All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 22 2005 // The Michigan Legislature’s Joint Committee on Administrative Rules last week voted to object to the Granholm administration’s proposed rule that would ban credit-based insurance scoring and roll back base...
Jan 27 2005 // A proposal to more than double the tax burden on the state’s insurance industry announced by Governor Jennifer Granholm today will result in higher premiums for the insurance-buying consumer, the Insurance Institute...
Jan 25 2005 // Stevens Point, Wis.-based mutual Sentry Insurance has purchased ALF Insurance Agency of Michigan Inc. from Dennis Hoyes. ALF has consistently ranked as one of Sentry’s largest agencies for specialty auto policies....
Jan 24 2005 // Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services Commissioner Linda A. Watters named Andy Schor as the new public information officer. As PIO, Schor’s responsibilities will be to share the priorities and...
Jan 24 2005 // LANSING, Mich.–Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Office of Financial and Insurance Services Commissioner Linda A. Watters have sent a legislative panel a set of proposed rules to reduce base insurance rates and...
Jan 14 2005 // Insurance payers in Michigan soon may be paying less.Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Office of Financial and Insurance Services Commissioner Linda A. Watters said last Wednesday they sent a legislative panel a set of proposed...
Jan 10 2005 // A flushable toilet brush that warns users, “Do not use for personal hygiene” has been identified as the nation’s wackiest warning label in an annual contest sponsored by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch.The...
Dec 22 2004 // Former Michigan insurance regulator Frank Fitzgerald died this month at the age of 49. He was appointed commissioner of what would become the state’s Office of Financial and Insurance Services in 1999 before...
Dec 22 2004 // Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services Commissioner Linda A. Watters signed a settlement agreement with the three principal insurers of the UnumProvident Group, which are Unum Life Insurance Company of...
Dec 17 2004 // Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Friday announced that Michigan’s business climate will benefit from an expected drop in the Workers’ Compensation insurance rates by an average 11.2 percent in 2005. Granholm...
Dec 10 2004 // The Western Michigan chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society was awarded the gold designation in the national group’s Circle of Excellence program. The group won the award for the 2003-2004...
Dec 10 2004 // Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services Commissioner Linda A. Watters named Andy Schor as the new public information officer effective Monday. As PIO, Schor’s responsibilities will be to share the...
Dec 6 2004 // DaimlerChrysler AG’s Chrysler Group has sued insurers for refusing to cover losses the company sustained during the 2003 blackout.The outage–the worst in U.S. history–left millions of Michigan residents...
Nov 30 2004 // A new study by the Insurance Research Council (IRC) finds that claimed losses for auto injuries have escalated at vastly different rates across four states with no-fault auto insurance regulations. From 1997 to 2002, the...
Nov 24 2004 // DaimlerChrysler AG’s Chrysler Group has sued insurers for refusing to cover losses the company sustained during the 2003 blackout.The outage—the worst in U.S. history—left millions of Michigan residents without...
Nov 10 2004 // A bill reportedly designed to repeal Michigan’s mandatory motorcycle helmet law was passed by the State House of Representatives today (Nov. 10), in an apparent bid to take advantage of a lame duck legislature...
Nov 9 2004 // The conservative Michigan Supreme Court’s balance remains 5-2 in favor of Republican nominees, and insurers, after voters re-elected two incumbents.As expected, Democratic nominee Marilyn Kelly and Republican nominee...
Oct 25 2004 // Chicago-based insurance industry investment banker Cochran, Caronia & Co. has named William Hickey its chief operating officer. Hickey is responsible for spearheading the firm’s strategic planning initiatives...
Oct 20 2004 // Many consumers will pay more for home and auto insurance if a state-proposed rule to ban the use of credit-based insurance scoring discounts in Michigan becomes effective next year, a lobbyist for the state’s...
Oct 11 2004 // A Michigan court of appeals was correct in its determination that no–fault insurers have the right to review medical bills, and to pay lesser amounts if they deem any procedures to be unreasonable or unnecessary, the...