Michigan auto insurance reform

An update on Michigan’s reforms to no-fault auto insurance, a two-day festival advocating for environmental conservation and preservation through the sense of sound, and a $2-million grant awarded to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community for housing development and upkeep for its members.

We listened to an update on the legal challenges on auto no-fault insurance reforms. Then, a discussion about talking to your children about philosophy. Following that, A segment about harvesting wild rice, before closing with an update about the white bear in the U.P.

Today on Stateside, reporter Tracy Samilton joined to discuss new developments in Michigan's no-fault auto law. Then, we broke down this week in Michigan politics with the team from Deadline Detroit.

The Michigan appeals court has issued a major ruling affecting long-term victims of car crashes. The court says changes in auto insurance law can't be applied retroactively to people who were severely injured before summer 2019.

A data journalist stops in to discuss period tracking apps and how they can give away users’ data. Then, we talk to an award winning photojournalist about the life he leads as a nature photographer. We hear about a protest of the auto insurance law. Finally, a segment from Interlochen Public Radio about a deadly fungus that is pushing some bats towards extinction.

Republican Daire Rendon is defying the party line on auto no-fault, but she says she needs others in her party to do the same.

The scramble from state officials to keep auto production in Michigan as the industry transitions to electric. Protecting Michigan dogs from cruel and inhumane testing. And, the final installment of our podcast special, Collision Course.

A journalist and two attorneys discuss the University of Michigan’s $490 million settlement with 1,050 claimants for decades of student sexual abuse by sports physician Robert Anderson.

Michigan's new auto no fault law is destroying its best-in-the nation system of care for survivors of catastrophic auto accidents. Many could soon get the same "awful" level of care as those in other states.

Today on Stateside, we check in with Governor Whitmer on vaccine distribution for kids. Also, we speak at length with Dearborn Mayor-elect Abdullah Hammoud. He’s the city’s first Arab American, Muslim mayor. And a much-loved Detroit arts space holds its last exhibition. As from the beginning, Red Bull Arts Detroit is concerned with issues of this moment.