Latest Michigan Headlines
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CNA Names McGraw to Head Michigan Branch
Oct 6 2009 // Commercial insurer CNA Financial Corp. has named Michael McGraw as vice president of its Michigan branch. As branch vice president, McGraw is responsible for synchronizing branch operations with CNA’s strategic...
Michigan’s Credit Scoring Ban Moves to State Supreme Court
Oct 6 2009 // The Michigan Supreme Court is set to consider whether the state’s Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR) can administer rules banning the use of insurance credit scoring in rate setting. The hearing...
Michigan City Ordinance Would Hold Parents Responsible for Teen Parties
Oct 5 2009 // Kalamazoo, Mich., officials are considering a new law that would make adults responsible for policing what happens at youth parties in their homes. The proposal comes after the severe beating of a 16-year-old boy at an...
Auto-Owners Insurance to Expand Michigan Headquarters
Sep 24 2009 // Auto-Owners Insurance Co. says it will build a new corporate complex when it expands its Michigan headquarters. The $105.3 million project will be near the company’s Delta Township headquarters in Eaton County, just...
Michigan City Ordinance Would Hold Parents Responsible for Teen Parties
Sep 22 2009 // Kalamazoo officials are considering a new ordinance that would make adults responsible for policing what happens at youth parties in their homes. The proposal comes after the severe beating of a 16-year-old boy at an...
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Sep 21 2009 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services of Minnesota Inc. named Gina Samland managing director for its Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas City, Kan., operations. She is based in the Omaha, Neb., office. In her new role, Samland is...
Federal Judge Rules Michigan College Coach Immune to Player Suit
Sep 8 2009 // A federal judge has dismissed parts of a lawsuit against Central Michigan University and its women’s basketball coach, who is accused of dropping a scholarship partly because a player isn’t a lesbian. U.S....
Michigan High Court to Reconsider Auto Accident Victims’ Right to Sue
Sep 7 2009 // The Michigan Supreme Court has set the stage for reversing a 2004 precedent that restricts when people injured in auto accidents can sue for pain and suffering. In a 4-3 order, the court decided to reconsider the case of...
CEO Arends, Agent Crosby Inducted Into Michigan Insurance Hall of Fame
Sep 3 2009 // The Michigan Insurance Hall of Fame honored two leaders in the insurance industry at the sixteenth annual induction ceremony of the Michigan Insurance Hall of Fame recently on the campus of Olivet College. New members...
Michigan Files $3.4 Million Insurance Claim for I-75 Tanker Explosion
Aug 24 2009 // The state of Michigan has filed insurance claims with insurance carriers for all three vehicles involved in a tanker explosion that destroyed an overpass on Interstate 75 north of Detroit. Michigan’s attorney general...
Michigan High Court to Reconsider Auto Accident Victims’ Right to Sue
Aug 24 2009 // The Michigan Supreme Court has set the stage for reversing a 2004 precedent that restricts when people injured in auto accidents can sue for pain and suffering. In a 4-3 order, the court decided to reconsider the case of...
Michigan Insurers Balk As Democrats Advance ‘Bad Faith’ Legislation
Aug 19 2009 // Michigan insurance companies say that so-called “bad faith” bills approved by the House Insurance Committee today are unnecessary and will open the floodgates for lawsuits against them, eventually costing...
Michigan Halts Novus Surplus Lines Insurance; Owner Defends Company
Aug 18 2009 // Michigan regulatory officials have charged an insurer and its managing general agency with fraud in the selling of surplus lines insurance. But the owner of the company that is is runoff says it did nothing wrong. The...
Michigan Halts Novus Surplus Lines Sales; Owner Defends Insurer
Aug 18 2009 // Michigan regulatory officials have charged an insurer and its managing general agency with fraud in the selling of surplus lines insurance. But the owner says his company that is in runoff has done nothing wrong. The...
Michigan Supreme Court Cited as Culprit in Auto Insurance Cost Hike
Aug 17 2009 // Michigan drivers will pay $20 more this fiscal year to care for accident victims who have brain damage, paralysis or other catastrophic injuries. The culprit? Not the usual suspects such as escalating health care costs or...
Michigan’s Farmers’ Mutual Downgraded
Aug 13 2009 // Rating organization A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B- (Fair) from B (Fair) and issuer credit rating to “bb-” from “bb” of Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Co., based in...
Main Street America’s Great Lakes Launches Commercial Lines in Michigan
Aug 12 2009 // The Main Street America Group’s Great Lakes Casualty Insurance Co. is now offering its commercial product line, featuring the company’s Main Line Business Owners Policy product, to its Michigan network of...
U Michigan Researcher: Less Leisure Driving Behind Drop in Road Fatalities
Aug 4 2009 // Fewer Americans are dying on the nation’s roads, not only because they are driving less, but also because the type of driving has changed, says a researcher at the University of Michigan Transportation Research...
Michigan’s American Community Launches PPO Network in Ohio
Jul 31 2009 // Michigan-based American Community Mutual Insurance Company, a provider of group and individual health insurance, has introduced its own proprietary medical provider network in Ohio. The company said the American Community...
Michigan Workers’ Comp Medical Payments Per Claim Among Lowest
Jul 31 2009 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Michigan were among the lowest of 14 states, largely the result of lower utilization and lower prices paid for some services, according to a new study from the...
