Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Morrison Appointed Chief Legal Officer at Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau
Nov 6 2012 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Steve Buehrer has appointed Sarah Morrison as chief legal counsel. Morrison will be a member of BWC’s executive staff responsible for coordinating...
Ohio Agent Tax Lien Program Nets $5.3 Million Since 2011
Nov 2 2012 // Ohio Lt. Governor and Dept. of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that an agent tax lien program that has collected more than $5.3 million in unpaid income tax, sales tax and workers compensation premium payments....
Ohio Farming’s New Cash Crop: Agritourism
Oct 29 2012 // If you’ve ever picked your own apples or bumped along on a hayride, you’ve taken part in agritourism. But the concept has grown up as more people want to learn about their food. That’s led to local-food...
Ohio Reduces Workers’ Comp Rate for Local Governments by 5%
Oct 26 2012 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Board of Directors has approved a proposed reduction in average rates for public employer taxing districts by 5 percent. This marks the fourth consecutive year in which public...
Critics Want Ohio Watchdog’s Workers’ Comp ‘Coingate’ Report
Oct 16 2012 // Ohio’s state watchdog hasn’t yet released an investigative report on state’s workers’ compensation fund investment scandal that engulfed Ohio in 2005 — and critics want to know why. With the...
Ohio Women’s Home Fighting Insurance Giant to Stay Put
Oct 12 2012 // As Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic battled for the title at the Western & Southern Open north of Cincinnati, Ohio, a small plane buzzed overhead, trailing a banner calling the sponsor a bunch of bullies. The public...
Insurer of Home Values Goes Under
Oct 8 2012 // An Ohio court has ordered Home Value Insurance Co. into rehabilitation for inadequate capital and surplus. The rehabilitation order said that HVIC failed to maintain the $5 million minimum capital and surplus that is...
Report: Ohio Nurse Didn’t Realize She Took Kidney
Sep 26 2012 // A nurse who accidentally disposed of a living donor’s kidney during a transplant said she didn’t realize it was in chilled, protective slush that she removed from an operating room, took down a hall to a dirty...
Ohio Insurance Agent Sentenced for $39K Theft
Sep 24 2012 // A Cincinnati, Ohio-area insurance agent has been sentenced for theft from Hamilton County residents, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced. Former Ohio insurance agent Cecil Young, of Cincinnati, was sentenced to four...
Ohio’s Home Value Insurance Co. Now in Rehabilitation
Sep 24 2012 // Home Value Insurance Co. was ordered into rehabilitation by an Ohio court on Aug. 31, and has been prohibited from selling insurance in the state due to its failure to maintain minimum capital and surplus. HVIC is...
Court Orders Rehabilitation for Home Value Insurance Co.
Sep 18 2012 // Home Value Insurance Co. was ordered into rehabilitation by an Ohio court on Aug. 31, 2012, and has been prohibited from selling insurance in the state due to its failure to maintain minimum capital and surplus. The...
Accidents Prompt Ohio State Safety Awareness Blitz
Sep 14 2012 // Ohio State University has enlisted an army of volunteers to raise awareness of traffic safety on campus after a rash of crashes involving pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists. The Columbus Dispatch reports that 200...
Court: Ohio Prison Nurse Can Be Sued in Death
Sep 11 2012 // A prison nurse isn’t immune from being sued over an inmate’s 2009 death following a violent seizure from alcohol withdrawals, a federal appeals court panel ruled. Nurse Jennifer McCune had sought immunity as a...
People – Midwest
Sep 10 2012 // Hastings Mutual Insurance Co., a regional property/casualty insurer based in Hastings, Mich., has welcomed new President, CEO and Chairman Joseph J. Babiak Jr. Babiak joined Hastings Mutual in 2001 as the chief financial...
Ohio Auto, Homeowners Rates Still Competitive
Sep 10 2012 // Ohio’s 2011 average auto and homeowners insurance rates were again among the most competitive in the United States, according to state insurance regulators. The Ohio Department of Insurance reported that Ohio has the...
BP Gas Recall Now 4.7M Gallons; Ohio, Southern Indiana Affected
Aug 31 2012 // BP says the size of its gasoline recall is now more than twice as large than previously reported at 4.7 million gallons distributed as far as southwestern Ohio and southern Indiana. BP spokesman Scott Dean said on Aug. 29...
Pennsylvania Hospital, Ohio Parents Settle Organ Donor Suit
Aug 30 2012 // An Ohio couple has settled their lawsuit against a northwestern Pennsylvania hospital they accused of killing their son to harvest his organs for transplant. The parents of 18-year-old Gregory Jacobs had claimed Hamot...
Ohio’s Norman-Spencer Agency Acquires N.Y.-Based Keenan Marine Agency
Aug 29 2012 // Dayton, Ohio-based Norman-Spencer Agency Inc. has acquired New York-based Keenan Marine Insurance Agency LLC. Keenan Marine is a national specialty yacht insurance agency and has provided comprehensive solutions to yacht...
Ohio Doctor Can Be Sued in Inmate’s Suicide: Update
Aug 29 2012 // A psychiatrist is not immune from being sued for damages by the family of a teenage inmate who killed himself in prison, a federal appeals court has ruled. Psychiatrist Kenneth Tepe had argued that he should be immune from...
Ohio Manufacturer Fined for Safety Violations, Amputation Hazards
Aug 14 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Hebco Products Inc. in Bucyrus, Ohio, with 14 safety violations, including two repeat violations for failing to guard machines to...
