Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Motorists Mutual to Acquire Tennessee Company, Consumers Insurance USA
May 12 2014 // Ohio-based Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. has agreed to buy the stock of Consumers Insurance USA based in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Consumers Insurance will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorists Mutual under the...
Report: Ohio Has Most Metal Thefts in U.S.
May 9 2014 // Ohio continues to lead the nation in metal thefts, with 1,446 insurance claims made last year, according to a new report. A National Insurance Crime Bureau report said the state reported more than 4,000 claims from 2011...
Ohio’s Kinker-Eveleigh Insurance Acquired by Marsh & Mclennan Agency
May 9 2014 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh LLC, has acquired Kinker-Eveleigh Insurance Agency, a $3.5 million revenue agency located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not...
Ohio Medical Malpractice Claims Decline Again in 2012
May 5 2014 // Medical malpractice claims in Ohio hit a new low in 2012, according to a new report. The annual Ohio Medical Professional Liability Closed Claim Report from the Ohio Department of Insurance showed 2,733 claims in 2012, the...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Agency Proposes 6.3% Rate Cut
May 5 2014 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) staff has proposed a 6.3 percent reduction to base rates for private employers beginning July 1. If approved by the BWC board, it would mark the eighth consecutive year...
Ohio Woman Must Repay $32K in Workers’ Comp Benefits
May 5 2014 // An Ohio woman was ordered to repay more than $32,000 in connection with working while collecting workplace injury benefits. Laura Brown pleaded guilty April 9 in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to workers’...
Coal Companies Challenge Black Lung Mining Regulation
May 4 2014 // More than a dozen coal companies, including a unit of Patriot Coal Corp., challenged a new federal mine-safety regulation aimed at reducing black lung disease, with some arguing the objectives are unattainable. The...
Ohio Steel Company to Pay $2.4M for Safety Violations
Apr 30 2014 // The federal government says Republic Steel has agreed to pay $2.4 million in a settlement and address alleged health and safety violations at three Ohio facilities and one in Blasdell, N.Y. A statement from the...
Ohio Watchdog Report Shows Vast Improvements at Workers’ Comp Bureau
Apr 28 2014 // Ohio’s watchdog released his much-anticipated investigative report on the investment scandal that engulfed the state in 2005, concluding the worker’s compensation insurance organization where it started has...
Managed Care Open Enrollment for Ohio Employers to Begin
Apr 25 2014 // Ohio employers will have an opportunity to select a new managed care organization (MCO) to manage health-care services for workers injured on the job beginning April 28. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC)...
Ohio Man Sentenced for Theft in $9,000 Insurance Fraud Case
Apr 24 2014 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that Cleveland resident John Deskins was sentenced to two years of probation in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court for theft in an...
Ohio Woman Must Repay $32K in Workers’ Comp Benefits
Apr 23 2014 // An Ohio woman was ordered to repay more than $32,000 in connection with working while collecting workplace injury benefits. Laura Brown pleaded guilty April 9 in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to workers’...
Ohio Employers to Share $1.2B Workers’ Comp Premium Credit
Apr 23 2014 // Ohio private employers and local governments will soon receive a credit on their workers’ compensation bills totaling $1.2 billion, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced. The credit approved...
Ohio Warning Rideshare Drivers About Insurance Risks
Apr 17 2014 // Ohio is warning drivers considering work with a ridesharing service such as Uber or Lyft to understand the insurance implications. Rideshare companies operating in Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland use smartphone apps to...
Ohio Coast Guard Station Leads Nation in Drunken Boating Arrests
Apr 17 2014 // A U.S. Coast Guard station that watches over western Lake Erie led the nation in drunken boating arrests last year. The Coast Guard says officers with Marblehead, Ohio, station charged 67 people with boating under the...
Unlicensed Ohio Company Told to Stop Selling Insurance Product
Apr 15 2014 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor ordered an unlicensed insurance entity, My Community Care LLC, and its owner Tannile Ortiz to stop selling what the insurance department says is an...
Ohio Fracking Lawsuit Allowed to Proceed
Apr 11 2014 // A couple who sued to try to stop shale gas drilling around a state-owned lake in eastern Ohio won an early victory this week as a judge ruled their lawsuit can proceed. The Franklin County judge ruled that the Guernsey...
Ohio Jury Awards $39M in Fatal Repaving Accident
Apr 9 2014 // An Ohio jury has awarded $39 million to the family of a construction inspector killed during a highway repaving project. An attorney for the family of victim Randy Roginski described the working conditions in the...
Report: Bicycle Fatalities, Injuries Down in Ohio
Apr 8 2014 // Riding a bicycle on Ohio roads seems to be getting safer, according to state statistics. The Ohio Department of Public Safety statistics show that fewer bicyclists were injured or killed while riding in the state last year...
People – Midwest
Apr 7 2014 // Van Wert, Ohio-based Central Insurance Companies announced several promotions in March. Todd Simpson was promoted to assistant vice president of claims. A graduate of the Indiana University School of Law, Simpson has been...
