Latest Indiana Headlines
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Family Continues Fight Against Indiana Malpractice Cap
Jan 5 2016 // An Evansville, Ind., couple is keeping up a decadelong legal fight over their claims of medical malpractice in their daughter’s birth that left her a quadriplegic and unable to speak. A Vanderburgh County jury in...
Survey: 80% of Employers Impacted by Prescription Drug Abuse
Dec 21 2015 // A recently released survey of Indiana employers shows that 80 percent have been impacted by prescription drug misuse and abuse, including opioid painkillers, in their workplaces, the state attorney general’s office...
Indiana High Court Allows Negligence Claim Against Agent
Dec 21 2015 // Indiana’s high court has confirmed a lower court’s summary judgment favoring a property insurer that denied a homeowner’s claim after discovering that misleading information about the condition of the...
Survey: Prescription Drug Abuse Affecting Indiana Companies
Dec 8 2015 // The majority of Indiana companies that responded to a survey tied to the state’s growing woes with prescription medication abuse say their businesses are being affected by workplace abuse or misuse of those drugs,...
Indiana High Court Allows Negligence Claim Against Agent
Dec 4 2015 // Indiana’s high court has confirmed a lower court’s summary judgment favoring a property insurer that denied a homeowner’s claim after discovering that misleading information about the condition of the...
Indiana Workers’ Comp Claim Payments Rose Quickly Through 2013
Nov 18 2015 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Indiana were higher and rising faster than in most states examined in a recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The report, CompScope...
Feds: Indiana Workplace Safety Agency Understaffed, Too Slow
Nov 15 2015 // A federal review of Indiana’s workplace safety agency faulted it for having too few inspectors, slow responses to complaints and missing potentially deadly hazards. The U.S. Department of Labor’s annual...
36 Indicted in Alleged Insurance Fraud Scheme in Indiana
Nov 12 2015 // Federal prosecutors in Indiana have indicted 36 people in an insurance fraud scheme alleging they staged car crashes and filed false insurance claims. The indictment alleges 56-year-old Michael W. Burris Sr., his...
Franklin, Indiana, Faces Big Change in Flood Plain Maps
Nov 10 2015 // Hundreds of homes and businesses in a central Indiana city hit hard by flash flooding seven years ago could face hefty jumps in their insurance costs if updated federal flood plain maps are approved. About 70 percent of...
Indiana-Based Zimmer Wins First NexGen Flex Knee Devices Case
Nov 10 2015 // Indiana-based medical device manufacturer Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. has been cleared of liability in the first of more than 900 U.S. lawsuits to go to trial over claims that its NexGen Flex knee replacements were prone...
Preventable Medical Errors Increase in Indiana
Nov 2 2015 // New data released from the Indiana State Department of Health shows that the state has set another record for medical errors. There were 114 preventable adverse medical incidents in hospitals and health care facilities in...
Indiana Judge OKs Facebook Messages in Marina Fire Trial
Oct 28 2015 // A judge has declined to prevent private Facebook messages from being considered during a trial of two people charged in an Evansville, Ind., marina fire. The Evansville Courier & Press reports the judge denied the...
Indiana Sets New Record for Preventable Medical Errors
Oct 26 2015 // New data released from the Indiana State Department of Health shows that the state has set another record for medical errors. The state agency said there were 114 preventable adverse medical incidents in hospitals and...
Ameriana Bancorp to Sell Ameriana Insurance Agency to Indiana Group
Oct 23 2015 // Ameriana Bancorp announced it has agreed to sell Ameriana Insurance Agency (AIA) to Pfenninger, Claxton and Estelle Insurance Group of New Castle, Ind. The transaction value is $1,950,000 and is expected to close in the...
Indiana’s Butler University Creating Student-Run Insurer
Oct 14 2015 // Almost a quarter of the insurance industry is set to retire by 2022, and Butler University’s College of Business in Indianapolis is preparing its graduates to fill those voids by establishing its own student-run...
Indiana Insurance Agent Tapped to Lead State House GOP
Oct 8 2015 // Indiana House Republicans have chosen Rep. Matt Lehman to replace former House Majority Leader Jud McMillin. Republicans announced Lehman’s election shortly after emerging from a closed-door meeting on Oct. 6....
Carmel, Indiana OKs LGBT Anti-Discrimination Ordinance
Oct 7 2015 // The Carmel City Council in Indiana has passed an ordinance banning discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation, narrowly defeating efforts by social conservatives to defeat the measure in the affluent...
NAMIC Legislators of the Year from Indiana, Missouri
Oct 5 2015 // Missouri Rep. Don Gosen and Indiana Rep. Matt Lehman were named Legislators of the Year for the 2015 legislative session by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies. Gosen is chairman of the Missouri House...
Pending Mergers Will Harm Health Insurance Competition: AMA
Sep 8 2015 // The nation’s doctors say the proposed mergers among four of the nation’s largest health insurance companies would violate federal antitrust guidelines and seriously erode health insurance competition. According...
Assessment of Storm Damage in 29 Indiana Counties Begins
Aug 20 2015 // Federal, state and local officials have begun assessing the damage from severe storms and flooding in 29 Indiana counties between June 7 and July 29. The Indiana Department of Homeland Security said the preliminary damage...
