Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
McKay Named Vice President at Ohio’s Amer Insurance
Oct 4 2011 // Pat McKay recently joined Akron, Ohio-based Amer Insurance Agency as vice president. McKay previously was president of McKay Insurance Agency, which she founded in 1993. As vice president at Amer Insurance, McKay will...
Program to Lower Workers’ Comp Rates for New Employers in Ohio Approved
Oct 3 2011 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) board of directors has approved the creation of Grow Ohio, a program targeted toward job creation by lowering workers’ comp costs for employers new to Ohio, agency...
Business Moves
Oct 3 2011 // USI, First Place Insurance New York-based USI Insurance Services has acquired substantially all of the assets of First Place Insurance Agency Ltd. (First Place Insurance) of Youngstown, Ohio, from First Place Financial...
Cross Border Claims Frustrate Auto Carriers
Oct 3 2011 // Staged automobile accidents in Canada’s most populated province of Ontario pose a unique problem for American auto insurers that must deal with Ontario’s stringent no-fault benefits. Some U.S.-based adjusters...
People
Oct 3 2011 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) presented the Federal Legislator of the Year Award to U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., at its annual convention in Indianapolis. Biggert currently serves as...
Insurer Retools Home Value Insurance Coverage
Sep 30 2011 // Home Value Insurance Co. has re-entered the insurance market with a product that promises to protect homeowners from falling home values. Home Value Insurance initially launched the product in 2009. The company has...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau: Lower Rates for Public Employers Proposed
Sep 29 2011 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Stephen Buehrer has proposed an overall five percent decrease in rates for public employer taxing districts (PEC). The reduction would be effective Jan. 1,...
E. coli Scare Prompts Tyson to Recall Ground Beef from Kansas Plant
Sep 29 2011 // Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. is recalling about 131,300 pounds of ground beef because a family in Ohio fell ill after eating meat produced by the company that was contaminated with E. coli, the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Rating Agencies Win Dismissal of Ohio Funds Lawsuit
Sep 28 2011 // The three major credit-rating agencies won the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that five Ohio pension funds lost hundreds of millions of dollars on risky mortgage debt because they relied on flawed ratings that made the...
Ohio Mutual’s Kennedy Sworn In As Chairman of Insurer Group NAMIC
Sep 21 2011 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies swore in its newest chairman of the board of directors today. James J. Kennedy began his year as chairman at the end of the annual business meeting of members during...
USI Insurance Acquires Ohio’s First Place Insurance Agency
Sep 21 2011 // New York-based USI Insurance Services has acquired substantially all of the assets of First Place Insurance Agency Ltd. (First Place Insurance) of Youngstown, Ohio, from First Place Financial Corp. USI has also entered...
Ohio Supreme Court: Township not Liable for Officer’s Out-of-Jurisdiction Crash
Sep 20 2011 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a political subdivision is immune from liability if one of its police officers is involved in a traffic accident when responding to an emergency even if it is located out the...
Fraud Roundup
Sep 19 2011 // Ohio Chiropractor Sentenced A Fairfield, Ohio, chiropractor who pled guilty in July to felony workers’ compensation fraud has been ordered to repay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) more than...
Ohio’s High-Risk Insurance Pool Sees Higher Costs
Sep 13 2011 // Ohio’s high-risk health insurance pool that began a year ago as part of the federal health care overhaul is facing higher-than-expected costs, which are limiting enrollment. Nearly 1,800 people are enrolled in the...
Vanek to Lead Internal Audit Division at Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau
Sep 8 2011 // Dennis A. Vanek has been appointed as chief of the internal audit division at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Vanek most recently served as director of global audit services for Expedia, Inc. in...
Ohio Chiropractor Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Sep 6 2011 // A Fairfield, Ohio, chiropractor who pled guilty in July to felony workers’ compensation fraud has been ordered to repay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) more than $200,000. Bruce E. Holaday, owner...
Ohio Cycle Bar Puts Party on the Road; $2M Insurance Policy Helps
Sep 6 2011 // Taylor Glascock/AP As the peculiar yellow vehicle moved into the Short North neighborhood north of downtown Columbus, Ohio, bewildered pedestrians stopped in their tracks, fumbling for their cellphone cameras. Drivers...
First Responder Fees Claims Becoming Routine for Insurers
Sep 5 2011 // While fee recovery by fire departments is nothing new, an increasing number of local municipalities have begun to charge for first responder, primarily fire department, services. Though the types of fees and rates vary...
Workers’ Comp Rate Discount Part of Ohio Job Creation Plan
Sep 5 2011 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has proposed an economic development initiative that would offer workers’ compensation premium discounts to new employers in the state. With the goal of creating jobs,...
Ohio Says Kentucky Agent Used Fake Names, Revokes License
Sep 2 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has revoked the resident insurance agent license of Sheri Lyn Sharp, of Burlington, Ky., for violations of Ohio insurance law. Sharp wrote...
