Latest Michigan Headlines
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Michigan Law Firm Making Money Suing Cities Over Sewers
Oct 10 2018 // A single law firm based in Royal Oak has won tens of millions of dollars in lawsuits against a growing list of metro Detroit communities – including Detroit, Royal Oak, Ferndale, Birmingham, and the townships of...
Marijuana Legalization Advocates Seek Foothold in Midwest States
Oct 10 2018 // Backers of broad marijuana legalization are looking to break through a geographic barrier in November and get their first foothold in the Midwest after a string of election victories in Northeastern and Western...
Michigan Court Rules No Liability for Bank in Wrong-Way Driver’s Crash
Oct 9 2018 // The Michigan appeals court says a bank can’t be blamed for a crash that occurred when a confused driver went the wrong way in suburban Detroit. Frank Scola was a 7-year-old passenger when his mother turned the wrong...
Kapnick Acquires A.E. Mourad in Michigan
Oct 8 2018 // Kapnick Insurance Group has acquired Warren, Mich.-based A.E. Mourad Agency. The Mourad team will join Kapnick in their Troy offices in early 2019. A.E. Mourad is an independent agency that provides a variety of services...
Michigan Department of Insurance Gets New Fraud-Fighting Unit
Oct 1 2018 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) will have more resources to fight insurance and financial services fraud after Gov. Scott Walker issued an executive order creating a new anti-fraud unit...
A.M. Best: Positive Outlooks for Michigan’s Northern Mutual Insurance
Oct 1 2018 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “a-” of Northern Mutual...
Business Moves
Oct 1 2018 // Marsh & McLennan, JLT Marsh & McLennan Inc. agreed to buy Jardine Lloyd Thompson for about $5.7 billion to expand its global offering of reinsurance and consulting services. New York-based Marsh said the purchase...
Kitchen Torch Behind Fire at Home of Michigan GOP Lt. Gov. Candidate
Sep 19 2018 // Republican lieutenant governor candidate Lisa Posthumus Lyons says the fire that burned down her western Michigan home started after one of her children used a kitchen torch inside the attached garage. She said at a news...
Outlooks Revised to Positive for Michigan’s Northern Mutual Insurance
Sep 18 2018 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “a-” of Northern Mutual...
Michigan Offering Matching Grants for Workplace Safety, Health Improvements
Sep 17 2018 // Matching grants of up to $5,000 to improve workplace safety and health are being made available to Michigan companies that have up to 250 employees. Administered by the Michigan’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Deadline for Medical Marijuana Business Licensing Extended in Michigan
Sep 13 2018 // Michigan regulators have again extended the deadline for medical marijuana businesses to be licensed, allowing 108 facilities to continue operating while warning that 98 others will be issued cease-and-desist letters if...
Michigan Insurance Department Getting New Anti-Fraud Unit
Sep 13 2018 // Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has formed a new division to investigate fraud within the auto insurance, health insurance and banking sectors. The anti-fraud unit will be housed within the Department of Insurance and Financial...
Michigan Offering Matching Grants to Improve Workplace Safety, Health
Sep 6 2018 // Matching grants of up to $5,000 to improve workplace safety and health are being made available for Michigan companies that have up to 250 employees. Michigan’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration says the...
Federal Grant Helps Michigan Town Place 2K Smoke Detectors
Sep 5 2018 // The federal government is helping to put 2,000 smoke detectors in Saginaw, Michigan, homes. U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee says the Saginaw Fire Department is getting roughly $23,000 from the Department of Homeland Security. The...
Keystone Insurers Group Adds 2 New Michigan Agencies
Sep 4 2018 // Keystone Insurers Group has named Shoreline Insurance of Muskegon and Combined Insurance Agencies of St. Joseph to its growing community of partners in Michigan. Since 1976, Shoreline Insurance has served clients in the...
Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan Names Taylor Marketing VP
Aug 30 2018 // Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan has appointed Matt Taylor as its vice president of Marketing, effective Sept.7, 2018. Taylor began his insurance career serving in many positions at State Farm Insurance, including as an...
CPA Mutual Acquires Michigan’s Professional Management Consultants Assoc.
Aug 28 2018 // CPA Mutual, headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, has acquired Michigan-based Professional Management Consultants Association of America (PMCA) in a move to expand brand awareness among more CPA firms, particularly those...
Detroit Mayor, 8 Motorists Sue Insurance Commissioner Over Michigan’s No Fault Law
Aug 24 2018 // Asserting that Michigan’s no fault auto insurance law is unfair to the poor, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, seeking to have the 45-year-old law declared unconstitutional. The suit...
Outlooks Upgraded to Stable for Michigan’s Farmers Mutual Insurance
Aug 22 2018 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of C++ (Marginal) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “b” of Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of...
Risen Named President of Meadowbrook Insurance Agency in Michigan
Aug 22 2018 // Brian L. Risen, senior vice president, Mackinaw Underwriters, Retail Distribution Management, a member of the AmeriTrust Group Inc., has been promoted to president of the Meadowbrook Insurance Agency in Southfield,...
