Latest Ohio Headlines
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Ohio Court Rejects Caps on Damages in Some Child Rape Cases
Dec 19 2022 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A woman repeatedly raped as a child is eligible for millions of dollars in additional compensation because a state cap on pain-and-suffering awards is unconstitutional as applied to cases like hers,...
OSHA Cites Ohio Roofing Contractor for 8th Time
Dec 16 2022 // For the eighth time since 2016, federal safety inspectors say they have found the owner of a Martin roofing company exposing roofers and other workers to the construction industry’s leading cause of death –falls...
Ohio Supreme Court: No Coverage Owed for COVID Business Shutdown
Dec 13 2022 // The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Monday that COVID-19 cannot cause any direct physical damage or loss that is covered by a commercial property insurance policy, joining nine other state high courts that have rejected similar...
TWFG Insurance Acquires Ohio’s American Insurance Strategies
Dec 8 2022 // The Woodlands Financial Group subsidiary TWFG Insurance Services LLC, announced its acquisition of American Insurance Strategies, located in the Dayton, Ohio and Milwaukee, Wisconsin areas. AIS has $18 million in written...
Ohio Steel Manufacturer to Pay $990K Over Clear Air Act Violations
Dec 5 2022 // The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed Clear Air Act settlement with Republic Steel, a steel manufacturer in Canton, Ohio, which will require the company to reduce its...
Liability Finding in Ohio St. Football Standout Rape Allegation to be Appealed
Nov 29 2022 // An attorney is vowing an appeal for a woman found liable by a civil jury for malicious prosecution in a rape allegation she made against a former Ohio State football standout more than five years ago. The woman’s...
Ohio Court Revives Wrongful Death Claim in Walmart Shooting
Nov 29 2022 // CINCINNATI (AP) – A federal appeals court has revived a wrongful death claim against Walmart by the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a white police officer inside an Ohio store after picking up a pellet...
Rokstone to Launch Ohio-Based Farm and Ranch Division
Nov 28 2022 // Rokstone Agriculture Risk Underwriters, the U.S. specialist agriculture division of the International Speciality (Re)Insurance MGA, Rokstone, has acquired two US market leading senior underwriters to launch a new...
Ohio Dollar General Operator to Pay $341K in OSHA Penalties
Nov 23 2022 // When federal workplace safety inspectors opened an investigation at a Dollar General store in Columbus, they discovered violations that were all-too-familiar and the kind that has led to more than $15 million in proposed...
10,000 Mink Loose, Missing After Vandalism at Ohio Farm
Nov 18 2022 // VAN WERT, Ohio (AP) – Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous mammals unaccounted for Tuesday evening, the local sheriff said. So many minks...
Ohio St. Pays $875K For Failure to Disclose Professor’s Foreign Government Support
Nov 14 2022 // The Ohio State University (OSU), a public university in Columbus, Ohio, has paid $875,689 to resolve civil allegations that it failed to disclose an OSU professor’s affiliations with and support from a foreign...
OSHA Proposes $145K Fine Against Caterpillar After Worker Death in Ohio
Nov 14 2022 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed fines of $145,027 against Caterpillar Inc. for not installing a guardrail or travel restraint at a foundry outside Peoria where a worker fell into molten...
Ohio Town to Pay $200K Over Sewage Discharges
Nov 10 2022 // The city of Elyria, Ohio, has entered into a consent decree with the United States and the State of Ohio to complete a series of capital projects designed to eliminate discharges of untreated sewage from its sewer system...
White Officer Must Pay $4.4M in Fatal Shooting of Black Driver in Ohio
Nov 3 2022 // EUCLID, Ohio (AP) – A white police officer who fatally shot a Black driver during a struggle inside a car in 2017 must pay his family $4.4 million. An Ohio jury made the award Tuesday, finding that Euclid officer Matthew...
Ohio Manufacturer Faces $1.2M in Penalties After Worker Injury
Oct 28 2022 // An Ohio vinyl tile manufacturer faces $1,232,705 in proposed penalties after U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors responded when a worker suffered severe injuries as a result of...
Ohio Personal Injury Attorney Sentenced to Prison for Insurance Fraud
Oct 20 2022 // Ohio Department of Insurance director Judith L. French announced that former attorney Anthony Fusco, of Youngstown, was sentenced on October 7 in the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas to 18 months in prison for felony...
Small Planes Crashes Into Ohio Car Dealership, Killing 2
Oct 19 2022 // MARIETTA, Ohio (AP) — A small plane crashed into a car dealership parking lot near the border of Ohio and West Virginia early Tuesday, killing two people on board and sparking a large fire. The crash of the 1974...
Ohio Contractor Faces $1 Million in Fines for OSHA Violations
Oct 10 2022 // A Millersburg, Ohio, contractor with a long history of disregarding workplace safety standards now faces more than $1 million in penalties after an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...
Focus Acquires Ohio-Based Alpha Insurance Group
Sep 28 2022 // Focus Financial Partners, a partnership of independent, fiduciary wealth management firms, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement under which Alpha Property & Casualty, Inc., a licensed insurance...
Ohio House Fire Injures 5 Firefighters
Sep 28 2022 // Five firefighters were injured while battling a house fire in Ohio over the weekend, authorities said. Officials said the blaze was reported in a home in Springfield at about 2 p.m. Tuesday. Assistant Chief Matt Smith said...
