Latest Ohio Headlines

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Ratings of Ohio’s Wayne Mutual Insurance Upgraded

Jan 26 2021 // AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a” from “a-” of Wayne Mutual Insurance Co. (Wayne Mutual) in...

Wow! Another COVID Decision in Ohio Favoring the Insured

Jan 25 2021 // Something must be in Ohio’s air. Another Ohio court recorded a pro-insured COVID decision on January 19, 2021. In Henderson Road Restaurant Systems, Inc v. Zurich American Insurance Company, the United States...

Ohio Suspends Pharmacy After 890 Vaccine Doses Wasted

Jan 21 2021 // A pharmacy responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine to Ohio nursing homes failed to document storage temperatures for leftover shots, resulting in 890 doses being wasted, the state Health Department said. The...

Body of Second Worker Recovered After Ohio Power Plant Collapse

Jan 11 2021 // The body of a second worker killed in a power plant collapse in southern Ohio has been recovered, his employer said on Jan. 9. Relatives of 47-year-old Jamie Fitzgerald of Boyd County, Kentucky, had been notified of the...

Dee Promoted to Asst. VP, Controller at American Financial Group in Ohio

Jan 8 2021 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based American Financial Group Inc. has promoted Robert (Bob) A. Dee to assistant vice president and controller. Dee joined AFG in 1985 and has held positions of increasing responsibility within the...

NJM Insurance Group Brings Personal Lines Business to Ohio

Jan 7 2021 // Trenton, N.J.-based NJM Insurance Group is making its personal lines insurance products available to Ohio residents for the first time in the company’s 107-year history. NJM, one of the largest and most tenured auto...

Brown & Brown Acquires Assets of Ohio’s Berry Insurance Group

Jan 4 2021 // Brown & Brown of Ohio LLC, a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Berry Insurance Group, based in Ohio. Founded in 2002 by Mark Berry, Berry Insurance Group has grown to...

J.M. Wilson Promotes Gibbons to Sr. Transportation Underwriter in Ohio

Dec 23 2020 // Managing general agency and surplus lines insurance broker J.M. Wilson has promoted Ryan Gibbons as senior transportation underwriter in its Westerville, Ohio. office. Gibbons is responsible for underwriting new and...

Alera Group Acquires Todd Associates in Ohio

Dec 17 2020 // Alera Group, an employee benefits, property/casualty, retirement services and wealth management firm based in Deerfield, Ill., has acquired Todd Associates Inc. (Todd Associates), headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio. The...

Body of One Missing Worker in Ohio Power Plant Collapse Recovered

Dec 14 2020 // Crews recovered the body of one of two workers missing since a power plant being demolished in southern Ohio collapsed early Dec. 9. The man was found dead in the rubble of the Killen Generating Station in Manchester on...

Cleveland to Pay $4.85M to Settle with Wrongfully Convicted Man

Dec 3 2020 // Cleveland, Ohio, has agreed to pay a man who was wrongfully convicted of killing an elderly woman and spent 11 years in prison $4.85 million to settle a lawsuit he first filed in 2012 against two city homicide...

Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo Launching Autonomous Vehicle Testing Site in Ohio

Dec 3 2020 // Waymo plans to open a new testing site in Ohio for its driverless autonomous vehicles that will focus on dense, urban areas, the company has said. The new site being built at the Transportation Research Center near...

Columbus, Ohio, Plans to Pay $1M to Family of Woman Killed by Officer

Nov 17 2020 // The city of Columbus, Ohio, plans to pay $1 million to the family of a woman killed by an undercover officer in August 2018, according to documents filed in Franklin County Probate Court. The payout would be the largest in...

Homeowners Insurer Openly Enters Ohio

Nov 13 2020 // Boston-based Openly is now selling homeowners insurance in Ohio. Ohio homeowners and independent agents can now buy Openly’s premium insurance, obtaining quotes in 15 seconds, according to the company’s media...

Bridge Linking Ohio, Kentucky Closed by Fiery Crash

Nov 12 2020 // A fiery crash on a bridge linking Ohio and Kentucky could force the span to remain closed for days as officials tried to determine the amount of damage to the bridge that serves as a crucial link for interstate commerce,...

Ohio to Return $5B From Injured Workers Fund to Employers

Oct 30 2020 // Ohio employers will receive a record $5 billion in repayments from the state insurance fund for injured workers to help with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Mike DeWine and the fund’s...

Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Issuing $1.3B in Second Dividend for 2020

Oct 21 2020 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation will be sending more than $1.3 billion to Ohio employers over the next week to ease COVID-19’s impact on the state’s business community and economy. All told,...

FCCI Insurance Declares Dividend for Ohio Builders and Contractors Groups

Oct 19 2020 // FCCI Insurance Group will be paying its first-ever dividend – for the 2018 program year – based on favorable results for its Contractors Select program to the three Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) chapters of...

Ohio State Doc Sex Abuse Case Settlements Now Top $46M

Oct 16 2020 // Ohio State University will pay $5.8 million to settle lawsuits by about two dozen more survivors over decades-old sexual abuse by a now-deceased team doctor, Richard Strauss — bringing the total settlements so far to...

Inmate Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled by Ohio County for $950K

Oct 15 2020 // An Ohio county council has voted to pay the estate of a man who killed himself at a troubled county jail $950,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. Gregory Fox, 36, was one of nine inmates who died between June 2018 and...