All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 23 2017 // A medical services provider serving the Muskegon, Michigan, region will pay $21,500 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Feb 16 2017 // Michigan has thousands of aging and under-maintained dams that could pose localized risks.The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality tells the Detroit Free Press that all but six of the state’s 88 potential...
Feb 15 2017 // A top public safety official in western Michigan has resigned while he faces a health insurance fraud charge.Greenville City Manager George Bosanic says Mark Reiss resigned on Feb. 13 as director of public safety. WZZM-TV...
Feb 15 2017 // An ammonia leak at a Detroit, Mich.-area beverage plant has left one worker hospitalized.A contractor struck an ammonia line at Sundance Beverage in Warren on Monday morning, causing a break that forced the...
Feb 14 2017 // General Motors Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. officials will tell a U.S. House panel on Tuesday that automakers need changes to automotive safety rules to allow the deployment of self-driving cars on American...
Feb 10 2017 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) announced a new online tool to assist Michigan consumers with the filing of electronic complaints.The Office of Consumer Services (OCS) at DIFS will use...
Feb 7 2017 // Social Security numbers and other personal information of up to 1.87 million Michigan workers may have been compromised, the state said on Feb. 3.The problem stemmed from a software update to Michigan’s troubled...
Jan 30 2017 // As the American population gets older and fatter, the crash test dummies used to test the cars people drive are changing, too.Recently, engineers at global manufacturer Humanetics created dummies that reflect today’s...
Jan 27 2017 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) announced it is cracking down on fraudulent insurance sales.DIFS recently issued Cease and Desist Orders against a five entities for violating the...
Jan 26 2017 // Flint’s water system no longer has levels of lead exceeding the federal limit, a key finding that Michigan state environmental officials said is good news for a city whose 100,000 residents have been grappling with...
Jan 19 2017 // Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Jan. 17 called for addressing Michigan’s aging infrastructure over the next several decades, citing the Flint water crisis that has roiled his administration and a football field-sized...
Jan 19 2017 // The Michigan appeals court says an inn near Lake Michigan can be sued for injuries suffered by a girl who burned her foot in the hidden leftovers of a beach bonfire. The court overturned a decision by a Benzie County judge...
Jan 11 2017 // A Michigan doctor accused of sexually abusing gymnasts has been hit with a new lawsuit by 18 women and girls who say they were molested by him, mostly at his clinic at Michigan State University. The lawsuit against Dr....
Jan 9 2017 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Jan 9 2017 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Jan 6 2017 // A hole drilled through a concrete sewer line nearly 40 years ago may have led to soil erosion beneath another section of the pipe and the football field-sized sinkhole that has forced 22 families from their suburban...
Dec 22 2016 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Dec 9 2016 // Keystone Insurers Group announced the addition of three more agency partners in Michigan: Nulty Insurance Agency, Ottawa Kent Insurance and Mason-McBride Inc.Keystone recently expanded into Michigan, adding Saginaw Bay...
Dec 8 2016 // Specialty Program Group, a holding company for specialty insurance brokers and underwriting facilities, has acquired the assets of Global Marine Insurance Agency.Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in...