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Ohio Bill Seeks to Prohibit Mandating Firearm Liability Insurance

Dec 13 2024 // A bill making its way through the Ohio General Assembly would prohibit requiring firearm liability insurance.Senate Bill 58 passed the House by a 61-27 vote and now heads to the Ohio Senate, where legislators in the...

Public Nuisance Claims Denied by Ohio Supreme Court in Opioid Case

Dec 13 2024 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the state’s product liability law prohibits counties from bringing public nuisance claims against national pharmaceutical chains as they did as...

Ohio Manufacturer Faces $182K Fine for Workers’ Amputations

Dec 9 2024 // U.S. Department of Labor inspectors found a Cleveland, Ohio bakeware manufacturer failed to prevent two workers from suffering injuries that resulted in amputations, incidents that could have been avoided with proper...

Ohio Manufacturer Faces $255K Fine After Worker Suffers Partial Amputation

Dec 3 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor has cited a Portsmouth, Ohio hardwood floor manufacturer with a long history of federal safety violations after the company reported a 23-year-old worker suffered a partial arm amputation while...

Ohio Man Sentenced in $229K Insurance Fraud Scheme

Nov 26 2024 // An Ohio man was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay restitution for filing 24 fraudulent claims with multiple insurance companies, totaling more than $229,000, the Ohio Department of Insurance...

Ohio Outpatient Facility to Pay $16K Settlement After Patient Stabbed Nurse

Nov 25 2024 // An Ohio outpatient mental health treatment facility has agreed to pay a $16,000 settlement and take numerous steps to improve workplace safety after a patient attacked a nurse practitioner violently in April...

Risk Strategies Acquires Ohio’s Cornerstone

Nov 21 2024 // Risk Strategies announced it has acquired the assets of Ohio-based employee benefits specialty organization Cornerstone Broker Insurance Services Agency, Inc., an Ohio-based national provider of employee benefits...

Fire Closes Ohio River Bridge Near Cincinnati and Damges its Steel Structure

Nov 4 2024 // CINCINNATI (AP) — A massive fire underneath a bridge spanning the Ohio River closed a heavily traveled route between Cincinnati and northern Kentucky on Friday and damaged part of the steel structure. No injuries were...

Data Centers Will Have to Make Minimum Power Payments in Ohio

Nov 1 2024 // Big data centers in Ohio will have to pay a minimum of 85% of the energy they need to cover the costs of grid improvements under a settlement submitted Wednesday by one of the state’s largest utilities.The pact was...

Family of Black Man Killed by Ohio Police Agree to Settlement

Oct 18 2024 // AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A family is settling a wrongful death lawsuit against Ohio police who fired 94 bullets at a Black man during a chase two years ago.Jayland Walker’s family and the city of Akron reached an...

Five Dead, One Critically Injured in Tragic Ohio Car Crash

Oct 8 2024 // GOSHEN, Ohio (AP) — An early morning crash involving two cars on an Ohio road killed five people and critically injured another person, authorities said.The Ohio State Highway Patrol said a car heading northeast on Route...

Appeal Delays $600M Class Action Settlement in Fiery Ohio Derailment

Oct 3 2024 // Settlement checks related to Norfolk Southern’s disastrous 2023 derailment could be delayed up to two years now because an appeal of a federal judge’s decision last week to approve the $600 million deal has...

Federal Agency Resumes Sending Hazardous Waste to Michigan From Ohio

Oct 1 2024 // VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A federal agency said it has resumed sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio while communities in suburban Detroit continue their legal fight to bar waste from a World...

OSHA Cites Company for Multiple Safety Violations Following Cargo Hold Fire in Ohio

Sep 30 2024 // Federal safety inspectors found a crew working aboard the Cuyahoga, a commercial iron ore vessel moored at the Port of Ashtabula, narrowly avoided disaster after a large fire erupted as they welded off paint in a cargo...

Judge Approves $600M Settlement for Residents Near Ohio Train Derailment

Sep 27 2024 // A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $600 million class-action settlement Wednesday that Norfolk Southern railroad offered to everyone who lived within 20 miles (32 kilometers) of last year’s disastrous derailment...

Chemical Leak Prompts Evacuation Order in Ohio Town

Sep 26 2024 // CLEVES, Ohio (AP) — Students in school buildings and residents in neighboring homes were told to evacuate after a dangerous chemical began leaking from a railcar Tuesday near Cincinnati.Aerial video showed firefighters...

An 8-Year-Old Girl in Ohio Drove an SUV to a Target: Authorities

Sep 17 2024 // BEDFORD, Ohio (AP) — An 8-year-old girl took an SUV from her Ohio home and drove for miles to a store where she was later found unharmed, authorities said.The girl, whose name was not released, and the vehicle — a 2020...

Worker’s Death in Ohio Prompts Concerns Over Remote Control Trains

Sep 16 2024 // The CSX worker who discovered his friend run over by a pair of remote-control locomotives in a rail yard last year sees a simple solution to preventing similar deaths in the future: two-person crews.But that idea...

Few Households Opt Out of $600M Ohio Train Derailment Settlement

Sep 11 2024 // Very few people who live near the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment opted out of a $600 million class action settlement despite residents’ reservations about whether the deal offers enough, so lawyers argue the...

FirstEnergy to Pay $20M Settlement Over Ohio Bribery Scheme

Sep 2 2024 // The energy company at the center of a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio will pay $20 million and avoid criminal charges as part of a deal with state prosecutors to resolve its role in the scandal.Akron-based FirstEnergy...