All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 7 2009 // The Michigan Supreme Court has set the stage for reversing a 2004 precedent that restricts when people injured in auto accidents can sue for pain and suffering.In a 4-3 order, the court decided to reconsider the case of...
Sep 3 2009 // The Michigan Insurance Hall of Fame honored two leaders in the insurance industry at the sixteenth annual induction ceremony of the Michigan Insurance Hall of Fame recently on the campus of Olivet College. New members...
Aug 24 2009 // The state of Michigan has filed insurance claims with insurance carriers for all three vehicles involved in a tanker explosion that destroyed an overpass on Interstate 75 north of Detroit.Michigan’s attorney general...
Aug 24 2009 // The Michigan Supreme Court has set the stage for reversing a 2004 precedent that restricts when people injured in auto accidents can sue for pain and suffering.In a 4-3 order, the court decided to reconsider the case of...
Aug 19 2009 // Michigan insurance companies say that so-called “bad faith” bills approved by the House Insurance Committee today are unnecessary and will open the floodgates for lawsuits against them, eventually costing...
Aug 18 2009 // Michigan regulatory officials have charged an insurer and its managing general agency with fraud in the selling of surplus lines insurance.But the owner of the company that is is runoff says it did nothing wrong. The...
Aug 18 2009 // Michigan regulatory officials have charged an insurer and its managing general agency with fraud in the selling of surplus lines insurance.But the owner says his company that is in runoff has done nothing wrong. The Office...
Aug 17 2009 // Michigan drivers will pay $20 more this fiscal year to care for accident victims who have brain damage, paralysis or other catastrophic injuries.The culprit? Not the usual suspects such as escalating health care costs or a...
Aug 13 2009 // Rating organization A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B- (Fair) from B (Fair) and issuer credit rating to “bb-” from “bb” of Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Co., based in...
Aug 12 2009 // The Main Street America Group’s Great Lakes Casualty Insurance Co. is now offering its commercial product line, featuring the company’s Main Line Business Owners Policy product, to its Michigan network of...
Aug 4 2009 // Fewer Americans are dying on the nation’s roads, not only because they are driving less, but also because the type of driving has changed, says a researcher at the University of Michigan Transportation Research...
Jul 31 2009 // Michigan-based American Community Mutual Insurance Company, a provider of group and individual health insurance, has introduced its own proprietary medical provider network in Ohio. The company said the American Community...
Jul 31 2009 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Michigan were among the lowest of 14 states, largely the result of lower utilization and lower prices paid for some services, according to a new study from the...
Jul 29 2009 // A Michigan Supreme Court justice’s decision not to recuse herself from a case that pertains to her husband’s profession contradicts the spirit of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on when judges should step...
Jul 23 2009 // The state of Michigan says it spent about $170,000 to repair a busy stretch of Interstate 75, which reopened less than five days after a fiery tanker crash caused an overpass to melt and collapse.The Michigan Department of...
Jul 14 2009 // Democrats in the Michigan House are pushing a dozen bills they say are needed to protect consumers from unfair claims practices by insurance companies.But insurers maintain the measures are unnecessary and will do more...
Jun 18 2009 // Like the house across the street gone missing and the one at the corner stripped of its front door, the weathered brown bungalow at 1430 Jane Ave. bided its time, edging nearer to a meeting with a wrecking crew.But in a...
Jun 16 2009 // Farmers Insurance Group of Companies will build two new buildings and add an estimated 1,600 new jobs at its location in Caledonia, Michigan.The company said that the development is attributable in part to an attractive...
Jun 15 2009 // Michigan’s insurance regulator is reinstating a requirement that insurance companies submit all home and auto insurance documents and forms to the state insurance department for review prior to using them.The order...
Jun 10 2009 // Massachusetts-based medical liability insurance company Medical Professional Mutual Insurance Co., known as ProMutual, will acquire medical liability insurer and risk management company FinCor and its...