All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 25 2025 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services this week announced the suspension of two title insurance agents after an investigation found they allegedly mismanaged customers’ escrow funds.DIFS...
Jul 15 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a lawsuit against Hummingbird Construction Co., LLC and its owner, Matthew Ashline, for allegedly scamming multiple customers by accepting deposits for construction projects...
Jul 10 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a $4.5 million settlement with six Detroit-area nursing homes and their ownership companies, Villa Financial Services LLC and Villa Olympia Investment LLC, over allegations...
Jul 7 2025 // A Michigan lawmaker has proposed legislation that would mandate auto insurance premium reductions of at least 10% on any new or renewed policy, a bill that the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) says...
Jun 30 2025 // Jeffrey Bell watched as crews dug up and replaced neighbors’ lead water pipes, hoping his mother’s house would be next. Workers told him it wasn’t on their list but probably assigned to another...
Jun 27 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a settlement agreement with Domtar Industries, LLC and E.B. Eddy Paper, Inc. (together, Domtar) to address releases of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at the...
Jun 27 2025 // A group is ending a 20-year search for a plane that crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950, killing all 58 people on board, after sweeping the vast body of water using sonar technology and even getting support from an...
Jun 26 2025 // The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a 14-year-old student who said a teacher humiliated her for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in protest of U.S. support of...
Jun 20 2025 // Navitas Systems, LLC, an Ann Arbor, Michigan battery manufacturer, will pay $95,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal...
Jun 17 2025 // A Michigan lawmaker has proposed legislation that would mandate auto insurance premium reductions of at least 10% on any new or renewed policy, a bill that the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) says...
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...