Latest Michigan Headlines
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Michigan Offering Matching Grants for Workplace Safety, Health Improvements
Sep 17 2018 // Matching grants of up to $5,000 to improve workplace safety and health are being made available to Michigan companies that have up to 250 employees. Administered by the Michigan’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Deadline for Medical Marijuana Business Licensing Extended in Michigan
Sep 13 2018 // Michigan regulators have again extended the deadline for medical marijuana businesses to be licensed, allowing 108 facilities to continue operating while warning that 98 others will be issued cease-and-desist letters if...
Michigan Insurance Department Getting New Anti-Fraud Unit
Sep 13 2018 // Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has formed a new division to investigate fraud within the auto insurance, health insurance and banking sectors. The anti-fraud unit will be housed within the Department of Insurance and Financial...
Michigan Offering Matching Grants to Improve Workplace Safety, Health
Sep 6 2018 // Matching grants of up to $5,000 to improve workplace safety and health are being made available for Michigan companies that have up to 250 employees. Michigan’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration says the...
Federal Grant Helps Michigan Town Place 2K Smoke Detectors
Sep 5 2018 // The federal government is helping to put 2,000 smoke detectors in Saginaw, Michigan, homes. U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee says the Saginaw Fire Department is getting roughly $23,000 from the Department of Homeland Security. The...
Keystone Insurers Group Adds 2 New Michigan Agencies
Sep 4 2018 // Keystone Insurers Group has named Shoreline Insurance of Muskegon and Combined Insurance Agencies of St. Joseph to its growing community of partners in Michigan. Since 1976, Shoreline Insurance has served clients in the...
Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan Names Taylor Marketing VP
Aug 30 2018 // Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan has appointed Matt Taylor as its vice president of Marketing, effective Sept.7, 2018. Taylor began his insurance career serving in many positions at State Farm Insurance, including as an...
CPA Mutual Acquires Michigan’s Professional Management Consultants Assoc.
Aug 28 2018 // CPA Mutual, headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, has acquired Michigan-based Professional Management Consultants Association of America (PMCA) in a move to expand brand awareness among more CPA firms, particularly those...
Detroit Mayor, 8 Motorists Sue Insurance Commissioner Over Michigan’s No Fault Law
Aug 24 2018 // Asserting that Michigan’s no fault auto insurance law is unfair to the poor, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, seeking to have the 45-year-old law declared unconstitutional. The suit...
Outlooks Upgraded to Stable for Michigan’s Farmers Mutual Insurance
Aug 22 2018 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of C++ (Marginal) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “b” of Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of...
Risen Named President of Meadowbrook Insurance Agency in Michigan
Aug 22 2018 // Brian L. Risen, senior vice president, Mackinaw Underwriters, Retail Distribution Management, a member of the AmeriTrust Group Inc., has been promoted to president of the Meadowbrook Insurance Agency in Southfield,...
Corless Promoted to CEO of Workers’ Comp Provider AF Group in Michigan
Aug 22 2018 // Lisa Corless has been promoted to president and CEO of AF Group, a subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Corless assumes CEO duties from Elizabeth Haar, who is now BCBSM executive vice president and president...
Michigan Insurance Department Creates Insurance Innovation Hotline
Aug 10 2018 // Michigan is seeking insurance innovation entrepreneurs and has opened channels to encourage innovator interaction with the state insurance department. The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS)...
Michigan State Sues Insurers Over Nassar Victims’ Sex Assault Claims Coverage
Aug 6 2018 // Michigan State University has filed suit against 13 insurance carriers over coverage of sexual assault claims by victims of now-imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar. The lawsuit against the insurers was filed July...
Travelers Seeks Review of Court Ruling on Crime Insurance Loss Involving Email Fraud
Jul 31 2018 // Travelers Insurance is seeking a full Sixth Circuit court reconsideration of its three-judge panel ruling that said the insurer’s crime insurance policy’s computer fraud clause covered a loss due to money...
Michigan State Sues Insurers Over Nassar Claims Coverage; Stops Victim Payments
Jul 30 2018 // Michigan State University has filed suit against 13 insurance carriers over coverage of sexual assault claims by victims of now-imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar. The lawsuit against the insurers was filed July...
Michigan Commission: Investigate LGBT Discrimination Claims Despite AG’s Opinion
Jul 25 2018 // The Michigan Civil Rights Commission has directed an agency to continue investigating complaints of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, days after the state attorney general declared the basis...
Michigan Court Backs Insurer Denying $300K Payout in Head-On Crash
Jul 19 2018 // An insurance company refused to pay $300,000 in a head-on crash that killed a Michigan man and his mother after a doctor came up with a key conclusion: Robert Krugman likely drifted out of his lane because of a heart...
Court Finds Travelers Crime Policy Covers Money Transfer Loss Due to Email Spoofing
Jul 17 2018 // For the second time in about a week, a federal appeals court has sided with a commercial policyholder where the insurer denied coverage under a computer fraud provision of a crime insurance policy for a money transfer...
Michigan Governor Wants to Sue 3M for Costs of Contamination
Jul 16 2018 // Gov. Rick Snyder wants Michigan to sue the manufacturer of chemicals linked to contaminated water detected at military bases and industrial sites across the state. Snyder wrote a letter to Attorney General Bill Schuette...
