Latest Michigan Headlines
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Declarations – Midwest
Jul 23 2012 // All Alone “I’m by myself.” —Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger acknowledged recently that she’s a lone Republican voice in her state in support of setting up an online system for...
Michigan House GOP Won’t OK Health Exchange Anytime Soon
Jul 20 2012 // Republican lawmakers want more questions answered before they’ll consider giving GOP Gov. Rick Snyder approval to start work on a website for purchasing health insurance required under the federal health care law,...
Health Care on Agenda When Michigan Lawmakers Return
Jul 16 2012 // Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and his fellow Republicans could find themselves knee-deep in health care issues soon when lawmakers briefly return after a five-week break. Snyder needs to get reluctant House Republicans on...
Michigan Regulators: Consumer Complaints Against Insurers Drop in 2011
Jul 13 2012 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR) reported that consumer complaints against insurance companies dropped slightly in 2011, compared with 2010. Consumer complaint statistics for insurance...
NTSB: Neglect, Inaction Caused Huge Michigan Oil Spill
Jul 13 2012 // The National Transportation Safety Board has approved the findings of its investigators that Canadian company Enbridge Inc.’s neglect of pipeline cracks and its slow response likely caused the most expensive onshore...
Michigan Enacts Changes to Insurance Scoring Law
Jul 9 2012 // Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a series of bills that will help insurance consumers by providing additional protections regarding the use of credit-based insurance scores, according to the Property Casualty Insurers...
Feds OK Help for Mich. Fruit Growers Hammered by Weather
Jul 5 2012 // The federal government has declared Michigan a disaster area because of damage to fruit crops from erratic spring weather, making growers eligible to seek low-interest loans. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat, said...
Michigan’s Credit-Scoring Law Moves Closer to the Mainstream
Jul 3 2012 // The State of Michigan, whose Supreme Court struck down an absolute ban on the use of credit information in insurance underwriting and rate-making decisions, has moved to slightly loosen its insurance scoring restrictions...
Ex-Michigan Police Officer Getting $1M Settlement in Bias Case
Jun 28 2012 // A former Saginaw, Mich., police officer who claimed he was fired in 2006 and discriminated against because of his race is expected to get more than $1 million in a settlement. The Saginaw News reports City Council recently...
Michigan’s InPro Insurance Group Acquires Falvay-Counihan Insurance
Jun 27 2012 // InPro Insurance Group, a Troy, Mich.-based independent insurance agency, announced the acquisition of Falvay-Counihan Insurance Inc., of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Through the acquisition, InPro gains Falvay-Counihan’s...
Association’s Suit Seeks Information from Michigan Auto Claims Administrator
Jun 26 2012 // The Brain Injury Association of Michigan (BIAMI) announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association (MCCA) to obtain vital financial information, specific claimant records and actuarial...
Regulators: Fewer Complaints Against Michigan Insurers in 2011
Jun 25 2012 // Consumer complaints against Michigan insurance companies are slightly down from the previous year. The Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation says in a statement that the agency received 3,441 insurance...
Michigan Residents Due $13.9M in Health Care Rebates
Jun 25 2012 // The federal government says 114,000 Michigan residents will get rebates from insurance companies under the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the...
Michigan State Police: 8,050 Citations in Belt Crackdown
Jun 22 2012 // State police say an annual Michigan enforcement crackdown on motorists who fail to use seat belts and child safety seats led to 8,050 citations. That’s down about 1,000 from 2011. This year’s Click It or Ticket...
Campgrounds Reopen After Michigan Upper Peninsula Wildfire
Jun 22 2012 // Officials say several state forest campgrounds in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that were closed during a recent wildfire are completely or partially reopened. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced that...
Ratings Recap: Auto Owners, Stonebridge, Tokio Marine (U.S.), Courtesy, Young America, Old Glory
Jun 21 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A++’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa+” of Auto-Owners Insurance Company and its four wholly owned...
Ratings Recap: Church Mutual, Ocean Harbor, HSBC (Del.), Golden RRG, Southern Pioneer, Affirmative
Jun 20 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and downgraded the issuer credit ratings (ICR) to “a” from “a+” of Wisconsin-based Church Mutual...
Michigan Court Rules for Insurer in Tragic Hit-and-Run
Jun 18 2012 // The Michigan Supreme Court says an insurance company doesn’t have to pay benefits in a hit-and-run case because the incident wasn’t reported within 30 days. The court’s conservative majority overturned a...
Major Michigan Wildfire Contained After 3 Weeks
Jun 14 2012 // Officials say a major wildfire in the Upper Peninsula area of Michigan that started about three weeks ago has been fully contained. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday issued the update about the Duck...
Rare Tornado Confirmed Last Week In Michigan’s UP
Jun 14 2012 // The National Weather Service has confirmed that a rare tornado touched down last week in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. WLUC-TV and The Mining Journal of Marquette report the weak tornado touched down Friday in...
