Latest Ohio Headlines
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Ohio Casualty Elects New Directors
Apr 22 2002 // Property and casualty insurance holding company, Ohio Casualty Corporation, headquartered in Fairfield, Ohio, elected Philip G. Heasley, Ralph S. Michael III and Jan H. Suwinski to the corporation’s board of...
LMI and Highlands Sued by Ohio Insurance Director
Apr 19 2002 // Ohio Director of Insurance Lee Covington, acting in his capacity as liquidator of property and casualty insurer LMI Insurance Company, has sued LMI’s parent, Highlands Insurance Group and other affiliated companies...
Ohio Gov. Signs Agent Licensing Bill
Apr 17 2002 // The Ohio Department of Insurance announced that Governor Bob Taft signed Senate Bill 129, legislation crafted to streamline the insurance agent licensing process in Ohio. Sponsored by Senator Scott Nein (R-Middletown), ODI...
Celaris Group Acquires Value Added Benefits
Apr 10 2002 // Celaris Group Inc. a full-service insurance agency headquartered in Bowling Green, Ohio, has acquired Value Added Benefits Ltd., a wholesale insurance business headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Celaris, is a wholly-owned...
Assurex Global Adds Latin American, African, North American Partners
Apr 8 2002 // Ohio-based Assurex Global, a privately held risk management and commercial insurance brokerage group, has expanded its worldwide presence with the addition of international broker partners in Lima, Peru and Tunis, Tunisia,...
Assurex Adds Partners in Peru, Tunisia U.S.
Apr 4 2002 // Assurex Global Partners, the private organization of leading brokers and agencies, announced that it has expanded its worldwide presence with the addition of international broker Partners in Lima, Peru and Tunis, Tunisia,...
Ohio Casualty Proposes Private Offering of Convertible Notes
Mar 14 2002 // Ohio Casualty Corporation announced it is seeking to raise, subject to market and other conditions, $125 million through a private offering of convertible notes. The offering by the Fairfield, Ohio company will be made...
Bancinsurance Corp. Sees Improved Fourth Quarter
Mar 8 2002 // Bancinsurance Corporation, a specialty insurance holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio reported an 18.8 percent increase in net income for the three months ended Dec. 31, 2001, with net income rising to $845,473...
Wife of Convicted Former Ohio Agent told She Will Lose License
Mar 4 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington notified Connie Houser, wife of former insurance agent Harry D. Houser Sr. of Beverly, Ohio, that he intends to revoke her license as an insurance agent. According to the...
Ohio Insurance Director Files to Intervene in New Mexico Lawsuit
Feb 25 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington filed a petition to intervene in a New Mexico lawsuit that, according to the Ohio Department of Insurance, could impose another state’s insurance laws and increased costs on Ohio...
Ohio Director, AmTrust Financial Settle Dispute
Feb 15 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington, in his capacity as Liquidator of Credit General Insurance Company, announced a settlement with New York-based AmTrust Financial Group resolving all disputes that were...
Ohio One of First States to Eliminate Paper Filings for Insurers
Feb 14 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington announced that Ohio is among the first states to no longer require insurance companies to make paper financial statement filings to the Department of Insurance. The...
Ohio Insurance Director Revokes Agent’s License
Feb 13 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington revoked the insurance license of George J. Fiorini II of Cincinnati and the Fiorini Agency. Covington took the action after finding that Fiorini had allegedly committed...
Ohio Casualty Insurance, Summit Insurance Join Trusted Choice
Feb 11 2002 // The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company and Summit Insurance Company (Rhode Island) are the newest partners in the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s (IIAA) Trusted ChoiceSM branding initiative, which is set to...
Ohio Suspends Highlands Insurance Group’s Authority
Feb 6 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington suspended the authority to transact business of five Ohio licensed companies of Highlands Insurance Group on Jan. 30, after determining that further business transactions...
Sky Financial Group to Acquire Celaris Group
Jan 31 2002 // Sky Financial Group Inc. of Bowling Green, Ohio, has announced it will acquire the Celaris Group, Inc., a full-service insurance agency specializing in commercial and personal insurance services, financial services and...
Crawford and Company’s The Garden City Group Expands Midwest Regional Headquarters
Jan 22 2002 // The Garden City Group Inc. (GCG), a division of Crawford & Company, an independent provider of diversified services to insurance companies, self-insured corporations, and governmental entities, announced the expansion...
Ohio Agency Joins SIAA
Jan 17 2002 // The Strategic Independent Agents Alliance (SIAA), a national insurance agency distribution network, announced that the DiStefano Insurance Agency Inc. of Canal Fulton, Ohio, has established United Independent Agency...
Tort Reform, Credit, Producer Licensing on Agenda for 2002 Ohio Legislative Session
Jan 16 2002 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), Ohio insurers are poised to actively participate in the 2002 Ohio Legislative session, during which insurance issues such as tort reform, credit and...
Ohio Department of Insurance Hosting Fraud Seminar
Jan 11 2002 // Ohio’s Department of Insurance will host the 2002 Insurance Fraud Seminar on Wednesday, March 6. The seminar will feature presentations by several fraud enforcement experts on topics such as “Crimes Against...
