Latest Ohio Headlines
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Patriot Enters Ohio with Addition of Strategic Benefits of Cincinnati
Mar 5 2021 // Patriot Growth Insurance Services LLC (Patriot) has added Strategic Benefits of Cincinnati (SBC) to the Patriot platform. SBC is a full-service employee benefits insurance agency based in Loveland, Ohio. Led by Partners...
Hub Acquires Assets of Ohio’s Benefit Strategies Agency
Mar 4 2021 // Chicago-based global insurance brokerage, Hub International Limited (Hub), has acquired the assets of Benefit Strategies Agency LLC and Financial Strategies Agency LLC (collectively, Benefit Strategies Agency),...
Ohio Contractor Cited After 14-Year-Old Badly Injured in Fall from Roof
Mar 3 2021 // An Ohio roofing contractor has been cited by federal workplace safety officials after a 14-year-old boy who was working on the roof of a Berea, Ohio, townhome without required fall protection suffered critical injuries...
Nearly $37M Recovered for Ohio Insurance Consumers in 2020
Mar 2 2021 // Nearly $37 million was saved or recovered for Ohio insurance consumers in 2020, the state insurance department announced. Ohio Department of Insurance services staff resolved insurance coverage and claim disputes, outlined...
Ohio Roofing Contractor Cited for Safety Violations, Fined $117.5K
Mar 1 2021 // An Ohio roofing contractor has been cited for the sixth time since 2012 by federal workplace safety regulators for failing to ensure workers used required fall protection equipment. The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Joseph Schauer Named President, CEO at Ohio Agency, Schauer Group
Feb 25 2021 // Joseph D. Schauer has been named president and chief executive officer at Schauer Group Inc., a Canton, Ohio-based risk management, business insurance and human capital services firm. Schauer represents the fourth...
Kotch Joins Core Specialty Insurance in Ohio as Chief Information Officer
Feb 12 2021 // Core Specialty Insurance Holdings Inc. (Core Specialty), based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has appointed Mary Kotch as chief information officer and member of the company’s executive committee. Kotch has more than 20...
French to Serve as Director of Ohio Insurance Department
Feb 3 2021 // Former Ohio Supreme Court justice Judith L. French has been appointed as the next director of the Ohio Department of Insurance, Interim Director Tynesia Dorsey announced. French’s appointment is effective Feb. 8. In...
Lawsuit Alleges Negligence in Deadly Ohio Medical Helicopter Crash
Jan 28 2021 // A wrongful-death lawsuit has been filed against an air ambulance company over a medical helicopter crash in snowy weather that killed the three central Ohioans on board. The suit alleges Survival Flight and operator Viking...
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...
