All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 12 2014 // The Canadian company responsible for a 2010 oil spill in southwestern Michigan has agreed to pay about $6.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit.A federal judge must still approve the settlement reached last week by...
Dec 8 2014 // The Michigan appeals court has ruled in favor of Ann Arbor and dismissed a lawsuit that tested the responsibility of local governments during severe flooding.The court overturned a decision by a Washtenaw County judge,...
Dec 4 2014 // Legislation up for a vote in the Michigan Senate would update rules for how children should be buckled up.Michigan requires drivers to secure children under age 4 in back safety seats. Children are buckled in booster seats...
Nov 24 2014 // Newly sworn-in trustees in Oakley, Mich., are reinstating the village’s police department after its shutdown in September. The Saginaw News reports the village council voted 3-2 to re-establish the police force. It...
Nov 19 2014 // Is an insurance agent a “professional” when it comes to whether or not he or she may be charged with malpractice? Not necessarily, a Michigan state appeals court has said.The Michigan Court of Appeals made that...
Nov 18 2014 // Michigan State Police inspections have found that small, rural school districts experienced the most problems with their buses during the 2013-14 school year.As for Michigan as a whole, The Detroit News reported that state...
Nov 17 2014 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services recently issued a cease and desist order to an unlicensed auto insurance provider, Great Lakes Michigan Insurance Company, its owner and associated businesses.The...
Nov 17 2014 // Is an insurance agent a “professional” when it comes to whether or not he or she may be charged with malpractice? Not necessarily, a Michigan state appeals court has said.The Michigan Court of Appeals made that...
Nov 7 2014 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services has issued a cease and desist order to an unlicensed auto insurance provider, Great Lakes Michigan Insurance Company, its owner and associated businesses.The...
Nov 6 2014 // Crews are working to clean up debris that was strewn along Lake Michigan during a storm last week.Strong winds blew tree trunks, branches, tires, wooden pallets, ladders and other items across beaches in Michigan and...
Nov 5 2014 // A Canadian pipeline company says it has cost about $1.21 billion to clean up a 2010 oil spill into the Kalamazoo River system in Michigan. TV stations WOOD and WWMT report Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge Inc. released the...
Nov 3 2014 // Marsh, TorrentInsurance broker Marsh has agreed to acquire Torrent Technologies Inc., which serves write-your-own insurers participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Torrent’s approximately 100...
Oct 28 2014 // Michigan’s rate of job-related deaths has decreased in recent years even as more people enter the workforce following the economic recession.The Detroit News reports federal data show Michigan’s rate of...
Oct 27 2014 // The state of Michigan has broken ground on a new $22 million emergency operations center in the Lansing area. Officials expect the building to open in November 2015 and say it will be “hardened” to withstand...
Oct 23 2014 // A settlement has been reached between Michigan and a propane supplier over high prices charged to customers trying to heat their homes during the cold and snowy winter months, Attorney General Bill Schuette announced.The...
Oct 22 2014 // Orland Park, Ill.-based insurance brokerage, The Horton Group, announced the acquisition of certain assets of Boyle, Flagg and Seaman (BF&S) Insurance, located in Illinois and Michigan.BF&S’s Illinois retail...
Oct 17 2014 // Detroit settled with one of its last major creditors, bond insurer Financial Guaranty Insurance Co., bringing the city closer to ending the biggest-ever U.S. municipal bankruptcy.The remaining holdout creditors, led by...
Oct 8 2014 // The contractor hired to remove a northern Michigan dam will pay $300,000 to resolve a lawsuit and restore a river that was damaged when the dam failed.Traverse City commissioners approved the settlement agreement on Oct....
Oct 6 2014 // The state says it’s evaluating whether to replace a pedestrian bridge over a Detroit freeway that was pulled down recently by a trash truck. The Detroit Free Press reports the Michigan Department of Transportation is...
Oct 6 2014 // Michigan should create a special authority devoted to targeting auto insurance fraud and require insurers to more frequently send electronic verification of drivers’ insurance to the state, a task force...