Michigan Deer Crash Season Brings Insurance Coverage Warning
LANSING, Mich. — Hitting a deer this fall could leave a Michigan driver with a repair bill the insurer will not touch, and the state agency that regulates auto insurance wants motorists to find that out now rather than on the side of the road. The Department of Insurance and Financial Services is telling drivers
Data Center Legislation Becomes Common Ground
LANSING, Mich. — Two weeks before Michigan votes, data centers have become one of the few subjects where candidates from both parties sound alike: most say the projects are coming regardless, and most want the Legislature to write tougher state laws on them before more break ground. Interviews with candidates for the state Legislature in
Statewide Bus Patrol Week Hits Illegal Passers
LANSING, Mich. — Extra police will watch Michigan school-bus stops next week under Operation Safe Stop, a statewide ticket-and-education push running Oct. 19-23 alongside National School Bus Safety Week. City departments and county sheriffs are lining up with districts to cover pickup points and rural corridors where drivers blow past buses that have flashing red
DNR: Early Archery Deer Kill Passes 18,000 Mark
LANSING, Mich. — Statewide DNR harvest logs showed 18,475 deer checked in for early archery by 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, a figure that will keep rising because hunters still have 72 hours after each kill to file the report. Friday numbers split roughly into 11,300 antlered animals and 7,100 without antlers. Compared with midweek
DNR Pike Rules Open Otsego Marsh, Lift Small-Fish Caps
LANSING, Mich. — Fresh DNR northern pike rules that took hold Oct. 15 reopen Otsego County marsh water year-round and let anglers keep more smaller pike on four inland lakes after Natural Resources Commission votes on Oct. 14. Commissioners rewrote Fisheries Orders 204 and 206. The Otsego Lake pike marsh, once locked from mid-March through
Election Law Keeps Immigration Agents Off Michigan Polls
LANSING, Mich. — Online rumors about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents watching Michigan voting sites collide with limits written into federal and state election law as early voting continues. Federal rules generally keep armed federal officers away from polling places unless they are called in to stop armed civil unrest. Michigan law goes further for
Medicare PIP Opt-Out Blocks Assigned Claims Fallback
LANSING, Mich. — A published Michigan Court of Appeals ruling has closed a coverage-gap argument for drivers who used the Medicare personal-protection opt-out: they cannot turn to the state assigned claims plan for PIP medical benefits after a crash, even if they were outside their car when hurt. The unanimous panel reversed a trial court
Michigan Unemployment Holds at 5% as Payroll Jobs Slip
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s jobless rate did not budge in September, staying at 5.0 percent for a second straight month, according to state figures released Thursday. The steady rate masked a softer month underneath. About 27,000 fewer residents reported having work than in August, while the count of people looking for jobs ticked up by
Most Michigan School Districts Fail Gun Storage Notice Check
LANSING, Mich. — Fewer than half of Michigan’s public school districts appear to be following a state law that requires them to tell families how to store guns safely, according to a report card released Thursday by the advocacy group End Gun Violence Michigan. The group reviewed the websites of 593 districts. Only seven earned
Michigan Senate Bill Would Let More Drivers Skip PIP
LANSING, Mich. — A bipartisan group of seven state senators wants to open Michigan’s no-fault medical opt-out to more drivers, under a bill filed in Lansing on Tuesday, Oct. 14. Senate Bill 1208 rewrites the part of the Insurance Code that lets some policyholders skip personal protection insurance, the coverage that pays medical bills after