All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 25 2008 // Michigan’s acting insurance commissioner is staying on the job. Ken Ross was named commissioner of the state’s Office of Financial and Insurance Services by Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Friday, Feb. 22nd. Ross has...
Feb 25 2008 // An insurance panel that sets rates for coverage of severely injured motorists would be subject to more public scrutiny under terms of legislation that passed the state House on Thursday.Some deliberations by the Michigan...
Feb 22 2008 // Accident Fund Insurance Company of America recently recognized agencies by presenting its 2007 President’s Club Awards.The award is presented each year to a select number of independent insurance agencies that work...
Feb 21 2008 // Portage Public Schools is reporting that hamburger from the largest beef recall ever in the United States had earlier been served to its students, and some other Michigan districts say they also got meat now involved in...
Feb 15 2008 // When Michigan officials recently reinterpreted state law to stop nonresidents from getting driver’s licenses, critics said it had an unintended consequence.The crackdown, intended to target illegal immigrants, also...
Feb 4 2008 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned an issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a+” and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) of Madison Wis.-based CUNA Mutual Insurance Society, the lead...
Jan 29 2008 // A proposal by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to create a state automobile and homeowner insurance consumer advocate is being called “unnecessary and duplicative,” by one property/casualty insurance trade...
Jan 27 2008 // The American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co. Inc. (AISLIC) has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up contamination at four industrial facilities run by a bankrupt insured in a suit in which the Department of...
Jan 25 2008 // Medical device maker Stryker Corp. announced earlier this week that it will voluntarily recall certain hip surgery products, a week after it received a warning from regulators.The company is recalling Trident PSL and...
Jan 23 2008 // J. Scott Penny, regional executive vice president of Brown & Brown, Inc., and James “Jim” Peabody, president of Smith-Peabody-Stiles Insurance Agency, Inc., with offices in Fenton and Brighton, Mich.,...
Jan 17 2008 // Burns & Wilcox recently announced that Jeffrey Brown has joined the company’s Farmington, Mich. office as a broker. Brown will be responsible for placing business for large complex risks, including large...
Jan 8 2008 // Hylant Group, the nation’s seventh largest privately held commercial insurance brokerage, recently named Patrick Savage as the regional chief operating officer in Michigan. His position will serve Hylant’s...
Jan 3 2008 // CarInsurance.com, which sells auto insurance over the Internet, has added more carriers to its current 28 state agency product offering.In November and December 2007, the firm expanded and now offers Encompass Insurance...
Dec 28 2007 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) has issued a “cease and desist” order against a Flint insurance agent for selling bogus Michigan no-fault auto insurance certificates.Chris...
Dec 23 2007 // Toledo, Ohio-based privately held commercial insurance brokerage, the Hylant Group, has named John W. Chaney as president of the Cleveland office and regional vice president.Chaney will be responsible for the overall...
Dec 23 2007 // The number of reported house fires and fire-related deaths in Michigan increased last year, with many homeowners not maintaining working smoke alarms, according to a report released by the Michigan Association of Insurance...
Dec 23 2007 // More than 1,000 Michigan residents could end up getting part of a $4.85 billion national settlement if they or their loved ones took the painkiller Vioxx.But that hasn’t squelched a firestorm over the state’s...
Dec 21 2007 // A Michigan-based insurer has been fined $230,000 by the Conneticut Department of Insurance for failing to make sure agents were licensed and appointed to sell policies in the state.Foremost Insurance Co., which specializes...
Dec 19 2007 // A Kent County, Mich. woman has pleaded no contest to setting her home on fire with her husband and teenage children inside to collect insurance money.Prosecutors say 38-year-old Sheryl Christman of Grand Rapids Township...
Dec 17 2007 // More than 1,000 Michigan residents could end up getting part of a $4.85 billion national settlement if they or their loved ones took the painkiller Vioxx.But that hasn’t squelched a firestorm over the state’s...