All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jan 23 2007 // Michigan’s attorney general has joined six automakers in asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by California that accuses them of harming human health and the environment by producing vehicles that contribute...
Jan 22 2007 // Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm has signed legislation permiting Michigan to join the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact Commission, making Michigan the 29th state to join the Commission.Created through...
Jan 17 2007 // Former State Representative Scott Hummel of DeWitt, Mich. has been named vice president of Governmental Affairs for the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents. Hummel was first elected to the 93rd District of the House...
Jan 11 2007 // Gov. Jennifer Granholm has signed legislation that would allow, but not require, insurers to give discounts to Michigan drivers age 50 and older who take a safety course.The senior driver legislation is House Bill 5661,...
Jan 8 2007 // Even though 2006 is safely behind us, some sticky issues are on the horizon as we edge our way into 2007. Case in point is the pending Supreme Court cases of Safeco v. Burr and GEICO v. Edo. The cases are about...
Jan 7 2007 // Even though 2006 is safely behind us, some sticky issues are on the horizon as we edge our way into 2007. Case in point is the pending Supreme Court cases of Safeco v. Burr and GEICO v. Edo. The cases are about...
Dec 29 2006 // Southfield, Mich.-based First Mercury Financial Corp. recently announced the opening of an underwriting office in Irvine, Calif. and the hiring of LaTrina Green as vice president. Green is responsible for managing this...
Dec 29 2006 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services has approved the sale of M-Care, the insurance business of the University of Michigan Health System, to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. The deal, announced in...
Dec 26 2006 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services last Friday approved the sale of M-Care, the insurance business of the University of Michigan Health System, to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.The deal, announced...
Dec 25 2006 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during the group’s winter meeting in San Antonio.Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance...
Dec 25 2006 // Lower fuel prices, mild weather spur more trips to holiday favorite spots.Anxious to arrive quickly at your destination this holiday season? Well, what about safely? Driving faster than surrounding traffic, driving while...
Dec 25 2006 // In 2006, the Midwest experienced the impact of contingent commission settlements based on the actions of several attorneys general and a myriad of court rulings on insurers’ use of credit, liquor liability and...