All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 12 2018 // A Michigan company is suing AM General, alleging the vehicle manufacturer owes more than $3 million for contract work at its northern Indiana plant.Michigan-based Allied Industrial Group’s original contract called...
Mar 9 2018 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) issued a Cease and Desist Order against Darryl Dionyus Cook of Warren, Michigan, for unlicensed insurance activity.The department said Cook violated the...
Mar 7 2018 // A woman’s fall at a holiday party has reached the Michigan Supreme Court, which could use the case to clarify the responsibilities of property owners when they welcome guests to their home.The court heard arguments...
Mar 1 2018 // A former firefighter who confessed to lighting seven structures on fire in Michigan will spend at least six years in prison.Kyle David Norden, 40, was sentenced Monday in Van Buren County Circuit Court to six to 20 years...
Feb 27 2018 // The death toll rose to at least five on Sunday after severe thunderstorms swept through the central U.S., spawning a tornado that flattened homes, gale force winds and widespread flooding from the Upper Midwest to...
Feb 23 2018 // Shelters have been opened to assist people forced from their homes by flooding in the Midwest, as rivers swollen by heavy rain and melting snow continue to rise in Indiana, Michigan and other states.Flood warnings were in...
Feb 22 2018 // Sandbags were holding back floodwaters in parts of Michigan as a storm system moved across several Midwest and Great Plains states on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain, snow and ice to the region.The weather has already been...
Feb 5 2018 // Outlooks Positive: Northwest G.F. Mutual Insurance Co.A.M. Best revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of...
Feb 1 2018 // Officials are working to ensure safety along a busy stretch of Interstate 696 in the Detroit area following reports of vehicles being damaged by concrete that may have been loosed by fluctuating winter temperatures. A $90...
Jan 29 2018 // Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette lashed out at Michigan State University on Jan. 27 for allowing Larry Nassar to sexually abuse girls and women for years, and he took a shot at the school’s governing...
Jan 23 2018 // Experienced lawyers and insurance professionals David Kramer and Theodore Nittis have launched Gemini Risk Partners as an independent professional liability insurance brokerage in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The firm will...
Jan 22 2018 // Michigan State University has agreed to allow white nationalist Richard Spencer to speak on campus during spring break.The deal says Spencer can appear on March 5, but he’ll be at the livestock pavilion auditorium,...
Jan 22 2018 // A dispute over four words will cost an insurance company about $200,000.A federal appeals court in Michigan has ruled in favor of a man in the Grand Rapids area who suffered serious injuries during a motorbike crash in...
Jan 19 2018 // A.M. Best has upgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “bbb+” from “bbb” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B++ (Good) of Wolverine Mutual Insurance Co....
Jan 18 2018 // Michigan officials say state businesses are expected to pay less into a fund providing temporary benefits to eligible jobless residents. The Talent Investment Agency said in a release that unemployment insurance tax rates...
Jan 10 2018 // London-based broker Beach & Associates announced Acrisure LLC has agreed to acquire 100 percent of the company’s equity from existing shareholders.These shareholders include Aquiline Capital Partners, a private...
Jan 4 2018 // A dispute over four words will cost an insurance company about $200,000.A federal appeals court in Michigan has ruled in favor of a man in the Grand Rapids area who suffered serious injuries during a motorbike crash in...
Dec 29 2017 // Trade secrets and Hippos, lawsuits and tragedies.The news for 2017 didn’t seem to be dominated by a single trend or sole event, but in an ever-fractured media world that must try and cater to short attention spans...
Dec 28 2017 // The state of Michigan is trying to stop a court order that prevents officials from suspending the driver’s licenses of people who can’t afford traffic fines. Lawyers representing the secretary of state have...
Dec 20 2017 // A.M. Best has removed from under review with negative implications and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “bbb” of Birmingham,...