All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 10 2012 // U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow says Michigan’s cherry growers are getting new crop insurance options. The Michigan Democrat is head of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee.According to Stabenow’s...
Aug 30 2012 // U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow says Michigan’s cherry growers are getting new crop insurance options.The Michigan Democrat serves as head of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. She announced details...
Aug 30 2012 // A Florida neurologic clinic that specializes in treating patients with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries is being sued by a major automotive insurance company for more than $7 million in false claims stemming from...
Aug 28 2012 // Michigan’s regulators say the state’s workers’ compensation premium rates are dropping for the second year in a row.Michigan Department of Licensing & Regulatory Affairs (LARA) Director Steven H....
Aug 21 2012 // Nearly 3,000 cars, trucks and buses that can “talk” began traveling the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan today as part of a year-long safety pilot project by the U.S. Department of Transportation.The vehicles are...
Aug 21 2012 // Area speeders might want to smile for the camera as they cruise past Grand Traverse County, Michigan’s new portable radar speed detecting sign.The device will snap a photograph of anyone traveling 15 miles per hour...
Aug 20 2012 // Money from a $2.2 million court settlement over the death of a 29-year-old man who was fatally shot by a Michigan police officer in 2010 will go to charities and police departments, including the one that employed the...
Aug 17 2012 // Michigan is kicking off a campaign aimed at curbing drunken driving.The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning says some young men referred to themselves as “professional” drunken drivers during focus...
Aug 7 2012 // Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, named Mark Dull as a client advocate in Willis of Michigan. Willis of Michigan, Inc. includes offices in Farmington Hills and Grand Rapids. Dull will be responsible...
Aug 3 2012 // The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled in favor of insurance companies in two cases that involve drivers who crashed cars when they didn’t have the owners’ permission to get behind the wheel.The court’s...
Jul 23 2012 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR) reported that consumer complaints against insurance companies dropped slightly in 2011, compared with 2010.Consumer complaint statistics for insurance...
Jul 23 2012 // All Alone“I’m by myself.” —Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger acknowledged recently that she’s a lone Republican voice in her state in support of setting up an online system for consumers...
Jul 20 2012 // Republican lawmakers want more questions answered before they’ll consider giving GOP Gov. Rick Snyder approval to start work on a website for purchasing health insurance required under the federal health care law,...
Jul 16 2012 // Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and his fellow Republicans could find themselves knee-deep in health care issues soon when lawmakers briefly return after a five-week break.Snyder needs to get reluctant House Republicans on board...
Jul 13 2012 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR) reported that consumer complaints against insurance companies dropped slightly in 2011, compared with 2010.Consumer complaint statistics for insurance...
Jul 13 2012 // The National Transportation Safety Board has approved the findings of its investigators that Canadian company Enbridge Inc.’s neglect of pipeline cracks and its slow response likely caused the most expensive onshore...
Jul 9 2012 // Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a series of bills that will help insurance consumers by providing additional protections regarding the use of credit-based insurance scores, according to the Property Casualty Insurers...
Jul 5 2012 // The federal government has declared Michigan a disaster area because of damage to fruit crops from erratic spring weather, making growers eligible to seek low-interest loans.Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat, said...
Jul 3 2012 // The State of Michigan, whose Supreme Court struck down an absolute ban on the use of credit information in insurance underwriting and rate-making decisions, has moved to slightly loosen its insurance scoring restrictions...
Jun 28 2012 // A former Saginaw, Mich., police officer who claimed he was fired in 2006 and discriminated against because of his race is expected to get more than $1 million in a settlement. The Saginaw News reports City Council recently...