All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 13 2021 // Strong winds across Michigan caused tens of thousands of new electrical outages Saturday, Dec. 11 and frustrated efforts to repair widespread damage to power lines from overnight storms.Nearly 50,000 additional outages to...
Dec 10 2021 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) will offer free town hall events for consumers about auto insurance. The town halls will take play Dec. 14 at 6 p.m. and Dec. 15 at 12 p.m. via Zoom.The...
Dec 8 2021 // All Michigan drivers with auto insurance will receive a $400 per-vehicle refund next year. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and state regulators announced the dollar amount Tuesday, more than a month after she had requested the...
Dec 3 2021 // Residents complaining about foul odors from a sugar beet processor in Bay City have a lost a key decision at the Michigan Court of Appeals.Michigan Sugar, which turns beets into sugar, is accused of depriving people from...
Dec 2 2021 // Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer abandoned a lawsuit Tuesday, Nov. 30 aimed at shutting down an oil pipeline that runs through part of the Great Lakes but said the state would continue pursuing a separate case with the same...
Nov 29 2021 // A marijuana testing lab filed a lawsuit against Michigan regulators after a major product recall and allegations of unreliable results.Viridis Laboratories, with operations in Lansing and Bay City, said the...
Nov 24 2021 // At least one person died and two remained missing following a fire and explosion at a home in Michigan that damaged several adjacent homes and sent debris falling onto a neighborhood, authorities said.Fire Department...
Nov 22 2021 // Alera Group, an independent, national insurance and wealth management firm, has acquired Becker Insurance Agency, P.C., an independent insurance agency based in Portage, Michigan.Terms of the transaction were not...
Nov 18 2021 // A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and identity theft in a scheme to defraud nine states out of more than $1.6 million in unemployment insurance benefits, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima...
Nov 16 2021 // Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that drivers should save on average between 25-62% on the PIP medical portion of their auto policies compared to the previous year.The lower premiums continue a trend of declining...
Nov 15 2021 // U.S. auto safety regulators are looking into a complaint from a Tesla driver that the company’s “Full Self-Driving” software caused a crash.The driver was beta testing the “Full Self-Driving”...
Nov 12 2021 // A judge approved a $626 million deal to settle lawsuits filed by Flint residents who found their tap water contaminated by lead following disastrous decisions to switch the city’s water source and a failure to...
Nov 8 2021 // The state of Michigan said Nov. 4 it agreed pay $300,000 to settle wrongful discharge claims by the only employee who was fired as a result of lead-contaminated water in Flint.The deal with Liane Shekter Smith, who was...
Nov 5 2021 // All insured Michigan drivers will be getting refunds due to a $5 billion surplus in a fund that reimburses insurers medical and other costs for people seriously injured in crashes.The Michigan Catastrophic Fund...
Nov 1 2021 // Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called on the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association (MCCA) to return surplus funds to insured drivers in a Nov. 1 letter written to the nonprofit’s executive director R. Kevin...
Nov 1 2021 // A former contractor for the state of Michigan has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for helping orchestrate a $3.8 million fraud scheme involving money intended to help unemployed people during the coronavirus...
Oct 18 2021 // While lawmakers from various coastal states are decrying the new flood insurance rating system rolled out by FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) on Oct. 1, Michigan insurance regulators expect Risk Rating...
Oct 14 2021 // A Portland, Michigan, woman has pleaded guilty to filing fraudulent insurance claims totaling more than $135,000, state insurance regulators say.According to Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS)...
Oct 12 2021 // Fourteen people have been charged in conjunction with an insurance fraud and theft scheme uncovered by a joint investigation by the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) and the Ogemaw County...
Oct 12 2021 // Amynta Group, a provider of property/casualty and warranty protection products and services, hired Edward McNally as president of Amynta Dealer Solutions. He is based in Overland Park, Kansas.McNally brings more than 15...