All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 11 2007 // Creative Benefits & Insurance Solutions (CBIS) of Washington Township, Mich., announced it was recently recognized for excellence by two organizations. Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit honored them as one of...
Apr 2 2007 // Burns & Wilcox has announced that James Griffith has been promoted to director of personal lines for the specialty insurance company. He is responsible for the growth and profitability of personal lines in partnership...
Mar 29 2007 // A woman and two sons who run a string of Detroit-area auto body shops have been charged with conspiracy, fraud and racketeering on accusations that they tricked insurers out of millions of dollars through false...
Mar 20 2007 // The Michigan Chamber of Commerce and the Insurance Institute of Michigan, are urging a no vote in the Senate in response to recent passage of legislation that would make it easier to sue for non-economic damages under the...
Mar 16 2007 // Grange Insurance recently announced that it has realigned its personal lines division by naming two regional personal lines presidents.Barry Hunlock has been named regional personal lines president for Illinois, Michigan,...
Mar 15 2007 // An assessment paid by auto insurance carriers to cover catastrophic injuries resulting from auto crashes will decrease on July 1.The Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association (MCCA) assessment, which covers costs for...
Mar 8 2007 // Burns & Wilcox announced today that Laura Vultaggio has joined the company as director of corporate communications.Vultaggio is responsible for developing and implementing strategies for internal and external...
Mar 8 2007 // Managing General Agency J.M. Wilson has announced that it has added Wendy Loveless as manager in its Personal Lines department in their Portage, Mich. location.Loveless will oversee the day-to-day operations of the...
Mar 2 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), a national insurance trade group representing p/c insurance companies, told the Michigan House Judiciary Committee this week that there could be far-reaching...
Mar 1 2007 // Brown & Brown, Inc. and Alcos, Inc., headquartered in Sterling Heights, Mich., today announced the completion of the previously announced acquisition by Brown & Brown, Inc. of Alcos, Inc. Alcos, with annualized...
Feb 26 2007 // James W. Good, executive vice president of trucking industry insurer Baldwin and Lyons Inc. and president of its subsidiary insurance company, Protective Insurance Co., announced he will retire from the company in May...
Feb 25 2007 // James W. Good, executive vice president of trucking industry insurer Baldwin and Lyons Inc. and president of its subsidiary insurance company, Protective Insurance Co., announced he will retire from the company in May...
Feb 12 2007 // Chicago-based The Park Group, a wholesale insurance brokerage has announced the promotion of Peter Upjohn to the position of manager of the newly established Professional Liability Brokerage Department. Upjohn is...
Feb 12 2007 // 2,700 The world’s largest kosher slaughterhouse is recalling about 2,700 pounds of potentially underprocessed frankfurters shipped to New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, company and federal officials said....
Feb 7 2007 // Stephen E. Ewing, retired vice-chair of DTE Energy, was elected for a one-year term as chair of the board of directors of the more than 1.6-million-member Automobile Club of Michigan (AAA Michigan) during a board meeting...
Feb 5 2007 // Auto insurance rates offered by the state’s top ten insurance companies dropped an average of 2 percent last year, according to the Insurance Institute of Michigan.“Michigan has hundreds of insurance companies...
Feb 1 2007 // Beginning Feb. 1, 2007 Farmers and Foremost Insurance invite agents to put the pedal to the metal and “Drive for 55”. This is just one way that Foremost will celebrate 55 years serving the insurance industry in...
Feb 1 2007 // Morristown, N.J.-based PGI Commercial (PGIC), the U.S. program manager of Bermuda-based insurance distributor Primary Group Limited, has added an underwriting team and opened a branch office in Troy, Mich. The unit will...
Jan 31 2007 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) today praised a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that it says validates and upholds Michigan’s insurance code by rejecting duplicative methods for...
Jan 24 2007 // In a written opinion issued January 19, 2007, United States District Court Judge Nancy G. Edmunds of the Eastern District of Michigan has ordered United National Insurance Co. to pay the city of Sterling Heights over $10...