All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 31 2002 // Ohio Casualty Corporation announced a net loss of $69.9 million, or $1.14 per share, for the third quarter ended September 30, 2002, compared to net income of $44.2 million, or $.73 per share, in the same period last...
Oct 30 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington has become the point man for insurance commissioners nationwide, who are worried about court decisions, usually involving class actions, that they feel trespass on their regulatory...
Oct 21 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington announced the appointment of Robert F. Smith to coordinate the Department’s investigation of insurance-related, white-collar crime as the Department’s Chief of Fraud and...
Oct 1 2002 // A Court in Butler County, Ohio sentenced Ajay Chawla to serve one year in jail and pay a $1,500 fine following his conviction last August on charges of filing an insurance claim with CNA, stating that his father was...
Sep 27 2002 // It may have been downgraded to a “Tropical Depression” by the National Hurricane Center, but Isidore has nonetheless brought heavy rains and created flood conditions to much of the Eastern U.S.After its first...
Sep 25 2002 // Aflac is very protective of its popular spokesduck; so when Ohio gubernatorial candidate Tim Hagan started using a similar image of the feathered friend on his Web site to attack incumbent governor Bob Taft, the insurance...
Sep 18 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington has filed a “friend of the court” brief supporting the decision of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas that refused to certify a class action lawsuit against Mayfield...
Sep 16 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a statement questioning the effects of pending legislation in Ohio, which would restrict the rights of insurance companies to consider consumers’ credit...
Sep 10 2002 // Ohio-based Progressive, one of the country’s largest auto insurance groups, became the only two-award winner in the first-ever E-Commerce Pioneer Awards, given by Ecom-Ohio on September 5. Ecom-Ohio, an initiative to...
Aug 19 2002 // The Assurant Group celebrated the opening of its new $20 million service center in Springfield with style on Saturday, holding an open house for employees and their families, featuring a visit from Ohio Governor Bob...
Aug 5 2002 // SIAA announced that Haughn and Associates Insurance Agency Inc., of Dublin, Ohio, has established SIAA of Central Ohio as a Strategic Master Agency. Michael W. Haughn is the president. The agency was founded in 1986 and...
Aug 2 2002 // Ohio Casualty Corporation, based in Fairfield, Ohio, announced net income of $13.1 million, or $0.21 per share, for the second quarter ended June 30. In the same quarter of 2001, the Corporation reported net income of...
Jul 30 2002 // Ohio automobile insurance consumers continue to fair well when compared to consumers in other states according to Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington.According to an annual survey and analysis of national automobile...
Jul 23 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington has issued a cease and desist order against former Sandusky County agent Deborah L. Frazier after an investigation revealed she had allegedly acted as an insurance agent...
Jul 15 2002 // Miller Brewing Co.’s Trenton, Ohio brewery was the only Governor’s Excellence in Workers’ Compensation Award winner for self-insuring employers who insure nearly 40 percent of Ohio’s workforce. The...
Jul 12 2002 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has accepted an invitation to join NeighborWorks® National Insurance Task Force (NITF) as part of its mission to expand its role to increase accessibility and affordability of insurance...
Jul 10 2002 // Ohio has introduced ECHO (Expedited Complaint Handling Option), becoming the first state to launch a web-based application that allows the Department of Insurance to more effectively share consumer complaint information...
Jun 20 2002 // State National Specialty Insurance Company, a unit of Fort Worth, Texas-based State National Companies, received a certificate from the state of Ohio granting the company authority to write multiple insurance lines in that...
Jun 18 2002 // ACS, a Dallas-based provider of business process and information technology outsourcing solutions, has been awarded a one-year contract with the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) to provide pharmacy benefit...
Jun 14 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington has filed a court action seeking to persuade a New Mexico court not to impose another state’s insurance laws and increased costs on Ohio insurance consumers.Covington filed the...