All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2020 // Ohio State reached an unspecified settlement with nearly half of the roughly 350 men who say they were sexually abused decades ago by a team doctor who was jokingly known among some athletes by nicknames like “Dr....
Mar 6 2020 // Three former athletes at the University of Michigan have filed lawsuits against the school, alleging that a late doctor sexually assaulted them while the men were members of the football and hockey teams in the 1980s.The...
Mar 5 2020 // J.M. Wilson has promoted Kyle Bryson, to senior transportation underwriter in its Portage, Michigan, office. Bryson is responsible for quoting new and renewal Non-Fleet Trucking (1-10 units) and serving independent...
Feb 27 2020 // J.M. Wilson has added Kim Pov as an assistant property/casualty underwriter in its Madison, Wisconsin, office.Pov is responsible for assisting underwriters on a wide variety of property and casualty risks, as well as...
Feb 14 2020 // The Auto Club Group (ACG) and AAA Carolinas have merged and combined operations, it was announced last month.With North and South Carolina part of The Auto Club Group family, the company now serves more than 13.5 million...
Feb 10 2020 // AM Best has downgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) to “a” from “a+” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) of Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Atain...
Feb 7 2020 // Michigan’s top insurance regulator said the state is committed to helping drivers navigate a new law that will let motorists save money by foregoing unlimited medical coverage for crash injuries.The state Department...
Feb 6 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has added Michigan to the list of states where the insurer offers its Commercial Package Policy.The product includes commercial property featuring limits up to $120 million per...
Feb 5 2020 // J.M. Wilson has hired Andy Knibloe, as an assistant transportation underwriter in its Portage, Michigan, office.Knibloe is responsible for assisting underwriters on a wide variety of transportation risks, quoting new and...
Feb 3 2020 // A school district in Michigan has been ordered to reinstate one employee and pay a total of $102,905.78 in back wages, damages and other compensation in a whistleblower case.The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Jan 30 2020 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a” of Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co. (Amerisure...
Jan 28 2020 // A southeastern Michigan hospital system said that a now-fired employee accessed and shared what was supposed to be protected personal and health information of more than 1,000 patients with someone affiliated with a...
Jan 23 2020 // A food production company based in Chesterfield Township, Mich., will pay $125,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, federal officials said.According to the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Jan 16 2020 // Michigan on Jan. 14 sued 3M, DuPont and other companies for financial damages from contamination caused by potentially harmful “forever” chemicals that are turning up in drinking water across the industrial...
Jan 10 2020 // A federal judge declined for now to compel a Michigan-based health system to advance legal costs for a doctor’s defense against murder charges in the deaths of 25 Ohio hospital patients.U.S. District Judge George...
Jan 9 2020 // J.M. Wilson has added Rebecca Taylor as an accounting assistant in its Portage, Michigan, office.Taylor is responsible for supporting the accounting team in numerous ways. Her role includes processing and recording...
Jan 7 2020 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage based in Chicago, has acquired the assets of Cranbrook Bloomfield Insurance Agency LLC (CBIA) in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.Terms of the transaction were not...
Jan 6 2020 // A group that insures local governments across Iowa is going to court to try to block the state auditor from reviewing its spending, including on board members’ travel to out-of-state vacation destinations.The Iowa...
Jan 2 2020 // The expanding legalization of marijuana in Midwest states captured the attention of Insurance Journal readers last year. Illinois became the 11th state to legalize recreational cannabis when Gov. J.B. Pritzker in June 2019...
Dec 31 2019 // Police in Battle Creek, Michigan are enforcing a local ban on the use of a handheld phone while driving.The prohibition has been on the books for months, but signs recently went up at Battle Creek’s city entry...