All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2006 // Ohio’s top judge rejected a request by the coin dealer charged in a state investment scandal who requested that all Lucas County judges be disqualified from hearing his case.In a four-page order, Chief Justice Thomas...
Mar 3 2006 // Grange Insurance will offer its Identity Theft victim resolution and education program coverage to auto policyholders in Ohio.The program is being offered in partnership with Identity Theft 911, a national fraud solutions...
Feb 28 2006 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin reported the Department’s “Top 10” insurance fraud cases for 2005, which involved a total of more than $5.5 million.The Department reorganized its...
Feb 23 2006 // The state is owed $13.5 million that allegedly was spent illegally as part of Ohio’s ill-fated investment in rare coins that shook up the state’s Republican leadership, the state auditor said in a report...
Feb 22 2006 // The race for Ohio governor is heating up as Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell raises questions about his primary opponent Attorney General Jim Petro in a new ad campaign that raised the ire of the state party...
Feb 20 2006 // Over the years, many a vexed property casualty insurance company executive has joked about his firm being a nonprofit, blaming pricing regulation, market cycles, high loss ratios, low investment income or some combination...
Feb 20 2006 // Over the years, many a vexed property/casualty insurance company chief executive has joked about his firm being a nonprofit, blaming pricing regulation, market cycles, high loss ratios, low investment income or some...
Feb 20 2006 // Over the years, many a vexed property casualty insurance company executive has joked about his firm being a nonprofit, blaming pricing regulation, market cycles, high loss ratios, low investment income or some combination...
Feb 19 2006 // SUA, American PatriotChicago-based Specialty Underwriters’ Alliance Inc. has signed a new contract with Westchester, Ill.-based American Patriot Insurance Agency Inc., a wholesale agency that specializes in roofing...
Feb 19 2006 // Over the years, many a vexed property/casualty insurance company chief executive has joked about his firm being a nonprofit, blaming pricing regulation, market cycles, high loss ratios, low investment income or some...
Feb 19 2006 // Over the years, many a vexed property casualty insurance company executive has joked about his firm being a nonprofit, blaming pricing regulation, market cycles, high loss ratios, low investment income or some combination...
Feb 17 2006 // During a visit to Dublin, Ohio this week, President Bush pitched his plan for making health care more accessible by creating tax breaks for health savings accounts to fast food chain Wendy’s employees .Opponents,...
Feb 17 2006 // Ohio Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin was elected secretary of the Midwestern Zone section of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) during its winter meeting in Chicago. Womer Benjamin was elected...
Feb 15 2006 // With the indictment of Tom Noe this week, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) re-asserted the hope that its 2005 financial audit will be completed soon.The bureau, along with the Auditor of State’s...
Feb 10 2006 // Ohio Gov. Bob Taft proposed reforms this week with the goal of ensuring greater transparency and fairness in state contracting and executive branch lobbying. Taft described the specifics of his proposal in a memo to...
Feb 7 2006 // Ohio Governor Bob Taft has asked a state agency to look into a contract that allows an insurance company to advertise in thousands of vehicle registration renewal notices sent to drivers, according to the Associated...
Feb 6 2006 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently said that years of escalating premiums for medical malpractice insurance for the state’s doctors may be coming to an end.For the first time in six years, an insurer is...
Feb 5 2006 // Fraud RoundupWhen thinking of satellite images most think of in terms of space exploration, but not as showing up in courtrooms to help prosecutors prove crop insurance fraud. Now the Agriculture Department’s Risk...
Feb 5 2006 // Ohio insurance department says malpractice premiums going downThe Ohio Department of Insurance recently said that years of escalating premiums for medical malpractice insurance for the state’s doctors may be coming...
Jan 23 2006 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently announced that years of escalating premiums for medical malpractice insurance for the state’s doctors may be ending.For the first time in six years, an insurer is lowering...