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Michigan remained among the least competitive states in the nation in 2022 for employee health insurance, although the trade association representing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s competitors says the research shows they made small gains the last couple of years. 

Less than two days before the contract expiration for 150,000 auto workers, more than one thousand UAW members at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan walked out on strike on Wednesday to demand an end to tiered pay structure, an increase in wages and benefits and the defense of their jobs.

The Blues disclosed the compensation package Wednesday for Loepp, who has yet to equal his record $19.2 million payday of 2018.

The Blues disclosed the compensation package Wednesday for Loepp, who has yet to equal his record $19.2 million payday of 2018.

Federal Judge William Griesbach last week threw out a lawsuit filed by a conservative law firm on behalf of the Brown County Taxpayers Assoc.

As battle lines form over voting proposals, donations put companies in a difficult spot.

Michigans health insurance giant had a positive financial year after using gains from investments and subsidiaries to cover underwriting losses.

Michigan Blues CEO Dan Loepps pay drops for second straight year Despite his first base pay raise in six years, total compensation for Daniel Loepp, president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, one of the nations largest health insurers, declined about 4.6 percent to $11.54 million, a drop of $564,649 from the $12.1 million compensation he received in 2019. Blue Cross is not a publicly traded company, but if it were, Loepps $11.54 million in total compensation would have ranked him ...

Mike Shirkey previously came under fire for attending a rally with extremists, weeks after armed men entered the Statehouse to protest Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's coronavirus restrictions. Some were later charged in a plot to kidnap the governor.

DTE Energy says it did not donate to a fundraiser for Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, held one day after video revealed the highest ranking Republican in the state believes aspects of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol are a "hoax" and "staged."  The fundraiser, held Wednesday at a venue near the state Capitol, was for the Clarklake Republicans PAC. A sign at the fundraiser listed DTE as one of several "gold sponsors" for the event. A Michigan Senate Republicans website indicates...