Latest Indiana Headlines

All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Insurance Pros in Politics: Midwest Politicians Work as Insurance Advocates

Sep 10 2013 // Those who have worked in the insurance industry and now practice politics in the Midwest say they are able to provide valuable insight into policies and insurance laws that affect their state’s important industries...

Indiana Insurance Agent Promoting High School Fishing Clubs

Sep 6 2013 // Helping youth find their way onto lakes to fish. That’s what John Albertson, an insurance agent in Bloomington and youth director for Indiana B.A.S.S., is trying to accomplish. He’s actively seeking students...

SW Indiana Jury Sides With Couple in Malpractice Suit

Aug 28 2013 // A southwestern Indiana jury has sided with an Evansville couple who accused a local hospital and a doctor of causing their 9-year-old daughter’s severe brain injury and cerebral palsy. The Vanderburgh Circuit Court...

Indiana Sees Slight Decline in Workplace Deaths

Aug 27 2013 // The number of workplace deaths in Indiana declined in 2012 to the lowest level in the past two decades, according to a new report by the state Department of Labor. The report, released Aug. 22, said Indiana had 113 worker...

Indiana Lawmaker Wants to Lower Rates Homeowners Pay to Insurance Fund

Aug 27 2013 // A state lawmaker concerned about Indiana’s recent move to dip into a fund set aside for repairs to homes damaged by soil shifting above old coal mines wants the state’s insurance commissioner to lower the...

Indiana Motorcycle, Alcohol-Related Deaths Up

Aug 16 2013 // Researchers say Indiana roads were more deadly last year for motorcyclists and for people driving after drinking. The report by the Indiana University Public Policy Institute’s Center for Criminal Justice Research...

Insurers Sue for Losses from Indiana State Fair Stage Collapse

Aug 15 2013 // Two years after the deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse, new legal disputes are cropping up and victims are still working to recover. Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. and subsidiary AGCS Marine, which insured...

State Sues Indiana Bell for Suspending Injured Workers

Aug 8 2013 // The state has filed a lawsuit against AT&T’s Indiana operating unit, alleging it has a policy of suspending workers who report work-related injuries. The Indianapolis Business Journal reported the state...

Indiana’s Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Promotes Book, Thomas

Aug 7 2013 // Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. has promoted Dan Book to the position of vice president – sales and Mitzi Thomas to vice president – marketing. Book joined Brotherhood Mutual in 1989 and was the...

Politics Driving Obamacare Premium Debate

Aug 7 2013 // With the Oct. 1 date for enrollment in the health insurance exchanges being created by Obamacare less than two months away, a war of numbers has been escalating. Health insurance will cost way less. Or it will cost way...

Buffett Attends Opening of New Indiana Geico Insurance Center

Jul 23 2013 // Billionaire investor Warren Buffett joined in a ceremony that marked the opening of a new customer service center for the Geico insurance company in suburban Indianapolis that’s expected to have as many as 1,200...

Indiana Melon Growers Face New FDA Rules after Salmonella Outbreak

Jul 12 2013 // Southwestern Indiana’s melon growers are facing new federal regulations following last year’s salmonella outbreak that killed three people who ate Indiana-grown cantaloupes. Workshops were recently held to...

Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual, Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Announce Affiliation

Jul 11 2013 // Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company and Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company announced on Wednesday that they have executed agreements to affiliate their respective companies. Once in effect, the...

South Indiana City Awaits FEMA Ruling on Floodplain Maps

Jul 9 2013 // A southern Indiana city is awaiting a federal agency’s decision on revised floodplain maps that could save more than 400 homeowners thousands of dollars each year in insurance costs. The Federal Emergency Management...

Daycare Operators Prepare for Tougher Indiana Rules

Jul 3 2013 // Childcare providers across Indiana are scrambling to find money to pay for broader criminal background checks of employees and educate staff about new rules to improve safety and prevent child abuse ahead of a July 1...

60 Patients of Indiana Nose Doc to Be Compensated

Jul 1 2013 // The final 60 patients who have pending medical malpractice claims against a former northwestern Indiana nose surgeon who disappeared while vacationing in Greece and was captured five years later on an Italian mountainside...

Indiana Balance-Billing Law Latest in Fight Over ‘Reasonable’ Charges

Jun 25 2013 // One of the long-standing tensions in health care finance — whether you’re talking about health insurance or managed care, for-profit or non-profit, workers’ compensation, Medicare, Tricare, automobile...

Electronic Proof of Auto Insurance Coming to Indiana

Jun 17 2013 // Indiana drivers who have to show proof of insurance to police after an accident or traffic violation can do so electronically starting July 1 under a new law that signals an increasing use of technology in insurance...

Indiana Fire Deaths Surge, Already Top 2012′s Total

Jun 12 2013 // Indiana’s fire deaths have surged to 54 so far this year, giving the state more fire fatalities in just over five months than all of last year – a troubling increase the state’s top fire official said...

Indiana BMV Warns of Inappropriate Insurance Offers

Jun 10 2013 // The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles is warning Hoosier motorists that someone is making inappropriate phone solicitations regarding insurance rates: BMV Commissioner R. Scott Waddell said that his office learned motorists...