Latest Michigan Headlines
All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Michigan Judge Rules Wal-Mart Can Fire Employee for Marijuana Use
Feb 16 2011 // Michigan law legalizing medical marijuana doesn’t stop private businesses from firing people for drug use, a federal judge said in dismissing a lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker...
Mood on Main Street: How Recession Changed Insurance Buying Habits
Feb 15 2011 // The recession has taken its toll on contractors, restaurants, retailers, small manufacturers and other Main Street business around the country and most of the survivors are not going to soon forget the pain of the past few...
Michigan Senate Approves Bill Banning Mandatory Ergonomics Rules
Feb 14 2011 // The Michigan Senate has approved a bill that would prevent administrative rules mandating workplace ergonomics rules. The bill from Republican Sen. Rick Jones of Grand Ledge was approved by a 25-12 vote last Thursday and...
Ratings Roundup: Allstate (bank), Queen City, Sutter, Auto Club (Michigan)
Feb 11 2011 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that its ratings on Allstate Corp. (A-/Stable/A-2) and its operating subsidiaries “are not affected by the announcement that Allstate is exiting the banking...
Business Moves
Feb 7 2011 // Hylant Group, Swartzel Affiliated Ohio-based insurance brokerage, Hylant Group, and property/casualty insurance services provider Swartzel Affiliated Insurance Agency have merged. The companies’ announcement said the...
The Mood On Main Street
Feb 7 2011 // Has the recession changed how small business feels about insurance? The recession has taken its toll on contractors, restaurants, retailers, small manufacturers and other Main Street business around the country and most of...
Hylant Acquires Michigan Benefits Agency
Feb 2 2011 // Ohio-based Hylant Group, one of the largest privately owned insurance brokerage firms in the nation, recently acquired a substantial portion of Creative Benefits Systems (CBS), an employee benefits provider in Grand...
Safety Checklist Eliminated Infections, Reduced Hospital Deaths
Jan 31 2011 // A Johns Hopkins-led safety checklist program that virtually eliminated bloodstream infections in hospital intensive-care units throughout Michigan appears to have also reduced deaths by 10 percent, a new study...
Investor Suit Against Bear Stearns, Auditor to Proceed
Jan 24 2011 // Plaintiffs in one of the biggest U.S. investor lawsuits stemming from the financial crisis got a boost from a judge, who said a case against fallen investment bank Bear Stearns and its outside auditor, Deloitte &...
AG Seeks Michigan Supreme Court Rehearing of Insurance Licensing Case
Jan 19 2011 // Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette wants the state’s highest court to reconsider several key decisions of late last year, including one involving insurance licensing. Schuette announced his office will file a...
Michigan Suburb, Insurer Settle Employee Firing Case
Jan 19 2011 // The Detroit suburb of Southgate and its insurance company agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit by a former court official who claimed she was fired because she questioned how a longtime judge handled money. At the...
Federal Judge in Michigan Nixes Religious Challenge to AIG Bailout
Jan 18 2011 // A federal judge in Michigan has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the bailout of American International Group on religious grounds. An Ypsilanti man claimed the United States should not have bailed out AIG because the...
Fremont Michigan Evaluating Options after Revised Biglari Holdings Offer
Jan 13 2011 // Fremont Michigan InsuraCorp Inc., a Michigan-exclusive property and casualty insurance carrier, says it is evaluating a revised unsolicited offer from Biglari Holdings Inc. to take over the company. Fremont confirmed that...
2011 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory
Jan 10 2011 // Welcome to Insurance Journal’s 2011 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Toyota to Open Safety Research Center in Michigan
Jan 10 2011 // Toyota Motor Corp. has announced it is launching a safety research center in Michigan that will focus on finding ways to reduce driver distraction. Toyota said the center will be based in Ann Arbor, and will work with...
Easterle Mattes Joins Meadowbrook in Michigan
Jan 5 2011 // Kim Easterle Mattes has joined Meadowbrook Insurance Agency in Southfield, Michigan as the new vice president of insurance. Prior to joining Meadowbrook, Mattes served as an insurance sales representative for the Troy,...
Some Michigan Drivers Can Erase Points By Taking Class
Jan 4 2011 // A new Michigan law will allow certain drivers to erase points from their record if they’re willing to take a class. Someone ticketed for speeding or other offenses would still pay fines. But completing a...
Steak n Shake Increases Its Bid for Fremont Michigan InsuraCorp
Dec 31 2010 // Texas-based Biglari Holdings Inc., parent company of the Steak n Shake restaurants, has increased its proposal to acquire 100 percent of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Fremont Michigan InsuraCorp Inc....
Test Your 2010 Insurance News IQ: 25 Questions
Dec 31 2010 // Are you an insurance news hound? Test your insurance news IQ and find out. The following questions and answers (at bottom of the page– don’t cheat!) were developed based on news stories published by...
Family of Michigan Man Shot by Police Sues City
Dec 29 2010 // The family of a 39-year-old man who was fatally shot by three Sterling Heights police officers is suing the Detroit suburb. A civil lawsuit filed by Matthew Moroni’s family in U.S. District Court in Detroit claims...
