Latest Indiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Company in Indiana Ordered by Judge to Uphold Insurance Polices
Dec 28 2017 // A public television station has won a court battle over insurance policies that could pay for cleaning up contamination at the site of a shuttered Evansville dry-cleaning business. Judge Richard D’Amour ordered Red...
The Hilb Group Acquires Indiana’s Insurance Trustees
Dec 21 2017 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) announced today the acquisition of Insurance Trustees Inc. in Garrett, Indiana. Founded over 100 years ago, Insurance Trustees offers a wide range of property/casualty and employee benefits...
Indiana Fines Rural King $14K for Alleged Workplace Safety Violations
Dec 7 2017 // Indiana state regulators have fined farm supply chain Rural King $14,000 for alleged safety violations at a southern Indiana warehouse. The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a Nov. 30 order that...
Insurers Still Assessing Damage to Historic Indiana Fieldhouse
Dec 4 2017 // School officials and an insurance company are still assessing the severe storm damage that one of Indiana’s historic high school gymnasiums sustained nearly a month ago. Muncie Community Schools superintendent Steve...
Associated Risk Managers’ Easley Named President of Indiana Big ‘I’
Dec 1 2017 // Greg Easley has been elected president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana (Indiana Big “I”). Easley currently serves as chairman of Associated Risk Managers International (ARM), and previously has...
Plant Death Leads to $224K in Fines for Indiana Company
Nov 29 2017 // State regulators have fined a southern Indiana auto parts plant $224,000 for alleged safety violations discovered following a worker’s death. The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the order...
ONI Risk Partners Acquires Indiana’s HBG Insurance & Bonds
Nov 28 2017 // Indianapolis-based independent insurance broker, ONI Risk Partners (ONI), is acquiring HBG Insurance & Bonds (HBG), a privately owned agency based in Greencastle, Indiana. Led by President Rick Bittles, the HBG team...
Historic Indiana Fieldhouse Hit by Storm Insured for Nearly $10M
Nov 17 2017 // A central Indiana fieldhouse that’s one of the nation’s largest high school basketball venues was insured for nearly $10 million when a severe thunderstorm recently damaged it, school officials say. The...
Indiana County Facing $8M Payout to Settle Suits Against Employees
Nov 13 2017 // A northwest Indiana county may pay more than $8 million to settle several lawsuits against county employees that allege misconduct and negligence led to several injuries and deaths. The Lake County Council received a list...
Amazon Fined $28K for Worker Fatality at Indiana Warehouse
Nov 9 2017 // Amazon is facing a $28,000 state fine over safety violations from when a worker at a suburban Indianapolis warehouse was killed when a forklift fell on him. The Indiana Department of Labor’s order says Amazon...
Storms Damage Fieldhouse in Muncie, Indiana
Nov 7 2017 // Severe storms that battered parts of Indiana damaged the Muncie Fieldhouse, caused other sporadic damage and brought some flooding. The (Muncie) Star Press reports that part of the brick facade at the top of the Muncie...
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Nov 6 2017 // Crop insurer, Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Iowa (FMH), announced that James A. Brost, retiring senior vice president with Holborn Corp., will join the FMH board of directors on Jan. 1, 2018. Brost began his...
Medical Payments per Workers’ Comp Claim Drop in Indiana: WCRI
Nov 6 2017 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Indiana decreased from 2014 to 2015 for the first time in more than a decade, according to a recent study by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Workers Compensation...
Indiana Sees First in a Decade Decline in Medical Payments per Workers’ Comp Claim: WCRI
Oct 26 2017 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Indiana decreased from 2014 to 2015 for the first time in more than a decade, according to a recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The...
Worker Dies at Previously Cited Southern Indiana Auto Parts Factory
Oct 25 2017 // The Clark County coroner and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating the death of a worker at a southern Indiana auto parts manufacturing plant. The coroner’s office says 44-year-old...
Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Acquires Indiana’s Williams & Associates
Oct 25 2017 // Boca Raton, Florida-based Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired Williams & Associates Insurance, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Led by Scott Davis, Williams & Associates has offices in...
Indiana Fines Kansas Contractor $24.5K After Worker Dies in Fall
Oct 16 2017 // A contractor was fined $24,500 for safety violations after a worker died from a fall at a Richmond, Ind., factory. The Richmond Palladium-Item reports 23-year-old Jacob Bugg died June 27 after falling about 40 feet at a...
Employee Plans Adds Duhon as VP, New Business Development in Indiana
Oct 11 2017 // Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Employee Plans LLC has hired Donn Duhon as vice president of new business development. Duhon focuses on bringing creative and cost-effective solutions to employers pursuing a self-funded benefits...
More than 1M Chickens Killed in Indiana Fire
Oct 6 2017 // An official says more than a million chickens died in a fire that destroyed several large barns at a northern Indiana egg-producing facility. Crews responded late on Oct. 2 to the fire at Hi-Grade Egg Producers near the...
Indiana’s American Inter-Fidelity Exchange OK’d to Sell Insurance in Arkansas
Oct 4 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to an Indiana-based company to begin selling insurance products in Arkansas. Kerr has approved American Inter-Fidelity Exchange of...
