Latest Indiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ONI Risk Partners Acquires Indiana’s HBG Insurance & Bonds
Nov 28 2017 // Indianapolis-based independent insurance broker, ONI Risk Partners (ONI), is acquiring HBG Insurance & Bonds (HBG), a privately owned agency based in Greencastle, Indiana. Led by President Rick Bittles, the HBG team...
Historic Indiana Fieldhouse Hit by Storm Insured for Nearly $10M
Nov 17 2017 // A central Indiana fieldhouse that’s one of the nation’s largest high school basketball venues was insured for nearly $10 million when a severe thunderstorm recently damaged it, school officials say. The...
Indiana County Facing $8M Payout to Settle Suits Against Employees
Nov 13 2017 // A northwest Indiana county may pay more than $8 million to settle several lawsuits against county employees that allege misconduct and negligence led to several injuries and deaths. The Lake County Council received a list...
Amazon Fined $28K for Worker Fatality at Indiana Warehouse
Nov 9 2017 // Amazon is facing a $28,000 state fine over safety violations from when a worker at a suburban Indianapolis warehouse was killed when a forklift fell on him. The Indiana Department of Labor’s order says Amazon...
Storms Damage Fieldhouse in Muncie, Indiana
Nov 7 2017 // Severe storms that battered parts of Indiana damaged the Muncie Fieldhouse, caused other sporadic damage and brought some flooding. The (Muncie) Star Press reports that part of the brick facade at the top of the Muncie...
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Nov 6 2017 // Crop insurer, Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Iowa (FMH), announced that James A. Brost, retiring senior vice president with Holborn Corp., will join the FMH board of directors on Jan. 1, 2018. Brost began his...
Medical Payments per Workers’ Comp Claim Drop in Indiana: WCRI
Nov 6 2017 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Indiana decreased from 2014 to 2015 for the first time in more than a decade, according to a recent study by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Workers Compensation...
Indiana Sees First in a Decade Decline in Medical Payments per Workers’ Comp Claim: WCRI
Oct 26 2017 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Indiana decreased from 2014 to 2015 for the first time in more than a decade, according to a recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The...
Worker Dies at Previously Cited Southern Indiana Auto Parts Factory
Oct 25 2017 // The Clark County coroner and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating the death of a worker at a southern Indiana auto parts manufacturing plant. The coroner’s office says 44-year-old...
Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Acquires Indiana’s Williams & Associates
Oct 25 2017 // Boca Raton, Florida-based Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired Williams & Associates Insurance, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Led by Scott Davis, Williams & Associates has offices in...
Indiana Fines Kansas Contractor $24.5K After Worker Dies in Fall
Oct 16 2017 // A contractor was fined $24,500 for safety violations after a worker died from a fall at a Richmond, Ind., factory. The Richmond Palladium-Item reports 23-year-old Jacob Bugg died June 27 after falling about 40 feet at a...
Employee Plans Adds Duhon as VP, New Business Development in Indiana
Oct 11 2017 // Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Employee Plans LLC has hired Donn Duhon as vice president of new business development. Duhon focuses on bringing creative and cost-effective solutions to employers pursuing a self-funded benefits...
More than 1M Chickens Killed in Indiana Fire
Oct 6 2017 // An official says more than a million chickens died in a fire that destroyed several large barns at a northern Indiana egg-producing facility. Crews responded late on Oct. 2 to the fire at Hi-Grade Egg Producers near the...
Indiana’s American Inter-Fidelity Exchange OK’d to Sell Insurance in Arkansas
Oct 4 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to an Indiana-based company to begin selling insurance products in Arkansas. Kerr has approved American Inter-Fidelity Exchange of...
Indiana’s AG, 37 Others Urge Insurers to Help Fight Opioid Crisis
Oct 2 2017 // Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill has joined a coalition of 37 states and territories urging health insurance companies to examine financial incentives that contribute to the opioid crisis. The bipartisan coalition is...
Percent of Indiana Residents Without Health Insurance Declines
Sep 19 2017 // A U.S. Census Bureau report has found that Indiana had 373,000 fewer people without health insurance last year than three years earlier. The report released last week said about 8 percent of Indiana residents, or about...
Recalled Volkswagens Stolen from Michigan Parking Lot
Sep 14 2017 // Michigan investigators and out-of-state police are tracking down more than 30 recalled diesel vehicles that were stolen from the parking lot of a shuttered arena in southeastern Michigan. Indiana State Police Sgt. Jerry...
Proposal Aims to Make Deadly Indiana Highway Safer
Sep 13 2017 // The Indiana Department of Transportation has proposed a way to make a deadly stretch of highway in western Indiana safer. Department officials told the Vincennes Sun-Commercial that an intersection of U.S. 41 near Oaktown...
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Aug 7 2017 // Ron Lockton, who has served as vice chairman of global insurance broker Lockton Inc. for the past two years as part of the succession plan, is expanding his role to become president and chief executive officer of the...
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Aug 7 2017 // Workers Comp Payroll Service, Florida to California Market Detail: Low Rate Workers’ Comp (www.LowRateWorkComp.com) serves Florida and throughout the USA. Eligible classes have one or more employees with $400/week...
