All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 18 2006 // Cincnnati, Ohio-based Ward Group, a provider of benchmarking and best practices consulting services, is conducting an in-depth study of customer retention at both personal lines and commercial lines property-casualty...
Sep 15 2006 // Warren County, Ohio has settled federal lawsuits filed by five county employees who accused a former judge of sexual harassment.Common Pleas Judge Dallas Powers retired last year after a plea agreement involving charges...
Sep 14 2006 // Mark C. Russell, Grange Insurance vice president and chief administrative officer, has been named chairman of the Board of Governors for the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), a not-for-profit organization dedicated...
Sep 14 2006 // Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Health Plans, an affiliate of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. that provides health insurance in Ohio and California, will begin cutting about 350 jobs next year, a spokesman for the larger...
Sep 14 2006 // The Ohio state insurance fund for injured workers continued efforts to reduce soaring medical costs this week, meeting with companies the agency says must brace for lower payments for managing medical claims.Payments to...
Sep 13 2006 // Ohio State Auditor Betty Montgomery received permission Monday to replace the auditing agency the embattled Bureau of Workers’ Compensation fired in May for holding back its opinion of the bureau’s finances...
Sep 12 2006 // The Democrat who has been the hardest charger in criticizing Republicans over the $300 million investment loss at the state’s workers’ compensation program for injured workers finds he is being criticized as...
Sep 11 2006 // Payments from Ohio’s investment fund for injured workers to companies that manage cases have jumped more than 40 percent since the arrangement began, though the state is seeing about half as many claims, according to...
Sep 8 2006 // Oswald Companies announced this week that it will offer employers an on-site wellness coaching service through an exclusive partnership with Wellness Coaches USA. This service provides face-to-face, personalized support to...
Sep 5 2006 // North Dakota’s workers compensation director said he was unaware a man he formerly supervised in Ohio was taking payoffs to steer state investment contracts to people he favored.“I find it a disgrace anybody...
Sep 5 2006 // The two major candidates for governor want to embark Ohio on experiments that would expand health care coverage for the uninsured, including enrolling the poor in low-cost group purchasing plans.With an estimated 46.6...
Sep 5 2006 // Cleveland, Ohio-based Anthem Life Insurance Company announced that in conjunction with the beginning of Life Insurance Awareness Month in September, it is celebrating 50 years of providing group life and disability...
Sep 4 2006 // SeibertKeck Insurance Agency Inc., based in northeast Akron, Ohio, has announced the appointment of Craig A. Hassinger to the position of president of the organization. He will report to Chairman and CEO Richard...
Sep 4 2006 // Insurance Agents E&ONuts & Bolts: London American Professional Liability LLC, a program administrator and MGA, introduced a new professional liability program for insurance agencies. The program is designed for...
Sep 4 2006 // American International Group Inc. named Nicholas J. Ashooh as senior vice president of communications. Ashooh succeeds John T. Wooster Jr. who had filled that role on a temporary basis since year-end 2005, and earlier had...
Sep 4 2006 // SeibertKeck Insurance Agency Inc., based in northeast Akron, Ohio, has announced the appointment of Craig A. Hassinger to the position of president of the organization. He will report to Chairman and CEO Richard...
Aug 24 2006 // Cincinnati-based AK Steel Corp. has withdrawn a federal lawsuit in Dayton over retiree benefits because it expects quick resolution of a similar suit in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, a spokesman recently said.The...
Aug 15 2006 // Great American Insurance Group’s Executive Liability Division recently announced the opening of a new branch office in Toronto, Canada. The Executive Liability Division adds Michael Shore, CRM and Oren Schemool, MBA...
Aug 15 2006 // The former head of the Ohio state’s insurance fund for injured workers urged subordinates to be discrete about the fund’s $215 million investment loss in the days leading up to the 2004 election, a newspaper...
Aug 14 2006 // SeibertKeck Insurance Agency, Inc., based in northeast Akron, Ohio, has announced the appointment of Craig A. Hassinger to the position of president of the organization. He will report to chairman and chief executive...