All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 16 2017 // Legislation to reduce Michigan’s high auto insurance premiums by letting drivers opt out of mandatory unlimited medical coverage is in peril, with majority Republicans lacking enough support to pass it on their own...
Oct 12 2017 // Chicago-based international insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of Marwil & Associates LLC (Marwil & Associates) in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Terms of the acquisition were...
Oct 2 2017 // The Michigan Supreme Court is looking into a case of hot coals.The case concerns a 10-year-old girl who burned her foot on hot coals that couldn’t be seen under sand, a day after a Lake Michigan bonfire. In a 3-0...
Oct 2 2017 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited (HUB) named Marc Cohen, currently president, as president and chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1, 2018. He also will be a member of the board of directors.Cohen will...
Sep 29 2017 // The Michigan Supreme Court is taking a swing at a golf cart dispute.The justices want to hear more about a golfer who was accidentally struck by a cart at Farmington Hills Golf Club in 2013. Ken Bertin and Doug Mann were...
Sep 27 2017 // Michigan drivers would no longer be required to buy unlimited medical insurance to cover serious crash injuries under legislation that high-ranking supporters proposed Tuesday to significantly reduce the country’s...
Sep 27 2017 // The Michigan Supreme Court is looking at the case of the hot coals.A 10-year-old girl burned her foot on hot coals that couldn’t be seen under sand, a day after a Lake Michigan bonfire. The state appeals court said...
Sep 24 2017 // A judge dismissed a $100 million lawsuit against Little Caesars Pizza that alleged that pork was sold as “halal pepperoni” at a restaurant in a Detroit suburb that has a large Muslim population.Wayne County...
Sep 24 2017 // ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co. and ISMIE Indemnity, based in Chicago, announced the companies are expanding service and product offerings in Michigan. Having operated in Michigan for many years, with a recent updated rate...
Sep 21 2017 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) has named Lansing, Mich.-based Auto-Owners Insurance Co. as recipient of its 2017 Company Award of Excellence.“Auto-Owners is highly deserving of this,...
Sep 18 2017 // A group defending Michigan’s auto insurance system says it has uncovered instances of insurers illegally selling more expensive policies to women and widowed drivers, raising questions about state oversight of rating...
Sep 14 2017 // Michigan investigators and out-of-state police are tracking down more than 30 recalled diesel vehicles that were stolen from the parking lot of a shuttered arena in southeastern Michigan.Indiana State Police Sgt. Jerry...
Sep 11 2017 // A group defending Michigan’s auto insurance system says it has uncovered instances of insurers illegally selling more expensive policies to women and widowed drivers, raising questions about state oversight of rating...
Sep 8 2017 // Any proposal to automatically cut premiums for Michigan drivers would be “dead” on arrival in the Republican-led Senate, Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof said, bringing into question lawmakers’ long-sought...
Sep 6 2017 // Tom Humphreys, director of the Risk Management and Insurance Center at Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan, has been appointed to the Michigan Auto Insurance Placement Facility’s board of governors. Humphreys, who...
Sep 5 2017 // Hylant, based in Toledo, Ohio, has entered into a strategic partnership with Pinkney-Perry Insurance Agency Inc., one of the oldest and largest minority-owned insurance agencies in Ohio, and Camryn Insurance Service LLC, a...
Sep 4 2017 // The insurance community has at least two reasons to be interested in a new report on middle market companies, particularly those who are doing business in California.According to a report from American Express and Dun...
Aug 21 2017 // Self-driving cars will begin taking test laps this December on the site of a famous World War II airplane factory in Michigan where Rosie the Riveter helped produce a shiny B-24 Liberator bomber every hour more than seven...
Aug 17 2017 // The insurance community has at least two reasons to be interested in a new report on middle market companies, particularly those who are doing business in California.According to a report released this week from American...
Aug 17 2017 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker, J.M. Wilson, has added Mitchell Bailey as assistant transportation underwriter in its Portage, Michigan, office. Bailey is responsible for quoting new and renewal...