All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2007 // Struggling auto parts maker Delphi Corp. announced on Friday, Aug. 31 that there is a settlement of lawsuits by investors who have accused the company’s former managers of fraud.The plaintiffs, including about 40,000...
Aug 29 2007 // Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. announced today that the Company will be participating in the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods 2007 Investor Conference, to be held on Sept. 4 and 5, 2007. The conference will be held at The...
Aug 28 2007 // Lansing, Mich.-based Accident Fund Insurance Company of America has entered into an agreement with the shareholders of CWI Holdings Inc. to purchase CWI and its wholly owned subsidiaries, including San Francisco,...
Aug 27 2007 // Merchants Mutual Insurance Co. recently announced that it has recently formed a subsidiary, Merchants Preferred Insurance Co. Merchants Preferred Insurance Co. is now accepting commercial lines business in Michigan,...
Aug 16 2007 // USG Insurance Services, Inc, a national wholesale broker of commercial insurance headquartered in Tampa, Fla., recently announced the promotion of Lucas Bacon to brokerage manager of the company’s Michigan branch.In...
Aug 7 2007 // A fire on remote, uninhabited land in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan has pushed past fire lines and grown to more than 12,000 acres amid erratic winds, temperatures in the 80s and a lack of rain, the state said Monday.The...
Jul 31 2007 // A wildfire that started in eastern Michigan’s Huron National Forest and spread across 500 acres forced the evacuation of 100 residents and damaged at least three homes, police said July 30. State police Sgt. Tim...
Jul 26 2007 // USF Insurance Co. recently announced that Ken Rice has been promoted to director of underwriting. Rice joined USF in July 2006 as underwriting manager, a role he held until his promotion. Previously, Rice was a...
Jul 24 2007 // The state of Nebraska may have to pay more than $9 million in damages because it failed to repair a faulty traffic-signal system in Schuyler more than eight years ago that led to a serious accident.The lawyer for the...
Jul 23 2007 // AAA Michigan announced today they have partnered with H.E.A.T (Help Eliminate Auto Thefts) to provide specially trained operators to answer the auto theft tip line, 1-800-242-HEAT, 24 hours a day, seven days a...
Jul 19 2007 // The insurance industry in Michigan released a study on Tuesday, July 17th that predicts motorists could save up to 16 percent on their auto premium if they were allowed to select capped health benefits for accident...
Jul 19 2007 // Southfield, Mich.-based Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. announced today it has completed an offering of 5,500,000 additional shares of newly issued common stock at $9.65 per share. The gross proceeds of the offering are...
Jul 18 2007 // As automakers race to inject as many safety, security, navigation and entertainment features as possible into their vehicles, they ought to keep Mark Evangelista in mind.The 45-year-old owner of a suburban Detroit...
Jul 11 2007 // A man convicted of trying to sell the Social Security numbers and other information for thousands of people to undercover agents was sentenced to five years in federal prison, authorities said.Binyamin Schwartz, 29, of Oak...
Jul 5 2007 // Mich.-based North Pointe Holdings Corp. announced that it has closed its acquisition of Capital City Holding Company, Inc. The transaction included the purchase of a property and casualty insurance holding company located...
Jul 2 2007 // For the second straight year, an insurance study has found that Sioux Falls, S.D. has the safest drivers in the nation.Researchers with Allstate Insurance Co. analyzed two years of internal crash data to calculate the...
Jul 2 2007 // The Department of Public Safety said 494 people were killed on Minnesota roads last year, a drop of nearly 12 percent from 2005 and the lowest number since 1945.Summer holidays like the 4th of July are always a great time...
Jul 2 2007 // For the second straight year, an insurance study has found that Sioux Falls, S.D. has the safest drivers in the nation.Researchers with Allstate Insurance Co. analyzed two years of internal crash data to calculate the...
Jul 2 2007 // The Department of Public Safety said 494 people were killed on Minnesota roads last year, a drop of nearly 12 percent from 2005 and the lowest number since 1945.Summer holidays like the 4th of July are always a great time...
Jun 29 2007 // More Michigan children would be required to travel in safety car seats under legislation passed this week by the state House.Current Michigan law generally requires children under 4 to ride in a child restraint system,...