All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 23 2004 // The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2000 census estimated the Michigan’s population at almost 10 million. About 83 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 22 percent had earned a...
Feb 20 2004 // A bill aimed at protecting consumers that passed last session by the Michigan Senate is “fatally flawed” and has the potential to disrupt core business functions in the state by guarding the use of Social...
Feb 16 2004 // Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) Commissioner Linda A. Watters has launched the second phase of her investigation into rising home and auto rates in Michigan.Commissioner Watters issued a letter...
Feb 12 2004 // Auto insurance rates for Michigan policyholders rose slower than the national average in 2003, according to the Insurance Institute of Michigan (IIM). Michigan’s auto insurance rates increased an average of 7 percent...
Jan 28 2004 // The more than 100 homeowners insurance carriers that operate in Michigan are already gathering rating information recently requested by the governor and the Michigan Office of Financial Insurance Services (OFIS)...
Jan 26 2004 // An ever increasing number of insurance companies are using your personal credit information—like billing history, the number of credit cards you have, and even the number of credit checks made by businesses offering you...
Jan 21 2004 // Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) Commissioner Linda Watters has launched the first phase of her investigation into rising home and auto rates in Michigan. Watters issued a letter of inquiry to...
Jan 6 2004 // The Michigan bureaucrat who oversees the regulation of insurance named a new chief of staff shortly before Christmas. Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) Commissioner Linda A. Watters named Ken Ross as her...
Dec 3 2003 // Michigan Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm and Office of Financial and Insurance Services Commissioner Linda A. Watters said in a statement they will investigate home and auto insurance rates in the state to determine if consumers...
Nov 5 2003 // Brookfield, Wis.-based insurance software-maker Fiserv Inc. has acquired MI-Assistant Software Inc. — a rating and automation product provider to insurance agents and companies in the Midwest — as part of its plan to...
Oct 23 2003 // The Michigan Supreme Court refused to review an Appellate Court decision in the case of Sprague v. Farmers that clarifies the cost savings function of the state’s coordination of benefits provision. However, the...
Oct 3 2003 // Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, dropped a plan to form a new workers’ compensation appeals commission after heated complaints from the state’s business community that the panel would be tilted...
Sep 24 2003 // The Michigan Retailers Association (MRA) urged state lawmakers to reject an executive order reorganizing departments because it jeopardizes the workers’ compensation system.In testimony presented to the House...
Sep 19 2003 // The Hartford Financial Services Group announced the appointment of Alan J. Kreczko as senior vice president and deputy general counsel. In this new position, Kreczko will supervise the company’s property &...
Sep 15 2003 // Auto insurance rates in Michigan have increased an average of 7 percent so far in 2003, according to the Insurance Institute of Michigan (IIM). Nationally, auto insurance costs are expected to rise 8.5 percent this...
Sep 15 2003 // Michael Sarafa, president of the Associated Food Dealers of Michigan, is reportedly calling on Michigan’s Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) and the State Legislature to look into practices of...
Aug 13 2003 // In an effort to decrease the number of uninsured drivers from the more than 1.1 million motorists without insurance, Gov. Jennifer Granholm will work with Michigan’s Secretary of State to upgrade the state’s...
Jul 16 2003 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS), which regulates insurance, launched a consolidated ‘Licensing’ section on its web site for its insurance, securities and consumer finance...
Jul 8 2003 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services today released complaint ratios for insurance companies in Michigan—the information is available here. Individual company information is also available by calling...
Jun 13 2003 // Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) Commissioner Linda A. Watters today issued the 2003 Buyers’ Guide to Auto Insurance in Michigan.The guide, which is an annual survey of automobile insurance...