All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 8 2002 // Bancinsurance Corporation, a specialty insurance holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio reported an 18.8 percent increase in net income for the three months ended Dec. 31, 2001, with net income rising to $845,473...
Mar 4 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington notified Connie Houser, wife of former insurance agent Harry D. Houser Sr. of Beverly, Ohio, that he intends to revoke her license as an insurance agent.According to the...
Feb 25 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington filed a petition to intervene in a New Mexico lawsuit that, according to the Ohio Department of Insurance, could impose another state’s insurance laws and increased costs on Ohio...
Feb 15 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington, in his capacity as Liquidator of Credit General Insurance Company, announced a settlement with New York-based AmTrust Financial Group resolving all disputes that were...
Feb 14 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington announced that Ohio is among the first states to no longer require insurance companies to make paper financial statement filings to the Department of Insurance. The...
Feb 13 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington revoked the insurance license of George J. Fiorini II of Cincinnati and the Fiorini Agency.Covington took the action after finding that Fiorini had allegedly committed...
Feb 11 2002 // The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company and Summit Insurance Company (Rhode Island) are the newest partners in the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s (IIAA) Trusted ChoiceSM branding initiative, which is set to...
Feb 6 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington suspended the authority to transact business of five Ohio licensed companies of Highlands Insurance Group on Jan. 30, after determining that further business transactions...
Jan 31 2002 // Sky Financial Group Inc. of Bowling Green, Ohio, has announced it will acquire the Celaris Group, Inc., a full-service insurance agency specializing in commercial and personal insurance services, financial services and...
Jan 22 2002 // The Garden City Group Inc. (GCG), a division of Crawford & Company, an independent provider of diversified services to insurance companies, self-insured corporations, and governmental entities, announced the expansion...
Jan 17 2002 // The Strategic Independent Agents Alliance (SIAA), a national insurance agency distribution network, announced that the DiStefano Insurance Agency Inc. of Canal Fulton, Ohio, has established United Independent Agency...
Jan 16 2002 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), Ohio insurers are poised to actively participate in the 2002 Ohio Legislative session, during which insurance issues such as tort reform, credit and...
Jan 11 2002 // Ohio’s Department of Insurance will host the 2002 Insurance Fraud Seminar on Wednesday, March 6. The seminar will feature presentations by several fraud enforcement experts on topics such as “Crimes Against...
Jan 8 2002 // Lord, Bissell & Brook, a legal firm representing London Market Insurers in a lawsuit filed against the insurers by The B.F. Goodrich Company, announced that a Summit County, Ohio court has granted summary judgment and...
Jan 4 2002 // Three Ohio business groups are asking the state Supreme Court to affirm that the policy provisions and intent of two parties entering into a contract should not be usurped by judicial decisions rendered years after the...
Dec 24 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington has signed the second of two orders revoking the insurance licenses of Matthew J. Bower and Abigail Bower, both formerly of Toledo and former agents of the Baron...
Dec 24 2001 // In what became one of the most significant, traumatic and challenging years in U.S. history, the insurance industry, along with the rest of the nation, has had to come to terms with the terrorist attacks perpetrated...
Dec 17 2001 // Recollections and Renewal: Looking Back at 2001 with an Eye to the FutureThis is the year that was. It is one that many people will be glad to see come to an end because the new year always brings hope—for a rebirth, for...
Nov 16 2001 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington filed court actions Nov. 13 to intervene in four class action lawsuits that could cost Ohio insurance residents hundreds of millions of dollars.Covington filed the motions to intervene...
Nov 15 2001 // Adding to the list of technology enhancements developed over the past two years, Lee Covington, Director of the Ohio Department of Insurance, announced a new online service that will make it easier for insurance agent...