All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 28 2006 // Michigan insurance companies and HMOs would not have to provide health care benefits that conflict with the organization’s moral or religious mission under legislation passed this week by the state House.The...
Apr 28 2006 // According to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, what started as a life-insurance fraud scheme ended up as an execution. Michigan inmates Cameron Wade Sanders and Kevin Mykolaitis hatched a con while in prison to create...
Apr 27 2006 // Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan recently received an Exemplary Voluntary Efforts Award from the U.S. Department of Labor. Each year, the department presents EVE awards to federal contractors with exceptional equal...
Apr 27 2006 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America says that the Michigan Legislature is considering litigation reform regarding asbestos claims.According to Chicago-based PCI, Michigan has looked at the efforts of...
Apr 26 2006 // “Cover the Uninsured Week” was launched in southeast Michigan this week and sponsors released a new report with government data that confirmed there is a significant gap in Michigan in the amount of health care...
Apr 25 2006 // Trying to slow the growing health care costs of diabetes, the University of Michigan said this week that it will provide most diabetes medicines free to insured employees and their families who need the drugs.The program,...
Apr 21 2006 // A Grand Haven, Mich. woman has motivated the Michigan legislature to consider legislation regarding the theft of life saving equipment on beaches in the state.When a rip current grabbed hold of Vicki Cech’s son, Andy...
Apr 18 2006 // Michigan’s Attorney General Mike Cox recently announced that, after 17 years of being a fugitive from justice, Joel Edward Freedland, D.O., age 57, formerly of Franklin, Mich., voluntarily appeared before Judge...
Apr 14 2006 // Southfield, Mich.-based North Pointe Holdings Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company’s new independent auditors, replacing the firm of...
Apr 12 2006 // The Michigan Court of Appeals is considering whether governments and public universities can provide health insurance and other benefits to the partners of gay employees without violating the state constitution.Republican...
Apr 12 2006 // Attorney General Mike Cox announced today that Michigan, along with 48 other states, has reached a settlement with drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline involving the anti- depressant prescription drug, Paxil.GlaxoSmithKline...
Mar 31 2006 // A federal lawsuit filed against a Michigan state representative and three of his siblings accuses them of converting the proceeds of their father’s two life-insurance policies to their own use, thereby subverting tax...
Mar 28 2006 // Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and its HMO affiliate Blue Care Network are looking for outstanding volunteers who may be eligible to receive their annual community service awards.The eighth annual Caring for Children...
Mar 27 2006 // The Michigan Association of Insurance Agents praised the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association for its decision to lower its annual automobile assessment to $137.33 per vehicle, a decrease from last year’s...
Mar 27 2006 // Disaster Kleenup International, Inc., damage restoration contractors, today announced that Statewide Disaster Restoration, a DKI member company located in Southfield, Mich. was recently asked by ABC-TV’s Extreme...
Mar 20 2006 // Attorney General Mike Cox reported that American International Group Inc. and its subsidiaries (AIG) have paid more than $5.2 million to the state of Michigan, representing the underpayment, with interest, of...
Mar 8 2006 // The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) testified this week before the Michigan House Committee on Tort Reform, urging lawmakers to help the state retain its reputation as a leader in the national legal reform movement...
Mar 3 2006 // Attorney General Mike Cox reported Friday that American International Group Inc. and its subsidiaries (“AIG”) have paid more than $5.2 million to the State of Michigan, representing the underpayment, with...
Feb 28 2006 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services issued a statement this week saying that a consent order requiring the Western and Southern Life Insurance Company was issued requiring the companies make amends for...
Feb 19 2006 // SUA, American PatriotChicago-based Specialty Underwriters’ Alliance Inc. has signed a new contract with Westchester, Ill.-based American Patriot Insurance Agency Inc., a wholesale agency that specializes in roofing...