Latest Ohio Headlines

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Ohio’s Oberlin College Completes Paying Out $25M Judgment in Libel Lawsuit

Dec 21 2022 // OBERLIN. Ohio (AP) – Oberlin College has completed paying out a $25 million judgment to an Ohio bakery that won a libel lawsuit against the school after a shoplifting incident involving three Black students.The...

People Moves: Ohio Dept. of Insurance Restructures Office of Legal Services; N.D. Commissioner Godfread Elected VP of NAIC

Dec 21 2022 // Ohio Department of Insurance Office of Legal Services Restructured, Fitch Named Chief Legal OfficerOhio Department of Insurance has promoted several employees in the department’s Office of Legal Services, including...

Ohio Court Rejects Caps on Damages in Some Child Rape Cases

Dec 19 2022 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A woman repeatedly raped as a child is eligible for millions of dollars in additional compensation because a state cap on pain-and-suffering awards is unconstitutional as applied to cases like hers,...

OSHA Cites Ohio Roofing Contractor for 8th Time

Dec 16 2022 // For the eighth time since 2016, federal safety inspectors say they have found the owner of a Martin roofing company exposing roofers and other workers to the construction industry’s leading cause of death –falls...

Ohio Supreme Court: No Coverage Owed for COVID Business Shutdown

Dec 13 2022 // The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Monday that COVID-19 cannot cause any direct physical damage or loss that is covered by a commercial property insurance policy, joining nine other state high courts that have rejected similar...

TWFG Insurance Acquires Ohio’s American Insurance Strategies

Dec 8 2022 // The Woodlands Financial Group subsidiary TWFG Insurance Services LLC, announced its acquisition of American Insurance Strategies, located in the Dayton, Ohio and Milwaukee, Wisconsin areas. AIS has $18 million in written...

Ohio Steel Manufacturer to Pay $990K Over Clear Air Act Violations

Dec 5 2022 // The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed Clear Air Act settlement with Republic Steel, a steel manufacturer in Canton, Ohio, which will require the company to reduce its...

Liability Finding in Ohio St. Football Standout Rape Allegation to be Appealed

Nov 29 2022 // An attorney is vowing an appeal for a woman found liable by a civil jury for malicious prosecution in a rape allegation she made against a former Ohio State football standout more than five years ago.The woman’s...

Ohio Court Revives Wrongful Death Claim in Walmart Shooting

Nov 29 2022 // CINCINNATI (AP) – A federal appeals court has revived a wrongful death claim against Walmart by the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a white police officer inside an Ohio store after picking up a pellet...

Rokstone to Launch Ohio-Based Farm and Ranch Division

Nov 28 2022 // Rokstone Agriculture Risk Underwriters, the U.S. specialist agriculture division of the International Speciality (Re)Insurance MGA, Rokstone, has acquired two US market leading senior underwriters to launch a new...

Ohio Dollar General Operator to Pay $341K in OSHA Penalties

Nov 23 2022 // When federal workplace safety inspectors opened an investigation at a Dollar General store in Columbus, they discovered violations that were all-too-familiar and the kind that has led to more than $15 million in proposed...

10,000 Mink Loose, Missing After Vandalism at Ohio Farm

Nov 18 2022 // VAN WERT, Ohio (AP) – Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous mammals unaccounted for Tuesday evening, the local sheriff said.So many minks...

Ohio St. Pays $875K For Failure to Disclose Professor’s Foreign Government Support

Nov 14 2022 // The Ohio State University (OSU), a public university in Columbus, Ohio, has paid $875,689 to resolve civil allegations that it failed to disclose an OSU professor’s affiliations with and support from a foreign...

OSHA Proposes $145K Fine Against Caterpillar After Worker Death in Ohio

Nov 14 2022 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed fines of $145,027 against Caterpillar Inc. for not installing a guardrail or travel restraint at a foundry outside Peoria where a worker fell into molten...

Ohio Town to Pay $200K Over Sewage Discharges

Nov 10 2022 // The city of Elyria, Ohio, has entered into a consent decree with the United States and the State of Ohio to complete a series of capital projects designed to eliminate discharges of untreated sewage from its sewer system...

White Officer Must Pay $4.4M in Fatal Shooting of Black Driver in Ohio

Nov 3 2022 // EUCLID, Ohio (AP) – A white police officer who fatally shot a Black driver during a struggle inside a car in 2017 must pay his family $4.4 million.An Ohio jury made the award Tuesday, finding that Euclid officer Matthew...

Ohio Manufacturer Faces $1.2M in Penalties After Worker Injury

Oct 28 2022 // An Ohio vinyl tile manufacturer faces $1,232,705 in proposed penalties after U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors responded when a worker suffered severe injuries as a result of...

Ohio Personal Injury Attorney Sentenced to Prison for Insurance Fraud

Oct 20 2022 // Ohio Department of Insurance director Judith L. French announced that former attorney Anthony Fusco, of Youngstown, was sentenced on October 7 in the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas to 18 months in prison for felony...

Small Planes Crashes Into Ohio Car Dealership, Killing 2

Oct 19 2022 // MARIETTA, Ohio (AP) — A small plane crashed into a car dealership parking lot near the border of Ohio and West Virginia early Tuesday, killing two people on board and sparking a large fire.The crash of the 1974...

Ohio Contractor Faces $1 Million in Fines for OSHA Violations

Oct 10 2022 // A Millersburg, Ohio, contractor with a long history of disregarding workplace safety standards now faces more than $1 million in penalties after an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...