Latest Michigan Headlines

Michigan Commissioner Extends Time for Motorists to Sue

Dec 22 2005 // Michigan’s Insurance Commissioner Linda Watters is prohibiting auto insurers from setting limits on the amount of time people can sue for benefits. Watters, who heads the Office of Financial and Insurance Services,...

Michigan Agents Push for Improved Smoke Detector Use

Dec 22 2005 // Michigan insurance agents are calling for more use of smoke detectors in Michigan homes as the peak fire season approaches. Last year, 119 people died in Michigan house fires. Only 16 percent of the homes where a fire...

Truck Insurer Ordered to Pay for Plane Damage Under Michigan No-Fault Law

Dec 22 2005 // Two courts in Michigan have ruled that the insurer of a truck must pay $18,000 for damage caused to a small airplane that crashed after clipping the truck as the pilot tried to land in a grassy airfield. The truck was...

Michigan AG Provides Tips to Avoid Purchasing Flood Damaged Vehicles

Dec 20 2005 // Michigan’s Attorney General Mike Cox warned consumers today about the danger of flood-damaged vehicles. A Consumer Alert, Used Vehicle Buyers Watch for Flood Damage, posted to the attorney general’s Website...

Perma-Fix Obtains Claim Settlement

Dec 8 2005 // Perma-Fix Environmental Services Inc. has received a final payment of $510,000 for the settlement of the remaining insurance claim, related to the fires, which occurred at the Perma- Fix of Michigan facility during...

Regulators Award Accreditation to Indiana, Michigan and D.C.

Dec 7 2005 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners awarded three states with accreditation honors this week under the its Financial Standards and Accreditation Program. Indiana, Michigan and the District of Columbia were...

People & Places

Nov 21 2005 // Kay W. McCurdy The Board of Directors of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. elected Kay W. McCurdy to serve on its board of directors. Bernhard Steves McCurdy began her career in 1975 as an attorney at Lord, Bissell &...

New Markets

Nov 20 2005 // Motor Carriers Suite Nuts & Bolts: Lexington Insurance Company, a member company of American International Group Inc., introduced Lex TransportPlus, a new product suite encompassing two policies: Motor Truck Cargo and...

Nov 20 2005 // The Board of Directors of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. elected Kay W. McCurdy to serve on its board of directors. McCurdy began her career in 1975 as an attorney at Lord, Bissell & Brook in Chicago and has more than...

Lawsuit Filed in N.Y. Against Operator of Lake George Cruise Ship

Nov 15 2005 // The sons of an elderly Michigan woman who drowned when the Ethan Allen cruise ship capsized last month in Lake George have filed a lawsuit against the boat’s operator. The children of 89-year-old Viola Urbaniak are...

HOUSE PASSES WHISTLEBLOWER ACT:

Nov 7 2005 // The Michigan House of Representatives passed H.B. 4577, the Medicaid Whistleblower Protection Statute, by a 106-2 vote. Rep. David Law (R-Commerce Township) unveiled the legislation in March 2005. The statute would amend...

Michigan Governor Seeks 20% Discount on Auto, Homeowners Rates

Nov 6 2005 // Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Democratic lawmakers want to give homeowners and motorists a 20 percent cut in their insurance rates, a move the insurance industry says isn’t justified and is politically...

News Briefs

Nov 6 2005 // ILLINOIS Garrett Bonham, 29, seeks more than $75,000 in a lawsuit filed last month for injuries sustained in his 10 years of employment as a performing knight at the Schaumburg, Ill., Medieval Times, according to the...

Mich. Insurer Expands to Ohio and Iowa

Nov 2 2005 // American Community Mutual Insurance Co. has expanded availability of its small group health care plan for companies with two to 50 employees to Ohio and Iowa. The health care plan offers insured members access to their own...

Mich. Bill Rewards Healthy Behavior

Oct 27 2005 // Insurance companies and HMOs in Michigan would be required to offer financial incentives that reward people for healthy behavior under legislation introduced Thursday in the state Senate, according to Associated...

IIM Planning Fraud Summit

Oct 24 2005 // The Insurance Institute of Michigan (IIM) and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) are sponsoring a statewide summit on insurance fraud in Lansing on Dec. 1, 2005. The event will bring together representatives from...

N.D., S.D., Iowa Drivers Enjoy Lowest Auto Premiums: NAIC Report

Oct 17 2005 // Drivers in most of the 12 states that comprise the Midwest region enjoy lower average auto insurance premiums than their counterparts in other regions of the country, according to the most recent study produced by the...

N.D., S.D., Iowa Drivers Enjoy Lowest Auto Premiums: NAIC Report

Oct 17 2005 // Drivers in most of the 12 states that comprise the Midwest region enjoy lower average auto insurance premiums than their counterparts in other regions of the country, according to the most recent study produced by the...

News Briefs

Oct 17 2005 // OHIO Hospital Group Sues WC Bureau: The Ohio Hospital Association and a member hospital sued the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation in September on claims the state did not follow legal processes for a $50 million...

October Serves as ‘Mich. Car-Deer Crash Safety Awareness Month’

Oct 14 2005 // October and November are two of the most dangerous months in Michigan, especially for the state’s 1.75 million whitetail deer and the 62,707 motorists who crash into them. Car-deer crashes in Michigan cause at least...