All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 24 2006 // JANUARYHallmark Acquires Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC, which markets general aviation insurance products. Hallmark underwrites...
Dec 20 2006 // SeibertKeck, based in Northeast Ohio, recently announced its recent merger with Jack Kohl Agency Inc., effective Jan. 1, 2007.The Jack Kohl Agency will remain at its Ravenna headquarters and will be known as Jack Kohl...
Dec 19 2006 // Ohio-based National Interstate Corp. recently announced that effective Jan. 1, 2007, Alan R. Spachman will become its chairman and chief executive officer and David W. Michelson will be promoted to the position of...
Dec 19 2006 // The Ohio state’s scandal-plagued fund for injured workers failed to aggressively investigate allegations of kickbacks and other schemes by managed care providers, The (Toledo) Blade reported recently.Since 2004, the...
Dec 18 2006 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. announced today that, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, it has agreed to acquire the Beacon Insurance Group, headquartered in Wichita Falls, Texas. Closing is...
Dec 15 2006 // Employees at Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers struggled with pushy lawmakers and threats by businesses to involve the governor as they decided premium rates for certain Ohio businesses, newly released...
Dec 14 2006 // State Auto Financial Corp. announced the appointment of Steven E. English to the position of vice president – chief financial officer.English had previously served as vice president – director of corporate...
Dec 13 2006 // A National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) independent review team has completed a review of the Ohio Department of Insurance’s staff and procedures and has reaccredited the Department for its financial...
Dec 12 2006 // Toledo, Ohio-based Hylant announced that Marla Wholf was selected as Insurance Woman of Toledo’s (IWOT) “Insurance Professional of the Year.” Wholf accepted thie prestigious award on Nov. 8, 2006 at...
Dec 11 2006 // It’s not easy being an arsonist. Just ask Musa Shteiwi and his son Essa who had a clear criminal vision for their Steak Thyme Subs eatery: They wanted to torch the West Chester, Ohio food outlet for insurance money....
Dec 11 2006 // The Des Plaines, Ill.-based Property Casualty Insurers Association of America announced that Deirdre Manna, former acting director of the Illinois Division of Insurance, has joined PCI as vice president of industry and...
Dec 11 2006 // Trucking Operations Nuts & Bolts: Kansas-based Interstate Insurance Management and Swiss Re’s Commercial Insurance announce the immediate expansion of their insurance program for the trucking industry into...
Dec 11 2006 // Indiana Insurance, a member of the Liberty Mutual Group and an insurer of public and private schools throughout the Midwest, hosted a free, day-long seminar this fall to help Ohio school officials develop better school...
Dec 10 2006 // The Des Plaines, Ill.-based Property Casualty Insurers Association of America announced that Deirdre Manna, former acting director of the Illinois Division of Insurance, has joined PCI as vice president of industry and...
Dec 10 2006 // The Des Plaines, Ill.-based Property Casualty Insurers Association of America announced that Deirdre Manna, former acting director of the Illinois Division of Insurance, has joined PCI as vice president of industry and...
Nov 22 2006 // A Butler County court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a state legislator who challenged Miami University’s same-sex partner benefits policy based on Ohio’s 2004 constitutional amendment banning gay...
Nov 20 2006 // For the first time, the state has compiled a report on the outcome of medical malpractice claims filed in Ohio _ providing a benchmark for future trends over what has been a hot-button issue between doctors and the lawyers...
Nov 20 2006 // 2 percent Four of the Ohio’s five largest medical malpractice insurers have revised their rates to produce an average decrease of almost 2 percent for Ohio doctors this year, following years of increases, the Ohio...
Nov 20 2006 // Med mal“Stabilizing measures taken in the last few years by the Ohio Department of Insurance and the Ohio Legislature to reverse Ohio’s medical liability insurance crisis continue to show positive...
Nov 20 2006 // The goal of fair and balanced courts in states throughout the country was advanced in a number of state Supreme Court elections, according to the American Insurance Association.Contestable state Supreme Court elections...