Latest Michigan Headlines
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Fire Damage to Michigan School Buses Estimated at $300K
Dec 17 2013 // Authorities in Saginaw County, Michigan say electrical problems caused a blaze that destroyed two school buses and damaged two more. WSGW-AM reports that damage to the four Saginaw Intermediate School District buses from...
Insurance Crime Bureau: 38% Drop in Questionable Claims in Michigan
Dec 16 2013 // Questionable insurance claims in Michigan dropped by 38 percent from 2010 through 2012, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). Questionable claims (QC) are those claims that NICB member insurance...
Costs per Workers’ Comp Claims in Michigan Low Prior to 2011 Reforms
Dec 9 2013 // The total costs for a workers’ compensation claim in Michigan were low compared with other states according to a recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), Michigan System Performance Prior...
Marsh & McLennan Agency Acquires Michigan’s Cambridge Property & Casualty
Dec 3 2013 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc., announced the acquisition of Cambridge Property & Casualty, based in based in Livonia, Mich., Founded in 1974, Cambridge provides...
Michigan Farmers Can Get Loan Help After Hail Storms
Nov 15 2013 // Farmers in 20 Michigan counties that had damage from severe hail storms earlier this year are eligible for emergency loans. U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan announced the support Wednesday involving loans from the...
Acrisure in Michigan Makes Three Executive Moves
Nov 14 2013 // Caledonia, Mich.-based Acrisure LLC recently announced three executive moves. Don Collins was named chief operating officer of Acrisure. Collins will lead new acquisition assimilation, coordination and development of...
Detroit Mayor-Elect Duggan’s Plans Include City-Run Auto Insurer
Nov 13 2013 // Detroit Mayor-elect Mike Duggan rescued a county, a bus system and a 14,000-worker hospital network, served as a prosecutor, plotted Democratic campaigns and coached his four children’s soccer teams. Now, Duggan, 55,...
Michigan Landlord Sentenced to 55 Years in Arson Case
Nov 12 2013 // A 74-year-old West Michigan landlord convicted of arson and other charges in a case involving insurance fraud has been sentenced to 55 years in prison. A federal court jury in Grand Rapids earlier this year convicted...
Washington Apple Crop Tops $2B in Sales
Nov 11 2013 // An apple a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure lines the pockets of Washington’s apple growers. Apples were worth more than $2 billion to Washington farmers in 2012, the first crop in state history to cross...
UPS Driver in Michigan Works 51 Years, No Crashes
Nov 1 2013 // UPS driver Tom Camp from Livonia, Mich., and his big, brown truck have done something no other UPS driver has accomplished: 51 years without an accident. That’s after an estimated 800,000 to 900,000 miles on the road...
Ferndale, Michigan Workers Lose 1,052 1/2 Pounds, Save Money
Oct 25 2013 // Ounce by ounce, 30 Ferndale, Mich., city workers began to change their lives one year ago. Today, they are 1,0521/2 pounds lighter, and they’re saving the city big bucks – an estimated $131,000 this year alone...
Insurance to Pay Most of $10M Price Tag for Michigan City Hall Repair
Oct 22 2013 // The historic city hall in Bay City, Mich., is nearing completion of a more than $10 million renovation three years after it was damaged by fire and flood. The original structure cost $170,000 to build, but Bay City...
Study: Michigan Auto Costs Can Drop if Lifetime Care Stays
Oct 16 2013 // Michigan can lower auto insurance premiums without making major changes to the state’s no-fault system proposed in legislation that has stalled for months, according to a nonpartisan report issued Oct. 14. The...
Flood Appointed Michigan’s Insurance Director; Clinton Named State Treasurer
Oct 16 2013 // Ann Flood has been selected to lead the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services upon the appointment of current Commissioner Kevin Clinton as state treasurer, the office of Gov. Rick Snyder announced. Kevin...
Michigan Premium Estimator Used More Than 100,000 Times
Oct 10 2013 // Michigan’s online premium estimator was used more than 100,000 times in the first week people could shop in an insurance marketplace formed under the federal health care law. The state Department of Insurance and...
Michigan Woman Charged In Fake Auto Insurance Policy Scheme
Oct 7 2013 // A 40-year-old woman has been arrested in the sale of more than 300 bogus auto insurance policies to Detroit, Mich.-area drivers. The Wayne County sheriff’s office says Timmica Morton was arraigned on charges that she...
Cost of Insurance Too High: Michigan Township Wants Different Mailing Address
Oct 7 2013 // A township near Flint, Mich., is appealing a U.S. Postal Service decision to deny its request for a mailing address distinct from the troubled city. The Flint Journal reports that Grand Blanc Township officials and...
Michigan Earns Outstanding Big ‘I’ Young Agents Committee Award
Oct 7 2013 // The National Young Agents Committee (YAC) of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) presented the Young Agents Council of the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents...
Midwest Politicians Work as Insurance Advocates
Sep 23 2013 // Three individuals who have worked in the insurance industry and now practice politics in the Midwest — Indiana State Representative Matt Lehman, Michigan State Senator David Robertson and U.S. Congressman Tom Latham...
Michigan Secretary of State Launches Anti-Fraud Task Force
Sep 19 2013 // With the aim of battling auto insurance fraud, Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson has launched an anti-fraud task force – Fighting Auto Insurance Rip-offs (FAIR) – that involves Michigan State Police,...
