Latest Indiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Officials: Squirrel Causes $300K in Damage to Indiana Community Center
Apr 14 2014 // Officials say a wayward squirrel caused about $300,000 in damage to a Fort Wayne, Ind., community center set to open in June. Parks Department officials say the squirrel got into the electrical equipment of the building in...
Teen Driver Accidents Drop 20% in Indiana
Apr 7 2014 // Indiana has seen a 20 percent drop in the number of young drivers involved in accidents in the four years since it began requiring teens to wait longer to get their driver’s licenses. The Graduated Driver Licensing...
Company that Owned Stage Fined $50K for Indiana State Fair Collapse
Apr 2 2014 // The company that owned the stage involved in the deadly 2011 Indiana State Fair rigging collapse has agreed to pay a $50,000 fine for safety violations. The Indiana Department of Labor says Mid-America Sound Corp. of...
Scooter Law Stronger in Indiana but Still No Insurance Requirement
Mar 31 2014 // Drivers of motorized scooters in Indiana will face tighter regulations under a measure signed into law by Gov. Mike Pence, although an insurance requirement is not among them. The new law will require scooter operators to...
144-Year-Old Indiana Insurance Firm Rebrands as INGUARD
Mar 27 2014 // Beauchamp McSpadden | Morrison Galliher, an independent insurance firm headquartered in Wabash, Ind., is rebranding of the company under the name, INGUARD. All relationships will consolidate under the new name, logo and...
NW Indiana Authorities Arrest 7 Suspected of Stealing from Trains
Mar 26 2014 // Authorities in northwestern Indiana have arrested seven people and are pursuing a dozen others in connection with the theft of $2.8 million in cars, electronics, pharmaceuticals and other items from trains in the Chicago...
Officials Say Metal Thefts Declining on Indiana Highways
Mar 25 2014 // Indiana highway officials say they’ve seen a decrease in the theft of wiring from roadside lights since putting out a warning about the brazen metal thieves in December. The stealing of copper wiring by thieves...
Indiana City Urging Property Owners to Cleanup Tornado Damage
Mar 16 2014 // Owners of structures damaged by tornadoes that hit Kokomo, Ind., in November are being urged to start removing the debris or begin rebuilding. The city’s code enforcement section has begun sending letters to owners...
Court: State not Liable for Contractor in Indiana Stage Collapse
Mar 13 2014 // A court says the state isn’t responsible for work performed by a contractor involved in the 2011 Indiana State Fair stage collapse. The Indiana attorney general’s office said that a Marion County judge denied...
Federal Report Details Problems at Indiana’s Workplace Safety Agency
Mar 12 2014 // Federal investigators say Indiana’s workplace safety agency mishandled complaints, put its inspectors under strict time constraints and didn’t help whistleblowers. The federal Occupational Safety and Health...
Report Lists Indiana’s Workplace Safety Problems
Mar 7 2014 // Federal investigators say Indiana’s workplace safety agency mishandled complaints, put its inspectors under strict time constraints and didn’t help whistleblowers. The federal Occupational Safety and Health...
AgentLink Acquires Indiana’s Consolidated Brokerage Services
Mar 6 2014 // Louisville, Ky.-based insurance broker AgentLink announced it has acquired 100 percent ownership of Consolidated Brokerage Services (CBS) in Indianapolis, Ind. Founded in August of 2005 and originally owned by John...
Truck Crashes in Canine-Caused Accident in Indiana
Mar 6 2014 // Kokomo, Ind., police say a dog left alone in a truck apparently bumped the vehicle’s gear shift, causing the truck to roll down a street and strike a parked vehicle. A police report says the dog’s owner told...
Indiana’s Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Promotes Hansen, Zurbuch
Mar 4 2014 // Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. in Fort Wayne, Ind., has promoted Jennifer Hansen to the position of assistant vice president – finance and controller, and Matthew Zurbuch to assistant vice president –...
Indiana Homeowners Fear Flood Insurance Sticker Shock
Feb 21 2014 // Homeowner Wally Cantrell’s finished basement was destroyed in the June 2008 flood in Columbus, Ind., but his flood insurance policy helped cover a good bit of the repairs. Now, Cantrell wonders if he will soon face a...
Indiana Appeals Court Says Contractors Don’t Owe Damages in Courthouse Fire
Feb 11 2014 // The Indiana state appeals court says contractors don’t have to pay a southern Indiana county part of the cost of repairing its historic courthouse following a 2009 fire. The court last week upheld a lower court...
Home Insurer Universal P&C to Enter Indiana, Minnesota, Delaware
Feb 6 2014 // Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. (UPCIC), headquartered in Florida, has applied to expand into Indiana, Minnesota and Delaware. UPCIC is one of the leading writers of homeowners insurance in Florida and a...
Indiana Man at 90: Insurance Agent, Crossing Guard
Feb 5 2014 // Norman Horrar has a full-time job, which at 90 years old is impressive in its own right. But Norm, as his friends call him, is an agent with Callaway Insurance. He also works part time as a crossing guard for the city of...
Florida Home Insurer Universal P&C to Enter Indiana, Minnesota, Delaware
Feb 4 2014 // Florida-based Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. (UPCIC) has applied to expand into Indiana, Minnesota and Delaware. UPCIC is one of the leading writers of homeowners insurance in Florida and a fully licensed...
Indiana Jury Acquits Manager in 2009 Fire at Concert Hall
Feb 2 2014 // The former manager of a southern Indiana concert hall has been found not guilty on charges that he set a 2009 fire that destroyed the venue. The Herald-Times reports a Brown County jury acquitted James Bowyer of Morgantown...
