Latest Michigan Headlines

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People Moves: Dutcher Joins RMIC as Marketing Representative for Indiana and Michigan

Apr 25 2025 // Levi Dutcher Rockford Mutual Insurance Company (RMIC), headquartered in Rockford, Illinois, appointed Levi Dutcher as marketing representative for the states of Indiana and Michigan. Dutcher, based in Grand Rapids,...

ALKEME Acquires Michigan’s Crawford Insurance Group

Apr 21 2025 // ALKEME has announced its acquisition of Crawford Insurance Group (CIG), a highly regarded personal and commercial insurance agency headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Founded in 2001, CIG serves clients across a...

Hadron Acquires Michigan’s The Guarantee Company of North America

Apr 15 2025 // Hadron, an Arkansas-based carrier, announced its intent to acquire The Guarantee Company of North America USA (GCNA), a Michigan-domiciled insurance company, from Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company, a subsidiary of...

Amish Communities Quickly Repair Tornado Damage in Michigan and Indiana

Apr 11 2025 // No contractors, no repair estimates, no haggling with the insurance company: After a tornado struck an Amish community in Michigan, the work was underway even before the National Weather Service could assess the...

Totalis Acquires Michigan-Based MGA Brownyard MacLean

Apr 10 2025 // Totalis Program Underwriters, an underwriting platform providing specialty expertise and solutions for challenging and underserved areas of the market. announced the acquisition of Brownyard MacLean Security Insurance...

Four Charged in Death of Michigan Boy in Oxygen Chamber Explosion

Apr 7 2025 // Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan’s attorney general...

WTW Acquires Michigan’s Global Commercial Credit

Apr 1 2025 // WTW announced the acquisition of Global Commercial Credit, LLC (GCC) into Willis, a WTW business. This strategic acquisition will accelerate performance by expanding into specialized businesses that align with the...

Michigan DIFS Urges Residents to Review Insurance Policies

Mar 26 2025 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) is encouraging Michiganders to carefully review and understand their existing insurance policies with a licensed insurance agent or trusted advisor, and to...

Michigan Taco Bell Franchises Sued for Sexual Harassment

Mar 24 2025 // Six related entities operating Taco Bell restaurants in Michigan violated federal law when they allowed a senior area manager to sexually harass female employees, including multiple teenage employees, he supervised, and...

US Releases $57M in Financing to Help Reopen Michigan Reactor

Mar 18 2025 // The U.S. Department of Energy said on Monday it has disbursed $57 million of an up to $1.52 billion loan guarantee for Holtec’s Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, which the company hopes will be the first U.S....

Four Charged in Death of 5-Year-Old Michigan Boy in Oxygen Chamber Explosion

Mar 13 2025 // Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan’s attorney general...

AM Best Places Michigan’s Wolverine Mutual Under Review With Positive Implications

Mar 13 2025 // AM Best has placed under review with positive implications the Financial Strength Rating of C++ (Marginal) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “b” (Marginal) of Wolverine Mutual Insurance...

AM Best Revises Outlook to Negative for Michigan’s Hastings

Mar 10 2025 // AM Best has revised the outlook to negative from stable for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term ICR of “a+”...

Court Rules Against Michigan Gardener Whose Organic Lawn Was Destroyed

Mar 10 2025 // A Michigan court struck down a large chunk of an $88,550 verdict for a Detroit-area organic gardener whose beloved clover lawn was destroyed by a man spraying herbicide — at the wrong address. Marilyn Mack reported...

Michigan Man Sentenced in Million-Dollar Unemployment Insurance Fraud Scheme

Feb 26 2025 // A man from Detroit, Michigan was sentenced last week for his role in a multi-state, million-dollar unemployment insurance fraud scheme aimed at defrauding the U.S. government and the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and...

AM Best Revises Outlook to Negative for Michigan’s Hastings

Feb 25 2025 // AM Best has revised the outlook to negative from stable for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term ICR of “a+”...

Court Reduces Verdict for Michigan Gardener Whose Organic Lawn Was Destroyed

Feb 24 2025 // A Michigan court struck down a large chunk of an $88,550 verdict for a Detroit-area organic gardener whose beloved clover lawn was destroyed by a man spraying herbicide — at the wrong address. Marilyn Mack reported...

Engineering Company to Pay $53M to Settle Flint, Michigan Water Lawsuits

Feb 24 2025 // An engineering company said Friday it has agreed to pay $53 million to settle all remaining lawsuits that alleged some blame for lead-contaminated water in Flint, Michigan, a decade ago. The deal by Veolia North America...

Michigan Insurer In Talks to Settle Lawsuits Over Fired Workers and COVID-19 Vaccine

Feb 18 2025 // A major Michigan insurance company is in talks to possibly settle more than 100 lawsuits by employees who were fired after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination, court records show. The disclosure comes three months...

Judge Tosses Opera Singer’s Lawsuit Against the University of Michigan Over Firing

Feb 12 2025 // A judge dismissed a lawsuit Monday by an acclaimed opera singer who sued the University of Michigan over his firing for what the school deemed sexual misconduct. David Daniels waited too long to sue the university, U.S....