All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jun 15 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...
Jun 13 2007 // Police across Michigan issued more than 18,000 safety belt citations during a recent two-week crackdown.Federal safety grants helped pay for the project, which ran May 21 to June 3 in several communities across the state....
Jun 12 2007 // The Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) announced it has issued new administrative rules that prohibit insurers from inserting discretionary clauses in insurance policy forms.Discretionary clauses give...
Jun 7 2007 // Police arrested a key witness in the case involving a former Saginaw, Mich. mayor charged with arson and insurance fraud in the burning of her 1986 Mercedes-Benz.Jerry W. Wilkins was arrested June 1st at a restaurant by...
Jun 6 2007 // Michigan’s insurance industry will lead the state in job creation in the coming decade, resulting in more than 16,000 total new jobs by 2014, helping transition the state to a high-tech 21st century economy and...
Jun 6 2007 // CarInsurance.com recently announced that it has expanded its auto insurance agency into Michigan, making it the 21st state where the on-line company does business. CarInsurance.com offers insurance products in all 50...
Jun 4 2007 // Fewer Michigan boaters were killed last year, even though more were injured in alcohol-related accidents, an increasing number collided with other vessels and many still did not strap on life jackets, according to...
Jun 1 2007 // An arson investigator was arraigned this week in two counties on charges of planting evidence at fire scenes, Michigan authorities said.Jeffrey D. Wallace, 53, was arraigned last week on similar charges in Gladwin County...
May 24 2007 // A group again is seeking the option to ride motorcycles without helmets in Michigan.The new plan pitched this week by American Bikers Aiming Toward Education (ABATE) would allow riders to pay a $100 annual state permit fee...
May 18 2007 // A Michigan meat company is recalling 129,000 pounds of beef products because of possible E. coli contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.The meat products are made by Davis Creek Meats and Seafood and were...
May 15 2007 // A jury recently awarded about $315,000 to a woman whose fall during a service led to a falling-out with her former church and pastor.Judith Dadd, 52, of Lansing, accused Mount Hope Church of negligence and its pastor,...
May 14 2007 // Mich.-based North Pointe Holdings Corp. today announced that it has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire all of Capital City Holding Company Inc.’s outstanding stock. In addition, the purchase of this...