All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 27 2007 // Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group finalized its acquisition of Ohio Casualty Corp. on Friday, Aug. 24, 2007 and immediately announced a realignment of its $5.9 billion net premium regional agency company organization to...
Aug 27 2007 // Indiana insurance agent Ron Smith has been playing golf since he could “breathe.” His father loved the game. His brothers love the game. His entire family loves the game. So it’s no surprise that Smith,...
Aug 20 2007 // All in the family: Hoosiers pride themselves on safety and loss prevention practices of a family owned golf courseIndiana insurance agent Ron Smith has been playing golf since he could “breathe.” His father...
Aug 20 2007 // Indiana insurance agent Ron Smith has been playing golf since he could “breathe.” His father loved the game. His brothers love the game. His entire family loves the game. So it’s no surprise that Smith,...
Aug 15 2007 // More than 100 people across Indiana suffered injuries from fireworks during the week of July Fourth, according to a State Department of Health report.Indiana hospitals treated 156 people for fireworks-related injuries from...
Aug 14 2007 // Indiana transportation officials closed a bridge that connects two northern Indiana highways and passes over a commuter rail line after an inspection revealed potential safety problems.Officials closed the Indiana 212...
Aug 14 2007 // A leading supplier of toiletries for hotels and resorts said Monday it was recalling worldwide complimentary tubes of toothpaste made in China after tests showed some may contain a potentially toxic chemical.It was the...
Aug 10 2007 // Bob Knight isn’t entitled to collect insurance to recoup money he paid to settle a lawsuit stemming from his 1999 confrontation with a former assistant at Indiana University, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled on...
Jul 31 2007 // A Portage, Ind., woman who had pleaded guilty to stealing $250,000 in life insurance money after her son died in Iraq was scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 17.Janie Lee Espinoza’s son, Army Spc. Roy Buckley, died...
Jul 30 2007 // Next year’s federal Vioxx trials may focus on people who had strokes after taking the once popular painkiller, the judge assigned to handle pretrial matters in all 8,575 federal lawsuits said last Friday.“We...
Jul 23 2007 // The blueprint for the company was originally conceived by an ad hoc task force of senior executive officers from several mutual property/casualty insurance companies in response to the liability insurance crisis of the...
Jul 23 2007 // Federal investigators said that “epoxy creep” was a major factor in the Big Dig accident one year ago that killed a Boston woman when concrete tunnel ceiling panels fell and crushed her car.Investigators with...
Jul 23 2007 // U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $2.175 billion for second-quarter property losses resulting from a total of six catastrophes in 25 states — tying the record...
Jul 19 2007 // A Johnson County, Ind. judge will hold a bench trial for Morgan County Sheriff Robert Garner’s 23-year-old son, who faces arson and other charges.Robert Jake Garner faces 19 felony counts, including eight counts of...
Jul 12 2007 // Troy, Ohio-based Hylant Group, Inc. and Dayton, Ohio-based Norman-Spencer McKernan, Inc. have received the 2006 Chairman’s Award, which is presented to the highest performing insurance agencies appointed with Indiana...
Jul 12 2007 // Insurance and fraud groups are inviting insurance professionals to a half-day Insurance Fraud Seminar scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 28, at the Indiana Government Center. The event is hosted by the Insurance Institute of...
Jul 5 2007 // Unhealthy habits could cost Clarian Health employees a healthy chunk of money as the company tries to rein in rising health care costs.Starting in 2009, Clarian will begin charging workers extra for insurance if they let...
Jul 2 2007 // Indiana Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group and an insurer of schools throughout the Midwest, and Cardiac Science Corp., a global leader in advanced cardiac monitoring and defibrillation products, announced today...
Jun 26 2007 // Indiana lawmakers decided that smokers will pay more to puff and almost everyone will be required to wear seat belts under dozens of new state laws that take effect on June 24.Legislators raised the cigarette tax for the...
Jun 20 2007 // An 11-year-old girl whose family says she became ill after eating peanut butter contaminated with salmonella received a kidney donated by her father on Monday (June 18).Krystina Brugh and her father, John Brugh Jr., were...