Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Governor Wants Lower Workers’ Comp Rates
May 2 2011 // Ohio’s governor wants the state to lower the premiums employers pay for workers’ compensation by 4 percent for a total cut of about $65 million a year. Gov. John Kasich’s office says the goal is to reduce...
Mayor Orders Flood-Threatened Illinois City Evacuated
May 2 2011 // Authorities in a southern Illinois city menaced by two dangerously swollen rivers said on May 1 that most of the city’s remaining residents have heeded a mandatory evacuation order, prompted by river water seeping up...
Ohio Supreme Court OKs Emotional Distress Claim in Malpractice Suit to Proceed
May 2 2011 // The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a cancer patient may pursue an emotional distress claim that alleges a faulty diagnosis let undetected cancer spread. The Court upheld an appellate court decision in a lawsuit filed by...
My New Markets
May 2 2011 // Recreational Market Detail: Shoemaker & Besser Associates Inc. offers coverage for motorcycles, snowmobiles, RVs, mobile homes, dwelling fire DP1 & DP3, vacant, HO10 homeowners, watercrafts, and collector...
Ohio Program Finds Lost Life Insurance for Hundreds
Apr 29 2011 // An Ohio program begun a little over a year and a-half ago has tracked down nearly 450 lost life insurance policies, typically for families of Ohioans who have died. The successes were out of more than 680 valid requests...
SIA of Northern Ohio Adds 40th Insurance Agency
Apr 28 2011 // SIA of Northern Ohio (SIANO) has appointed Myers-Ziemke Insurance Agency in Monroeville as its 40th member, the agency network announced. Founded by Ewers in 2001, SIANO is a master agency with The Strategic Insurance...
Hylant Group Promotes Kranz, Bryant in Environmental Practice Group
Apr 27 2011 // Ohio-based Hylant Group, one of the largest privately owned insurance brokerage firms in the nation, has promoted two insurance industry professionals in its Environmental Practice Group. Don Bryant, vice president, has...
Ohio Plans May 5 Switch to Electronic Licensing System
Apr 25 2011 // Ohio insurance regulators will soon make a switch to an electronic system for agent licensing. Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Director of the Department of Insurance Mary Taylor said transition to the new system will begin...
Ohio Supreme Court Allows Emotional Distress Claim in Malpractice Lawsuit
Apr 22 2011 // The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a cancer patient may pursue an emotional distress claim that alleges a faulty diagnosis let undetected cancer spread. The court upheld an appellate court decision in a lawsuit filed by...
Midwest Tornadoes, High Winds Damage Homes, Businesses
Apr 22 2011 // The National Weather Service says at least five tornadoes were part of the storms that battered Ohio early on April 20. Hours before, a tornado measured as an EF3 hit near Girard, Ill., about 20 miles south of Springfield...
Ohio Work Comp Bureau Offering Safety Grants to Wholesale, Retail Employers
Apr 21 2011 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Stephen Buehrer has announced a grant program to reduce or eliminate occupational injuries and illnesses in the wholesale/retail trade sector. As part of...
Ohio Non-Insured Property Exclusion Case Sent Back to Lower Court
Apr 20 2011 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a trial court must reconsider arguments in a lawsuit over an exclusion in a homeowners’ insurance policy that bars coverage for claims “arising out of” premises...
Garber Named Chief Legal Counsel at Ohio Insurance Department
Apr 19 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor named Joe Garber chief legal counsel at the Ohio Department of Insurance. Garber, who joined the agency on April 11, advises the department in legal...
Ohio Investigations Result in 12 Work Comp Fraud Convictions in March
Apr 15 2011 // Ohio’s chief workers’ compensation insurance regulator announced that 12 individuals were convicted or pleaded guilty to charges related to defrauding Ohio’s workers’ compensation system during the...
Ohio Considers Appeal in Work Comp Rate-Setting Lawsuit
Apr 13 2011 // Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers is deciding whether to appeal a ruling that would allow thousands of businesses to sue over a state rate-setting plan. At issue is an allegation by small business owners that...
Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 7 2011 // A North Baltimore, Ohio, man has pleaded guilty to one count to workers’ compensation fraud. An investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Special Investigations Division (SID) found that...
New Ohio Law Allows State to Join Surplus Line Compact
Apr 4 2011 // Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich signed legislation continuing Ohio’s involvement in the surplus lines insurance market, the governor’s office announced. House Bill 122 permits the director of the Ohio Department of...
People
Apr 4 2011 // Ohio-based Westfield Insurance promoted Joseph C. Kohmann to group finance leader (CFO) and treasurer. He replaces Robert Krisowaty, who retires with more than 10 years of service. In July 2010 Kohmann assumed the position...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Finds Fraud at 6 Postal Contractors
Mar 25 2011 // Six postal contractors in Ohio have been sanctioned for workers’ compensation fraud, state regulators say. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) said a task force created by its Special Investigations...
Ohio’s Pitts Agency Joins The Iroquois Group
Mar 25 2011 // Pitts Insurance Agency of Columbus, Ohio, has joined The Iroquois Group, a network of property and casualty insurance agencies with more than 1,800 members in 37 states. Pitts Insurance Agency joined Iroquois on March...
