Latest Indiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
3 Indiana Cities Receive Grants For Lead Removal
Mar 29 2012 // The cities of South Bend, Elkhart and Fort Wayne each have been awarded grants worth $2.3 million to clean up lead from at-risk homes, train workers in lead safety methods and increase public awareness about childhood lead...
Home Value Protection Insurance Comes to Indiana
Mar 28 2012 // Home Value Protection is now available in Indiana. With a Home Value Protection policy, homeowners can insure the market value of their home—the largest financial asset of most families—from volatile market...
Fatal Fire Spurs City Smoke Detector Program in Indiana
Mar 21 2012 // In Terre Haute, Ind.’s Highland Lawn Cemetery, at the base of a quiet hill next to a pair of peaceful ponds, a gracefully sweeping grave marker indicates where a young mother and daughter are buried together, both...
Public Adjusting Firm Told to Stop Soliciting Business in Indiana
Mar 20 2012 // Indiana Insurance Commissioner Stephen W. Robertson has ordered a public adjusting business to cease and desist from transacting insurance business for 90 days. The order came after department officials learned that the...
Indiana Tornado Mobile Home Deaths
Mar 19 2012 // A family of five in New Pekin, two men in Holton and a Scott County man all were in mobile homes when they died or were fatally injured in southern Indiana tornadoes on March 2. The Courier Journal reported that nearly...
Indiana, Nebraska and South Dakota Pass Contractor Fraud Bills
Mar 14 2012 // The Indiana and Nebraska legislatures recently passed much needed legislation that could help protect homeowners from contractor fraud and abuse, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
Indiana Storm Victims Get More Time to Pay for Insurance
Mar 8 2012 // The Indiana Department of Insurance is telling insurers to give victims of recent southern Indiana tornadoes an extra two months to pay their premiums. Insurance Commissioner Stephen Robertson announced a 60-day moratorium...
Mansfield Now Leading Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana
Mar 7 2012 // The independent insurance agent trade group, Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana Inc., announced a new slate of officers for 2012. They are: President James Mansfield, Mansfield Insurance Agency Inc., Lawrenceburg,...
NW Indiana Property Owners See Rise in Leasing Inquiries
Mar 7 2012 // Commercial and industrial landowners around northwest Indiana are redoubling efforts to market their parcels now that the economy has brightened from the recession’s dark days. Building activity may heat up this...
Death Toll, Damage Mount from Tornadoes in Midwest, South
Mar 3 2012 // Across the South and Midwest, survivors emerged Saturday to find blue sky and splinters where homes once stood, cars flung into buildings and communications crippled after dozens of tornadoes chainsawed through a region of...
Storm Damages Homes in Indiana Town
Mar 1 2012 // A possible tornado swept across the Ohio River town of Newburgh on Wednesday, damaging several homes in the community’s historic riverside district as a powerful line of thunderstorms cut across the Midwest,...
Indiana Panel Backs Bill Requiring Stage Inspections
Feb 24 2012 // Indiana’s building safety commission would set standards for inspecting large, temporary outdoor stages under a proposal advancing in the state Legislature. The House public safety committee approved sending the bill...
Crashes Put Spotlight on Indiana Driver Licensing Policies
Feb 20 2012 // A series of crashes into storefronts in an Indiana community has left a trail of property damage, but the drivers responsible are likely still behind the wheel because of Indiana’s policies on restricting...
Indiana Stage Builder Cited in State Fair Collapse
Feb 20 2012 // The company that built the stage ahead of last summer’s deadly Indiana State Fair collapse appeared to be indifferent to safety standards, the state Department of Labor said in a report released Feb. 8, 2012. The...
Neace Lukens Acquires Indiana’s Jenkins Insurance Services
Feb 10 2012 // Neace Lukens, an AssuredPartners Inc. company, has acquired Jenkins Insurance Services, a Sellersburg, Ind.-based employee benefits insurance firm. Mike Jenkins will join Neace Lukens’ New Albany office and will...
Indiana Stage Builder Cited in State Fair Collapse
Feb 10 2012 // The company that built the stage ahead of last summer’s deadly Indiana State Fair collapse appeared to be indifferent to safety standards, the state Department of Labor said in a report released Feb. 8. The agency...
Crashes Put Spotlight on Indiana Driver Licensing Policies
Feb 6 2012 // A series of crashes into storefronts in an Indiana community has left a trail of property damage, but the drivers responsible are likely still behind the wheel because of Indiana’s policies on restricting...
Southern Indiana Jury Awards Woman $1.5 Million in Medical Suit
Jan 23 2012 // A southern Indiana jury has awarded $1.5 million to a woman who alleged that a doctor’s decision not to perform surgery left her with a debilitating disorder. Michelle Wells Fischer’ lawsuit alleged Dr. William...
Indiana City Getting New Earthquake Risk Maps
Jan 19 2012 // Government officials and Evansville residents soon will have access to a new set of maps detailing areas at greatest risk of damage from strong earthquakes that periodically shake southwestern Indiana. The maps will be...
Accused Indiana Nose Doctor Sues Alabama Insurance Company
Jan 13 2012 // A former nose surgeon from northwestern Indiana accused of billing insurers and patients for procedures he didn’t perform is suing his malpractice insurance company, claiming it failed to properly defend him in...
