All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 26 2016 // Security giant Guardsmark has agreed to pay $115,000 and to provide other relief to settle a retaliation discrimination case brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced.EEOC...
Sep 22 2016 // Monique Colizzi, who taught InVEST insurance courses at Charlotte High School (CHS) in Charlotte, Michigan, has been honored with the 2016 InVEST Teacher of the Year Award.The InVEST program, which is affiliated with the...
Sep 21 2016 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) has ordered a Farmington man to stop selling fraudulent automobile insurance certificates through his company, SBS Agency.DIFS issued cease and desist...
Sep 19 2016 // In the year since Flint’s man-made drinking water crisis exploded and was exposed primarily as a failure of state government, Michigan has allocated $234 million toward the public health emergency that exposed...
Sep 19 2016 // Michigan’s workplace safety agency plans to step up unannounced inspections of demolition sites around the state to ensure workers are properly protected against hazards such as exposure to asbestos. The Detroit Free...
Sep 13 2016 // A dozen states still use no-fault auto insurance to cover the medical expenses of crash victims.Michigan House members returned to work last week to decide whether they’ll give the state’s motorists a break on...
Sep 9 2016 // Michigan would no longer require that someone be inside a self-driving car while testing it on public roads under legislation passed unanimously on Sept. 7 by the state Senate, where backers touted the measures as...
Sep 8 2016 // Michigan’s workplace safety agency plans to step up unannounced inspections of demolition sites around the state to ensure workers are properly protected against hazards such as exposure to asbestos.The Detroit Free...
Aug 29 2016 // A new court decision will keep the public’s eyes from records of an auto insurance fund.The Michigan appeals court says the state Catastrophic Claims Association is a public body, but lawmakers legally carved out an...
Aug 25 2016 // Allstate is now offering a home-sharing endorsement in Michigan for homeowner insurance customers who rent out their homes on a temporary basis.With participation in the home-sharing economy expected to quadruple over the...
Aug 22 2016 // A storm that appeared to spawn at least one tornado slammed parts of western Michigan on Saturday, causing extensive damage but no injuries or loss of life, authorities said.State Police spokesman Dale Hinz said damage...
Aug 15 2016 // Lansing, Mich.-based AF Group announced the December retirement of Mike Britt, president of one of its member companies, Accident Fund Insurance Co. of America.Al Gileczek, current senior vice president of business...
Aug 5 2016 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) has issued a cease and desist order against Angella Swain-Jones (alias Stacey or Sarah) and summarily suspended the insurance license of Cornell Jones and...
Aug 1 2016 // Six current or former state employees were charged on July 29 with misconduct and other crimes in the Flint, Mich., water crisis, bringing to nine the number of public officials facing prosecution over the lead...
Jul 22 2016 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) has told a man who the department says has been selling fake auto insurance in a parking lot after hours to stop.The DIFS issued a Cease and Desist Order...
Jul 22 2016 // Patients who filed medical malpractice claims against Detroit-area oncologist Farid Fata and three Michigan hospitals will receive settlements totaling $8 million.The settlements were approved July 20 in Oakland County...
Jul 22 2016 // Muskegon, Mich., locals Kelly Ufnal and her brother, Bryan Lambert, have opened an insurance agency in the town they grew up in — Brightway, The Lambert Family Agency.Brightway is a national property/casualty insurance...
Jul 22 2016 // An Arab-American family whose business and personal bank accounts were closed in 2014 without explanation can sue JPMorgan Chase for racial discrimination, a federal judge in Detroit has ruled.Filed in February, the...
Jul 14 2016 // At least two people have died in flooding caused by powerful storms that damaged homes, washed out roads and stranded motorists in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.In northern Wisconsin, an 84-year-old Illinois man died...
Jul 12 2016 // State insurance regulators are seeking public comment on requested health insurance policy rate changes.The Department of Insurance and Financial Services said that insurers’ proposed changes for individual rates in...