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Insurers Oppose Mich. Governor’s Consumer Advocate Proposal
Jan 29 2008 // A proposal by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to create a state automobile and homeowner insurance consumer advocate is being called “unnecessary and duplicative,” by one property/casualty insurance trade...
AIG to Pay $42.5 Million to Cleanup After Failed Company
Jan 27 2008 // The American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co. Inc. (AISLIC) has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up contamination at four industrial facilities run by a bankrupt insured in a suit in which the Department of...
Mich. Stryker to Recall Hip Surgery Product after Warning from Feds
Jan 25 2008 // Medical device maker Stryker Corp. announced earlier this week that it will voluntarily recall certain hip surgery products, a week after it received a warning from regulators. The company is recalling Trident PSL and...
Brown & Brown Buys Michigan’s Smith-Peaboy-Stiles Insurance
Jan 23 2008 // J. Scott Penny, regional executive vice president of Brown & Brown, Inc., and James “Jim” Peabody, president of Smith-Peabody-Stiles Insurance Agency, Inc., with offices in Fenton and Brighton, Mich.,...
Burns & Wilcox Add Broker to Michigan Office
Jan 17 2008 // Burns & Wilcox recently announced that Jeffrey Brown has joined the company’s Farmington, Mich. office as a broker. Brown will be responsible for placing business for large complex risks, including large...
Hylant Group Names Savage Regional Chief Operating Officer in Michigan
Jan 8 2008 // Hylant Group, the nation’s seventh largest privately held commercial insurance brokerage, recently named Patrick Savage as the regional chief operating officer in Michigan. His position will serve Hylant’s...
CarInsurance.com Adds Insurance Carriers for 2008
Jan 3 2008 // CarInsurance.com, which sells auto insurance over the Internet, has added more carriers to its current 28 state agency product offering. In November and December 2007, the firm expanded and now offers Encompass Insurance...
Mich. Orders Agent to Stop Selling Bogus Auto Insurance Certificates
Dec 28 2007 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) has issued a “cease and desist” order against a Flint insurance agent for selling bogus Michigan no-fault auto insurance certificates. Chris...
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Dec 23 2007 // Toledo, Ohio-based privately held commercial insurance brokerage, the Hylant Group, has named John W. Chaney as president of the Cleveland office and regional vice president. Chaney will be responsible for the overall...
Mich. Report: House Fires and Deaths on the Rise
Dec 23 2007 // The number of reported house fires and fire-related deaths in Michigan increased last year, with many homeowners not maintaining working smoke alarms, according to a report released by the Michigan Association of Insurance...
Squabble Over Mich. Drug Law Intensifies After Vioxx Settlement
Dec 23 2007 // More than 1,000 Michigan residents could end up getting part of a $4.85 billion national settlement if they or their loved ones took the painkiller Vioxx. But that hasn’t squelched a firestorm over the state’s...
Mich. Insurer Fined for Failing to Make Sure Agents Were Licensed, Appointed
Dec 21 2007 // A Michigan-based insurer has been fined $230,000 by the Conneticut Department of Insurance for failing to make sure agents were licensed and appointed to sell policies in the state. Foremost Insurance Co., which...
Mich. Woman Starts House Fire to Collect Insurance Money
Dec 19 2007 // A Kent County, Mich. woman has pleaded no contest to setting her home on fire with her husband and teenage children inside to collect insurance money. Prosecutors say 38-year-old Sheryl Christman of Grand Rapids Township...
Squabble over Mich. Drug Law Intensifies after Vioxx Settlement
Dec 17 2007 // More than 1,000 Michigan residents could end up getting part of a $4.85 billion national settlement if they or their loved ones took the painkiller Vioxx. But that hasn’t squelched a firestorm over the state’s...
Agent Association Report: Mich. House Fires and Deaths on the Rise
Dec 12 2007 // The number of reported house fires and fire-related deaths in Michigan increased last year, with many homeowners not maintaining working smoke alarms, according to a report released today by the Michigan Association of...
Mich. Accident Fund Names Lancione New Premium Audit Director
Dec 10 2007 // Lansing, Mich.-based Accident Fund Insurance Company of America recently announced that it had named Anthony Lancione as its new premium audit director. In the newly created position, Lancione will develop and execute...
Insurance Institute of Michigan Elects 2008 Officers
Dec 7 2007 // The Insurance Institute of Michigan (IIM) recently held elections during its Annual Meeting on Nov. 27, 2007 in Lansing, Mich. Mike Puerner, vice president, secretary and general counsel of Hastings Mutual Insurance Co.,...
Mich. Court’s Ruling: Insurer to Pay Sterling Heights More than $14 Million
Dec 7 2007 // United States District Court Judge Nancy G. Edmunds of the Eastern District of Michigan in a final judgment ordered United National Insurance Co. to pay the city of Sterling Heights $14,640,632.90 plus taxable costs as...
ColburnColburn Open New Agency in Mich.
Dec 3 2007 // On November 30, 2007, David H. Colburn, J.D. and Robert S. Colburn announced the opening of their new independent insurance agency in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. The new agency is designed to handle businesses and individuals...
Feds Say Convicted Mich. Doctor Exposed Patients
Dec 2 2007 // Federal court records say a Michigan dermatologist’s unsanitary practices have exposed thousands of his patients to the possibility of infection. Dr. Robert Stokes, who had offices in Grand Rapids and Greenville, is...
