Latest Indiana Headlines

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Certified Professional Insurance Agent Classes Return to Indiana

Sep 25 2012 // Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana (PIA), a statewide association of local, independent insurance agents, is the newest sponsor of the AIMS Society’s Certified Professional Insurance Agent (CPIA) designation...

Court Orders Rehabilitation for Home Value Insurance Co.

Sep 18 2012 // Home Value Insurance Co. was ordered into rehabilitation by an Ohio court on Aug. 31, 2012, and has been prohibited from selling insurance in the state due to its failure to maintain minimum capital and surplus. The...

Feinberg Calls Indiana Stage Collapse Compensation Fair

Sep 12 2012 // The architect of compensation for victims of last year’s deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse says he believes the state was “exceedingly fair” with victims. Victims’ compensation specialist...

North Indiana Sheriff Aims to Reduce Buggy Crashes

Sep 11 2012 // The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department is teaming with an Amish group known as the Northern Indiana Safety Association to try to educate people about how to safely operate horse-drawn vehicles on public roads. The...

BP Pays $1.5M in Claims to Date in Gas Recall

Sep 10 2012 // BP has paid more than $1.5 million in claims arising from a recall in multiple Midwest states of incorrectly formulated gasoline that damaged some vehicles’ mechanical components. The Times of Munster reports...

BP Gas Recall Now 4.7M Gallons; Ohio, Southern Indiana Affected

Aug 31 2012 // BP says the size of its gasoline recall is now more than twice as large than previously reported at 4.7 million gallons distributed as far as southwestern Ohio and southern Indiana. BP spokesman Scott Dean said on Aug. 29...

Indiana Officials Looking Into BP Gasoline Recall

Aug 27 2012 // The Indiana attorney general’s office has opened an investigation to ensure BP quickly responds to consumers’ complaints about vehicles damaged by contaminated gasoline that was distributed from storage...

Central Indiana Glass Plant Faces $453K in Safety Fines

Aug 24 2012 // A central Indiana glass factory faces what the state workplace safety agency calls a record $453,000 in fines for violations that weren’t corrected after a worker’s death nearly two years ago. The Indiana...

Indiana Flood Walls Aim to Prevent Repeat of 2008

Aug 24 2012 // Floodwaters from Haw Creek cost Cummins Inc. an estimated $220 million dollars in property damage in 2008. The Indiana-based company is making an investment to make sure that never happens again. South of Haw Creek, near...

U.S. Salmonella Outbreak Tied to Indiana Farm Melons

Aug 23 2012 // U.S. health regulators said cantaloupe from Chamberlain Farms in Indiana may be one source of a multi-state outbreak of salmonella that has killed two people and sickened some 178 in the past month. The farm in Owensville...

All 92 Ind. Counties Now Farming Disaster Areas

Aug 17 2012 // The federal government has now declared all 92 Indiana counties as agricultural disaster areas following the state’s worst drought in decades. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has added 12 Indiana counties as...

Indiana Fair Remembers Stage Collapse 1 Year Later

Aug 15 2012 // The Indiana State Fair came to a standstill on the night of Aug. 13 to honor the victims of a deadly stage collapse one year ago that prompted sweeping overhauls of the fair’s emergency plan and new regulations for...

Overheated Food Trucks Raise Red Flags in Indiana

Aug 9 2012 // In recent weeks, “hot trucks” have made headlines as Indiana State Police found numerous food transport trucks driving with improper refrigeration for their loads. A new Indiana law that took effect in July...

Indiana Fair Victims Settlement Clause Designed to Shield State

Aug 9 2012 // Indiana lawmakers presented their decision to offer an additional $6 million to victims of a deadly stage collapse at last year’s state fair as a way to help those who weren’t adequately compensated by its...

Deadly Storms Inspire Indiana Shelter Inventors

Aug 7 2012 // When tornadoes tore through southern Indiana and other Midwest states in March, killing at least 13 people and nearly demolishing Henryville, Bob Gray and Steve Clingaman knew they were working on a project worth investing...

Indiana Physician Who Hid in Europe Pleads Guilty to Fraud

Jul 25 2012 // A former northwestern Indiana nose surgeon who was once the subject of an international dragnet before being captured on an Italian mountainside after five years on the run has pleaded guilty to 22 counts of health care...

Indiana Supreme Court: Son Can Sue Dad Over Accident Injuries

Jul 25 2012 // The state Supreme Court has ruled that an Indiana man can sue his father for leg injuries he suffered when his father drove into him. An Adams County judge initially threw out Robert Clark Jr.’s lawsuit, citing...

Severe Drought Includes Much of Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana

Jul 20 2012 // The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows that severe drought affecting much of the Midwest and Great Plains now covers more than half of Iowa and three-quarters of Nebraska. More than half of Indiana is now listed in...

Indiana Town May Require Proof of Insurance for Special-Event Dances

Jul 16 2012 // Terre Haute, Ind., officials are considering new regulations on dances organized by event promoters, saying they are worried about violent incidents that have happened at some of them. A proposed city ordinance would...

Dulle to Succeed Ronk as Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana Executive VP

Jul 13 2012 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana announced that Carol L. Dulle will become the group’s executive vice president upon the retirement of Roger Ronk on Feb. 1, 2013. Dulle, who has served as the vice...