All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 6 2007 // AXA Corporate Solutions announced from Paris that it has acquired the consulting firm Matrix Risk Consultants Inc., based in Miamisburg, Ohio. It described the deal as part of a move to strengthen “its capacity to...
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Nov 29 2007 // Attorneys want a federal court to determine whether members of a university baseball team involved in a deadly bus crash earlier this year are entitled to insurance money.A lawsuit filed on behalf of Bluffton...
Nov 29 2007 // Toledo, Ohio-based the Hylant Group, the nation’s sixth largest privately held commercial insurance brokerage, has named John W. Chaney as president of the Cleveland office and regional vice president.Chaney will be...
Nov 12 2007 // Fully insured health plans would be required to cover diagnosis as well as treatment for autism under an Ohio House bill advocates say would expose autistic children to early treatment that will benefit them the rest of...
Nov 5 2007 // Ohio Casualty, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, announced that it was recently honored with three awards from Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet), the user group for Applied Systems agency management technology, in...
Nov 5 2007 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently announced that it will no longer require Continuing Education (CE) providers to collect an agent’s Social Security Number (SSN) starting Jan. 1, 2008. The Department said...
Nov 1 2007 // A workers’ compensation fraud investigator whose testimony helped lead to a felony charge against the agency’s chief executive has asked for job protection, saying he fears he will be fired.Todd Flanagan is the...
Oct 31 2007 // Hartford Life Insurance has misplaced three backup tapes containing sensitive personal information on an unknown number of Ohio consumers, state insurance regulators said.The company says the data security breach was...
Oct 29 2007 // A workers’ compensation fraud investigator whose testimony helped lead to a felony charge against the agency’s chief executive has asked for job protection, saying he fears he will be fired.Todd Flanagan is the...
Oct 29 2007 // The Ohio Supreme Court threw out a record $30 million verdict won by a brain-damaged man, citing his Detroit-area attorney for inappropriate theatrics in court.The verdict, the state’s largest medical malpractice...
Oct 17 2007 // Physician-owned liability insurer The Doctors Company is expanding its market by acquiring SCPIE Holdings Inc., a provider of healthcare liability insurance in California and Delaware.Following the merger, The Doctors...
Oct 15 2007 // October 15 2007, Newtown, PA – Alternative risk broker and consultant Self-Funded Alternatives has announced an expanded marketing effort to assist retail agents in the State of Ohio and the New England region with...
Oct 12 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents Association of Ohio, Inc. (PIA), held a special awards ceremony during its annual Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony on October 4th. Individuals were recognized for outstanding...
Oct 5 2007 // Indiana Insurance and Ohio Casualty, both members of Liberty Mutual Group, have announced that they will co-sponsor the continuing series of Safer Schools Seminars at The Ohio State University Fawcett Center on Thursday,...
Oct 5 2007 // Ohio motorists are being warned that auto-deer crashes have been on the increase. The Ohio State Highway Patrol says more than 28,000 deer-vehicle collisions were reported on the state’s roads last year, up 3.3...
Oct 3 2007 // The Ohio Supreme Court, taking a second look at its own ruling, decided that a young fast-food worker who badly burned himself after violating safety rules should get temporary disability benefits.Some attorneys had voiced...
Sep 28 2007 // For the first time in five years, the state has revised its map showing where earthquakes have shaken Ohio.The Department of Natural Resources says more than 30 quakes have been recorded in and around the state since the...
Sep 24 2007 // The Progressive Corp. in Mayfield, Ohio, is consolidating management of its two distribution channels for personal lines.Since 2000, Progressive’s personal lines segment has been organized into two businesses —...
Sep 24 2007 // With $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets becomes the largest regional independent agency forceBoston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now the largest regional provider of property and...