Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Working with Active Military, Veterans on Insurance Careers
Nov 18 2015 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Insurance Director Mary Taylor is urging Ohioans who are members of the military — both actively serving and veterans — to consider a career in insurance. The state is offering free...
Westfield Insurance Foundation Scholarship Honors Outgoing CEO
Nov 12 2015 // The Westfield Insurance Foundation is creating the James R. Clay Scholarship to honor its outgoing chairman and CEO. The Ohio Farmers Insurance Co. (OFIC) board of directors authorized the transfer of $100,000 to the...
Steel Manufacturer Fined Nearly $400K for Safety Hazards at Ohio
Nov 12 2015 // A crane’s safety latch failed and 1,000 pounds of equipment fell on a man below and injured him as he worked at a TimkenSteel Corp. Ohio factory, according to federal safety officials. For the second time in a year,...
People – Midwest
Nov 2 2015 // Former U.S. Senator Ben Nelson will step down as chief executive officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), when his current term ends on Jan. 31, 2016. He began his tenure at NAIC in January...
Superstorm Sandy: Ohio’s 6th Costliest Natural Disaster
Oct 30 2015 // Superstorm Sandy in late October 2013 was Ohio’s sixth costliest natural disaster in recent history from an insured loss standpoint, an insurance trade group says. Moving inland after devastating parts of the East...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Ohio’s Sigma II Insurance Agency
Oct 26 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Sigma II Insurance Agency in Independence, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1988, Sigma II Insurance Agency (Sigma II) is an employee benefits...
Hylant Picks Riley as President of Cleveland, Ohio Office
Oct 20 2015 // Hylant, one of the nation’s largest privately owned insurance brokerage firms, announced that Kim Riley has accepted the role of president of its Cleveland, Ohio, office. With over 30 years of insurance, risk...
People – Midwest
Oct 19 2015 // Great American Insurance Group based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has named James (Jim) R. Niehaus senior vice president and chief information officer of its Property and Casualty Group. Niehaus joined the Great American in 2007...
Ohio Megachurch, Insurer Disputing Payment of Lawsuit Settlement
Oct 15 2015 // Lawyers for a central Ohio megachurch and its former insurance company are squaring off in the Ohio Supreme Court over payment of $3.1 million settlement in a lawsuit over the alleged beating of a toddler at the...
Correction: Ohio Second in Midwest for Workplace Fatalities
Oct 14 2015 // Data from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration show Ohio with the second-highest number of workers killed on the job in the agency’s Midwest region this past fiscal year, behind Illinois. A previous...
Ohio Woman Awarded $1.6M over DuPont Chemical in Water
Oct 9 2015 // An Ohio woman has been awarded $1.6 million in the trial of a lawsuit that alleged a chemical from a DuPont Co. plant contaminated drinking water and contributed to her contracting kidney cancer. A jury awarded the damages...
DuPont Found Liable in West Virginia Toxic Water Lawsuit
Oct 8 2015 // DuPont Co. was found liable for a woman’s kidney cancer in the first of 3,500 lawsuits over a toxic Teflon ingredient found in Ohio and West Virginia water, but spinoff Chemours Co. will have to bear any costs from...
Workplace Injuries Lead to $1.4M in Fines for Ohio Chicken Processor
Oct 7 2015 // A supplier of fast food and supermarket chicken is facing more than $1.4 million in fines this year for worker safety and health violations at Ohio facilities, including several that led a teenage worker to suffer the...
After 97 Fire Deaths this Year, Ohio Launches Safety Campaign
Oct 7 2015 // Ohio has launched a campaign to promote fire safety as cooler temperatures prompt more use of heat sources that can lead to blazes. The state says fires have killed 97 people in Ohio so far in 2015. That’s 12 more...
Ohio Insurance Institute: Deer-Vehicle Crashes Down, Costs Rising
Oct 6 2015 // The Ohio Insurance Institute (OII) reports that deer-vehicle crashes in the state decreased in 2014 by 2.5 percent over 2013. Nationally, however, claim costs from such collisions are up by more than 6 percent this...
Ohio Insurance Agent Tax Liens Surpass $15M
Oct 5 2015 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor announced that as of September 2015 the insurance agent tax lien program has collected or set-up payment plans with agents for amounts totaling $15,149,631 in unpaid income tax, sales...
Ohio Lawmakers Consider Statewide Ridesharing Regulations
Sep 30 2015 // The Ohio Senate is considering a bill that would create one set of statewide regulations for ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft. The lawmakers’ work comes as Uber plans to expand its Ohio workforce by adding...
Griffith Insurance Education Award Goes to Ohio Mutual’s Kennedy
Sep 28 2015 // James Kennedy, CEO of the Ohio Mutual Insurance Group, was named the recipient of the 2015 Griffith Insurance Education Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for his career-long dedication to education and support of the...
Cardiologist in Ohio Convicted of Overbilling Insurers $7.2M
Sep 27 2015 // A federal court jury in Cleveland, Ohio, has convicted a cardiologist of ordering unnecessary medical tests, performing unnecessary procedures and submitting fraudulent bills totaling $7.2 million. Fifty-six-year-old...
Ohio Town Ordered to Put Anti-Fracking Issue Back on Ballot
Sep 25 2015 // The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that an anti-fracking measure in Youngstown must be put back on fall ballots. In a unanimous decision, the high court said the Mahoning County Board of Elections lacked the authority not to...
