All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 9 2020 // A non-profit health care system based in Saginaw, Mich., will pay $104,707 and provide other relief to settle a federal gender wage discrimination lawsuit.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in...
Sep 9 2020 // Another federal court has dismissed a COVID-19 business interruption lawsuit, finding that a closure order does not constitute a covered “direct physical loss” and that the policy excluded damages caused by...
Sep 8 2020 // Hagerty, based in Traverse City, Mich., has hired Kevin Rabinowitz to lead its Insurance Partners Group.Working under Hagerty’s Senior Vice President of North American Markets Jack Butcher, Rabinowitz will be...
Sep 8 2020 // Berkley One has launched its Collector Vehicle product in Minnesota and and made rating enhancements to its coverage in Michigan.Berkley has provided collector vehicle owners coverage since 1974 and most recently...
Sep 3 2020 // In late August, the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) issued a round of COVID-19 “general duty” citations, citing six different businesses with serious violations for failing to...
Aug 25 2020 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services has adjusted the amount of the maximum work loss benefit and survivors’ loss benefits payable under personal protection insurance policies for the coming...
Aug 24 2020 // A magnitude 3.2 earthquake occurred on Aug. 21 near Monroe in the southeastern corner of Michigan, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The depth was about 5.7 miles (9.17 kilometers). The earthquake was felt in the Detroit...
Aug 21 2020 // A federal judge in Texas has dismissed an independent insurance agency from a lawsuit brought by a Dallas restaurant group seeking reimbursement for business income losses stemming from the civil authority enforced...
Aug 21 2020 // A proposed $600 million deal between the state of Michigan and residents of the impoverished, majority-Black city of Flint who were harmed by lead-tainted water is a step toward making amends for a disaster that upended...
Aug 20 2020 // Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said that her administration is assessing the risk of reopening Michigan businesses that have been closed for five months under her orders to curb the spread of the coronavirus, saying she will have...
Aug 20 2020 // Michigan’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is making data on programs related to weather conditions available to farmers. The Geographic Information System viewer allows the agency to take different...
Aug 19 2020 // A Michigan city and a business group have agreed to pay $40,000 to settle a lawsuit over the handcuffing of a 7-year-old boy at an after-school program in 2015.The boy, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, had...
Aug 16 2020 // A federal judge has agreed with an insurer that a group of barbershops in the San Antonio, Texas-area have no basis for claims seeking coverage under their commercial insurance policies for business interruption losses...
Aug 14 2020 // High Street Insurance Partners (High Street), a portfolio company of the private equity firm Huron Capital, has acquired Capital Insurance Group (CIG), headquartered in Bloomfield, Michigan.CIG primarily sells commercial...
Aug 13 2020 // Brown & Brown of Michigan Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all the assets of Buiten & Associates, located in Grand Rapids, Mich.Since 1935, Buiten & Associates has...
Aug 13 2020 // Lansing, Michigan-based Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, a national provider of workers’ compensation insurance, has granted $3.5 million in early dividend payments to policyholder groups that achieved...
Aug 12 2020 // Finally, there is good reason to believe Michigan will drop the infamous distinction of being the one of the most expensive states in the country in which to insure a vehicle. As of July 2, the state’s drivers now...
Aug 7 2020 // The insurance industry has notched another victory in its defense of its commercial insurance policies against claims for business interruption due to the coronavirus.In a case brought by the owner of several restaurants...
Aug 3 2020 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Troy, Mich.-based Colburn Group Insurance.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. All of the agency’s team members, including Harry Colburn, chairman, and Pamela Haron, president,...
Aug 3 2020 // Flint residents whose health and homes were harmed by lead-contaminated water scored a legal milestone on July 29 when the Michigan Supreme Court said they could proceed with a lawsuit against public officials for the...