Latest Indiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Indiana Insurance Agent Tapped to Lead State House GOP
Oct 8 2015 // Indiana House Republicans have chosen Rep. Matt Lehman to replace former House Majority Leader Jud McMillin. Republicans announced Lehman’s election shortly after emerging from a closed-door meeting on Oct. 6....
Carmel, Indiana OKs LGBT Anti-Discrimination Ordinance
Oct 7 2015 // The Carmel City Council in Indiana has passed an ordinance banning discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation, narrowly defeating efforts by social conservatives to defeat the measure in the affluent...
NAMIC Legislators of the Year from Indiana, Missouri
Oct 5 2015 // Missouri Rep. Don Gosen and Indiana Rep. Matt Lehman were named Legislators of the Year for the 2015 legislative session by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies. Gosen is chairman of the Missouri House...
Pending Mergers Will Harm Health Insurance Competition: AMA
Sep 8 2015 // The nation’s doctors say the proposed mergers among four of the nation’s largest health insurance companies would violate federal antitrust guidelines and seriously erode health insurance competition. According...
Assessment of Storm Damage in 29 Indiana Counties Begins
Aug 20 2015 // Federal, state and local officials have begun assessing the damage from severe storms and flooding in 29 Indiana counties between June 7 and July 29. The Indiana Department of Homeland Security said the preliminary damage...
Appeals Court: Indiana Police Department Can Be Held Liable
Aug 17 2015 // A federal appeals court has ruled the Evansville Police Department in Indiana committed too many mistakes” to be shielded from liability in a lawsuit filed over a SWAT raid on her home in 2012. The 7th U.S. Circuit...
J.M. Wilson Promotes Shepherd to P/C Underwriter in Indiana
Aug 7 2015 // J.M. Wilson has promoted Robyn Shepherd to property/casualty underwriter in the wholesale insurance broker’s Carmel, Ind., office. In her new role, Shepherd will quote new and renewal property/casualty risks, and...
Appeals Court: Indiana Police Department Can Be Held Liable
Aug 3 2015 // A federal appeals court has ruled the Evansville Police Department in Indiana committed too many mistakes” to be shielded from liability in a lawsuit filed over a SWAT raid on her home in 2012. The Evansville Courier...
Some Crops Falter in Record Midwest Rains
Aug 3 2015 // Weeks of record rainfalls drenched Don Lamb’s cornfields this summer, drowning some plants and leaving others yellowed, 2 feet tall and capable of producing little, if any, grain. The 48-year-old central Indiana...
Driver in Deadly Indiana Bus Crash Had Suspended License: Police
Jul 30 2015 // A 6-year-old boy died and 11 others were hurt this week when their church bus overturned near Indianapolis in an accident that police said appeared to be the result of an error by a driver with a suspended license. The boy...
Worley Claims Services to Acquire Indiana-Based NCA Group
Jul 30 2015 // Hammond, La.-based insurance claims services provider, Worley Claims Services (Worley), is acquiring NCA Group Inc. (NCA), which provides daily and catastrophe residential and commercial property claims services throughout...
Multi-State Cargo Theft Ring Busted in Indiana; 8 Charged
Jul 29 2015 // Eight individuals have been charged in a 23-count indictment in an organized scheme to steal tens of millions of dollars in merchandise from shipments of cargo moving through the state of Indiana and elsewhere, United...
Indiana School to Build Tornado Safe Room with $1.6M Grant
Jul 28 2015 // Federal officials have awarded a southern Indiana school district $1.6 million to build a tornado safe room at an elementary school. The grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will allow Salem Community Schools...
Indiana Now Requires Scooter Registration; Thousands Comply
Jul 27 2015 // Thousands of motor-driven cycles, the vast majority mopeds and scooters, have been registered with the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles since a new law went into effect in January that placed more stringent requirements on...
Indiana Man Convicted of Murder in Home Explosion Case
Jul 15 2015 // A jury has convicted an Indianapolis man of murder, arson and insurance fraud for his role in a house explosion that devastated a subdivision nearly three years ago, killing a couple living next door. Mark Leonard, 46,...
Agents in Indiana Say Insurance Increased Prior to Home Explosion
Jul 9 2015 // The girlfriend of a man accused of blowing up an Indianapolis, Ind. house, devastating a subdivision and killing two neighbors, nearly doubled the insurance coverage for the contents of her home 11 months before the...
Conn. Gov. Seeks to Scale Back Some Proposed Tax Hikes for Corporations
Jun 15 2015 // Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Friday called on lawmakers to scale back some of the tax increases his administration helped negotiate in a budget that prompted some major employers, including General Electric Co., to...
What States Are Doing to Battle Bird Flu Threat
May 31 2015 // Indiana is training 300 prisoners to kill infected chickens and banning bird shows at county fairs. Mississippi is considering road barricades and planning biosecurity measures. Iowa is trying to figure out how to deal...
Indiana Jury Awards $32.5M to Traffic Accident Victim
May 26 2015 // A northwest Indiana jury has awarded $32.5 million to a woman with a traumatic brain injury that left her partially paralyzed nine years ago when the car she was a passenger in struck a disabled semi-trailer on an...
Indiana High Court Sides with Contractors on Fire Costs
May 26 2015 // The Indiana Supreme Court says contractors who worked on a 19th century courthouse before a 2009 fire don’t have to pay some of costs of repairing the fire damage. The decision upholds lower court rulings favoring...
