Latest Ohio Headlines

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Ohio Casualty Unveils Q3 CAT Losses

Oct 13 2005 // Ohio Casualty Corporation announced that it estimates total net catastrophe losses for third quarter 2005 to be approximately $11.6 million after-tax. Approximately $9.8 million of the estimated catastrophe losses are...

RiskMeter Online’s ‘Distance to Fire Station Report’ Adds N.C., S.C., Ohio

Oct 12 2005 // North Carolina, South Carolina and Ohio have been added to RiskMeter Online’s Distance to Fire Station Report. CDS Business Mapping, an online property risk mapping provider now lists 25 states in its...

Aon Ohio Acquires Pipino Agency

Oct 10 2005 // Aon announced that Aon Risk Services of Ohio has acquired Sam D. Pipino Agency, a risk specialist for the real estate development and construction industries. Sam D. Pipino Agency has 12 employees who work in the...

Ohio, Ky. Insurers Reach Agreement in Lawsuits Filed in 2002

Oct 4 2005 // Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky physicians have reached an agreement with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio and Kentucky stemming from lawsuits filed in 2002 against several insurers. Courts in Boone and...

People & Places

Oct 3 2005 // Robert Testa Westfield Insurance has named Robert Testa executive, personal lines sales. In this capacity, he oversees employees in five states responsible for new personal lines business. Bryan Whipple Testa began his...

People

Oct 3 2005 // Westfield Insurance has named Robert Testa executive, personal lines sales. In this capacity, he oversees employees in five states responsible for new personal lines business. Testa began his career at Westfield in 1991...

Wells Fargo Acquires JS Crop Insurance

Sep 28 2005 // Wells Fargo Insurance, Inc., a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company, has acquired the crop insurance business from Portland, Indiana-based JS Crop Insurance, Inc. (JS Crop), expanding Wells Fargo’s reach to...

Ohio Weighs High-Risk Health Insurance Pool

Sep 26 2005 // The Ohio Legislature is looking at plans to help patients with expensive conditions – lung disease, cancer, multiple sclerosis and other ailments – buy the drugs they need for treatment. However, the plans...

Midwest FEATURE: Market Spotlight on Illinois and Ohio

Sep 19 2005 // Although the insurance industry — and the rest of us — are waiting for the other shoe to drop in the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s estimated $20 billion to $35 billion in insured losses, business in the...

OHIO DOI COLLECTING MED LIABILITY DATA:

Sep 19 2005 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently launched a Web-based medical liability data collection application that enables insurers and those who pay medical liability claims on behalf of health care providers to securely...

News Briefs

Sep 19 2005 // Illinois Katrina Could Affect Ill. Insurance Rates: Experts say the path of destruction left by Hurricane Katrina likely will lead to higher insurance rates in the metro-east and across the country, although it is unclear...

Midwest FEATURE: Market Spotlight on Illinois and Ohio

Sep 19 2005 // Although the insurance industry – and the rest of us – are waiting for the other shoe to drop in the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s estimated $20 billion to $35 billion in insured losses, business in the...

Midwest FEATURE: Market Spotlight on Illinois and Ohio

Sep 19 2005 // Although the insurance industry – and the rest of us – are waiting for the other shoe to drop in the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s estimated $20 billion to $35 billion in insured losses, business in the...

Ohio Dept. to Collect Medical Liability Claims Data

Sep 14 2005 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin recently announced the launch of a web-based medical liability data collection application that enables insurers and those who pay medical liability claims on behalf...

Ohio Workers’ Compensation Scandal Pulls in Governor

Sep 5 2005 // An ongoing investigation into investment mismanagement claims within the Ohio Workers’ Compensation Bureau has led to the charge of Republican Gov. Bob Taft with violating state ethics laws by failing to report gifts...

Ohio Agent Appeals Fraud Suspension

Sep 5 2005 // An Ohio insurance agent has appealed a five-year license suspension from the Ohio Department of Insurance for issuing fraudulent certificates to physicians who contracted for medical malpractice coverage. John Westhoven...

Ohio Workers’ Compensation Scandal Pulls in Governor

Sep 5 2005 // An ongoing investigation into investment mismanagement claims within the Ohio Workers’ Compensation Bureau have led to the charge of Republican Gov. Bob Taft with violating state ethics laws by failing to report...

Chicago Exec Convicted in Arson Scheme

Sep 5 2005 // A federal jury ruled last month that former commodities firm executive Marc E. Thompson set his home ablaze and burned his elderly mother alive to collect insurance money that he later hid during bankruptcy proceedings,...

Ohio DOI Offers Severe Weather Tips

Aug 30 2005 // With the possibility that severe weather associated with Hurricane Katrina will cause heavy rains and potential flooding, Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin is urging Ohioans to plan for emergency...

State Automobile Elects New Directors

Aug 26 2005 // Dwight E. Smith and Roger P. Sugarman were recently elected to the board of directors of State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio. Smith is CEO of Sophisticated Systems, Inc., a software integration and...