Latest Ohio Headlines
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Ohio County Sued by Employees over 2015 Legionnaires’ Outbreak
Jan 3 2017 // Seven Lucas County, Ohio, employees who became sick after exposure to a rare form of Legionnaires’ bacteria have filed a lawsuit. The Blade newspaper reports that the lawsuit seeks damages from the county board of...
Bump in Issue of Concealed Carry Permits in Ohio
Dec 27 2016 // The number of concealed carry permits issued by the state of Ohio this year is on pace to far exceed the number of permits issued in 2015. Records from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office shows nearly 94,000 permits...
University in Ohio Agrees to Settle Student’s Sex Discrimination Suit
Dec 22 2016 // The University of Cincinnati has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a student who said she was told she had to sit and work with other female students and not with male students in a physics lab. U.S. District Judge Susan...
Midwest Regulation Report Card: States’ Grades Range from A to D
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Ohio Jury Hits DuPont with $2M Ruling over Teflon-making Chemical
Dec 22 2016 // A U.S. jury in Ohio ordered DuPont to pay $2 million to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical leaked from one of the company’s plants, according to the plaintiff’s...
Ohio Court: No Permanent Partial and Total Disability Benefits for Same Claim
Dec 20 2016 // The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that an injured worker may not receive permanent partial disability compensation when that worker is receiving permanent total disability payments for the same claim. The Dec. 8 ruling came...
Ohio Insurer Disclosure Bill Passed by Legislature
Dec 19 2016 // The recent passage of consumer protection legislation provides the Ohio Department of Insurance with better, more common sense tools when it comes to evaluating the financial health of Ohio’s insurance industry,...
People – Midwest
Dec 19 2016 // Gary J. Gruber has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of Great American Insurance Co., effective Jan. 1, 2017. Gruber will become the 17th president in Great American’s 145-year history, assuming...
Appeals Court in Ohio Revives Claims in Notre Dame Concussion Suit
Dec 15 2016 // A state appeals court in Cleveland, Ohio, has ruled that the widow of a former Notre Dame football player can proceed with claims in a lawsuit that said her husband was disabled by and ultimately died from...
10 Hospitalized After Gas Leak at Ohio Nursing Home
Dec 15 2016 // Ten people were hospitalized for treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning after a gas leak occurred at a nursing home on Columbus, Ohio’s Near East Side. Fire Battalion Chief Steve Martin says firefighters were...
Fate of DuPont Chemical Lawsuits Rests on Wording in 2004 Pact
Dec 13 2016 // For DuPont Co. and its Chemours Co. spinoff, hundreds of millions of dollars hinge on the interpretation of the word “among.” A Cincinnati appeals court heard arguments Friday that will affect the fate of...
Ex-Mayor of Ohio Village Sentenced for Insurance Fraud, Theft
Dec 12 2016 // The former mayor of an eastern Ohio village has been sentenced to seven months in corrections facilities after being convicted of charges including insurance fraud and theft in office. Ex-Smithfield Mayor Patricia Freeland...
Officials: Landlord May Face Citations after Ohio Fire Kills 4
Dec 8 2016 // Authorities have identified the two adults and two girls killed in a fire at a home in Ohio that apparently lacked smoke detectors, and they’re considering whether the rental property’s owner should be...
Marsh & Mclennan Agency Acquires Ohio’s Benefits Resource Group
Dec 5 2016 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, has acquired Benefits Resource Group (BRG), in Independence, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. BRG, an employee benefits...
People – Midwest
Dec 5 2016 // Cleveland, Ohio-based Oswald Companies appointed Jennifer Morrissey chief information officer. She becomes the first person to hold this position in Oswald’s 123-year history. Morrissey joins Oswald with more than 18...
Despite Decline, Ohio Still Leads Country in Metal Thefts
Dec 5 2016 // The number of metal thefts in Ohio dropped during the period 2013 through 2015, but the state still leads the country in metal theft crimes, an Ohio insurance industry trade group says. Citing a report by the National...
Self-Driving Truck Hits the Road in Ohio
Dec 1 2016 // A self-driving truck is scheduled to hit the road in central Ohio in conjunction with an announcement about new state investments to support researching that kind of transportation technology. Officials say the vehicle...
Ohio Police Officers Raid Wrong House, Couple Sues
Nov 23 2016 // An Ohio couple has sued police after officers raided their home only to say later that they had the wrong suspect. The lawsuit says officers from the Orwell police department along with county sheriff deputies illegally...
Dollar General Again Charged with Safety Violations in Ohio
Nov 22 2016 // Federal safety inspectors say they have once again found one of the nation’s largest discount retailers putting workers and customers alike in danger by allowing emergency exit routes to be blocked. U.S. Department...
Safety Violations at Ohio Glass Facility Rack Up $227K in Fines
Nov 21 2016 // Workers began making multiple complaints of unsafe working conditions at the Fuyao Glass America Inc. facility in Moraine, Ohio, not long after it opened in October 2015, leading to eight separate federal inspections and...
