All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 25 2004 // Chicago-based insurance industry investment banker Cochran, Caronia & Co. has named William Hickey its chief operating officer. Hickey is responsible for spearheading the firm’s strategic planning initiatives...
Oct 22 2004 // The Ohio Department of Insurance is investigating allegations of bid rigging and other sales-related insurance activities both locally and, in conjunction with other states, at the national level Department of Insurance...
Oct 20 2004 // Ohio Casualty Group CEO Dan R. Carmichael received the third-annual Pinnacle Award from the Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet), the user group of Applied Systems management technology. One of the association’s...
Oct 13 2004 // Despite claims that growing malpractice insurance premiums are forcing doctors to leave Ohio or retire early, the number of doctors in the state actually has gone up slightly the past three years, The Cincinnati Enquirer...
Oct 10 2004 // Since President Bush issued a disaster declaration on Sept. 19, more than $13 million in grants and low-interest disaster loans have been approved to assist flood-stricken residents in southeastern Ohio, according to...
Oct 10 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced a Springfield man has been sentenced for a misdemeanor charge of workers’ compensation fraud. Jeff Hamm was sentenced to three months incarceration, a...
Oct 7 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced a Columbus man has been sentenced for a misdemeanor charge of workers’ compensation fraud. Souhil Sabbagh was sentenced to one year probation and ordered...
Oct 4 2004 // Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, where the majority of asbestos cases have been filed in the state, issued an administrative order recently that gives priority to cases filed by individuals exhibiting...
Oct 1 2004 // Insurer Ohio Casualty Corp. announced that Jeffery L. Haniewich, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the commercial lines division of the Ohio Casualty Insurance Co., has left to pursue other career...
Sep 20 2004 // Ohio’s auto thefts decreased about 2 percent from 2002, according to estimates released by the Ohio Insurance Institute (OII), a property/casualty trade group. Based on auto theft survey results of 17 major Ohio city...
Sep 20 2004 // The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that President Bush has ordered federal disaster aid to help families and businesses in eastern Ohio recover...
Sep 16 2004 // The Ohio Agents Alliance will hold its conference Oct. 22-23 this year in Worthington, Ohio. The group is a state affiliate of the National Auto Agents Alliance, an association formed specifically to address the needs of...
Sep 7 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced a Swanton man has been sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud. David Tressler was sentenced to five years of community control, ordered to pay...
Sep 6 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission recently approved the reapplication for Certificates of Authority to Self-Insure for a one-year period by nine private employers. Texas law allows certain large, private...
Sep 6 2004 // A ruling last week by Ohio’s Eighth District Court of Appeals temporarily allows the nation’s first statewide law creating objective medical criteria for asbestos litigation (HB 292) to take effect. The court,...
Aug 31 2004 // Ohio’s auto theft picture improved last year as thefts decreased about 2 percent from 2002, according to estimates released by the Ohio Insurance Institute (OII), a property/casualty trade group.Based on auto theft...
Aug 24 2004 // Ohio Casualty Corporation announced that it expects net catastrophe losses in the range of $6 to $8 million before-tax from Hurricane Charley. The catastrophe loss impact for Hurricane Charley is expected to add...
Aug 20 2004 // Fairfield-based insurer Ohio Casualty Corp. has appointed Michael L. Wright, of Fortville, Ind., as a member of its board of directors, effective Aug. 19, 2004. Wright has served in a number of executive positions,...
Aug 10 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced this week paid medical costs for workers’ compensation claims were 8.5 percent, or nearly $80 million lower, than expected medical costs for fiscal year...
Aug 6 2004 // Fairfield, Ohio-based insurer Ohio Casualty Corp. reported second-quarter net income of $32.7 million, or 52 cents per diluted share, up 67 percent from $11 million, or 18 cents per diluted share, a year ago. The company...