All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 6 2006 // General Motors Corp. unveiled a new $10 million crash test facility this week that will help the automaker study rollover crashes.The Detroit-based company also said that by 2012 it will make rollover-enabled air bags a...
Dec 6 2006 // North Pointe Holdings Corp. announced that Paul B. Deemer has been promoted to the newly-created position of vice president and chief actuary. Deemer will be responsible for planning and directing actuarial services for...
Dec 5 2006 // Southfield, Mich.-based First Mercury Financial Corp.has announced the hiring of Thomas A. Greene, Jr. as a senior vice president of CoverX.In this newly created position, Greene will be responsible for overseeing and...
Dec 5 2006 // The Insurance Institute of Michigan (IIM) recently elected 2007 officers and Executive Committee members. The elections were held at the Association’s November 28 Annual Meeting held in Lansing.Elected to lead the...
Dec 4 2006 // When Michigan retirees Willie and Lois Gales asked for a way to ease a $200 increase in their auto insurance rate, they ended up at a two-day safety class in Detroit designed for older drivers.They got tips to prepare for...
Nov 22 2006 // Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. has announced that a federal judge dismissed its lawsuit against an insurance company in a coverage dispute. As a result, Flagstar will record a one-time charge in the fourth quarter of 2006 of...
Nov 21 2006 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency’s, Inc. Non-Standard Auto and Basic Renters program’s, both with “A” rated admitted carriers, is now available to Michigan producers, according to a company...
Nov 21 2006 // Insurers and municipalities in Michigan are squaring off over who should pay for rescue and cleanup crews and heavy equipment used in certain car crashes, and the result could be higher insurance rates for motorists.The...
Nov 20 2006 // Did Green Party cost Democrats control of Michigan Senate?One of the main reasons Republicans were swept from power was the Iraq war. Ironically, it may have helped preserve their long-standing lock on the Michigan Senate,...
Nov 13 2006 // Did Green Party cost Democrats control of Michigan Senate? One of the main reasons Republicans were swept from power was the Iraq war. Ironically, it may have helped preserve their long-standing lock on the Michigan...
Nov 9 2006 // Toledo, Ohio-based Hylant Group, a business insurance agency, has hired Steve Stuart as a property risk senior consultant in its Troy, Mich. location.Prior to joining Hylant, Stuart was a vice president and senior...
Nov 5 2006 // Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is warning consumers to be aware of a telephone scam in which phony information is transmitted through Caller ID as a ruse to con individuals into providing illicit callers with sensitive...
Oct 30 2006 // A Michigan company has asked U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow to retract her statements that it outsourced jobs overseas.Jackson National Life Insurance Co. sent a letter to Stabenow last week asking her to apologize for a...
Oct 26 2006 // Halloween is an exciting time of year for many young people, but it also holds its share of hidden dangers for children trick-or-treating on neighborhood streets.“The risk of becoming a pedestrian fatality increases...
Oct 25 2006 // Michigan celebrated the 21st anniversary of the H.E.A.T. (Help Eliminate Auto Thefts) program with its annual award program this week.According to the official release, since its inception in 1985, H.E.A.T., with its...
Oct 24 2006 // Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is warning consumers to be aware of a telephone scam in which phony information is transmitted through Caller ID as a ruse to con individuals into providing illicit callers with sensitive...
Oct 23 2006 // A hearing with oral arguments on the legality of the use of credit scoring in setting insurance rates took place in Lansing, Mich., this month at the Hall of Justice.The appeals hearing follows the ruling by Judge James H....
Oct 19 2006 // Continuing its longstanding relationship, Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan has re-signed a multi-year agreement to have CCC Information Services Inc. to provide its key claims solutions. The Lansing, Mich.-based company...
Oct 18 2006 // Fremont Michigan InsuraCorp Inc., a Michigan-based provider of property and casualty insurance, announced that its Board of Directors has approved a two-for-one stock split on its common stock in the form of a 100 percent...
Oct 12 2006 // A hard-charging Dick DeVos showed up for the second gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, one who accused Michigan Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm of lying and blamed her for the state’s economic...