All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 21 2022 // Patel named First Chief People Officer for Branch Branch has named new hire Pratiksha Patel as the company’s first chief people officer. Patel joins the Columbus, Ohio-based company with more than two decades of...
Oct 31 2022 // LANSING, Mich. (AP) – A judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit filed by eight women alleging sexual harassment and assault by a former University of Michigan lecturer.Judge Thomas Cameron of the Michigan Court of Claims...
Oct 20 2022 // It’s beginning to look a lot like winter in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with snow falling and high winds toppling trees and causing power outages.MLive reported that as much as 18 inches (45 centimeters) of...
Oct 14 2022 // A Michigan man has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging he set 25 fires on semitrailers in eight states over more than two years, all belonging to the same trucking company, prosecutors said...
Oct 11 2022 // Crews from several fire departments were still battling a fire Monday that broke out late last week at a paper mill in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.A spokesman for Resolute Forest Products said the fire, which was...
Oct 4 2022 // The Michigan Supreme Court agreed last week to decide whether major changes in car insurance law apply to people who were catastrophically injured before summer 2019.The case is being closely watched by insurers,...
Sep 30 2022 // A train derailment sent a dozen rail cars off the tracks Thursday morning near Detroit, snarling traffic while emergency responders assessed the damage, officials said.Warren Mayor Jim Fouts said 12 of the train’s...
Sep 28 2022 // Gaylord D. Lincoln and G. Lincoln Farms, LLC, located in Springport, Michigan, have agreed to pay $1,200,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of fraudulent claims for...
Sep 26 2022 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) is partnering with the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), the Lansing Police Department (LPD), and Shaheen Chevrolet to offer motorists a free...
Sep 23 2022 // A judge has given tentative approval to a $54 million settlement involving 3M Co., a shoe manufacturer and property owners in western Michigan who said their land and wells were contaminated by toxic “forever...
Sep 22 2022 // A Michigan veteran has been sentenced to five years in prison after investigators who followed him discovered he had faked injuries that allowed him to claim more than $260,000 in federal benefits.Joseph Gray, 53, of...
Sep 19 2022 // A judge on Friday signed off on a fund for more than 1,000 people who said they were sexually assaulted by a University of Michigan doctor, an order that allows victims to start collecting a portion of a $490 million...
Sep 19 2022 // A mid-Michigan organic dairy farm is fighting state safety regulators, five years after a 19-year-old family member was fatally electrocuted while removing a metal pole from a grain bin.The dispute involves the...
Sep 12 2022 // Federal investigators blame pilot error and an overloaded aircraft for a 2019 plane crash near a Michigan airport that killed five Indiana men and seriously injured a sixth person aboard.The National Transportation Safety...
Sep 2 2022 // On Aug. 29, the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan awarded a default judgment, granting the proposed $10 million civil penalty against Diesel Ops LLC and Orion Diesel LLC of Waterford, Michigan. The...
Sep 1 2022 // A mid-Michigan organic dairy farm is fighting state safety regulators, five years after a 19-year-old family member was fatally electrocuted while removing a metal pole from a grain bin.The dispute involves the...
Aug 31 2022 // Severe storms that brought damaging winds, heavy rains and flash flooding to parts of the Midwest and the South were blamed for the deaths of three people, including two children in Michigan and Arkansas as well as a woman...
Aug 26 2022 // Major changes in Michigan car insurance law do not apply to people who were severely injured before summer 2019, the state appeals court said Thursday, a victory for long-term victims of motor vehicle crashes and their...
Aug 26 2022 // Global charitable organization The Salvation Army violated federal law at its Ann Arbor, Michigan thrift store when it fired a cashier because of his mental and physical disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment...
Aug 25 2022 // Highstreet Insurance Partners has acquired Michigan-based Paragon Underwriters. Paragon Underwriters is a program manager that focuses exclusively on attorneys and law firms. Highstreet. has now completed 125 transactions...