All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 8 2009 // The Michigan Supreme Court on Oct. 7 heard the opening arguments in a closely watched case that may decide the fate of insurers’ use of credit history in setting premium rates for personal lines policies in that...
Oct 6 2009 // Commercial insurer CNA Financial Corp. has named Michael McGraw as vice president of its Michigan branch. As branch vice president, McGraw is responsible for synchronizing branch operations with CNA’s strategic...
Oct 6 2009 // The Michigan Supreme Court is set to consider whether the state’s Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR) can administer rules banning the use of insurance credit scoring in rate setting. The hearing...
Oct 5 2009 // Kalamazoo, Mich., officials are considering a new law that would make adults responsible for policing what happens at youth parties in their homes. The proposal comes after the severe beating of a 16-year-old boy at an...
Sep 24 2009 // Auto-Owners Insurance Co. says it will build a new corporate complex when it expands its Michigan headquarters.The $105.3 million project will be near the company’s Delta Township headquarters in Eaton County, just...
Sep 22 2009 // Kalamazoo officials are considering a new ordinance that would make adults responsible for policing what happens at youth parties in their homes.The proposal comes after the severe beating of a 16-year-old boy at an...
Sep 21 2009 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services of Minnesota Inc. named Gina Samland managing director for its Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas City, Kan., operations. She is based in the Omaha, Neb., office.In her new role, Samland is...
Sep 8 2009 // A federal judge has dismissed parts of a lawsuit against Central Michigan University and its women’s basketball coach, who is accused of dropping a scholarship partly because a player isn’t a lesbian.U.S....
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...