Latest Indiana Headlines
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Number of Fire Deaths Fell in Indiana Last Year
Jan 11 2016 // The number of deaths caused by fire in Indiana declined by more than 10 percent last year, state officials said. The Indiana Department of Homeland Security recorded 73 fire deaths around the state during 2015, down from...
Indiana Company to Pay $100K to Resolve Age Discrimination Suit
Jan 11 2016 // Seymour Midwest, a Warsaw, Ind., hand tool manufacturing company, will pay $100,000 and furnish other relief to resolve an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the...
People – West
Jan 11 2016 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group, headquartered in Detroit/Farmington Hills, Mich., named Wayne Bates president of Atain Insurance Cos. and corporate senior vice president of Kaufman Financial Group. Bates joins Atain...
Indiana Bill Would Increase Malpractice Payments Cap
Jan 8 2016 // Indiana’s cap on medical malpractice payments would be increased for the first time in decades under a proposal in the state Legislature. A bill endorsed by Republicans who control the Indiana Senate would boost the...
Indiana Project to Track License Plates of Overweight Trucks
Jan 5 2016 // Indiana highway officials are launching a pilot project to track unpermitted overweight vehicles that can damage highways and bridges. The Indiana Department of Transportation will install license plate-tracking technology...
Family Continues Fight Against Indiana Malpractice Cap
Jan 5 2016 // An Evansville, Ind., couple is keeping up a decadelong legal fight over their claims of medical malpractice in their daughter’s birth that left her a quadriplegic and unable to speak. A Vanderburgh County jury in...
Survey: 80% of Employers Impacted by Prescription Drug Abuse
Dec 21 2015 // A recently released survey of Indiana employers shows that 80 percent have been impacted by prescription drug misuse and abuse, including opioid painkillers, in their workplaces, the state attorney general’s office...
Indiana High Court Allows Negligence Claim Against Agent
Dec 21 2015 // Indiana’s high court has confirmed a lower court’s summary judgment favoring a property insurer that denied a homeowner’s claim after discovering that misleading information about the condition of the...
Survey: Prescription Drug Abuse Affecting Indiana Companies
Dec 8 2015 // The majority of Indiana companies that responded to a survey tied to the state’s growing woes with prescription medication abuse say their businesses are being affected by workplace abuse or misuse of those drugs,...
Indiana High Court Allows Negligence Claim Against Agent
Dec 4 2015 // Indiana’s high court has confirmed a lower court’s summary judgment favoring a property insurer that denied a homeowner’s claim after discovering that misleading information about the condition of the...
Indiana Workers’ Comp Claim Payments Rose Quickly Through 2013
Nov 18 2015 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Indiana were higher and rising faster than in most states examined in a recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The report, CompScope...
Feds: Indiana Workplace Safety Agency Understaffed, Too Slow
Nov 15 2015 // A federal review of Indiana’s workplace safety agency faulted it for having too few inspectors, slow responses to complaints and missing potentially deadly hazards. The U.S. Department of Labor’s annual...
36 Indicted in Alleged Insurance Fraud Scheme in Indiana
Nov 12 2015 // Federal prosecutors in Indiana have indicted 36 people in an insurance fraud scheme alleging they staged car crashes and filed false insurance claims. The indictment alleges 56-year-old Michael W. Burris Sr., his...
Franklin, Indiana, Faces Big Change in Flood Plain Maps
Nov 10 2015 // Hundreds of homes and businesses in a central Indiana city hit hard by flash flooding seven years ago could face hefty jumps in their insurance costs if updated federal flood plain maps are approved. About 70 percent of...
Indiana-Based Zimmer Wins First NexGen Flex Knee Devices Case
Nov 10 2015 // Indiana-based medical device manufacturer Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. has been cleared of liability in the first of more than 900 U.S. lawsuits to go to trial over claims that its NexGen Flex knee replacements were prone...
Preventable Medical Errors Increase in Indiana
Nov 2 2015 // New data released from the Indiana State Department of Health shows that the state has set another record for medical errors. There were 114 preventable adverse medical incidents in hospitals and health care facilities in...
Indiana Judge OKs Facebook Messages in Marina Fire Trial
Oct 28 2015 // A judge has declined to prevent private Facebook messages from being considered during a trial of two people charged in an Evansville, Ind., marina fire. The Evansville Courier & Press reports the judge denied the...
Indiana Sets New Record for Preventable Medical Errors
Oct 26 2015 // New data released from the Indiana State Department of Health shows that the state has set another record for medical errors. The state agency said there were 114 preventable adverse medical incidents in hospitals and...
Ameriana Bancorp to Sell Ameriana Insurance Agency to Indiana Group
Oct 23 2015 // Ameriana Bancorp announced it has agreed to sell Ameriana Insurance Agency (AIA) to Pfenninger, Claxton and Estelle Insurance Group of New Castle, Ind. The transaction value is $1,950,000 and is expected to close in the...
Indiana’s Butler University Creating Student-Run Insurer
Oct 14 2015 // Almost a quarter of the insurance industry is set to retire by 2022, and Butler University’s College of Business in Indianapolis is preparing its graduates to fill those voids by establishing its own student-run...
