All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 14 2008 // A jury has found a hospital liable in an 11-month-old boy’s beating death and ordered hospital officials to pay $400,000 in damages to the boy’s relatives.Six jurors deliberated more than eight hours before...
Mar 10 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...
Mar 6 2008 // The Indiana General Assembly recently passed a ban on accident response fees and Washington-based the American Insurance Association urged Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) to sign the bill.“A fundamental purpose of government,...
Feb 20 2008 // Indiana doctors and hospitals will catch a break on the rates they pay to support a malpractice payout fund starting next month. But the deal probably won’t translate into lower patient bills.Patient’s...
Feb 14 2008 // This winter’s flooding has prompted state insurance regulators to require a training course for agents selling flood coverage.Those already selling insurance will have to take a continuing-education course of at...
Feb 7 2008 // The 23-year-old son of Morgan County Sheriff Robert Garner has been sentenced to one year in prison on arson charges. Robert Jake Garner pleaded guilty in September to five charges in a series of suspicious fires since...
Jan 25 2008 // J. Scott Penny, regional executive vice president of Brown & Brown, Inc. and Kevin Mandrell and William Lantrip, principals of Diversified Insurance Brokerage Group, Inc. of Indianapolis, Ind. recently announced the...
Jan 25 2008 // Governor Mitch Daniels is requesting federal assistance for people affected by flooding earlier this month in northern Indiana.Daniels declared a disaster emergency in the area on Wednesday and sent a letter to President...
Jan 22 2008 // Flooding in Indiana earlier this month destroyed at least 184 homes and damaged as many as 700 others, the American Red Cross said Friday.The relief agency said more than 100 other homes were still inaccessible because of...
Jan 7 2008 // Schererville, Ind.-based Skelton & Carnegie Insurance Specialty Corp. recently merged with All Sure Co. and will operate as Skelton, Carnegie & Hitzeman.The two principals, James M. Skelton and Larry R. Hitzeman,...
Dec 19 2007 // A former plant worker who pleaded guilty to setting a fire at a magnesium recycling company has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.Darrin Dettra, 41, of Chesterfield, admitted setting the January 2005 fire that caused...
Dec 14 2007 // ndiana Department of Insurance (IDOI) Commissioner Jim Atterholt recently announced that Patient’s Compensation Fund (PCF) surcharge rates will be reduced by 19.1 percent for physicians and 1.3 percent for hospitals...
Dec 11 2007 // Liberty Mutual Agency Markets recently announced that senior special investigator Barbara Parker was honored by the National Society of Professional Insurance Investigators (NSPII) with the 2007 F. Lee Brininger Award,...
Dec 6 2007 // Two Indiana volunteer firefighters are charged with setting fires in abandoned buildings in northern Hamilton County.Adam B. Sampson, 21, of Tipton is charged with three counts of arson, two counts of burglary and two...
Nov 29 2007 // A former plant worker has pleaded guilty to setting a fire at a magnesium recycling company that caused some $12 million in damage.In return for Darrin K. Dettra’s guilty plea to arson resulting in bodily injury,...
Nov 21 2007 // Indiana Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, has been named the 2007 Company of the Year by the Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana (IIAI), an honor that the company also received in 2006.The IIAI Company of...
Nov 20 2007 // Indiana-based Old National Insurance recently announced the addition of John Robinson as chief marketing officer. In his new position, Robinson will oversee marketing and related sales support and planning activities for...
Nov 16 2007 // Selective Insurance Group, Inc., a holding company for seven property and casualty insurance companies, announced today that its principal operating subsidiary, Selective Insurance Company of America, is establishing a new...
Nov 13 2007 // A weekend fire that caused extensive damage to the Martin County, prosecutor’s office has been ruled an arson, Indiana State Police said Sunday.The fire was discovered about 8:05 p.m. Saturday by two juveniles who...
Nov 4 2007 // A Portage, Ind., woman who pleaded guilty to stealing $250,000 in life insurance money after her son died in Iraq was sentenced to eight years of probation.Janie Lee Espinoza admitted taking her son’s life insurance...