Latest Ohio Headlines
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Tax Liens Against Ohio Insurance Agents Surpass $15M
Sep 24 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 totaling $15,149,631 in unpaid income tax, sales tax and workers’...
More Crashes Causing Ohio Car Insurance Rates to Climb
Sep 21 2015 // An uptick in vehicle crashes in Ohio may be denting motorists’ wallets, along with their cars and trucks. The Columbus Dispatch reports several insurers have begun raising rates because of rising claims. Geico, the...
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Sep 21 2015 // Mark C. Russell has been tapped as the next president and chief executive officer of Ohio Mutual Insurance Group, succeeding the company’s current retiring leader Jim Kennedy. Russell comes to Ohio Mutual from...
Oil Company Fined $223K for Fracking Well Fire in Ohio
Sep 17 2015 // A fire at a natural gas fracking well that forced evacuations and killed thousands of fish in eastern Ohio last summer will result in fines of about $223,000 against an international oil and gas company. Environmental...
GEICO Introduces Ridesharing Policy in Ohio
Sep 17 2015 // GEICO is offering its ridesharing insurance product, which delivers end-to-end coverage for personal and ridesharing use, to drivers in Ohio. New and existing drivers that have been approved to drive for Uber (UberX and...
Ohio Leads the U.S. in Insurance Claims for Copper Theft
Sep 14 2015 // Ohio leads the country in the number of insurance claims for thefts of copper and other kinds of metals, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Insurance Crime Bureau. The report shows that Ohio reported...
More Crashes Cause Ohio Car Insurance Rates to Climb
Sep 10 2015 // An uptick in vehicle crashes in Ohio may be denting motorists’ wallets, along with their cars and trucks. The Columbus Dispatch reports several insurers have begun raising rates because of rising claims. Geico, the...
Members of Ohio Auto Insurance Fraud Ring Sentenced
Sep 9 2015 // Two additional members of a Cincinnati-area fraudulent auto insurance claim ring have been sentenced in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced. The three main participants in the...
Pending Mergers Will Harm Health Insurance Competition: AMA
Sep 8 2015 // The nation’s doctors say the proposed mergers among four of the nation’s largest health insurance companies would violate federal antitrust guidelines and seriously erode health insurance competition. According...
Ohio Licenses First Captive Insurance Company
Sep 7 2015 // Imprise Financial PCC Inc. is now licensed as Ohio’s first “protected cell” captive insurance company, according to the Ohio Department of Insurance. Through its protected cells, Imprise Financial will...
Ohio Company to Pay $80K to Settle Harassment Suit
Aug 31 2015 // Mel-K Management Company will pay $80,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to resolve a federal harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal...
Russell Named President, CEO of Ohio Mutual Insurance
Aug 28 2015 // Mark C. Russell has been tapped as the next president and chief executive officer of Ohio Mutual Insurance Group, succeeding the company’s current retiring leader Jim Kennedy. Russell comes to Ohio Mutual from...
Ohio Licenses First Captive Insurance Company
Aug 26 2015 // Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor announced that Imprise Financial PCC Inc. is now licensed as Ohio’s first ‘protected cell’ captive insurance company. Through its protected cells, Imprise Financial will...
Ohio Chiropractor to Plead Guilty to $696K Insurance Fraud
Aug 24 2015 // A suburban Columbus, Ohio, chiropractor has agreed to plead guilty in federal court to defrauding health insurance companies for nearly $700,000. The Columbus Dispatch reports 44-year-old Jeffrey Shope is charged with...
Hardy Named an Assistant Director at Ohio Department of Insurance
Aug 21 2015 // Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor has named Andy Hardy as the assistant director of legislative affairs and communications for the Ohio Department of Insurance. Prior to joining the Ohio Department of Insurance, Hardy was...
Safety Violations at Ohio Chicken Plant Lead to $861K in Fines
Aug 17 2015 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined the owners of a northeast Ohio chicken processing plant $861,000 for what the agency says are safety violations that expose workers to the risk of amputation,...
Ohio Company Faces $235K in Fines for Health Violations
Aug 13 2015 // A North Lima, Ohio-based ambulance company faces penalties totaling $235,800 for 14 alleged workplace health and safety violations, according to federal safety officials. The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety...
Ohio Steel Company Fined $162K for Workplace Hazards
Aug 10 2015 // Federal safety officials have proposed penalties totaling $162,400 against an Ohio-based steel manufacturer for exposing workers to workplace hazards. While Republic Steel has made a significant investment in personnel,...
Ohio Land Owners Settle Whirlpool Pollution Lawsuit
Aug 10 2015 // A lawsuit against Whirlpool Corp. has been settled over contaminated land in northern Ohio near where dozens of children were sickened with cancer. The land owners settled their suit earlier this summer — months after...
Ohio Couple Awarded $1.3M for Diesel Pumped into Basement
Aug 5 2015 // A jury has awarded than $1.3 million in damages to a couple whose southern Ohio farmhouse was made inhabitable when a fuel deliverer mistakenly pumped 600 gallons of diesel into their basement. The Ross County jury awarded...
