All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 11 2006 // Health insurers and HMOs in Michigan could offer financial incentives to smaller employers that want to reward workers for healthy behavior under legislation passed unanimously May 9 in the state Senate.Supporters of the...
May 9 2006 // Fremont Michigan InsuraCorp Inc. a Michigan-based provider of property and casualty insurance, announced first-quarter 2006 operating results including its wholly owned subsidiary, Fremont Insurance Company, highlighted by...
May 8 2006 // Mich. fugitive convicted of health care fraud, sent back to jail after 17 years Michigan’s Attorney General Mike Cox recently announced that, after 17 years of being a fugitive from justice, Joel Edward Freedland,...
May 8 2006 // Insurers who support the bills now being considered in Michigan say that with reform, resources could be properly allocated to those who are truly ill, and that courts won’t be overburdened with cases that often seek...
May 8 2006 // Mich. fugitive convicted of health care fraud, sent back to jail after 17 yearsMichigan’s Attorney General Mike Cox recently announced that, after 17 years of being a fugitive from justice, Joel Edward Freedland,...
May 5 2006 // Southfield, Mich.-based North Pointe Holdings Corp. today announced that it has received an endorsement from the Roller Skating Association International, a not-for profit organization representing approximately 1,000...
May 4 2006 // Cleveland-based Oswald Companies announced it is acquiring another longstanding Midwest market leader Poyle Associates, located in the Detroit suburbs. The Cleveland-based risk expert and insurance brokerage will now serve...
May 2 2006 // The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Board of Directors recently re-elected Greg Sudderth of Gladstone in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to his fifth year as board chair, and re-elected John M. MacKeigan, M.D., of...
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...