All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jan 22 2006 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently filed revisions to several rules that could impact property and casualty insurance companies.The rules deal with solvency surveillance, acquisition or mergers, reinsurance terms...
Jan 19 2006 // Business groups in Ohio are pushing lawmakers to enact reforms to the state insurance fund for injured workers that were agreed upon before a scandal broke over the fund’s investments, according to a recent account...
Jan 18 2006 // Matthew Muller, 35, a resident of Akron, Ohio was sentenced to a year in prison for insurance fraud for burying his dead BMW and collecting $20,000 for the car he reported stolen.The car had been buried by Muller in...
Jan 16 2006 // Ohio Republican Representative Bob Ney said Sunday that he will temporarily step down as chairman of the House Administration Committee. Ney has been implicated in the lobbying corruption investigation and scandel centered...
Jan 11 2006 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently filed revisions to several rules that could impact property and casualty insurance companies.The rules deal with solvency surveillance, acquisition or mergers, reinsurance terms...
Jan 9 2006 // A controversial report regarding private equity funds managed for the Ohio state insurance fund for injured workers was released on Friday. The report was made public despite objections by some of the private fund managers...
Jan 4 2006 // The Ohio state insurance fund for injured workers is expected to make a decision soon regarding the release of a report on the value of its private fund investments that investors have argued should be kept private.Some of...
Jan 3 2006 // Move over canines, the felines have joined the rescue scene. Police aren’t sure how it could have happened, but when an officer in Columbus, Ohio walked into an apartment recently to answer a 911 call, an...
Jan 1 2006 // Todd Graves, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, reported that a former Kansas City, Mo., police officer pleaded guilty in federal court recently to a scheme to collect insurance on a fraudulent stolen car...
Dec 19 2005 // Michigan-based Meadowbrook Insurance Group recently announced the availability of a medical malpractice liability insurance product for preferred physicians in Ohio. Insurance policies will be issued through...
Dec 19 2005 // Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire on Dec. 31, 2005.Carmichael...
Dec 19 2005 // Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire on Dec. 31, 2005. Carmichael...
Dec 18 2005 // Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire on Dec. 31, 2005. Carmichael...
Dec 18 2005 // William GranatoBrandon Hickey Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire on...