All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 20 2017 // The Michigan Court of Appeals has reversed the ruling of a trial court in a case involving whether a commercial insurer or a personal insurer is responsible for paying no-fault personal injury protection benefits when a...
Jun 19 2017 // The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a Detroit-area man who is seeking insurance benefits for injuries suffered when he got out of his pickup truck.Daniel Kemp tore a calf muscle while stretching on his tiptoes...
Jun 19 2017 // Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Amerisure Insurance has promoted Chris Spaude to vice president of finance. In this position, Spaude directly reports to Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Matt Simon.Spaude will be...
Jun 15 2017 // Five people, including the head of Michigan’s health department, were charged with involuntary manslaughter in an investigation of Flint’s lead-contaminated water, all blamed in the death of an 85-year-old man...
Jun 12 2017 // Adequacy of income benefits is one of the long-standing concerns about the performance of workers’ compensation systems. However, there is little known about whether income benefits (also called wage-loss or...
Jun 8 2017 // Property/casualty insurance broker, Keystone Insurers Group (Keystone), has appointed Mark Maurer as its state vice president in Michigan. Maurer recently was vice president at Arlington/Roe. While there he established an...
Jun 8 2017 // Rolling Meadows, Illinois-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Ann Arbor, Michigan-based insurance brokerages Armstrong/Robitaille/Riegle Inc. and Ann Arbor Business Advisors LLC. Terms of the transaction were...
Jun 6 2017 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group has acquired Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Chlystek & White Services (CWS) Inc. – a regional insurance premium audit services company.CWS will become part of Afirm, Kaufman’s...
Jun 6 2017 // A driver experiencing an unexpected cardiac event on the road isn’t the only one at risk.Fellow passengers and motorists also face death or serious injury when another person has a medical emergency behind the wheel....
May 30 2017 // A Muslim man who says Little Caesars served him a pizza with pepperoni made with pork has filed a lawsuit seeking $100 million.The Detroit Free Press reports the lawsuit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court says the pizza...
May 22 2017 // A utility company in Lansing, Mich., is still transitioning back to stability after a cyberattack temporarily disabled the company’s internal network and required it to pay a $25,000 ransom.Dick Peffley, general...
May 19 2017 // There will be no sunlight on the records of an auto insurance fund that touches every Michigan driver.The Michigan Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from a coalition of health care, labor and consumer groups. The...
May 18 2017 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) has issued a Cease and Desist Order against Adam Michalik, also known as Adam Heaphy, of Harrison Township, Michigan.DIFS says Michalik has been using the...
May 18 2017 // A group of about a dozen Republican governors is pushing for its own set of national healthcare reforms, flexing its considerable muscle in the national debate over the future of Obamacare as the U.S. Senate begins writing...
May 17 2017 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker J.M. Wilson has promoted Chris Russon and added Travis Lankerd in its Portage, Mich., office.Russon was promoted to property/casualty underwriter. She is responsible for...
May 15 2017 // A state agency says 43 people were killed on the job in Michigan last year, and that’s the state’s highest number of workplace fatalities in a decade.The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
May 15 2017 // Michigan traffic deaths rose by 10 percent last year, according to state safety officials.According to the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning, 2016 was the second-consecutive year to show a 10 percent increase in...
May 5 2017 // Privately owned insurance brokerage firm, Hylant, has promoted Jeff Lumpp to president of its Grand Rapids, Mich., office.Lumpp will be responsible for building greater brand awareness, growing the Hylant business in West...
May 4 2017 // Frankenmuth, Mich.-based Frankenmuth Insurance announced it has obtained licenses through the FAA to operate drones for use by claims and commercial lines’ loss control teams to aid in inspecting roofs and other...
May 4 2017 // Officials say Michigan traffic deaths rose 10 percent last year as drug-impaired, bicyclist and motorcyclist traffic deaths increased. The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning noted that it’s the...