Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Markets
Sep 4 2006 // Insurance Agents E&O Nuts & Bolts: London American Professional Liability LLC, a program administrator and MGA, introduced a new professional liability program for insurance agencies. The program is designed for...
People and Places
Sep 4 2006 // American International Group Inc. named Nicholas J. Ashooh as senior vice president of communications. Ashooh succeeds John T. Wooster Jr. who had filled that role on a temporary basis since year-end 2005, and earlier had...
People
Sep 4 2006 // SeibertKeck Insurance Agency Inc., based in northeast Akron, Ohio, has announced the appointment of Craig A. Hassinger to the position of president of the organization. He will report to Chairman and CEO Richard...
Ohio Steel Company Drops Lawsuit Over Retiree Health Benefits
Aug 24 2006 // Cincinnati-based AK Steel Corp. has withdrawn a federal lawsuit in Dayton over retiree benefits because it expects quick resolution of a similar suit in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, a spokesman recently said. The...
Ohio Great American Opens Liability Division Branch in Canada
Aug 15 2006 // Great American Insurance Group’s Executive Liability Division recently announced the opening of a new branch office in Toronto, Canada. The Executive Liability Division adds Michael Shore, CRM and Oren Schemool, MBA...
Report: Former Head of Ohio Workers’ Fund Urged Others to Remain Quiet
Aug 15 2006 // The former head of the Ohio state’s insurance fund for injured workers urged subordinates to be discrete about the fund’s $215 million investment loss in the days leading up to the 2004 election, a newspaper...
Ohio SeibertKeck Names New President
Aug 14 2006 // SeibertKeck Insurance Agency, Inc., based in northeast Akron, Ohio, has announced the appointment of Craig A. Hassinger to the position of president of the organization. He will report to chairman and chief executive...
Ohio Military Personnel to Benefit from $70 Million National Settlement
Aug 9 2006 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently announced that the Department has joined a $70 million multi-state and federal settlement with Texas-domiciled American-Amicable Life Insurance Company and its affiliates regarding...
Ohio Century Surety Adds New Ocean Marine Line of Business
Aug 9 2006 // Columbus, Ohio-based Century Surety Co., a subsidiary of ProCentury Corp., announced today that it is adding a new line of business to serve the needs of the ocean marine market. According to their written statement, this...
Ohio SeibertKeck Insurance Names New Chief Operating Officer
Aug 9 2006 // Akron, Ohio-based SeibertKeck Insurance Agency, Inc., has announced the appointment of Johanne Williams as its new chief operating officer. Williams will report to Craig Hassinger, president and Rich Hite, chief executive...
People and Places
Aug 7 2006 // The Insurance Information Institute has promoted Dr. Robert P. Hartwig to president; Dr. L. James Valverde Jr. to vice president of Economics and Risk Management; and announced the retirement of Gordon Stewart,...
Get your motor runnin’ — not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Ohio comes in fifth, Indiana in top 10 at number nine California was tops in the nation for motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Ohio had...
Fraud Roundup
Aug 7 2006 // Mich. jury acquits man of charges when several become sick after handshakes A jury acquitted a man who had been charged with assault after authorities said an assistant prosecutor, police officer and courtroom bailiff got...
Growth in retail shopping centers a boon for insurance brokers
Aug 7 2006 // When the going gets tough, the tough go … shopping! Judging by the 18 percent increase in the development of retail shopping centers in the United States in 2005 over 2004, that tongue-in-cheek adage has more than a...
FEMA to Begin Assessing Ohio’s Lake County Flood Damage
Aug 1 2006 // Federal officials who plan to assess flood damage in northeast Ohio and residents still needing to clean up will have to work in searing heat. The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for Monday and Tuesday in...
Ohio American Financial to Release 2006 2nd Quarter Results Today
Aug 1 2006 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based American Financial Group, Inc. expects to release its 2006 second quarter results after the market closes today, Tuesday, August 1, 2006. The earnings release will be available shortly thereafter on...
Lax Record-keeping at Ohio’s Worker’s Comp Bureau Lowered Benefits
Jul 26 2006 // Hundreds of injured workers temporarily received less in state benefits than they deserved because of poor record-keeping at a scandal-plagued state insurance fund, according to a memo released Monday. The disclosure was...
Ohio Hylant Group Names President, Grand Rapids Office
Jul 25 2006 // The Hylant Group, a commercial insurance brokerage headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, announced today that Len Dyer has been hired as president to head the newly-established office in Grand Rapids, Mich. Dyer comes to Hylant...
Ohio Attorney General Says ‘Casinos’ Real Issue in Shawnee Tribe Case
Jul 25 2006 // Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro moved to intervene in the case against the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma’s claim for lands in Ohio. In May 2005, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma filed this suit claiming that...
Ohio Jury Awards Family of Brain-damaged Girl $17.8 Million
Jul 25 2006 // The family of a Columbus, Ohio girl, now five years old, whose brain was damaged as doctors prepared her for surgery was awarded more than $17.8 million in one of Ohio’s largest medical-malpractice awards. The...
