All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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,...
Jun 29 2007 // Aon Risk Services, the retail brokerage and risk management arm of Aon Corp. recently announced that Kevin Pastoor has joined the company’s Southfield, Mich. office as resident sales director.Pastoor comes to Aon...
Jun 26 2007 // Swett & Crawford recently announced that Brandon King has joined the Bloomfield Hills (Detroit), Mich. office as a casualty broker. Previously King worked at Johnston Lewis Associates, Inc as a property/casualty...
Jun 25 2007 // Donald Gaddis Co., Inc. Wholesale Excess and Surplus Lines Brokers Serving Retail Agents Since 1982Donald Gaddis Co. is thrilled to announce that Jay Dillon has joined us to open our new Michigan office. The only thing...
Jun 25 2007 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has agreed to acquire a professional liability insurer, Professionals Direct, Inc., for $23.2 million.Professionals Direct is the Michigan-based holding company for the Professionals...
Jun 21 2007 // J.M. Wilson recently announced the addition of Ted Darbor, CIC, CPCU, as the company’s transportation manager and the promotion of Roxanne Barry, CIC, CISR, to Property Casualty manager. Both will be located in the...
Jun 20 2007 // Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Burns & Wilcox recently announced that it has appointed Doug Swiatkowski to director of education, training and development. Swiatkowski is responsible for developing the company’s...
Jun 18 2007 // • The insurance industry in Michigan employs more than 111,000 people through insurance carriers, agencies, and brokerages and related services.• For every three people employed by the insurance industry, one...
Jun 18 2007 // Mich. study: Industry can be key player in economic recoveryThe results of a new study indicate that the insurance industry will lead the state in job creation in the coming decade, resulting in more than 16,000 total new...