Latest Ohio Headlines
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5 Winners Receive $10K Each in Ohio Opioid Science Challenge
Feb 1 2018 // Virtual reality, neural feedback and digital therapy were among five ideas to help solve the U.S. opioid crisis that won a global technology challenge in Ohio on Jan. 30. Winners were selected from hundreds of ideas...
Ohio’s Cannasure Launches New Cannabis Program
Jan 31 2018 // Westlake, Ohio-based managing general agent and wholesale broker Cannasure Insurance Services (Cannasure) announced it is launching a comprehensive coverage program to support the cannabis industry. The Cannasure program...
Startup Neptune Offering Digital Private Flood Product to Agents, Carriers in Nationwide Expansion
Jan 25 2018 // A digital startup private flood insurance provider, Neptune Flood, has secured $2 million in seed round funding and has plans to “aggressively expand” nationwide by offering its platform to carriers, agencies...
Risk Strategies Acquires Ohio’s Benefits Network Insurance Agency
Jan 24 2018 // Risk Strategies Co., a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Benefits Network Insurance Agency (BNIA), a specialist brokerage focused on the development of employee benefits...
Ohio Restricts Back Surgery, Opioid Use for Injured Workers
Jan 22 2018 // Ohio residents with work-related back injuries in most cases must try remedies like rest, physical therapy and chiropractic care before turning to spinal fusion surgery and prescription painkillers under a groundbreaking...
Estate of Ohio Policeman Who Died in Crash Sues Motorcycle Makers
Jan 17 2018 // Two motorcycle manufacturers and their trainers are accused of negligence in a lawsuit over the death of a central Ohio police officer. Sean Johnson lost control of his motorcycle during an on-duty training ride with...
J.M. Wilson Adds James as Assistant Property/Casualty Underwriter in Ohio
Jan 12 2018 // J.M. Wilson has hired Taylor James as assistant property/casualty underwriter in its Westerville, Ohio, office. James is responsible for assisting underwriters on a wide variety of property and casualty risks, as well as...
Ohio Imposes Restrictions on Injured Workers’ Back Surgery, Opioid Use
Jan 11 2018 // Ohio residents with work-related back injuries in most cases must try remedies like rest, physical therapy and chiropractic care before turning to spinal fusion surgery and prescription painkillers under a groundbreaking...
Proposed Law Would Ban Forced Nurse Overtime in Ohio
Jan 9 2018 // A proposed Ohio law would ban hospitals from forcing nurses to work overtime. The Dayton Daily News reports a nursing shortage has stretched staffing in many hospitals. State Rep. Robert Sprague, a Republican from Findlay,...
Review of Ride Safety Urged in Ohio After Fatal Fair Accident
Jan 8 2018 // A state advisory board has agreed to form a new committee to review the amusement ride inspection process in an effort to improve the public’s perceptions about ride safety after a deadly accident last summer at the...
To Be Humble or Not
Jan 8 2018 // Maintaining a level of humility is generally considered to be a good trait. After all we teach our children to be humble to a certain degree in sports, in school, in life. No one likes a person who gloats. But is it always...
People
Jan 8 2018 // Grinnell, Iowa-based property and casualty insurer/reinsurer, Grinnell Mutual, named Dave Wingert, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to serve as acting president. Larry Jansen retired on Dec. 15, 2017,...
Ohio Highway Patrol: Fewer End-of-Year Holiday Traffic Deaths in 2017
Jan 4 2018 // The Ohio State Highway Patrol says traffic deaths were down compared to last year during the just-concluded extended holiday weekends. The patrol says preliminary statistics show five deaths from five crashes in the state...
Niess Joins Ohio Insurance Agents Assoc. as Business Planning, Valuations Manager
Jan 4 2018 // Ohio Insurance Agents Association (OIA) has added Craig Niess as business planning and valuation manager. Growing OIA’s vision to be a “change agent for agent change,” Niess will lead the...
I Heard There Might Be Opportunity “In-Land”
Jan 4 2018 // “According to CoreLogic, a leading source for flood and disaster risk data, approximately 70 percent of the flood damage from Hurricane Harvey was uninsured….” states Clearsurance in their recently...
Ohio’s Commissioner Froment to Lead National Insurance Compact
Jan 3 2018 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Jillian Froment has been selected by state insurance regulators to serve as chair of the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission, also referred to as the Insurance...
Central Ohio Counties to Get 911 Texting Capability
Jan 2 2018 // Central Ohio residents with emergencies will soon have the option to text 911 in addition to placing a call. Local governments in Delaware and Franklin counties plan to test technology in the first three months of 2018...
Top Insurance Journal Midwest Stories of 2017
Dec 29 2017 // A bad broker, classic cars that got destroyed in a fire and insurer rating downgrades were among the most widely read news stories in Insurance Journal’s Midwest region in 2017. Broker Gone Bad One story that...
Issuer Credit Rating of Ohio’s Affinity Mutual Insurance Co. Downgraded
Dec 15 2017 // A.M. Best announced it has has downgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “bbb” from “bbb+” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B++ (Good) of Affinity Mutual...
5 Sentenced in Ohio for Insurance Fraud
Dec 12 2017 // The Ohio Department of Insurance reported that five people were recently sentenced for insurance-related crimes following investigations by the department. Clermont County/Shandell Thomas and Aaron Thomas In October,...
