 20 miles. This storm,...
May 1 2012 // Indiana’s hospital boards and trial lawyers are closely monitoring a lawsuit that accuses the state’s largest hospital group of charging uninsured patients more for treatment than insured patients.The case, set...
Apr 27 2012 // The recent outbreak of severe weather in Kansas had storm chasers out in full force. So many of them, in fact, that emergency officials everywhere are taking notice, and putting out warnings.In Indiana, Delaware County...
Apr 25 2012 // Neace Lukens announced it has completed the acquisition of Matrix Benefits and Consulting Group, a Ft. Wayne, Indiana-based consulting firm.With Matrix’s focus on employee benefits, this acquisition will grow Neace...
Apr 25 2012 // Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels told an entertainment industry group pushing for safer outdoor events that the state has learned from last year’s deadly State Fair stage collapse and is moving to approve emergency rules...
Apr 9 2012 // More than $2 million in federal aid has been approved for homeowners, businesses and others affected by southern Indiana tornadoes and other storms earlier this year. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says that...
Apr 2 2012 // As soon as he was old enough, Blake Whitson, a senior at Jefferson High School in Lafayette, Ind., couldn’t wait to get behind the wheel.With driving school being a little out of his budget, Whitson practiced for six...
Mar 29 2012 // The cities of South Bend, Elkhart and Fort Wayne each have been awarded grants worth $2.3 million to clean up lead from at-risk homes, train workers in lead safety methods and increase public awareness about childhood lead...
Mar 28 2012 // Home Value Protection is now available in Indiana. With a Home Value Protection policy, homeowners can insure the market value of their home—the largest financial asset of most families—from volatile market...
Mar 21 2012 // In Terre Haute, Ind.’s Highland Lawn Cemetery, at the base of a quiet hill next to a pair of peaceful ponds, a gracefully sweeping grave marker indicates where a young mother and daughter are buried together, both...
Mar 20 2012 // Indiana Insurance Commissioner Stephen W. Robertson has ordered a public adjusting business to cease and desist from transacting insurance business for 90 days. The order came after department officials learned that the...
Mar 19 2012 // A family of five in New Pekin, two men in Holton and a Scott County man all were in mobile homes when they died or were fatally injured in southern Indiana tornadoes on March 2. The Courier Journal reported that nearly...
Mar 14 2012 // The Indiana and Nebraska legislatures recently passed much needed legislation that could help protect homeowners from contractor fraud and abuse, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
Mar 8 2012 // The Indiana Department of Insurance is telling insurers to give victims of recent southern Indiana tornadoes an extra two months to pay their premiums. Insurance Commissioner Stephen Robertson announced a 60-day moratorium...
Mar 7 2012 // The independent insurance agent trade group, Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana Inc., announced a new slate of officers for 2012. They are: President James Mansfield, Mansfield Insurance Agency Inc., Lawrenceburg,...
Mar 7 2012 // Commercial and industrial landowners around northwest Indiana are redoubling efforts to market their parcels now that the economy has brightened from the recession’s dark days.Building activity may heat up this year,...