I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The state’s Office of Financial and Insurance Regulations announced Tuesday that it had recovered $27 million in 2010. The department has collected $143 million since it was launched in 2000.
The OFIR monitors financial and insurance groups for compliance to state law, and protects consumers from bad investments schemes. In a press release Tuesday, OFIR spokesman Jason Moon said $19 million of the funds collected were involved in mortgage issues, while the remaining $8 million were collected from insurance and financial security programs.
According to Moon, the office fielded 100,000 phone calls in 2010, and 3,000 of those resulted in complaints which resulted in investigations and collection of money for those wronged by agencies operating in insurance and financial arenas in the state.
“Our dedicated consumer assistance staff will remain focused on protecting and serving Michigan citizens in 2011,” OFIR Commissioner Ken Ross said.
OFIR has been involved in investigating mortgage fraud schemes as part of the state’s response to the housing bubble collapse. The collapse is the result, in part, of subprime mortgage lending schemes in the state.
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