All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 1 2015 // Michigan has some of the highest auto insurance rates in the country and auto insurance rate hikes there were higher than those in any other state over the past two years, according to the insurance consulting firm,...
Mar 31 2015 // Police in Michigan are using an easy way to check whether a motor vehicle is properly insured.Starting last year, police got access to information on whether a vehicle is insured by running a license plate number through...
Mar 31 2015 // It was almost midnight when Walter Price eased his 18-wheeler into the right lane on Interstate 75 near Atlanta. As he began to bank onto the exit ramp he’d been taking for the past 10 years, Price had no idea he was...
Mar 27 2015 // The annual auto insurance fee that Michigan drivers pay toward caring for people catastrophically injured in crashes is dropping from $186 to $150.The Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association announced March 25 that the...
Mar 25 2015 // Michigan has had some positive developments on the employment and workers’ compensation fronts lately and state officials are eager to share the news.Workers’ comp costs for employers in Michigan have dropped...
Mar 23 2015 // Michigan has some of the highest auto insurance rates in the country and auto insurance rate hikes there were higher than those in any other state over the past two years, according to the insurance consulting firm,...
Mar 23 2015 // A northern Michigan prosecutor filed charges against three University of Michigan students after their fraternity was blamed for widespread vandalism at a ski resort during a wild weekend party.Only one member of Sigma...
Mar 23 2015 // Insurance Journal reported on more than 200 deals involving agencies’ or brokerages’ mergers and acquisitions in 2014. Activity was busiest in the first and fourth quarters, with more than 60 announcements...
Mar 20 2015 // Dozens of drivers are being ticketed following January’s massive pileup on snowy Interstate 94 in southwestern Michigan that killed a 57-year-old trucker and closed a stretch of the roadway for two days, police...
Mar 18 2015 // Michigan insurance regulators have permanently revoked the insurance licenses of father and son insurance agents and their agencies for selling fraudulent insurance certificates.The Michigan Department of Insurance and...
Mar 18 2015 // A.M. Best has removed from under review with positive implications and upgraded the financial strength rating to A- (Excellent) from B++ (Good) and the issuer credit rating to “a-” from “bbb” of...
Mar 16 2015 // A contractor has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for failing to properly remove asbestos from an old church in Bay City, Mich. The church was converted into a charter school, Bay City Academy. Roy Bradley...
Mar 10 2015 // Minnesota and Michigan both are confronting significant problems with scammers defrauding auto insurance systems they perceive have relatively soft defenses.Minnesota faces a surge in organized fraud rings that fleece auto...
Mar 9 2015 // An insurance company that didn’t know about a medical marijuana nursery in a Bay City, Mich., basement can recover more than $130,000 paid after the house was destroyed by fire. A federal appeals court upheld a...
Mar 3 2015 // The general manager of a ski resort vandalized by University of Michigan students estimates the total damage is about four times the original estimate.Barry Owens of Treetops Resort in Gaylord tells the Detroit Free Press...
Mar 2 2015 // A 64-year-old Michigan man has been sentenced to one year in jail for selling fake auto insurance certificates. Hakeem Sanusi of Eastpointe pleaded no contest to six counts of insurance fraud as a habitual offender. He was...
Feb 25 2015 // An insurance company that didn’t know about a medical marijuana nursery in a Bay City, Mich., basement can recover more than $130,000 paid after the house was destroyed by fire. A federal appeals court upheld a...
Feb 23 2015 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker J.M. Wilson promoted Samantha Johnston to property/casualty underwriter in its Portage, Mich., office. Samantha Johnston Johnston will be responsible for quoting, binding...
Feb 19 2015 // Insurance wholesaler J.M. Wilson has promoted Thomas Tobolic to property/casualty underwriter in its Portage, Mich. office. Thomas Tobolic Tobolic is responsible for quoting new and renewal accounts for a wide variety of...
Feb 11 2015 // Federal officials are investigating how feed likely contaminated with oil intended for industrial uses ended up killing 50,000 turkeys on a western Michigan farm in August.State scientists at a January meeting of the...