All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 27 2012 // InPro Insurance Group, a Troy, Mich.-based independent insurance agency, announced the acquisition of Falvay-Counihan Insurance Inc., of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.Through the acquisition, InPro gains Falvay-Counihan’s...
Jun 26 2012 // The Brain Injury Association of Michigan (BIAMI) announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association (MCCA) to obtain vital financial information, specific claimant records and actuarial...
Jun 25 2012 // Consumer complaints against Michigan insurance companies are slightly down from the previous year.The Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation says in a statement that the agency received 3,441 insurance...
Jun 25 2012 // The federal government says 114,000 Michigan residents will get rebates from insurance companies under the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act.Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the...
Jun 22 2012 // State police say an annual Michigan enforcement crackdown on motorists who fail to use seat belts and child safety seats led to 8,050 citations. That’s down about 1,000 from 2011.This year’s Click It or Ticket...
Jun 22 2012 // Officials say several state forest campgrounds in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that were closed during a recent wildfire are completely or partially reopened.The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced that...
Jun 21 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A++’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa+” of Auto-Owners Insurance Company and its four wholly owned...
Jun 20 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and downgraded the issuer credit ratings (ICR) to “a” from “a+” of Wisconsin-based Church Mutual...
Jun 18 2012 // The Michigan Supreme Court says an insurance company doesn’t have to pay benefits in a hit-and-run case because the incident wasn’t reported within 30 days. The court’s conservative majority overturned a...
Jun 14 2012 // Officials say a major wildfire in the Upper Peninsula area of Michigan that started about three weeks ago has been fully contained.The Michigan Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday issued the update about the Duck...
Jun 14 2012 // The National Weather Service has confirmed that a rare tornado touched down last week in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.WLUC-TV and The Mining Journal of Marquette report the weak tornado touched down Friday in northwest...
Jun 12 2012 // A judge has rejected a challenge to the insurance requirement in Michigan’s new law expanding the sale of fireworks.Federal Judge Thomas Ludington in Bay City says he’s not going to trump the judgment of...
Jun 6 2012 // Brown-Campbell Co. has been cited for 19 alleged safety and health violations at its facility in Maple Heights, Ohio, federal regulators announced. Proposed fines total $64,400.The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Jun 4 2012 // Fremont Insurance, a Michigan-exclusive property and casualty insurance carrier with headquarters in Fremont, Mich., has hired Christopher Clinton as a vice president of Commercial Lines and Product...
Jun 4 2012 // A skier who had a bone-crushing fall on the halfpipe at Boyne Mountain has lost a lawsuit that challenged whether the Michigan ski resort had adequately marked the pipe. A judge in Charlevoix County had declined to dismiss...
Jun 4 2012 // SIAA, Thomas Insurance GroupThe Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance has signed its 4,000th member agency, the Thomas Insurance Group of Cape Girardeau, Mo. Recruited by master agency Valley Insurance Agency Alliance of...
Jun 1 2012 // The Michigan Supreme Court says an insurance company doesn’t have to pay benefits in a hit-and-run case because the incident wasn’t reported within 30 days. The court’s conservative majority overturned a...
May 31 2012 // State officials say 115 structures, including homes and a motel, have been destroyed by a wildfire in the Upper Peninsula.The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said the wildfire in Luce County’s Duck Lake area...
May 30 2012 // Crews worked on May 29 to ensure that no more structures were damaged by a wildfire burning across more than 30 square miles of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula as high winds in the forecast threatened to test firefighting...
May 23 2012 // SIAA Inc., a national alliance of insurance agencies, has signed its 51st master agency, Michigan Agency Partners of Jackson, Mich. The agency’s territory includes 62 counties across the Lower Peninsula. Michigan...