Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 27 2017 // A Marion, Ohio, man who was injured on the job as an emergency medical technician in 2010 recently pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud after investigators discovered him working as a high school bowling...
USI Insurance Services Adds 3 in Independence, Ohio, Office
Feb 17 2017 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has added Tammi Barker, Bridget Day and Dave Petno in the USI Independence, Ohio, office. Barker, who joins the firm as account manager, has more than 17 years of insurance experience,...
How Tattoo Artists Are Like Dentists
Feb 17 2017 // Getting a tattoo may hurt, but giving one is no picnic, either. That’s the finding of what its authors say is the first study ever to directly measure the physical stresses that lead to aches and pains in tattoo...
Traffic, Crashes Increase on Aging Ohio River Bridge
Feb 16 2017 // A bridge that carries highway traffic across the Ohio River near Cincinnati has been serving tens of thousands more vehicles a day than it was designed to handle. Time and traffic are wearing on the Brent Spence Bridge,...
Ohio Judge: Village Must Pay Back $3M in Traffic Camera Tickets
Feb 10 2017 // A judge in Ohio says a village must pay back all $3 million paid by drivers for speeding citations from automated traffic cameras. The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports Butler County Judge Michael Oster issued his...
Cleveland, Ohio Settles Excessive Force Lawsuit for $2.25M
Feb 9 2017 // Attorneys for the family of a mentally ill woman who suffocated while handcuffed by Cleveland, Ohio, police say they’ve settled an excessive force lawsuit with the city for $2.25 million. Tanisha Anderson’s...
Ohio Benefits Firm Merges with USI Insurance Services
Feb 8 2017 // Accelerated Benefits in Ohio has joined forces with USI Insurance Services (USI), the companies announced. Founded in 1986 by Thomas P. Wagoner and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Accelerated Benefits and its employees will...
Study: 5 of Worst U.S. Truck-Congested Areas Are in Ohio
Feb 7 2017 // Five of the country’s 100 worst congested areas for trucks are in the state of Ohio, and three of those areas are in Cincinnati, according to a study. The American Transportation Research Institute has ranked...
Opioid Doses in Ohio Declined Again in 2016
Feb 6 2017 // The number of opioid doses dispensed to Ohio patients decreased again last year, making 2016 the fourth year in a row that the number has dropped. A recent report from the State Board of Pharmacy’s Ohio Automated Rx...
Ohio Pharmacy Board: Painkiller Prescriptions Down 20% Since 2012
Jan 27 2017 // The state says the number of painkiller prescriptions continues to fall as Ohio battles a deadly addictions epidemic. Data released by the Ohio Board of Pharmacy show 631 million painkiller pills were dispensed to patients...
Ohio-Based HORAN Promotes Bogdan-Powers, Adds Cheesman
Jan 25 2017 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based employee benefits and wealth management firm, HORAN, has promoted Valerie Bogdan-Powers to chief business development and client relations officer for HORAN’s Health Benefits Department, and...
Ohio Woman Sentenced, Must Repay $21K in Insurance Fraud Case
Jan 25 2017 // Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor said Tuscarawas County resident Tiffany Frame has been sentenced to two years of community control supervision and ordered to complete 250 hours of community service for committing insurance...
Lt. Gov.: Ohio Continues to Have Low Auto, Home Insurance Rates
Jan 23 2017 // Ohioans pay among the lowest average premiums in the nation for auto and homeowners insurance according to a national study, according to Lieutenant Gov. Mary Taylor. Taylor also serves as the state’s insurance...
Ohio-Based Central Insurance Names Nationwide’s Goad as CFO
Jan 19 2017 // Keith Goad has been hired as chief financial officer for both Central Mutual Insurance Company and All America Insurance Company. The companies are based in Van Wert, Ohio. As CFO, Goad holds overall accountability for the...
USI Acquires Ohio’s Diversified Insurance Service
Jan 19 2017 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Diversified Insurance Service, a risk management and employee benefits firm headquartered in Elmore, Ohio. Founded in 1948, Diversified Insurance Service provides personal risk,...
Ohioans Concerned About Repeal of Federal Health Law
Jan 13 2017 // Ohio advocates of the federal health care law targeted by President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans said that repeal would jeopardize insurance coverage for as many as 1 million Ohioans by 2019 and hurt...
Ohio Supreme Court Takes Up Dayton Traffic Cameras Case
Jan 10 2017 // For the third time in less than a decade, the use of traffic cameras by Ohio cities is before the state Supreme Court. Attorneys for the city of Dayton are urging the justices to reject a law passed by the Legislature that...
17 Killed in Ohio Crashes During Christmas-to-New Year’s Period
Jan 6 2017 // The State Highway Patrol says 13 people died in Ohio crashes during the long Christmas weekend and four more died during the four-day period around the New Year’s holiday. The patrol has said preliminary data show...
Ohio Jury Orders DuPont to Pay $10.5M over Leaked Chemical
Jan 6 2017 // A U.S. jury in Ohio on Jan. 5 ordered DuPont to pay $10.5 million in punitive damages to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical leaked from a Dupont plant, the plaintiff’s...
Judge: Company May Reopen Ohio Brine Injection Well
Jan 5 2017 // The pumping of waste from hydraulic fracturing operations into a closed Ohio injection well is expected to resume after a judge’s ruling that the state’s oil-and-gas regulator failed to consider a new plan...
