Latest Michigan Headlines
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Alera Group Acquires Michigan’s Gales Agency
Jan 7 2022 // Alera Group has acquired Gales Agency, Inc., an independent insurance agency providing a full line of insurance products including home, business, auto and life insurance policies to protect families. Gales Agency, Inc.,...
Bill Opens Door for Sexual Abuse Victims of U. of Michigan Doctor to Sue School
Jan 6 2022 // More than 1,000 sexual abuse victims of a University of Michigan sports doctor would get a window in which they could sue the school for damages under new bills that the Legislature will consider. It is the second time...
Window for Michigan Uninsured Drivers to Get Penalty-Free Insurance Ends Dec. 31
Dec 22 2021 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services is reminding uninsured drivers that they have until midnight on Dec. 31, 2021 to get penalty-free auto insurance. The amnesty period ensures that fees will not be...
Michigan School District Faces Two $100 Million Suits After Shootings
Dec 16 2021 // The parents of a 17-year-old girl who was shot in the neck at Oxford High School during a mass shooting that left four students dead filed a pair of lawsuits seeking $100 million each against a Michigan school district,...
Strong Winds Cause Michigan Power Outages
Dec 13 2021 // Strong winds across Michigan caused tens of thousands of new electrical outages Saturday, Dec. 11 and frustrated efforts to repair widespread damage to power lines from overnight storms. Nearly 50,000 additional outages to...
Auto Insurance Virtual Town Halls Offered to Michigan Drivers
Dec 10 2021 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) will offer free town hall events for consumers about auto insurance. The town halls will take play Dec. 14 at 6 p.m. and Dec. 15 at 12 p.m. via Zoom. The...
Michigan Drivers to Receive $400 Refund Per Vehicle
Dec 8 2021 // All Michigan drivers with auto insurance will receive a $400 per-vehicle refund next year. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and state regulators announced the dollar amount Tuesday, more than a month after she had requested the...
Michigan Residents Lose Decision over Foul Odor from Sugar Beet Processor
Dec 3 2021 // Residents complaining about foul odors from a sugar beet processor in Bay City have a lost a key decision at the Michigan Court of Appeals. Michigan Sugar, which turns beets into sugar, is accused of depriving people from...
Michigan Abandons Oil Pipeline Suit, Refocuses on Separate Case
Dec 2 2021 // Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer abandoned a lawsuit Tuesday, Nov. 30 aimed at shutting down an oil pipeline that runs through part of the Great Lakes but said the state would continue pursuing a separate case with the same...
Marijuana Testing Lab Sues Michigan Over Major Product Recall
Nov 29 2021 // A marijuana testing lab filed a lawsuit against Michigan regulators after a major product recall and allegations of unreliable results. Viridis Laboratories, with operations in Lansing and Bay City, said the...
Flint, Michigan Home Explosion Kills 1, Leaves 2 Missing
Nov 24 2021 // At least one person died and two remained missing following a fire and explosion at a home in Michigan that damaged several adjacent homes and sent debris falling onto a neighborhood, authorities said. Fire Department...
Alera Acquires Michigan’s Becker Insurance Agency
Nov 22 2021 // Alera Group, an independent, national insurance and wealth management firm, has acquired Becker Insurance Agency, P.C., an independent insurance agency based in Portage, Michigan. Terms of the transaction were not...
Michigan Man Pleads Guilty in $1.6 Million Unemployment Insurance Scam
Nov 18 2021 // A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and identity theft in a scheme to defraud nine states out of more than $1.6 million in unemployment insurance benefits, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima...
Michigan Governor: Drivers to See More Savings Under Auto Insurance Reform Law
Nov 16 2021 // Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that drivers should save on average between 25-62% on the PIP medical portion of their auto policies compared to the previous year. The lower premiums continue a trend of declining...
Auto Safety Regulators Looking into Complaint from Michigan Tesla Driver
Nov 15 2021 // U.S. auto safety regulators are looking into a complaint from a Tesla driver that the company’s “Full Self-Driving” software caused a crash. The driver was beta testing the “Full Self-Driving”...
Judge Approves $625 Million Settlement in Flint, Michigan Water Litigation
Nov 12 2021 // A judge approved a $626 million deal to settle lawsuits filed by Flint residents who found their tap water contaminated by lead following disastrous decisions to switch the city’s water source and a failure to...
Michigan to Pay $300,000 to Lone Staffer Fired Over Lead-Contaminated Flint Water
Nov 8 2021 // The state of Michigan said Nov. 4 it agreed pay $300,000 to settle wrongful discharge claims by the only employee who was fired as a result of lead-contaminated water in Flint. The deal with Liane Shekter Smith, who was...
Michigan Drivers to See Insurance Refunds After Pressure From Governor
Nov 5 2021 // All insured Michigan drivers will be getting refunds due to a $5 billion surplus in a fund that reimburses insurers medical and other costs for people seriously injured in crashes. The Michigan Catastrophic Fund...
Whitmer: Michigan Drivers Should Be Reimbursed for $5B Surplus
Nov 1 2021 // Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called on the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association (MCCA) to return surplus funds to insured drivers in a Nov. 1 letter written to the nonprofit’s executive director R. Kevin...
Former Michigan Contractor Sentenced in $3.8M Unemployment Insurance Fraud
Nov 1 2021 // A former contractor for the state of Michigan has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for helping orchestrate a $3.8 million fraud scheme involving money intended to help unemployed people during the coronavirus...
