Latest Ohio Headlines
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Pilots in Fatal 2015 Ohio Crash Were Fired from Previous Jobs: NTSB
Apr 27 2016 // Both pilots in a chartered-jet crash last year in Akron, Ohio, that killed seven employees of a Florida real estate company had been fired from previous jobs for performance issues, investigators said. All nine people...
2 Ohio Property/Casualty Insurers Approved to Operate in Arkansas
Apr 27 2016 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has approved Ohio-based All America Insurance Co. (AAIC) and Central Mutual Insurance Co. (CMIC) to do business in the state. The companies now have the authority to offer...
USI Acquires Brooks Insurance in Ohio
Apr 20 2016 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Toledo, Ohio-based Brooks Insurance. Brooks employees will remain at their Toledo and Bowling Green locations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brooks provides property/casualty,...
More Crashes, Fewer Tickets in Ohio as Speed Limits Rise
Apr 19 2016 // A newspaper analysis has found that an increase in the speed limit along stretches of rural Ohio interstates has resulted in more accidents and fewer tickets. The Columbus Dispatch reports that state troopers wrote 55,000...
Buehrer Resigns from Ohio BWC
Apr 18 2016 // The head of the Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers has stepped down from his job. Steve Buehrer resigned as administrator and CEO of the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. He has led the agency for...
Injured Ohio Workers Receiving Fewer Opioid Prescriptions
Apr 18 2016 // The amount of opioids prescribed to injured Ohio workers has fallen significantly since the state’s insurance fund for injured workers created a pharmacy management program amid concerns about painkiller usage. Fewer...
Ohio Lawmakers Want Medical Marijuana Legal by Summer
Apr 15 2016 // Medical marijuana will be legalized in Ohio by summer, state representatives pledged, calling their legislative effort more responsible and comprehensive than any ballot proposal. The Ohio legislation comes as the national...
Ohio Sees Increase in Fatal Wrong-Way Highway Crashes
Apr 12 2016 // State transportation records show an increase in wrong-way highway crashes in Ohio, with more deaths so far in 2016 than in all of 2014. The Dayton Daily News reports Ohio Department of Transportation records show 47...
Number of Opioid Prescriptions for Injured Ohio Workers Drops
Apr 10 2016 // The amount of opioids prescribed to injured Ohio workers has fallen significantly since the state’s insurance fund for injured workers created a pharmacy management program amid concerns about painkiller usage. Fewer...
Ohio Woman Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud, Owes $94K
Apr 10 2016 // A Youngstown, Ohio, woman has been ordered to repay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) nearly $94,000 in workplace injury benefits she collected illegally. The Ohio BWD reported that Zelma Forro pleaded...
Buehrer Resigns from Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau
Apr 3 2016 // The head of the Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers is stepping down from his job this month. Gov. John Kasich’s office announced that Steve Buehrer is resigning as administrator and CEO of the Ohio...
OSHA: No Reinforced Walls in Deadly Ohio Trench Collapse
Apr 1 2016 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says inspectors probing a construction site where a worker was killed this week found no evidence the wall of the trench was reinforced. Cleveland.com reports OSHA...
Motor Vehicle-Related Pedestrians Deaths Up in Ohio
Mar 30 2016 // A safety group’s report shows the number of pedestrians killed by motor vehicles in Ohio in the first six months of 2015 climbed and Ohio led all states in the percentage increase over the same period in 2014. The...
How to Use Social Media, Surveillance to Catch Workers Compensation Lies
Mar 28 2016 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv As workers’ compensation fraud costs top out at an estimated $7.2 billion a year, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, insurers are looking at ways to combat the...
Security Worker Dies, Possibly from Nitrogen Exposure, in Ohio Steel Plant
Mar 25 2016 // A security worker at a steel plant in Ohio may have died from nitrogen exposure, federal investigators said. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said the 32-year-old worker was found dead inside...
NWS Confirms F-1 Tornado Caused Damage in Southwest Ohio
Mar 17 2016 // The National Weather Service confirms a tornado caused damage in a southwest Ohio village near Dayton. There were no immediate reports of injuries from the March 14 tornado. The National Weather Service says the EF-1...
Etzler Promoted to VP at Ohio-Based Central Insurance
Mar 4 2016 // The Central Insurance Companies in Van Wert, Ohio, has promoted Scott Etzler to vice president of Risk Management. Etzler’s responsibilities include chairing the risk management committee, managing Central’s...
Ohio-Based American Modern Insurance Taps Kleiner for CEO
Mar 1 2016 // Andreas Kleiner has been named president and chief executive officer of American Modern Insurance Group, a subsidiary of Munich Re, effective May 1. He succeeds Manny Rios, who left the position in August. Kleiner has...
Demotech Affirms Ratings of Midwest Public Entity Pools
Feb 17 2016 // Ohio-based Demotech Inc. recently affirmed the financial stability ratings (FSRs) assigned to six self-funded public entity pools in the Midwest. Demotech reviews and rates more than 415 insurers, writing every line of...
Jury Awards $600K to 3 Ohio Women in Chipotle Discrimination Suit
Feb 12 2016 // Three Ohio women who filed a federal lawsuit accusing Chipotle Mexican Grill of gender discrimination have been awarded a total of about $600,000 in damages. A U.S. District Court jury in Cincinnati found the Denver-based...
