Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurtech Branch Now Offering Auto, Homeowners Insurance in Texas
May 1 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based insurtech, Branch, has opened operations in Texas, the company’s fifth statewide expansion since launching in Ohio in August 2019. Branch says it is shaking up the insurance industry providing a...
Caffeine Bought Online Killed Ohio Teen. Is Amazon at Fault?
Apr 29 2020 // Logan Stiner was just days from high school graduation when his brother found him unresponsive in their family’s home southwest of Cleveland, Ohio, in May 2014. Stiner, 18, died of cardiac arrhythmia and seizure from...
Berkley Program Specialists Partners with Ohio’s IEPM
Apr 28 2020 // Berkley Program Specialists, a Berkley Company dedicated exclusively to program business, has entered into a partnership with Beachwood, Ohio-based International Excess Program Managers (IEPM), a division of One80...
Don Gillie, PE, SE, Joins American Structurepoint’s Ohio Investigative Group
Apr 27 2020 // Columbus, OH, April 27, 2020 —American Structurepoint is pleased to announce that Don Gillie, PE, SE, will join our Ohio Investigative team as of May 4 to meet the needs of clients throughout Ohio. Don brings several...
Firm ‘Devastated’ by Fire at Large Ohio Egg Farm, Official Says
Apr 23 2020 // Authorities say a fast-moving fire at a large egg farm in Ohio destroyed one large building and also killed hens in other buildings. The blaze reported shortly before 3:30 a.m. at the Trillium Farms facility in Croton sent...
More States Making Plans to Lift Coronavirus Restrictions
Apr 23 2020 // More states in the U.S. South and Midwest signaled readiness on Wednesday to reopen their economies in hopes the worst of the coronavirus pandemic had passed, but California’s governor held firm to sweeping...
Georgia Gambles on Reopening Business Amid Pandemic
Apr 23 2020 // A handful of mostly southern U.S. states will begin loosening economic restrictions this week in the midst of a still virulent pandemic, providing a live-fire test of whether America’s communities can start to reopen...
More Midwest Insurers Offering Auto Premium Relief to Insureds
Apr 20 2020 // More Midwest-based insurers are offering premium payment relief to their auto insurance customers as a result of the COVID-19 health crisis. Branch Insurance, Grange Insurance, Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, Ohio Mutual...
Ohio’s Encova Insurance Issuing 15% Personal Auto Policy Credit
Apr 15 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based Encova Insurance plans to issue a 15% policy credit to more than 80,000 personal auto policyholders for the months of April and May. Data has continued to show that as fewer vehicles are on the road...
One80 Intermediaries Acquires Ohio’s International Excess Program Managers
Apr 14 2020 // One80 Intermediaries (One80), a national wholesale insurance broker and program manager headquartered in Boston, has acquired Beachwood, Ohio-based International Excess Program Managers (IEPM), a wholesale insurance...
Bearley Promoted at Great American Insurance Group in Ohio
Apr 8 2020 // Great American Insurance Group, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, has promoted Kenneth (Ken) R. Bearley to divisional executive vice president within its Bond Division. Bearley joined Great American in 1994 as an...
Ohio Insurance Department Extends Licensing, Continuing Education Expiration Dates
Mar 31 2020 // The Ohio Department of Insurance announced the extension of license renewal dates during the state of emergency declared by Gov. Mike DeWine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The department said if a license expires...
Massachusetts Joins Ohio, N.J. in Proposing COVID-19 Business Interruption Bill
Mar 31 2020 // Massachusetts is one of the latest states to propose legislation that would mandate insurers cover COVID-19 related business interruption claims despite virus exclusions in many policies. This comes as Insurance Journal...
Ohio County Reaches $3.5M Settlement in Woman’s Dog Mauling Death
Mar 30 2020 // The estate of an Ohio woman fatally mauled by her neighbors’ dogs will receive $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit against a county and its dog warden, a newspaper reported. The lawsuit was filed after Klonda Richey,...
Reavis Named Chief People Officer at Ohio Insurtech Root
Mar 30 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based Root Inc., the parent company of online insurer Root Insurance, has appointed Annette Reavis as its first chief people officer. Reavis has more than 20 years of human resource and business experience....
Ohio Bill Would Expand Business Interruption Coverage During COVID-19 Emergency
Mar 30 2020 // Two Democratic state representatives in Ohio have filed a bill in the General Assembly that would require insurers that provide business interruption insurance to cover losses that arise from viruses and pandemics,...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Insurance Provider OKs Deferred Premium Payments
Mar 27 2020 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC), the exclusive provider of workers’ compensation insurance in the state, is allowing insurance premium installment payments due for March, April, and May to be...
Home Health Providers at ‘Breaking Point’ as Coronavirus Ups Demand, Saps Supplies
Mar 27 2020 // Home healthcare providers, the lifelines to 12 million vulnerable Americans, are scrambling to decide how to serve patients who show symptoms of coronavirus — and how to ensure that the providers themselves neither...
Ohio Commercial Insurance Insurtech, Coterie, Raises $8.5M in Financing
Mar 25 2020 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based insurtech Coterie, which specializes in commercial insurance, has closed an oversubscribed Series A financing round totaling $8.5 million from RPM Ventures, Allos Ventures, and others. The company...
The Hilb Group Acquires Ohio’s Healthcare Liability Consultants Agency
Mar 24 2020 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Healthcare Liability Consultants Agency Inc., and hired owner and medical malpractice insurance specialist, Julie Paton, as a producer. Paton is based in Cleveland, Ohio. The...
