Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Bill Would Limit Access to Workers’ Comp for Workers Here Illegally
May 22 2017 // The Ohio House has approved a workers’ compensation budget that blocks workers living in the country illegally who get hurt on the job from accessing compensation benefits. The Columbus Dispatch reports the bill was...
Ohio Steel Plant Faces $280K Fine for Safety Violations
May 22 2017 // A federal safety group says it has proposed a $280,000 fine against an Ohio steel plant for violations over lead exposure and hazards caused by unsafe machinery. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced...
Political Commentators File Suit over Ohio’s Online Harassment Ban
May 18 2017 // A group of liberal and conservative online political commentators in Ohio has filed a constitutional challenge to the state’s recently enacted law against internet harassment. A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S....
Republican Governors Have Own Ideas for Healthcare Reforms
May 18 2017 // A group of about a dozen Republican governors is pushing for its own set of national healthcare reforms, flexing its considerable muscle in the national debate over the future of Obamacare as the U.S. Senate begins writing...
Business Moves
May 15 2017 // Validus, Crop Insurance Agency Validus Holdings Ltd. has completed its acquisition of Crop Risk Services business (CRS), a primary crop insurance managing general agent, from Archer Daniels Midland Co. In the deal that was...
Ohio Governor: Too Many Die in Manufactured Homes, Regulation Needed
May 11 2017 // Ohio Gov. John Kasich believes too many people are dying in manufactured homes, and he wants oversight of those homes transferred from an industry-controlled board to the state. Statistics compiled by the State Fire...
Ohio Fines Pipeline Builder $430K for Water, Air Violations
May 10 2017 // Ohio environmental regulators have issued a $430,000 fine against a company building a natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Michigan. Energy Transfer is the company building the $4.2 billion Rover pipeline. It will...
Ohio Plant Fined $570K after Worker Loses Hand, Part of Arm
May 8 2017 // An auto parts maker in Ohio is being fined nearly $600,000 after a worker in Oregon, Ohio, lost his right hand and part of his arm in an industrial accident. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says the...
Continental Heritage Insurance Launches Ohio Medical Marijuana Bond Program
May 3 2017 // Ohio’s Continental Heritage Insurance Co. has rolled out a program to provide surety bonds to applicants for Ohio’s Medical Marijuana Program. Edward Feighan, an owner and director of Continental Heritage, is...
Ohio’s Motorists Insurance Launches Commercial Insurance Company
May 2 2017 // Motorists Insurance Group, based in Columbus, Ohio, has launched a new commercial lines company – Motorists Insurance – in Michigan and Tennessee. The company features state-of-the-art technology to make the process...
Ohio Prosecutor: Building Owner Set Fire That Killed 2 Firefighters
May 2 2017 // Prosecutors say a building owner on trial in the deaths of two Ohio firefighters set the deadly fire to collect insurance money. They say 64-year-old Ray Abou-Arab had filed for bankruptcy two years before the 2014 fire in...
Ohio Jury Says American Family Agents Are Employees; Insurer Disagrees
Apr 28 2017 // A federal jury in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 18 determined that thousands of agents with Madison, Wisconsin-based American Family Mutual Insurance (AmFam) are employees, not independent contractors. According to a news...
10-Year Old Boy Set Fire at Ohio Store with People Inside, Police Say
Apr 25 2017 // Police say a 10-year-old boy has been charged as a juvenile with aggravated arson after a fire at an Ohio discount store caused damage estimated at more than $200,000. Middletown police Lt. Jim Cunningham says about 10...
Motorists Mutual, BrickStreet Mutual Finalize Joint Venture
Apr 24 2017 // Ohio-based property/casualty insurer Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. and West Virginia-based workers’ compensation insurer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. Inc., have been granted regulatory approvals to affiliate...
Critics: DuPont Spent More on Legal Fees than Chemical Tests in Teflon Case
Apr 19 2017 // Critics say DuPont has spent too little on testing Ohio and West Virginia residents for contamination from a chemical used to make Teflon, while paying millions to a lawyer overseeing the testing program. The Columbus...
Haughawout Named Deputy Commissioner at Ohio Department of Insurance
Apr 19 2017 // Carrie Haughawout, who joined the Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI) in 2011, has been appointed deputy director of the department, ODI Director Jillian Froment announced. Froment, who had held the deputy director position...
People – Midwest
Apr 17 2017 // Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich named Jillian E. Froment to serve as the director of the Ohio Department of Insurance. Froment succeeds Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor who has stepped down as insurance director but will continue to serve as...
Ohio Physician Pleads Guilty to Role in Pill Mill
Apr 11 2017 // Margaret Temponeras, 52, of Portsmouth, Ohio, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, which she did through a pain clinic and dispensary, according to the U.S....
Ohio Coal Miner Creates Fake Employment Records in Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 10 2017 // A former coal miner from northeast Ohio owes the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) more than $40,000 after BWC investigators found him creating phony employment records to secure BWC cash benefits, the...
Ohio’s TDC Risk Management Partners with Highline Insurance
Apr 6 2017 // TDC Risk Management, a Maumee, Ohio-based independent property and casualty insurance agency and risk management firm announced a partnership with California’s Highline Insurance. Highline Insurance is an independent...
