Latest Ohio Headlines
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6 Barges Sink, Spill Coal in Ohio River After Barge Hits Kentucky Bridge
Dec 31 2018 // The Coast Guard says a section of the Ohio River in Kentucky has re-opened after a tugboat and coal barge accident forced its closing. Coast Guard officials say a towing vessel was pushing 15 loaded coal barges when it hit...
Ohio Agents Group Adds Fitzsimmons as Customer Experience Manager
Dec 28 2018 // Ohio Insurance Agents Association has hired Ashley Fitzsimmons as customer experience manager. Growing OIA’s vision to be a “change agent for agent change,” Fitzsimmons has a goal to lead the...
Ohio Plan Would Make Roads Wider, Safer in State’s Amish Region
Dec 28 2018 // Work to widen roads and make other safety improvements is planned in an area of Ohio’s Amish country plagued by crashes resulting in injuries, according to federal and state officials. The U.S. Department of...
Outlooks Revised to Positive for Ohio’s Wayne Mutual Insurance
Dec 19 2018 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” of Wooster, Ohio-based property/casualty...
Business Moves
Dec 17 2018 // The Hartford, Y-Risk The Hartford has purchased Y-Risk, a managing general underwriter that specializes in serving sharing and on-demand economy risks, from Allstar Financial Group. Allstar is an Atlanta-based holding...
People
Dec 17 2018 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based American Financial Group Inc. (AFG) hired Anthony W. Dunn as vice president, overseeing the internal audit function for the company and its subsidiaries. Dunn has 20 years of experience in the...
Southwest Ohio Business Owner Convicted of $425K Workers’ Comp Fraud Gets Prison Time
Dec 17 2018 // A federal judge has sentenced the owner of a now-defunct southwest Ohio payroll services company to six months in federal prison and a $10,000 fine after being found guilty of workers’ compensation insurance...
Ohio Insurance Market at a Glance
Dec 17 2018 // With $84 billion in premium volume, Ohio is the 19th largest insurance market in the world and the seventh largest in the United States, the state’s insurance department says in its annual report for 2018. Ohio...
Alera Group Acquires Ohio Employee Benefits Firm, Bailey & Company
Dec 12 2018 // Alera Group has acquired Bailey & Company, an employee benefits firm headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Bailey & Company specializes in a wide variety of employee...
Ohio Business Owner Sentenced to Prison for $425K Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 11 2018 // A federal judge has sentenced the owner of a now-defunct southwest Ohio payroll services company to six months in federal prison and a $10,000 fine after being found guilty of workers’ compensation insurance...
AssuredPartners Acquires Ohio’s Carriage Insurance Agency
Dec 6 2018 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired Carriage Insurance Agency Inc. located in Hudson, Ohio. Carriage Insurance is a general insurance agency who will continue to operate under the leadership of Bill Landess. In operation in...
Ohio Has Fewest Traffic Deaths Since 1991 Over Thanksgiving Holiday Period
Nov 29 2018 // The State Highway Patrol says six people were killed in Ohio traffic crashes over this year’s Thanksgiving travel season — the lowest number of traffic fatalities for that travel period in 27 years. A patrol...
Ohio State Researchers: Road Design Impacts Distracted Driving Crash Frequency
Nov 21 2018 // A new study from Ohio State University’s Risk Institute reveals road design modifications can reduce the frequency and severity of distracted driving crashes. According to the Property Casualty Insurers Association...
American Financial Group Hires Dunn as VP, Internal Audit
Nov 20 2018 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based American Financial Group Inc. (AFG) has hired Anthony W. Dunn as vice president, overseeing the internal audit function for the company and its subsidiaries. Dunn has 20 years of experience in the...
Ohio’s Scott Molino Agency Joins Smith & Leavitt Insurance Services
Nov 13 2018 // Scott Molino Agency in Grove City, Ohio, has affiliated with Smith & Leavitt Insurance Services and will now do business as Leavitt Group Midwest-Smith, Molino & Sichko. The agency will continue to offer Nationwide...
Columbus, Ohio, to Pay Family $410K in Wrongful Death Suit
Nov 7 2018 // The City Council in Ohio’s capital city has approved paying the family of an 86-year-old woman killed in a firetruck accident $410,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. The Columbus Dispatch reports Columbus City...
Ohio’s New Distracted Driving Law Now in Effect
Nov 5 2018 // A new Ohio law aimed at cutting down on distracted driving in the state went into effect on Oct. 29. The Ohio Department of Public Safety says House Bill 95 will be a significant distracted driving deterrent and an...
Ohio Supreme Court: Subcontractor’s Faulty Work Not Covered by Contractor’s Policy
Nov 5 2018 // The Ohio Supreme Court in early October ruled that a general contractor’s commercial general liability policy does not cover the faulty work of a subcontractor. In its consideration of Ohio N. Univ. v. Charles...
Medical Profession Liability Insurer ISMIE Mutual Expanding Into Ohio
Nov 2 2018 // ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co., a medical professional liability insurance provider, is expanding into Ohio after state regulators there granted the company admitted status. ISMIE said it is now able to offer Ohio physicians,...
City, Grocery Reach $240K Settlement in Case of Stun-Gunned Ohio Girl
Oct 31 2018 // There’s a $240,000 settlement in the case of an 11-year-old black girl stunned by a Cincinnati, Ohio, police officer after she was spotted shoplifting in a grocery store and tried to run away. The Cincinnati Enquirer...
