Latest Michigan Headlines
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Michigan Jury Awards $12M to Woman Fired for Refusing to Get COVID Vaccine
Nov 12 2024 // DETROIT (AP) — A jury awarded more than $12 million Friday to a woman who lost her job at a Michigan insurance company after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination. Much of the award — $10 million — is for punitive...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Michigan’s Peabody
Nov 5 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Fenton, Michigan-based Peabody Insurance Agency, Inc. (Peabody Insurance). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Peabody Insurance is a retail insurance...
Trucker Crashes Into Stopped Traffic in Michigan, Killing 4
Nov 5 2024 // WEBBERVILLE, Mich. (AP) — A section of Interstate 96 in southeast Michigan remained closed Sunday after a semitruck crashed into more than a dozen vehicles overnight, killing 4 people and injuring 17 others, according to...
AM Best Withdraws Credit Rating of Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. of Michigan
Nov 4 2024 // 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 C++ (Marginal) and the Long-Term ICR of ‘b+’...
Michigan Culver’s Restaurants Sued for Discriminating Against Transgender Employee
Oct 29 2024 // Five related entities operating Culver’s restaurants in Michigan violated federal law when they fired a transgender employee and three of his colleagues after they complained about harassment, the U.S. Equal...
Michigan Construction Company to Pay $180K Fine for Lead Paint Violations
Oct 22 2024 // U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a $180,000 settlement with All Point Construction LLC in Allen Park, Michigan to resolve alleged violations of the federal lead renovation, repair and painting...
Michigan to Pay $13M After Shooter Drill Terrified Psychiatric Hospital for Kids
Oct 17 2024 // DETROIT (AP) — A judge has approved a $13 million settlement in a lawsuit over an unannounced active shooter drill at a Michigan psychiatric hospital for children, an event that terrified kids and staff and caused them...
AM Best Withdraws Credit Rating of Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. of Michigan
Oct 4 2024 // 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 C++ (Marginal) and the Long-Term ICR of “b+”...
Live Nation Found Not Liable for Death of 3 Campers at Michigan Music Fest
Oct 4 2024 // BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — Concert promoter Live Nation isn’t responsible for the deaths of three young men who succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator while camping at a Michigan music festival in...
Federal Agency Resumes Sending Hazardous Waste to Michigan From Ohio
Oct 1 2024 // VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A federal agency said it has resumed sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio while communities in suburban Detroit continue their legal fight to bar waste from a World...
Michigan Boy Dies on Field Trip After Tree Falls on Him at Nature Center
Oct 1 2024 // HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy died after he was struck by a tree that fell at a southeastern Michigan nature center where he and classmates were on a field trip, authorities said. Declan Carter was at the Howell...
Food Producer Settles Lawsuit Over Sexual Harassment Allegations at Michigan Facility
Sep 27 2024 // Pero Family Farms Food Company, LLC, will pay $40,000 in compensatory damages and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit, the federal agency announced today. The...
Michigan Manufacturer Sued for Unlawful Termination of Employee Due to Disability
Sep 23 2024 // Navitas Systems, LLC., an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company specializing in comprehensive energy storage solutions and battery manufacturing, violated federal law by using an unlawful company policy to deny a reasonable...
Michigan Home Health Care Service Provider to Pay $65K Over Disability Suit
Sep 19 2024 // Alternate Solutions Health Network, LLC, and its affiliated entity Beaumont ASHN, LLC, (collectively ASHN), providers of home health care services, will pay $65,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability...
Michigan Company Sued for Violating Federal Law on Employee Accommodations
Sep 16 2024 // PACE Southeast Michigan, a company providing all-inclusive care for the elderly, violated federal law at multiple locations in the Detroit area by failing to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities...
Michigan State Documents Reveal No New Information on Nassar Abuse Scandal
Sep 13 2024 // DETROIT (AP) — Thousands of documents turned over by Michigan State University reveal nothing new about what the school might have known about years of sexual abuse committed by Larry Nassar, the campus doctor who...
AM Best Downgrades Credit Rating of Michigan’s Wolverine Mutual
Sep 12 2024 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to C++ (Marginal) from B- (Fair) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “b” (Marginal) from “bb-” (Fair) of Wolverine Mutual Insurance...
Michigan’s Conifer Holdings Sells Insurance Agency Operations
Sep 3 2024 // Conifer Holdings announced that it completed the sale of its insurance agency operations for consideration equal to $45 million (subject to transaction expenses and customary purchase price adjustments), plus possible...
Michigan Court: Businesses Can’t Get State Compensation Over Pandemic Closures
Sep 3 2024 // DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday shut the door on businesses seeking to be paid by the state for restrictions that harmed sales during the COVID-19 pandemic. The court, in a pair of 5-2 orders, let...
Ex-Michigan State Football Coach Sues School Over His Firing
Sep 2 2024 // Former Michigan State University head football coach Mel Tucker is suing the university and school leaders, alleging that they wrongfully fired him last year and violated his constitutional rights after he was accused of...
