All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
May 1 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...
Apr 28 2017 // The Meiers Lombardini Lemanski Agency of East Lansing, Michigan, has joined Keystone Insurers Group. The agency becomes Keystone’s seventh partner in the state.The agency, which was established in 1976, is co-owned...
Apr 26 2017 // A Detroit-area hospital has agreed to pay $791,000 to settle allegations that it billed for unnecessary lab tests.The case against Crittenton Hospital Medical Center is linked to Dr. Farid Fata. He’s serving a...
Apr 26 2017 // The Michigan Automobile Insurance Placement Facility (MAIPF) has named Mark Wagenschutz as executive director.Wagenschutz will oversee the organization’s mission to guarantee that automobile insurance is available to...
Apr 25 2017 // Michigan state Rep. Jason Sheppard of Temperance has introduced legislation that he says would help drivers and families financially saddled by Michigan’s exorbitant automobile insurance rates.House Bill 4488 will...
Apr 24 2017 // Acrisure LLC, a national retail consulting and insurance broker based in Caledonia, Mich., has named D. Michael Sherman as president.Sherman joined Acrisure in January as a strategic advisor, bringing more than 40 years of...
Apr 20 2017 // A traumatic fall in a dark, icy parking lot wasn’t enough to sway the Michigan Supreme Court.The justices last week reversed a decision by the state appeals court and said the conditions should have been “open...
Apr 17 2017 // The Michigan Automobile Insurance Placement Facility has announced that Terri A. Miller, its executive director, is leaving after nearly 20 years in that role.Karyn Spaude, MAIPF’s controller, was named interim...
Apr 12 2017 // Having surgery always comes with risks. But a new study suggests a new one to add to the usual list: the risk of becoming a long-term opioid user.About six percent of people who hadn’t been taking opioids before...
Apr 11 2017 // Flooding in southwestern Michigan closed several roadways and swamped the home of the Kalamazoo Growlers baseball team while severe thunderstorms caused damage in the Upper Peninsula.The Kalamazoo River is one of several...
Apr 10 2017 // Country Fresh LLC, a milk manufacturer in Livonia, Mich., will pay $84,750 to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced.The...
Apr 3 2017 // Authorities say a carbon monoxide leak at a southwestern Michigan hotel has killed a child and sickened about a dozen other people, including other children and several police officers.WNDU-TV and WSBT-TV report that...
Apr 3 2017 // Officials say the Detroit Medical Center has spent $1.2 million since September to correct problems with dirty surgical instruments and has put multiple systems in place to ensure patient safety.The Detroit News reports...
Apr 3 2017 // The annual auto insurance fee Michigan drivers pay toward caring for people catastrophically injured in crashes is rising to $170, a $10 increase. The Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association announced the new per-car...
Mar 31 2017 // The Michigan Senate has approved a $5 million interest-free state loan to help repair a large sinkhole in suburban Detroit, narrowly rejecting a call to stick with a House plan that would instead give Macomb County a $3...
Mar 30 2017 // Michigan state senators have approved legislation that could allow the Automobile Theft Prevention Authority to assess small fees on commercial vehicles, not just private passenger vehicles. Under current law, auto...
Mar 20 2017 // Surgery patients often go home from the hospital with a prescription for painkillers to take as they recover. But a new study suggests that doctors should also focus on patients who were taking such medicines before their...
Mar 16 2017 // The annual auto insurance fee Michigan drivers pay toward caring for people catastrophically injured in crashes is rising to $170, a $10 increase.The Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association announced the new per-car...
Feb 26 2017 // A jury has awarded $5 million to a man who was injured during a food truck explosion at a northern Michigan festival. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports Gary Leonard was burned on nearly half his body following the...