Latest Ohio Headlines
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Ohio Business Owner Convicted for Failure to Keep Work Comp Coverage
Feb 28 2011 // A Harrison, Ohio, woman has been convicted of fraud in a Hamilton County courtroom for failure to maintain workers’ compensation insurance coverage to protect her employees in the event of a workplace injury or...
Ohio Insurance Department Financial Regulation Director to Retire
Feb 23 2011 // The Ohio Department of Insurance announced the retirement of Bill Rossbach, an integral part of the department’s Financial Regulation operation for the past 35 years. Rossbach most recently served as chief regulatory...
Business Moves
Feb 21 2011 // Buckeye Insurance Group, Marias Technology Buckeye Insurance Group, of Piqua, Ohio, formed Marias Technology, an information technology company. Marias Technology provides a range of IT services in areas such as system and...
Missouri AG Files Class Action Against BP on Behalf of Pension Funds
Feb 16 2011 // Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, acting as counsel for lead plaintiffs for a class of pension plans and investors around the country, has filed in U.S. District Court in Houston a consolidated class-action against...
People
Feb 10 2011 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group’s Property and Inland Marine Division has promoted two insurance executives: Grace Thomas and Cecil Wilson. Thomas was promoted to divisional senior vice...
It Figures
Feb 10 2011 // $2 Million The Minnesota Department of Commerce expects to receive more than $2 million in its share of a $146 million settlement with American International Group over misreporting of workers’ compensation insurance...
Business Moves
Feb 10 2011 // A.J. Gallagher; Herbruck, Alder; Behnke & Co.; Premier Risk Services Illinois-based global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reported the acquisitions of Herbruck, Alder & Co., an employee benefit...
Ohio’s The McGowan Cos. Rebrand Core Insurance Operations
Feb 8 2011 // The McGowan Companies Inc. in Fairview Park, Ohio, announced that it has rebranded its core insurance operations. McGowan and Company Inc., which designs, administers and markets highly-specialized programs of insurance,...
Business Moves
Feb 7 2011 // Hylant Group, Swartzel Affiliated Ohio-based insurance brokerage, Hylant Group, and property/casualty insurance services provider Swartzel Affiliated Insurance Agency have merged. The companies’ announcement said the...
People
Feb 7 2011 // Great American Insurance Group, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, announced that Michael G. “Mike” Liguzinski will succeed John W. Sullivan as divisional president, Specialty Human Services Division, upon...
Business Moves
Feb 7 2011 // Neace Lukens, Lent Agency Neace Lukens, a Louisville, Kentucky based brokerage firm, recently acquired the Lent Agency, a Dayton, Ohio insurance agency. The merger will add 12 Lent Agency employees, including four...
Buckeye State Mutual Partners With Middle Georgia Mutual
Feb 7 2011 // Buckeye State Mutual Insurance Co. (BSMIC), a property and casualty insurer based in Piqua, Ohio, has agreed to affiliate with Middle Georgia Mutual Insurance Co. (MGM) of Griffin, Ga. The agreement is contingent upon...
Kentucky’s Neace Lukens Acquires Ohio’s Lent Agency
Jan 26 2011 // Neace Lukens, a Louisville, Kentucky based brokerage firm, recently acquired the Lent Agency, a Dayton, Ohio insurance agency. The merger will add 12 Lent Agency employees, including four producers, to the Neace Lukens...
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Jan 24 2011 // United Fire & Casualty, Mercer Insurance Group Iowa-based insurer United Fire & Casualty is acquiring New Jersey-based Mercer Insurance Group in a deal valued at $191 million. The merger is expected to close in the...
It Figures
Jan 24 2011 // $10.2 Million The Kansas Insurance Department recovered $10.2 million for consumers last year, which is 32 percent less than it recovered in 2009. But the agency said the number of complaints from consumers about insurance...
Ohio Lt. Governor to Direct Insurance Department
Jan 24 2011 // Newly sworn-in Ohio Gov. John Kasich appointed Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor to be director of the Ohio Department of Insurance. Taylor is the former state auditor. She served for four years as the state’s top fiscal watchdog...
Ohio Uninsured Motorist Litigation Tied to Money for Charities
Jan 24 2011 // An Ohio insurance company in late 2010 successfully challenged a class action lawsuit involving uninsured motorist/underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage in a case that played prominently in a campaign to change the way...
People
Jan 24 2011 // Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton appointed Mike Rothman as the new Commissioner of Commerce. The Department of Commerce and Revenue regulates the business of insurance in the state. Rothman was most recently an attorney with the...
Business Moves
Jan 24 2011 // Encharter Massachusetts-based Encharter Insurance agency will open a fifth branch office, the latest in Simsbury, Connecticut. Encharter will sell personal lines coverage throughout the Farmington Valley, the agency said....
Ohio Uninsured Motorist Litigation Tied to Money for Charities
Jan 19 2011 // An Ohio insurance company in late 2010 successfully challenged a class action lawsuit involving uninsured motorist/underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage in a case that played prominently in a campaign to change the way...
