Latest Michigan Headlines

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High Street Acquires Michigan’s The Craft Agency

Feb 23 2022 // High Street Insurance Partners has acquired The Craft Agency in Jackson, Michigan. The Craft Agency has been serving their clients for 100 years and provides comprehensive personal lines, commercial and life insurance...

Equipment Failure Sends Raw Sewage Into Michigan’s Flint River

Feb 23 2022 // Officials have issued a health advisory for the Flint area after equipment failed at a municipal pumping station, sending an unknown amount of raw sewage into the Flint River.Genesee County Health Department officials...

Indiana Steel Mill to Pay $3 Million, Improve Waste System

Feb 16 2022 // A steel company has agreed to pay $3 million and improve the wastewater system at an Indiana mill, more than two years after a discharge of ammonia and toxic chemicals killed fish and closed beaches, the federal government...

Flint, Michigan Water Crisis Trial Will Test Contractors’ Liability

Feb 15 2022 // Jury selection starts Feb. 15 in a trial to determine if engineering contractors bear responsibility for lead-contaminated water in Flint.Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, known as LAN, were not part...

Program in Michigan Targeting Basement Flooding from Storms

Feb 14 2022 // Detroit is starting a program to reduce chronic basement flooding during intense storms.The program initially will target two neighborhoods and later expand to others, Mayor Mike Duggan said. The strategy follows major...

Judge Awards $40 Million to Lawyers in Flint, Michigan Water Settlement

Feb 8 2022 // A judge awarded about $40 million to the lead attorneys in a $626 million settlement for Flint residents and property owners whose water was contaminated with lead, but millions in additional legal fees will also be carved...

Michigan Fire Deaths Rose 144% in January

Feb 7 2022 // Michigan’s fire-related deaths rose significantly in January as the state began 2022 with 144% more deadly fires than it saw during the same month last year, officials said.Michigan’s Bureau of Fire Services...

Business Moves

Feb 7 2022 // Marsh McLennan, Affinity AgencyAssociation Member Benefits Advisors, a national affinity-based membership and marketing insurance agency, has agreed to acquire the associations business of Mercer, a business of Marsh...

Declarations

Feb 7 2022 // “In these five years, PG&E has gone on a crime spree and will emerge from probation as a continuing menace to California.”— U.S. District Judge William Alsup said the utility poised to emerge from...

AM Best Assigns Michigan’s Universal & Fire Casualty Excellent Rating

Feb 2 2022 // AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) to Universal Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, headquartered in Waterford,...

Former U. of Michigan Students’ Lawsuit Accuses Ex-Professor of Sexual Misconduct

Feb 2 2022 // Students of a former University of Michigan lecturer recounted stories of alleged sexual assault, psychological torture and university negligence Monday before filing a lawsuit against the professor and the school.On a...

Michigan Farm’s Beef Found to Contain Toxic Chemicals

Feb 1 2022 // Beef produced at a small Michigan farm was found to contain toxic “forever chemicals” after the cattle were fed crops grown with fertilizer made from contaminated wastewater biosolids, state officials said Jan....

New Lawsuit Alleges Negligence by Michigan School in Mass Shooting

Jan 28 2022 // A new lawsuit alleging negligence by school officials and a Michigan school shooting suspect’s parents was filed Thursday over the attack at Oxford High School that killed four students and wounded six other students...

Michigan Woman Sentenced For Committing $15,000 in Auto Insurance Fraud

Jan 28 2022 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) Director Anita Fox announced that a Michigan resident who pled guilty to auto insurance fraud has been sentenced to...

Alera Group Acquires Gales Agency in Michigan

Jan 27 2022 // Alera Group has acquired Gales Agency,Inc., an independent insurance agency providing a full line of insurance products including home, business, auto and life insurance policies to protect families. Gales Agency, Inc.,...

Abuse Victims View Settlement Payouts as Unequal at Two Michigan Schools

Jan 26 2022 // Two former University of Michigan football stars who stand to receive as much as $500,000 each through the school’s sexual abuse settlement with more than 1,000 students say the per-victim payouts should be much...

Victims of U. of Michigan Doctor Could Sue School Under New Bill

Jan 24 2022 // More than 1,000 sexual abuse victims of a University of Michigan sports doctor would get a window in which they could sue the school for damages under new bills the Legislature will consider.It is the second time since...

Latest Michigan School Sex Abuse Case One of a Number

Jan 21 2022 // A financial payout for more than 1,000 people — mostly men —who say they were sexually assaulted by former University of Michigan sports doctor Robert Anderson is the latest multimillion settlement involving schools...

U. of Michigan Reaches $490M Settlement Over Sexual Abuse

Jan 20 2022 // The University of Michigan has agreed to a $490 million settlement with more than 1,000 people who say they were sexually assaulted by a former sports doctor during his nearly four-decade career at the school, the...

Michigan House Fire Leaves 2 Dead, 5 Injured, 1 Missing

Jan 19 2022 // Two men died and five people were injured early Monday in a fire at a multi-family dwelling in Pontiac, authorities said.Eleven adults were in the home when the fire was reported around 2:44 a.m., Oakland County...