Latest Ohio Headlines
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Lt. Gov.: Ohio Continues to Have Low Auto, Home Insurance Rates
Jan 23 2017 // Ohioans pay among the lowest average premiums in the nation for auto and homeowners insurance according to a national study, according to Lieutenant Gov. Mary Taylor. Taylor also serves as the state’s insurance...
Ohio-Based Central Insurance Names Nationwide’s Goad as CFO
Jan 19 2017 // Keith Goad has been hired as chief financial officer for both Central Mutual Insurance Company and All America Insurance Company. The companies are based in Van Wert, Ohio. As CFO, Goad holds overall accountability for the...
USI Acquires Ohio’s Diversified Insurance Service
Jan 19 2017 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Diversified Insurance Service, a risk management and employee benefits firm headquartered in Elmore, Ohio. Founded in 1948, Diversified Insurance Service provides personal risk,...
Ohioans Concerned About Repeal of Federal Health Law
Jan 13 2017 // Ohio advocates of the federal health care law targeted by President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans said that repeal would jeopardize insurance coverage for as many as 1 million Ohioans by 2019 and hurt...
Ohio Supreme Court Takes Up Dayton Traffic Cameras Case
Jan 10 2017 // For the third time in less than a decade, the use of traffic cameras by Ohio cities is before the state Supreme Court. Attorneys for the city of Dayton are urging the justices to reject a law passed by the Legislature that...
17 Killed in Ohio Crashes During Christmas-to-New Year’s Period
Jan 6 2017 // The State Highway Patrol says 13 people died in Ohio crashes during the long Christmas weekend and four more died during the four-day period around the New Year’s holiday. The patrol has said preliminary data show...
Ohio Jury Orders DuPont to Pay $10.5M over Leaked Chemical
Jan 6 2017 // A U.S. jury in Ohio on Jan. 5 ordered DuPont to pay $10.5 million in punitive damages to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical leaked from a Dupont plant, the plaintiff’s...
Judge: Company May Reopen Ohio Brine Injection Well
Jan 5 2017 // The pumping of waste from hydraulic fracturing operations into a closed Ohio injection well is expected to resume after a judge’s ruling that the state’s oil-and-gas regulator failed to consider a new plan...
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...
