Latest Michigan Headlines
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Retailer Menards Loses Appeal in Michigan Parking Lot Injury Case
Jul 5 2017 // Months after hearing arguments, the Michigan Supreme Court has decided to stay out of a personal-injury case at a big-box store that could have consequences for retailers statewide. The court said it will let an appeals...
Hike in Michigan Auto Catastrophic Claim Fee Now in Effect
Jul 5 2017 // The cost of owning a car or truck in Michigan has gone up by $10. Effective July 1, the Catastrophic Claims Association will now collect $170 per registered vehicle, up from $160. The insurance fund was created to...
State Sues Flint, Michigan, over Water Deal Refusal
Jun 29 2017 // The state of Michigan has sued Flint, alleging that the city council’s delay in approving a broadly backed recommendation to buy water long term from a Detroit-area system is endangering public health in the wake of...
Southeast Michigan a Leader in Smart Road Technology
Jun 27 2017 // Southeast Michigan is becoming a leader in developing “connected” roads and traffic signals that will “talk” directly to the next generation of cars. The features are the building blocks that will...
WCRI Researchers Compare States on Injured Workers Returning to Work
Jun 21 2017 // From 10 to 18 percent of injured workers never reach “substantial return to work,” according to new research by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) comparing outcomes for injured workers in six...
Michigan Court Rules for Westfield Insurance in ‘Employee v. Contractor’ Case
Jun 20 2017 // The Michigan Court of Appeals has reversed the ruling of a trial court in a case involving whether a commercial insurer or a personal insurer is responsible for paying no-fault personal injury protection benefits when a...
Michigan Truck Driver Wins Appeal in ‘Transportational Use’ Insurance Case
Jun 19 2017 // The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a Detroit-area man who is seeking insurance benefits for injuries suffered when he got out of his pickup truck. Daniel Kemp tore a calf muscle while stretching on his...
Michigan’s Amerisure Insurance Names Spaude as VP, Finance
Jun 19 2017 // Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Amerisure Insurance has promoted Chris Spaude to vice president of finance. In this position, Spaude directly reports to Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Matt Simon. Spaude will be...
Michigan Health Chief, Others Face Criminal Charges over Flint Water
Jun 15 2017 // Five people, including the head of Michigan’s health department, were charged with involuntary manslaughter in an investigation of Flint’s lead-contaminated water, all blamed in the death of an 85-year-old man...
Workers’ Compensation Income Benefits Fall Short for Injured Workers: WCRI
Jun 12 2017 // Adequacy of income benefits is one of the long-standing concerns about the performance of workers’ compensation systems. However, there is little known about whether income benefits (also called wage-loss or...
Keystone Insurers Group Names Maurer as VP in Michigan
Jun 8 2017 // Property/casualty insurance broker, Keystone Insurers Group (Keystone), has appointed Mark Maurer as its state vice president in Michigan. Maurer recently was vice president at Arlington/Roe. While there he established an...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires 2 Michigan Insurance Agencies
Jun 8 2017 // Rolling Meadows, Illinois-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Ann Arbor, Michigan-based insurance brokerages Armstrong/Robitaille/Riegle Inc. and Ann Arbor Business Advisors LLC. Terms of the transaction were...
H.W. Kaufman Financial Group Acquires Michigan’s Chlystek & White Services
Jun 6 2017 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group has acquired Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Chlystek & White Services (CWS) Inc. – a regional insurance premium audit services company. CWS will become part of Afirm, Kaufman’s...
Coming Soon: Talking Car That Tells If Driver Is About to Have Medical Emergency
Jun 6 2017 // A driver experiencing an unexpected cardiac event on the road isn’t the only one at risk. Fellow passengers and motorists also face death or serious injury when another person has a medical emergency behind the...
Little Caesars Sued over Michigan Pizza Labeled ‘Halal’
May 30 2017 // A Muslim man who says Little Caesars served him a pizza with pepperoni made with pork has filed a lawsuit seeking $100 million. The Detroit Free Press reports the lawsuit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court says the pizza...
Cyberattack Cost Michigan Utility $2M, 14 Employees
May 22 2017 // A utility company in Lansing, Mich., is still transitioning back to stability after a cyberattack temporarily disabled the company’s internal network and required it to pay a $25,000 ransom. Dick Peffley, general...
Michigan High Court Rejects Appeal Over Auto Insurance Fund Records
May 19 2017 // There will be no sunlight on the records of an auto insurance fund that touches every Michigan driver. The Michigan Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from a coalition of health care, labor and consumer groups. The...
Michigan Orders Man to Stop Selling Insurance Without a License
May 18 2017 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) has issued a Cease and Desist Order against Adam Michalik, also known as Adam Heaphy, of Harrison Township, Michigan. DIFS says Michalik has been using the...
Republican Governors Have Own Ideas for Healthcare Reforms
May 18 2017 // A group of about a dozen Republican governors is pushing for its own set of national healthcare reforms, flexing its considerable muscle in the national debate over the future of Obamacare as the U.S. Senate begins writing...
J.M. Wilson Promotes Russon, Hires Lankerd in Michigan
May 17 2017 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker J.M. Wilson has promoted Chris Russon and added Travis Lankerd in its Portage, Mich., office. Russon was promoted to property/casualty underwriter. She is responsible for...
