All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 13 2025 // A jury has awarded more than $500,000 to five men from Guatemala who said they were exploited and underpaid by a labor contractor that brought them to Michigan to plant and harvest fruit and vegetables.Much of the verdict...
Jun 12 2025 // Michigan State University has reached settlements worth about $30 million with three students who survived a mass shooting in 2023, attorneys said Tuesday.Three students were killed and five more were wounded when a man...
Jun 11 2025 // Ryan Specialty announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of J.M. Wilson Corporation. JM Wilson is based in Michigan and its operations will become a part of RT Binding Authority, the...
Jun 9 2025 // A judge approved a deal Friday to try to solve a major buzzkill: Employees at a Michigan marijuana dispensary chain said management was keeping tips left by happy customers.Timber Cannabis, which has seven locations,...
May 30 2025 // ZestyAI announced that the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services has approved its severe convective storm suite.The approval comes as Michigan contends with rising weather-related insurance losses....
May 29 2025 // The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed appeals by families of students killed or wounded at Oxford High School in 2021, ending efforts to hold employees partly responsible for the mass shooting.Under Michigan...
May 14 2025 // A Michigan county has settled a lawsuit over an elected official who flashed a rifle during a COVID-19-era public meeting on Zoom.Patricia MacIntosh accused Ron Clous of trying to silence her right to free speech when he...
May 1 2025 // The Trump administration sued Michigan and Hawaii seeking to block the states from suing oil companies for damage caused by climate change, less than two months after the US Supreme Court rebuffed a Republican bid to...
Apr 25 2025 // Levi Dutcher Rockford Mutual Insurance Company (RMIC), headquartered in Rockford, Illinois, appointed Levi Dutcher as marketing representative for the states of Indiana and Michigan. Dutcher, based in Grand Rapids,...
Apr 21 2025 // ALKEME has announced its acquisition of Crawford Insurance Group (CIG), a highly regarded personal and commercial insurance agency headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Founded in 2001, CIG serves clients across a...
Apr 15 2025 // Hadron, an Arkansas-based carrier, announced its intent to acquire The Guarantee Company of North America USA (GCNA), a Michigan-domiciled insurance company, from Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company, a subsidiary of...
Apr 11 2025 // No contractors, no repair estimates, no haggling with the insurance company: After a tornado struck an Amish community in Michigan, the work was underway even before the National Weather Service could assess the...
Apr 10 2025 // Totalis Program Underwriters, an underwriting platform providing specialty expertise and solutions for challenging and underserved areas of the market. announced the acquisition of Brownyard MacLean Security Insurance...
Apr 7 2025 // Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan’s attorney general...
Apr 1 2025 // WTW announced the acquisition of Global Commercial Credit, LLC (GCC) into Willis, a WTW business. This strategic acquisition will accelerate performance by expanding into specialized businesses that align with the...
Mar 26 2025 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) is encouraging Michiganders to carefully review and understand their existing insurance policies with a licensed insurance agent or trusted advisor, and to...
Mar 24 2025 // Six related entities operating Taco Bell restaurants in Michigan violated federal law when they allowed a senior area manager to sexually harass female employees, including multiple teenage employees, he supervised, and...
Mar 18 2025 // The U.S. Department of Energy said on Monday it has disbursed $57 million of an up to $1.52 billion loan guarantee for Holtec’s Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, which the company hopes will be the first U.S....
Mar 13 2025 // Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan’s attorney general...
Mar 13 2025 // AM Best has placed under review with positive implications the Financial Strength Rating of C++ (Marginal) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “b” (Marginal) of Wolverine Mutual Insurance...