The state fund propping up Michigan’s no-fault auto insurance system is facing a lawsuit to force administrators to open their financial books, highlighting increasing costs behind the system and the urgency with which insurance companies and policyholders are pushing reform …
Michigan authorities say they suspect an arsonist set a blaze that broke out in the former headquarters of the Highland Park Fire Department. The fire was burning Sunday afternoon at the former fire station. It’s is across the street from …
State officials say 115 structures, including homes and a motel, have been destroyed by a wildfire in the Upper Peninsula. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said Wednesday the wildfires in Luce County’s Duck Lake area is 55 percent contained. …
A more than $2 million settlement has been accepted in the case of a Michigan man who was permanently disabled by carbon monoxide poisoning in Wisconsin. The Daily Telegram of Adrian reports 60-year-old Larry Brenke of Lenawee County will get …
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration has levied $107,000 in fines against four companies after the death of a painter who fell to his death while working on the Ambassador Bridge that links Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. The agency …
Detroit’s fire boss suggests his department could adjust to a looming 15 percent budget cut by letting some abandoned buildings burn to the ground and using firefighters and even Navy Seabees to demolish vacant structures. Executive Fire Commissioner Donald Austin …
Lawmakers in several states are trying to squeeze crash rings that bedevil auto insurers with bogus injury claims in several heavily populated states. Thwarting shady wheel deals thus forms a marquee legislative trend for 2012, given the billions of dollars …
The Michigan family of an 11-year-old boy who died after a 2009 sledding accident is appealing a decision to dismiss a lawsuit filed following his death. The Grand Haven Tribune reports the family of Chance Nash of Nunica sued the …
A Michigan government board has approved $200,000 for cleanup from a tornado that hit Washtenaw County last week. AnnArbor.com reports the Dexter Township board approved the use of the funds toward cleanup efforts on public right of ways following Thursday’s …
A published report says Detroit, Mich., has $20 million intended to demolish burned-out dwellings that’s sitting unused. The Detroit Free Press reports Tuesday that the money is part of the Fire Insurance Escrow Fund. It was created by a law …