Latest Ohio Headlines
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New Death Prompts ARC Airbag Probe in US, Canada
Aug 8 2016 // Auto safety regulators in two countries are investigating another deadly airbag problem that could affect up to 8 million vehicles. Investigators in the U.S. and Canada are looking into a crash in the Canadian province of...
People – Midwest
Aug 8 2016 // Insurance brokerage USI Insurance Services (USI) appointed David A. Nurre president, employee benefits for the Cincinnati, Ohio, office. Nurre has more than 17 years of industry experience and has been with USI Insurance...
4 Months of Hand-Held Speed Cameras Generate $630K for Ohio City
Jul 26 2016 // Toledo, Ohio, collected almost $630,000 during its first four months of using hand-held cameras to catch speeding drivers, providing a financial boost to a city facing budget troubles. The program was expected to generate...
Farley Joins Ohio Insurance Institute as VP Legal, Government Affairs
Jul 26 2016 // Michael D. Farley has joined the Ohio Insurance Institute (OII) as vice president of legal and government affairs. Farley will assume leadership of the association’s legislative and regulatory affairs initiatives, a...
People – Midwest
Jul 25 2016 // Ohio Insurance Institute President Dan Kelso is retiring and senior staffer Dean Fadel has been named the OII’s new president. Formerly vice president of Government Relations, Fadel joined OII in 1988. He previously...
Groups Press Dow-DuPont to Reveal Teflon Liabilities Before Merger Vote
Jul 19 2016 // DuPont Co. and Dow Chemical Co. must tell shareholders before next week’s merger vote that they may face exposure to costly potential damages from claims that a chemical used to make Teflon caused cancer and other...
People – Midwest
Jul 11 2016 // Wholesale insurance broker Burns & Wilcox added Mary Mullen as personal insurance manager in its Chicago office. Mullen, who most recently served as vice president, regional operations officer at Willis Towers Watson,...
Business Moves
Jul 11 2016 // Rogers & Gray, Albert Brock Co. Cape Cod, Mass.-based Rogers & Gray Insurance has acquired the independent insurance agency, Albert G. Brock Co., located on Nantucket Island, Mass. The newly formed entity will...
Kelso to Retire from Ohio Insurance Institute, Fadel Named President
Jul 8 2016 // Ohio Insurance Institute President Dan Kelso is retiring and senior staffer Dean Fadel has been named the OII’s new president, the organization announced. The leadership transition will occur over the next several...
Ohio-Based Hylant Announces Leadership Changes
Jul 6 2016 // Insurance brokerage firm, Hylant, announced that Chris Godley has been named president in the Columbus, Ohio, office, Craig Markos has been promoted to president of Property/Casualty, and Richard Hylant has been named...
Football Players at Western Ohio School District File Lawsuit
Jul 5 2016 // A federal lawsuit has been filed by five former high school football players and two parents against various employees of a western Ohio school district. The Lima News reported the suit alleges that two coaches at St....
Ohio Bill Targets Abusive Practices of Tow Truck Operators
Jun 24 2016 // An Ohio insurer trade groups says a bill introduced into the General Assembly would help rein in the predatory practices of some towing business operators in the state. The primary focus of House Bill 341, introduced by...
Ohio Insurance Agent’s License Revoked after $800K in Client Losses
Jun 22 2016 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor has revoked the license of insurance agent Brian Willms, of Dublin, for misrepresenting life insurance policies as an investment. The misrepresentations contributed to two clients...
Ohio Bookstore Loses $1M in Inventory in Fire; 3 Injured
Jun 22 2016 // Authorities say an estimated $1 million in inventory was lost in a bookstore fire that broke out twice within a few hours and injured three people in southwestern Ohio. Firefighters say a firefighter and two people inside...
Concerns Raised about Coverage with Ohio Insurer’s Demise
Jun 20 2016 // Health care advocates and a U.S. senator are raising concerns that nearly 22,000 Ohioans could end up paying much more for health care as their struggling insurer winds down its operations. Republican Sen. Rob Portman has...
Conklin, Baird Appointed to Lead Ohio Department of Insurance Units
Jun 13 2016 // Lt. Governor Mary Taylor has named two to key posts at the Ohio Department of Insurance. Allison Conklin will serve as assistant director of Legislative Affairs and Amanda Baird is the new general counsel. Baird supervises...
Ohio-Based The Hoffman Group Acquired by Oswald Companies
Jun 13 2016 // Oswald Companies, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, has acquired The Hoffman Group, an Ohio insurance firm founded in 1919. Hoffman’s employees are now employee-owners of Oswald and will operate out of offices in...
How Zoo Emergency Response Teams Handle Dangerous Animals
Jun 10 2016 // When a 400-pound gorilla grabbed a 3-year-old boy at the Cincinnati Zoo, the sharpshooter who killed the ape wasn’t from the police. Instead, the shooter was a specially trained zoo staffer on one of the many...
Ohio Insurers Group: 11 Metro Areas in State See Decline in Auto Thefts
Jun 7 2016 // The Ohio Insurance Institute (OII) reported that 11 of the 15 Ohio metro areas (MSAs) in the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s (NICB) Hot Spots report show a decline in auto thefts between 2014 and 2015, based on...
Ohio’s Farmers National Bank Acquires Bowers Insurance
Jun 6 2016 // The Farmers National Bank of Canfield (Farmers), based in Canfield, Ohio, has acquired the Bowers Insurance Agency Inc. (Bowers Group). The transaction closed on June 1, 2016 and is expected to be accretive to earnings...
