Indiana Man Sues over Crash That Killed His Wife

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The husband of a northeastern Indiana woman who died when a semi-trailer rear-ended two cars in January is suing the truck driver and the truck’s owner.

The federal lawsuit seeks at least $75,000 in damages in the Jan. 8 death of 65-year-old Suzanne K. Stephenson of Monroeville. It names truck driver Scott A. Saunders and truck owner Wisconsin-based Kutzler Express.

The Journal Gazette reports Saunders was driving his truck on U.S. 30 when he rear-ended two vehicles, causing a six-vehicle wreck that killed Stephenson and 43-year-old Sandra Dealy of Convoy, Ohio, and injured six others.

Both women were traveling alone in separate vehicles and died of blunt-force trauma.

A Kutzler Express says the company is saddened by the accident and is cooperating with authorities in their ongoing investigation.

 

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Ratings Roundup: Indiana Lumbermens Mutual, Noble

of Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company and its reinsured subsidiaries, Lone Star National Insurance Company and National Building Material Assurance Company. All of the companies are domiciled in Indianapolis, Indiana. Best has also revised its outlook for all of the ratings to negative from stable.

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Indiana Has 32 Fungal Meningitis Cases; Michigan, 44

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Indiana has 32 cases of fungal meningitis linked to injections of a recalled back pain steroid, and authorities in Michigan are reporting 44 cases of fungal meningitis, along with four non-meningitis infection cases related to the same contaminated steroids.

The Indiana State Department of Health reported two new cases Wednesday. Two Indiana patients have died.

The state agency has released no details about the two deaths or the clinics they’re linked to. Its policy is to withhold details about where the Indiana cases are located.

Relatives of 89-year-old Pauline Burema of Cassopolis, Mich., have said they believe she contracted the disease after receiving an injection at the OSMC Outpatient Surgery Center in Elkhart. Burema died Oct. 10, and the family is awaiting autopsy results on the cause. A granddaughter has said the clinic has told its patients it had at least eight cases.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the Michigan count of 48 total infections was up by 20 from one week earlier.

Michigan’s death toll remains at four, including the death of a Cass County woman whose meningitis was linked to treatments for back pain across the state border at an Indiana clinic. Her case is included in Indiana’s count.

A steroid made by a Massachusetts pharmacy has been tied to a national outbreak of the rare fungal form of meningitis. It has killed 19 people nationwide.

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Certified Professional Insurance Agent Classes Return to Indiana

September 25, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana (PIA), a statewide association of local, independent insurance agents, is the newest sponsor of the AIMS Society’s Certified Professional Insurance Agent (CPIA) designation program.

The CPIA program has not been offered in Indiana for several years.

Earning the CPIA designation requires completion of a series of Insurance Success Seminars. Each of the three, one day CPIA workshops teach practical before-, during- and after-the-sale techniques for producers, sales managers, account managers, service staff, and company marketing representatives.

PIA of Indiana will host the first two seminars in the series on Oct. 30 and 31, 2012.

Agents who complete the seminar can earn seven Indiana continuing education credits for each CPIA course.

Source: PIA of Indiana

 

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Indiana Emergency Officials to Storm Chasers: Stay Home

April 27, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

The recent outbreak of severe weather in Kansas had storm chasers out in full force. So many of them, in fact, that emergency officials everywhere are taking notice, and putting out warnings.

In Indiana, Delaware County Emergency Management Agency Director Jason Rogers’ advice to would-be storm chasers? Stay home.

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FEMA: More than $2M in Indiana Disaster Aid Approved

April 9, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

More than $2 million in federal aid has been approved for homeowners, businesses and others affected by southern Indiana tornadoes and other storms earlier this year.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency says that through April 4 nearly $1.2 million has been approved to pay for expenses not covered by insurance or other programs. That includes temporary rental assistance, repairing and replacing household items, and disaster-related medical costs.

FEMA also says the U.S. Small Business Administration has approved more than $990,000 in low-interest disaster loans to homeowners, renters, businesses and nonprofits.

Storms caused extensive damage Feb. 29 through March 3 in Clark, Jefferson, Ripley, Scott, Warrick and Washington counties.

 

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