Latest Ohio Headlines
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June, July Ohio Storm Losses Rise to More than $400M
Aug 13 2012 // Insured losses from a round of summer storms in late June and early July have risen to more than $400 million, a state-based insurance information group reported. Property casualty insurers are reporting losses of at least...
Ohio Weather Officials Confirm Weekend Tornado
Aug 8 2012 // Weather officials have confirmed what many residents of a northeastern Ohio town suspected: A tornado touched down there over the weekend. The National Weather Service said severe weather that caused damage to a section of...
Why Some Types of Multitasking Are More Dangerous Than Others
Aug 6 2012 // People are better at juggling some types of multitasking than they are at others, according to a new study that has implications for distracted drivers. Trying to do two visual tasks at once hurt performance in both tasks...
Early Storm Damage Tally for Ohio Reaches $29M
Jul 31 2012 // Early reports tallying damage from June storms in Ohio at $29 million have several Ohio cities anxiously hoping for federal disaster relief. The estimated costs reported in the state from the storms total more than half of...
Ohio Injured Workers Fund Battling Painkillers
Jul 30 2012 // Nearly a third of the prescriptions the state’s insurance fund for injured workers paid for last year were for powerful narcotics, part of a 37 percent increase in the use of such drugs — mainly addictive...
Violent Storms Kill 2, Leave Thousands Without Power in Mid-Atlantic, Midwest
Jul 27 2012 // Violent thunderstorms barreled through the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic regions of the eastern United States late on Thursday, killing two people and cutting power to more than 130,000 homes and businesses in New York,...
Ohio Health System Fighting Pill Fraud with Fingerprints
Jul 27 2012 // A southeastern Ohio health system is hoping a fingerprint collection program will help it cut down on prescription painkiller abuse. Brent Saunders, board chairman at Holzer Health Systems in Gallipolis says painkiller...
Why Some Types of Multitasking Are More Dangerous Than Others
Jul 27 2012 // People are better at juggling some types of multitasking than they are at others, according to a new study that has implications for distracted drivers. Trying to do two visual tasks at once hurt performance in both tasks...
Davies Named CEO of Ohio-based SafeAuto Insurance
Jul 24 2012 // Columbus, Ohio-based insurer, SafeAuto, announced that Ron Davies, former senior vice president with Allstate Insurance Co., will take over as chief executive officer of the company on Aug. 13. This is the first time...
Ohio Supreme Court: Corporation Must Advance Defense Costs for Director
Jul 24 2012 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a corporation can’t avoid paying the legal defense expenses of a corporate director who is sued in his or her capacity as a director by claiming that the director’s...
People – Midwest
Jul 23 2012 // Ohio-based Norman-Spencer Agency Inc. has appointed Christopher Norman, an attorney with broad insurance industry experience, as general counsel. Most recently, Norman represented national and state carriers in matters of...
Business Moves – Midwest
Jul 23 2012 // Pro Insurance Group, Falvay-Counihan Insurance Pro Insurance Group, a Troy, Mich.-based independent insurance agency, announced the acquisition of Falvay-Counihan Insurance Inc., of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. InPro gains...
Health Insurance Rebates in Ohio to Total $11.3 Million
Jul 22 2012 // More than 81,000 Ohio families will be getting health insurance rebates this summer that will total $11.3 million across the state, a newspaper reported. The average refund will be $139, but some of the 81,500 families...
Ohio’s Norman-Spencer Agency Names New General Counsel
Jul 10 2012 // Ohio-based Norman-Spencer Agency Inc. has appointed Christopher Norman, an attorney with broad insurance industry experience, as general counsel. Most recently, Norman represented national and state carriers in matters of...
Ohio Storm Victims Could Get Interest Rate Reduction
Jul 3 2012 // Small business owners, farmers and other Ohioans affected by severe weather this weekend might be eligible for interest rate reductions on loans to recover or rebuild from the storm damage. Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel said...
Federal Emergency Declared in Ohio after Weekend Storms
Jul 2 2012 // Severe storms struck Ohio over the weekend with powerful, damaging winds that one utility compared to the remnants of Hurricane Ike in 2008, prompting Gov. John Kasich to declare a state of emergency and call out the...
Flood-Prone Ohio City Scouting Land for Solution
Jul 2 2012 // Federal officials who’ve been surveying land to find a place to divert water during flooding in this northwest Ohio city have run into a bit of a challenge. Officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the...
Virginia, Maryland Hit by Vicious Storms; Power Outages May Last Days
Jul 2 2012 // It could be several more days before electricity is restored to areas hit by vicious storms that killed at least 13 people and left 3 million power customers to negotiate sweltering temperatures without air...
Business Moves – Southeast
Jul 2 2012 // Gallagher, Whitehaven Illinois-based global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Whitehaven Insurance Group, Inc. in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in...
School Children Fundraise to Fix Vandalized Ohio Museum
Jun 28 2012 // Months after an Ohio State University student trashed the Orton Geological Museum, an artist, a curator and elementary schoolchildren are helping to piece history back together. About 175 second- and third-grade gifted...
