Latest Indiana Headlines
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Indiana Approves Decrease in Workers’ Comp Rates for 2023
Oct 5 2022 // Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner Amy L. Beard recently approved a decrease of 10.3% on average for Workers‘ Compensation rates recommended by the Indiana Compensation Rating Bureau (ICRB), effective...
EEOC: Indiana-Based Pharmaceutical Corporation Sued for Age Discrimination
Sep 27 2022 // Lilly USA, LLC, a pharmaceutical corporation based in Indianapolis, Indiana, violated federal law by intentionally failing to hire older workers based on their age for pharmaceutical sales representative positions from...
BP Reaches $2.75 Million Settlement Over Indiana Refinery Pollution
Sep 21 2022 // Oil titan BP reached a $2.75 million settlement over air pollution from its largest refinery after environmentalists complained of repeated emissions violations at the Whiting facility in Indiana. The agreement is the...
Indiana Steelworker Dies After Industrial Accident
Sep 20 2022 // A steelworker who was injured last week in an industrial accident at a northwest Indiana steel mill has died at a Chicago hospital, officials said. Michael Osika, 44, of Schererville died Saturday after being injured...
Crash That Killed Indiana Congresswoman Blamed on Failed Passing Attempt
Sep 19 2022 // A staffer for U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was trying to pass a flat-bed truck on a northern Indiana highway last month when the SUV they were in crashed into an oncoming car, killing Walorski and three other people, police...
Indiana Court Sides With Catholic Diocese in Teacher Dismissal
Sep 19 2022 // The Indiana Supreme Court ruled recently that religious freedom rights protect the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis from being sued by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school for being in a...
Indiana City to Pay $1.7 Million in Deadly Police Chase Crash
Sep 15 2022 // The city of Evansville, Indiana has agreed to pay $1.75 million to settle a woman’s lawsuit stemming from a 2017 police chase crash that killed her two children and her husband and left her seriously injured. The...
State Agency to Assess Flood Damage in 3 SE Indiana Counties
Sep 12 2022 // Officials in three southeastern Indiana counties have declared local disasters following flash flooding last weekend that killed one woman and damaged numerous homes and roads. Staffers with the Indiana Department of...
Flash Flooding in Southern Indiana Kills 1, Damages Several Homes
Sep 7 2022 // A woman was killed during weekend flash flooding in rural southeastern Indiana that damaged numerous homes and washed away several roads, officials said. Normally small creeks were overwhelmed as perhaps eight inches of...
Indiana Court Sides With Catholic Diocese in Teacher Dismissal
Sep 6 2022 // The Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week that religious freedom rights protect the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis from being sued by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school for being in...
3 Indiana State Students Killed in Car Crash
Aug 23 2022 // Two freshman members of the Indiana State University football team were among the three students who were killed in a weekend crash, officials said Monday. Two other football team members who were injured in the crash were...
Indiana House Explosion Victims Died of Trauma Asphyxia
Aug 18 2022 // Preliminary autopsy results released Monday for the three victims of a house explosion in a southern Indiana neighborhood show they died of blunt force trauma and compression asphyxia. A married couple who lived at the...
Cause Sought for Indiana House Explosion That Killed 3, Damaged 39 Homes
Aug 12 2022 // Authorities worked Thursday to determine the cause of a house explosion in a southern Indiana neighborhood that killed three people and left another person hospitalized. The explosion Wednesday afternoon in Evansville...
Indiana Metalworking Lubricants Company to Pay $310,000 over Clean Air Act Violations
Aug 12 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Indiana Department of Environmental Management announced a settlement on August 5 with Metalworking Lubricants Co. for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its used oil...
Indiana House Explosion Leaves 3 Dead, 39 Homes Damaged
Aug 10 2022 // An explosion at an Evansville, Indiana house killed three people and damaged 39 houses, officials said Wednesday afternoon. Evansville Fire Department Chief Mike Connelly said two of the people killed were in the house of...
Indiana Abortion Doctor Signals She’ll Sue AG over Comments
Jul 21 2022 // An Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio took the first step Tuesday toward suing Indiana’s attorney general for defamation. Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis...
Indiana Farmers Facing Drought or Unusually Dry Conditions
Jul 18 2022 // Weeks of heat and scant rainfall have left most of Indiana facing either drought or unusually dry conditions while farmers hope significant precipitation falls soon. The U.S. Drought Monitor shows more than a third of...
Hill Group Acquires Indiana’s Howe-LaGrange and Reick Agencies
Jun 30 2022 // The Hilb Group announced that it has acquired Indiana-based Howe-LaGrange Insurance Agency and Reick Insurance Agency, expanding the company’s growing presence throughout Indiana and the Midwest. Based in LaGrange,...
Indiana’s DOXA Launches Skilled Nursing Facilities Program
Jun 7 2022 // DOXA Insurance Holdings launched of a new skilled nursing facilities program, created by Promont Insurance Advisors, a subsidiary specializing in program management in the healthcare industry. Promont Skilled Nursing will...
Indiana Investigating Slag Pit Explosion
May 26 2022 // The state of Indiana is investigating a slag pit explosion at a northwestern Indiana steel mill, it said Tuesday. The explosion Sunday in a raw materials section of the sprawling Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor West mill...
