Latest Michigan Headlines
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Michigan Senate OKs Bill Authorizing Theft Fees on Commercial Trucks
Mar 30 2017 // Michigan state senators have approved legislation that could allow the Automobile Theft Prevention Authority to assess small fees on commercial vehicles, not just private passenger vehicles. Under current law, auto...
Patients’ Pre-Surgery Opioid Use Contributes to Higher Costs, Complications
Mar 20 2017 // Surgery patients often go home from the hospital with a prescription for painkillers to take as they recover. But a new study suggests that doctors should also focus on patients who were taking such medicines before their...
Michigan Raising Auto Insurance Fee for Catastrophic Injuries to $170
Mar 16 2017 // The annual auto insurance fee Michigan drivers pay toward caring for people catastrophically injured in crashes is rising to $170, a $10 increase. The Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association announced the new per-car...
Jury Awards $5M to Man Injured in 2013 Michigan Food Truck Blast
Feb 26 2017 // A jury has awarded $5 million to a man who was injured during a food truck explosion at a northern Michigan festival. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports Gary Leonard was burned on nearly half his body following the...
Michigan Medical Services Firm to Pay $21.5K to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit
Feb 23 2017 // A medical services provider serving the Muskegon, Michigan, region will pay $21,500 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Dangers Posed by Thousands of Crumbling Dams in Michigan
Feb 16 2017 // Michigan has thousands of aging and under-maintained dams that could pose localized risks. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality tells the Detroit Free Press that all but six of the state’s 88 potential...
Western Michigan Public Safety Chief Resigns Over Insurance Fraud Charge
Feb 15 2017 // A top public safety official in western Michigan has resigned while he faces a health insurance fraud charge. Greenville City Manager George Bosanic says Mark Reiss resigned on Feb. 13 as director of public safety. WZZM-TV...
Michigan Beverage Plant Ammonia Leak Hospitalizes Worker
Feb 15 2017 // An ammonia leak at a Detroit, Mich.-area beverage plant has left one worker hospitalized. A contractor struck an ammonia line at Sundance Beverage in Warren on Monday morning, causing a break that forced the...
Automakers Want Regulatory Road Cleared for Self-Driving Vehicles
Feb 14 2017 // General Motors Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. officials will tell a U.S. House panel on Tuesday that automakers need changes to automotive safety rules to allow the deployment of self-driving cars on American...
Michigan Insurance Department Launches Online Complaint Form
Feb 10 2017 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) announced a new online tool to assist Michigan consumers with the filing of electronic complaints. The Office of Consumer Services (OCS) at DIFS will use...
Nearly 1.9M Michigan Workers’ Info Possibly Compromised
Feb 7 2017 // Social Security numbers and other personal information of up to 1.87 million Michigan workers may have been compromised, the state said on Feb. 3. The problem stemmed from a software update to Michigan’s troubled...
New Crash Test Dummies Look More Like Americans: Obese and Aging
Jan 30 2017 // As the American population gets older and fatter, the crash test dummies used to test the cars people drive are changing, too. Recently, engineers at global manufacturer Humanetics created dummies that reflect...
Michigan Cracking Down on Illegal Insurance Sales
Jan 27 2017 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) announced it is cracking down on fraudulent insurance sales. DIFS recently issued Cease and Desist Orders against a five entities for violating the...
Lead Levels in Flint, Michigan, Water Fall Below Federal Limit
Jan 26 2017 // Flint’s water system no longer has levels of lead exceeding the federal limit, a key finding that Michigan state environmental officials said is good news for a city whose 100,000 residents have been grappling with...
Citing Flint Water, Detroit-Area Sinkhole, Snyder Calls for Addressing Infrastructure
Jan 19 2017 // Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Jan. 17 called for addressing Michigan’s aging infrastructure over the next several decades, citing the Flint water crisis that has roiled his administration and a football field-sized...
Century-Old Michigan Inn Can Be Sued for Girl’s Burns, Appeals Court Says
Jan 19 2017 // The Michigan appeals court says an inn near Lake Michigan can be sued for injuries suffered by a girl who burned her foot in the hidden leftovers of a beach bonfire. The court overturned a decision by a Benzie County judge...
18 Female Gymnasts Sue Michigan Doctor, Alleging Sexual Abuse
Jan 11 2017 // A Michigan doctor accused of sexually abusing gymnasts has been hit with a new lawsuit by 18 women and girls who say they were molested by him, mostly at his clinic at Michigan State University. The lawsuit against Dr....
Midwest Regulation Report Card: States’ Grades Range from A to D
Jan 9 2017 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
South Central Regulation Report Card: Texas’ Grade Rises, Arkansas’ Drops
Jan 9 2017 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Drilled Hole in Pipe May Have Caused Michigan Sinkhole, Officials Say
Jan 6 2017 // A hole drilled through a concrete sewer line nearly 40 years ago may have led to soil erosion beneath another section of the pipe and the football field-sized sinkhole that has forced 22 families from their suburban...
