Latest Indiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Cuts Blamed for Fewer Fort Wayne, Indiana Fire Inspections
Nov 12 2012 // City officials in Fort Wayne, Ind., are blaming staff cuts for the fire department not meeting its goal of inspecting high-risk buildings at least once a year. A city audit found that 60 percent of those buildings it...
Indiana Farm Deaths Fell to 16 in ’11, None with Kids
Nov 9 2012 // A new Purdue University report says farm-related deaths in Indiana fell to 16 last year and none involved children for the first time in 13 years. The Indiana Farm fatality Summary says the 2011 deaths compared with 23 the...
Wells Fargo Insurance Announces New Regional Leadership in Midwest
Nov 7 2012 // Wells Fargo Insurance, part of Wells Fargo & Co., has named new regional leaders in the Midwest. Led by regional managing director John Meder, the team serves the Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,...
Indiana Agrees to Stop Random Enforcement of Auto Insurance Registry
Nov 7 2012 // The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has agreed to stop requiring drivers chosen at random from a state registry to prove they are insured. BMV spokesman Dennis Rosebrough said the agency has agreed to a stay in a lawsuit...
Indiana Agents Benefit from a Healthy Insurance Environment
Nov 5 2012 // And, It’s One They Helped Create, Association Leader Says The current business environment for independent insurance agents in Indiana is pretty good thanks to the hard work and legislative involvement of agents and...
Indiana Company Rebuilding Year After Big Blaze
Oct 31 2012 // A year after a spectacular fire destroyed its main facility, a Fort Wayne, Ind., company has overcome a series of bureaucratic hurdles and begun to rebuild. “We had so many entities involved: the city, county, state,...
North Indiana Foundation Receives $150M Gift from Insurance Exec
Oct 26 2012 // A northern Indiana county’s charitable foundation faces a daunting task in figuring out how best to use a $150 million donation from the estate of businessman who grew up there, the group’s president said. The...
Indiana Has 32 Fungal Meningitis Cases; Michigan, 44
Oct 19 2012 // Indiana has 32 cases of fungal meningitis linked to injections of a recalled back pain steroid, and authorities in Michigan are reporting 44 cases of fungal meningitis, along with four non-meningitis infection cases...
Indiana Doctor Nabbed in Italy Gets 7 Years in Prison
Oct 15 2012 // A former Indiana surgeon arrested on a snowy Italian mountainside after five years on the run was handed a stiff prison term Friday for billing insurers and patients for procedures he didn’t perform, with the federal...
Indiana Doctor Who Hid in Europe Says He’s Served Enough Time
Oct 10 2012 // A former northwestern Indiana nose surgeon who spent five years on the run from fraud charges is arguing he’s served enough time in prison even before being sentenced. Attorneys for Mark Weinberger say in federal...
PIA of Indiana Adds Shoultz to Board
Oct 9 2012 // Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana announced that Steve Shoultz, principal of Priority Risk Management Inc. in Fishers, Ind., was recently elected to serve on the association’s board of directors until Dec. 31,...
Home-Building Drive Starts in Storm-Hit Indiana Town
Oct 9 2012 // Hundreds of volunteers have converged on Henryville in southern Indiana, which was devastated by a deadly March tornado outbreak, for a weeklong effort to rebuild 10 homes. The Habitat for Humanity building blitz began in...
FDA: Indiana Farm Tied to Salmonella Outbreak Unclean
Oct 8 2012 // A federal inspector found two strains of salmonella and unclean conditions at an Indiana cantaloupe farm’s fruit-packing plant during inspections prompted by a deadly outbreak linked to the farm’s melons. The...
Repairs to Indiana Covered Bridge Could Cost $300K
Sep 30 2012 // A county official says it could cost as much as $300,000 to repair a nearly 140-year-old wooden covered bridge in northeastern Indiana after its roof trusses were broken by a too-tall semitrailer. DeKalb County highway...
Indiana Workplace Deaths Up 3% Last Year
Sep 26 2012 // A new report says the number of people dying on the job in Indiana rose to 122 last year from 118 the year before. The Indiana Department of Labor released preliminary data on workplace deaths for 2011 on Sept. 24. The...
Certified Professional Insurance Agent Classes Return to Indiana
Sep 25 2012 // Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana (PIA), a statewide association of local, independent insurance agents, is the newest sponsor of the AIMS Society’s Certified Professional Insurance Agent (CPIA) designation...
Court Orders Rehabilitation for Home Value Insurance Co.
Sep 18 2012 // Home Value Insurance Co. was ordered into rehabilitation by an Ohio court on Aug. 31, 2012, and has been prohibited from selling insurance in the state due to its failure to maintain minimum capital and surplus. The...
Feinberg Calls Indiana Stage Collapse Compensation Fair
Sep 12 2012 // The architect of compensation for victims of last year’s deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse says he believes the state was “exceedingly fair” with victims. Victims’ compensation specialist...
North Indiana Sheriff Aims to Reduce Buggy Crashes
Sep 11 2012 // The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department is teaming with an Amish group known as the Northern Indiana Safety Association to try to educate people about how to safely operate horse-drawn vehicles on public roads. The...
BP Pays $1.5M in Claims to Date in Gas Recall
Sep 10 2012 // BP has paid more than $1.5 million in claims arising from a recall in multiple Midwest states of incorrectly formulated gasoline that damaged some vehicles’ mechanical components. The Times of Munster reports...
