Latest Indiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Indiana Motorcycle, Alcohol-Related Deaths Up
Aug 16 2013 // Researchers say Indiana roads were more deadly last year for motorcyclists and for people driving after drinking. The report by the Indiana University Public Policy Institute’s Center for Criminal Justice Research...
Insurers Sue for Losses from Indiana State Fair Stage Collapse
Aug 15 2013 // Two years after the deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse, new legal disputes are cropping up and victims are still working to recover. Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. and subsidiary AGCS Marine, which insured...
State Sues Indiana Bell for Suspending Injured Workers
Aug 8 2013 // The state has filed a lawsuit against AT&T’s Indiana operating unit, alleging it has a policy of suspending workers who report work-related injuries. The Indianapolis Business Journal reported the state...
Indiana’s Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Promotes Book, Thomas
Aug 7 2013 // Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. has promoted Dan Book to the position of vice president – sales and Mitzi Thomas to vice president – marketing. Book joined Brotherhood Mutual in 1989 and was the...
Politics Driving Obamacare Premium Debate
Aug 7 2013 // With the Oct. 1 date for enrollment in the health insurance exchanges being created by Obamacare less than two months away, a war of numbers has been escalating. Health insurance will cost way less. Or it will cost way...
Buffett Attends Opening of New Indiana Geico Insurance Center
Jul 23 2013 // Billionaire investor Warren Buffett joined in a ceremony that marked the opening of a new customer service center for the Geico insurance company in suburban Indianapolis that’s expected to have as many as 1,200...
Indiana Melon Growers Face New FDA Rules after Salmonella Outbreak
Jul 12 2013 // Southwestern Indiana’s melon growers are facing new federal regulations following last year’s salmonella outbreak that killed three people who ate Indiana-grown cantaloupes. Workshops were recently held to...
Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual, Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Announce Affiliation
Jul 11 2013 // Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company and Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company announced on Wednesday that they have executed agreements to affiliate their respective companies. Once in effect, the...
South Indiana City Awaits FEMA Ruling on Floodplain Maps
Jul 9 2013 // A southern Indiana city is awaiting a federal agency’s decision on revised floodplain maps that could save more than 400 homeowners thousands of dollars each year in insurance costs. The Federal Emergency Management...
Daycare Operators Prepare for Tougher Indiana Rules
Jul 3 2013 // Childcare providers across Indiana are scrambling to find money to pay for broader criminal background checks of employees and educate staff about new rules to improve safety and prevent child abuse ahead of a July 1...
60 Patients of Indiana Nose Doc to Be Compensated
Jul 1 2013 // The final 60 patients who have pending medical malpractice claims against a former northwestern Indiana nose surgeon who disappeared while vacationing in Greece and was captured five years later on an Italian mountainside...
Indiana Balance-Billing Law Latest in Fight Over ‘Reasonable’ Charges
Jun 25 2013 // One of the long-standing tensions in health care finance — whether you’re talking about health insurance or managed care, for-profit or non-profit, workers’ compensation, Medicare, Tricare, automobile...
Electronic Proof of Auto Insurance Coming to Indiana
Jun 17 2013 // Indiana drivers who have to show proof of insurance to police after an accident or traffic violation can do so electronically starting July 1 under a new law that signals an increasing use of technology in insurance...
Indiana Fire Deaths Surge, Already Top 2012′s Total
Jun 12 2013 // Indiana’s fire deaths have surged to 54 so far this year, giving the state more fire fatalities in just over five months than all of last year – a troubling increase the state’s top fire official said...
Indiana BMV Warns of Inappropriate Insurance Offers
Jun 10 2013 // The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles is warning Hoosier motorists that someone is making inappropriate phone solicitations regarding insurance rates: BMV Commissioner R. Scott Waddell said that his office learned motorists...
Ohio Sees 12% Decrease in Narcotics Prescribed to Injured Workers
Jun 3 2013 // There are close to 40,000 drug overdose deaths each year in the United States, and the number continues to rise, according to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, which show more than half of...
Indiana Tech Sues Hospital She Says Denied Medical Leave
May 30 2013 // A southern Indiana woman asserts in a federal lawsuit that the hospital where she worked fired her after she requested medical leave in order to take care of her disabled son. Katherine Harner of Shoals sued Daviess...
Tighter Indiana Drunken Driving Law Seems Unlikely
May 21 2013 // Some key Indiana legislators don’t expect the state to adopt a federal safety board’s recommendation that the threshold for drunken driving be cut nearly in half. The National Transportation Safety Board said...
Ohio, Indiana Struggle with Impact of Opioids on Injured Workers
May 20 2013 // Editor’s Note: This is part of a team report on opioid use by injured workers. For the national story read: Opioid Epidemic Plagues Workers’ Comp In the Midwest the multitude of jobs in the automotive and...
Flooding Damage Tops $2.5M in Tipton, Indiana
May 8 2013 // The mayor of the central Indiana city of Tipton says recent flooding has caused more than $2.5 million in property damage and a loss of as much as 10 percent in its property tax base. Mayor Don Havens says in an impact...
