Latest Indiana Headlines
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Museum in Indiana Exhibit Explains Why Natural Disasters Occur
Apr 17 2017 // Natural disasters can strike at any time, often without warning, and devastate cities, regions, states and countries. Nature Unleashed, a new exhibit at the Indiana State Museum, aims to help Hoosiers understand why...
Indiana Museum Exhibit Explains Why Natural Disasters Occur
Apr 12 2017 // Natural disasters can strike at any time, often without warning, and devastate cities, regions, states and countries. Nature Unleashed, a new exhibit at the Indiana State Museum, aims to help Hoosiers understand why...
Convicted Ohio Burglar Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 20 2017 // A Cincinnati man serving time in an Indiana prison for burglary got a short break from prison March 9, but only to plead guilty to workers’ compensation fraud in an Ohio courtroom, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’...
My New Markets
Mar 6 2017 // Commercial Auto Preferred Admitted Market Detail: Search Insurance Services (www.marketsearchinsurance.com) offers coverage for: contractors, retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. Ineligible risks include truckers...
Republicans in Indiana Warn of Fallout from Affordable Care Act Repeal
Mar 2 2017 // Republican legislative leaders in Indiana are warning that repealing the Affordable Care Act could unravel a program for poor residents that Vice President Mike Pence implemented as governor, a conservative blueprint for...
Driver in Double Fatal Tesla Crash in Indiana Was Drunk, Police Say
Feb 10 2017 // The driver of a speeding Tesla electric car that crashed and burned in Indianapolis, killing her and a passenger, was too drunk to drive, according to a police report released Wednesday. The report, which includes...
Indiana Doctor Faces 55 Felony Charges in ‘Pill Mill’ Case
Jan 30 2017 // An Indiana doctor accused of operating a “pill mill” saw as many as 100 patients in a single day and traded pain pills for work on his farm, federal investigators say. Dr. Tristan Stonger faces 55 felony...
Indiana Objects to Peabody Bankruptcy Plan, Cites Mine Cleanup Costs
Jan 24 2017 // Indiana and several environmental groups are objecting to a plan by Peabody Energy Corp to exit its $8 billion Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing concerns over how the company will cover about $1 billion in future mine cleanup...
Midwest Insurance Commissioners on the Move
Jan 23 2017 // Several Midwest states, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and North Dakota, experienced transitions among insurance commissioners as 2016 folded into 2017. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner named Jennifer Hammer to head of the...
NFP Acquires City Securities Insurance in Indiana
Jan 18 2017 // New York-based insurance broker and consultant, NFP, has acquired City Securities Insurance LLC in Indianapolis. The transaction closed on Dec. 30, 2016. City Securities Insurance is a full service property/casualty and...
Indiana Slow to Address Expired Rules Drafted after Stage Collapse
Dec 29 2016 // Emergency rules drafted following the deadly 2011 Indiana State Fair stage collapse expired nearly a year ago and state regulators have not yet drafted a permanent rule intended to prevent such a disaster from happening...
Northern Indiana City Expanding Efforts to Deal with Underground Vault Threat
Dec 29 2016 // A northern Indiana city is extending a campaign to repair or fill old coal-storage vaults that pose a public safety threat. Goshen started its matching funds program in 2012 after a man walking on a downtown sidewalk fell...
Indiana Governor-Elect Reappoints Robertson as Insurance Commissioner
Dec 27 2016 // Indiana Governor-elect Eric Holcomb has reappointed Stephen Robertson as the commissioner of the state’s Department of Insurance. Robertson was appointed by Gov. Mitch Daniels as commissioner of the department in...
Midwest Regulation Report Card: States’ Grades Range from A to D
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Patent Litigants’ ‘Friendly Court’ Shopping
Dec 15 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide whether to limit where patent lawsuits may be filed, potentially threatening a years-long trend that critics say allows frequent and often-baseless litigants to sue in...
Central Indiana County’s Hacked Computer System Taking Weeks to Restore
Nov 29 2016 // Workers have spent weeks restoring a central Indiana county government’s computer system that was hacked by an unknown group demanding a ransom payment. Madison County officials decided to pay the undisclosed ransom...
Rep. Price, Obamacare Critic, Is Trump’s Choice to Lead Health Agency
Nov 29 2016 // President-elect Donald Trump said he’ll nominate U.S. Representative Tom Price, one of the main architects of legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human...
Ransomware Attack Freezes Indiana County’s Computers
Nov 8 2016 // A so-called ransomware attack has left police, fire and other government staff in a central Indiana county locked out of their computers. Madison County Commissioner Jeff Hardin tells The Herald Bulletin the county’s...
State Appeals $31M Verdict in Case Involving Death of Indiana Girl
Nov 3 2016 // Indiana officials are appealing a $31 million judgment awarded to parents falsely blamed for the death of their 14-year-old daughter. A federal court jury in Hammond determined last year that three Department of Child...
Medical Payments per Workers’ Comp Claim Flatten in Indiana
Nov 1 2016 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Indiana changed little from 2013 to 2014, a sharp contrast to the increases of the prior nine years, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research...
