Latest Michigan Headlines
All the headlines from our Michigan Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Allstate awards cities free gas for safe driving records
Jul 2 2007 // For the second straight year, an insurance study has found that Sioux Falls, S.D. has the safest drivers in the nation. Researchers with Allstate Insurance Co. analyzed two years of internal crash data to calculate the...
Editor’s Note: Traffic safety, not just a topic for the holidays
Jul 2 2007 // The Department of Public Safety said 494 people were killed on Minnesota roads last year, a drop of nearly 12 percent from 2005 and the lowest number since 1945. Summer holidays like the 4th of July are always a great time...
Mich. House Passes Bill to Increase Use of Child Safety Seats
Jun 29 2007 // More Michigan children would be required to travel in safety car seats under legislation passed this week by the state House. Current Michigan law generally requires children under 4 to ride in a child restraint system,...
Aon Risk Adds Sales Director in Mich.
Jun 29 2007 // Aon Risk Services, the retail brokerage and risk management arm of Aon Corp. recently announced that Kevin Pastoor has joined the company’s Southfield, Mich. office as resident sales director. Pastoor comes to Aon...
Swett & Crawford Adds Casualty Broker in Mich. Office
Jun 26 2007 // Swett & Crawford recently announced that Brandon King has joined the Bloomfield Hills (Detroit), Mich. office as a casualty broker. Previously King worked at Johnston Lewis Associates, Inc as a property/casualty...
New “kid” in town, Gaddis Co. Opens Michigan Wholesale Office.
Jun 25 2007 // Donald Gaddis Co., Inc. Wholesale Excess and Surplus Lines Brokers Serving Retail Agents Since 1982 Donald Gaddis Co. is thrilled to announce that Jay Dillon has joined us to open our new Michigan office. The only thing...
Hanover Group Acquires Michigan-Based Professional Liability Carrier
Jun 25 2007 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has agreed to acquire a professional liability insurer, Professionals Direct, Inc., for $23.2 million. Professionals Direct is the Michigan-based holding company for the Professionals...
Mich. J.M. Wilson Announces New Staff Promotions
Jun 21 2007 // J.M. Wilson recently announced the addition of Ted Darbor, CIC, CPCU, as the company’s transportation manager and the promotion of Roxanne Barry, CIC, CISR, to Property Casualty manager. Both will be located in the...
Mich. Burns & Wilcox Appoints Director of Education, Training, Development
Jun 20 2007 // Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Burns & Wilcox recently announced that it has appointed Doug Swiatkowski to director of education, training and development. Swiatkowski is responsible for developing the company’s...
Michigan insurance industry data
Jun 18 2007 // • The insurance industry in Michigan employs more than 111,000 people through insurance carriers, agencies, and brokerages and related services. • For every three people employed by the insurance industry, one...
News Currents
Jun 18 2007 // Mich. study: Industry can be key player in economic recovery The results of a new study indicate that the insurance industry will lead the state in job creation in the coming decade, resulting in more than 16,000 total new...
Allstate Awards S.D. Cities Free Gas for Safe Driving Records
Jun 15 2007 // For the second straight year, an insurance study has found that Sioux Falls, S.D. has the safest drivers in the nation. Researchers with Allstate Insurance Co. analyzed two years of internal crash data to calculate the...
Mich. Seat Belt Crack Down Results in More than 18,000 Tickets
Jun 13 2007 // Police across Michigan issued more than 18,000 safety belt citations during a recent two-week crackdown. Federal safety grants helped pay for the project, which ran May 21 to June 3 in several communities across the state....
Mich. Issues New Rules on Discretionary Clauses for Policy Forms
Jun 12 2007 // The Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) announced it has issued new administrative rules that prohibit insurers from inserting discretionary clauses in insurance policy forms. Discretionary clauses give...
Police Jail Witness in Arson, Fraud Case Against Former Mich. Mayor
Jun 7 2007 // Police arrested a key witness in the case involving a former Saginaw, Mich. mayor charged with arson and insurance fraud in the burning of her 1986 Mercedes-Benz. Jerry W. Wilkins was arrested June 1st at a restaurant by...
Mich. Study: Industry Can Be Key Player in State’s Economic Recovery
Jun 6 2007 // Michigan’s insurance industry will lead the state in job creation in the coming decade, resulting in more than 16,000 total new jobs by 2014, helping transition the state to a high-tech 21st century economy and...
CarInsurance.com Enters Mich. Auto Market
Jun 6 2007 // CarInsurance.com recently announced that it has expanded its auto insurance agency into Michigan, making it the 21st state where the on-line company does business. CarInsurance.com offers insurance products in all 50...
Agent study: Mich. boating fatalities drop slightly, accidents rise
Jun 4 2007 // Fewer Michigan boaters were killed last year, even though more were injured in alcohol-related accidents, an increasing number collided with other vessels and many still did not strap on life jackets, according to...
Mich. Arson Investigator Charged with Planting Evidence
Jun 1 2007 // An arson investigator was arraigned this week in two counties on charges of planting evidence at fire scenes, Michigan authorities said. Jeffrey D. Wallace, 53, was arraigned last week on similar charges in Gladwin County...
Biker Group Again Seeks to Make Helmets Optional in Mich.
May 24 2007 // A group again is seeking the option to ride motorcycles without helmets in Michigan. The new plan pitched this week by American Bikers Aiming Toward Education (ABATE) would allow riders to pay a $100 annual state permit...
