Latest Michigan Headlines
All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Safety Checklist Eliminated Infections, Reduced Hospital Deaths
Jan 31 2011 // A Johns Hopkins-led safety checklist program that virtually eliminated bloodstream infections in hospital intensive-care units throughout Michigan appears to have also reduced deaths by 10 percent, a new study...
Investor Suit Against Bear Stearns, Auditor to Proceed
Jan 24 2011 // Plaintiffs in one of the biggest U.S. investor lawsuits stemming from the financial crisis got a boost from a judge, who said a case against fallen investment bank Bear Stearns and its outside auditor, Deloitte &...
AG Seeks Michigan Supreme Court Rehearing of Insurance Licensing Case
Jan 19 2011 // Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette wants the state’s highest court to reconsider several key decisions of late last year, including one involving insurance licensing. Schuette announced his office will file a...
Michigan Suburb, Insurer Settle Employee Firing Case
Jan 19 2011 // The Detroit suburb of Southgate and its insurance company agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit by a former court official who claimed she was fired because she questioned how a longtime judge handled money. At the...
Federal Judge in Michigan Nixes Religious Challenge to AIG Bailout
Jan 18 2011 // A federal judge in Michigan has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the bailout of American International Group on religious grounds. An Ypsilanti man claimed the United States should not have bailed out AIG because the...
Fremont Michigan Evaluating Options after Revised Biglari Holdings Offer
Jan 13 2011 // Fremont Michigan InsuraCorp Inc., a Michigan-exclusive property and casualty insurance carrier, says it is evaluating a revised unsolicited offer from Biglari Holdings Inc. to take over the company. Fremont confirmed that...
2011 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory
Jan 10 2011 // Welcome to Insurance Journal’s 2011 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Toyota to Open Safety Research Center in Michigan
Jan 10 2011 // Toyota Motor Corp. has announced it is launching a safety research center in Michigan that will focus on finding ways to reduce driver distraction. Toyota said the center will be based in Ann Arbor, and will work with...
Easterle Mattes Joins Meadowbrook in Michigan
Jan 5 2011 // Kim Easterle Mattes has joined Meadowbrook Insurance Agency in Southfield, Michigan as the new vice president of insurance. Prior to joining Meadowbrook, Mattes served as an insurance sales representative for the Troy,...
Some Michigan Drivers Can Erase Points By Taking Class
Jan 4 2011 // A new Michigan law will allow certain drivers to erase points from their record if they’re willing to take a class. Someone ticketed for speeding or other offenses would still pay fines. But completing a...
Steak n Shake Increases Its Bid for Fremont Michigan InsuraCorp
Dec 31 2010 // Texas-based Biglari Holdings Inc., parent company of the Steak n Shake restaurants, has increased its proposal to acquire 100 percent of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Fremont Michigan InsuraCorp Inc....
Test Your 2010 Insurance News IQ: 25 Questions
Dec 31 2010 // Are you an insurance news hound? Test your insurance news IQ and find out. The following questions and answers (at bottom of the page– don’t cheat!) were developed based on news stories published by...
Family of Michigan Man Shot by Police Sues City
Dec 29 2010 // The family of a 39-year-old man who was fatally shot by three Sterling Heights police officers is suing the Detroit suburb. A civil lawsuit filed by Matthew Moroni’s family in U.S. District Court in Detroit claims...
Michigan Township’s Fight Over Cottage Costs Insurer, Taxpayers
Dec 28 2010 // The resistance by one community in Michigan’s rural Thumb to a couple’s plans to renovate the Lake Huron shoreline cottage has led to an $860,000 federal court damage award against the township. The $100,000...
Business Moves
Dec 20 2010 // Ryan Specialty Group, Oakbridge R-T Specialty LLC, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group LLC, acquired Bloomfield, Conn.-based Oakbridge Insurance Services LLC, an insurance intermediary focused exclusively...
Rating Recaps: PrimeOne, Berkshire Hathaway (Notes), Safety National
Dec 17 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of ‘B+’ (Good) and issuer credit rating of “bbb-” to Michigan-based PrimeOne Insurance Company, both with stable outlooks. The ratings of...
A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Michigan Insurance Co.
Dec 9 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has removed from under review with negative implications and affirmed the financial strength rating of A (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a” of Michigan Insurance Co. based in Grand...
A.M. Best Downgrades Michigan Commercial Insurance Mutual
Dec 8 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating to “bbb” from “a-” of Michigan Commercial Insurance Mutual (MCIM) in Lansing,...
Donegal Group Inc. Acquires Michigan Insurance Co.
Dec 7 2010 // Donegal Group Inc. announced that it had completed the acquisition of Michigan Insurance Co., which was formerly a majority-owned subsidiary of West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. The final purchase price will be calculated...
Reward Offered in Killing of Michigan Insurance Agent 3 Years Ago
Dec 6 2010 // Three years after insurance agent Janna Kelly went missing, friends are hoping a $50,000 reward will help solve the mystery of who abducted and ultimately killed the 60-year-old Grand Rapids, Michigan woman. Kelly last was...
