All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 14 2001 // Ohio’s Director of Insurance Lee Covington, acting in his capacity as liquidator of property and casualty insurer of Credit General Insurance Company, sued the previous owner and officers of Credit General, alleging...
Jun 13 2001 // Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Company announced yesterday that it had signed a definitive merger agreement with Berwanger Overmyer Associates (BOA), expected to be effective July 1, 2001. Terms of the stock and cash transaction...
Jun 12 2001 // Ohio Casualty Corp., the parent company of a collection of auto, home and business insurers, is planning to offer early retirement to more than 300 staff–approximately 10 percent of its workforce. Ohio Casualty is...
May 21 2001 // The State of Ohio has given the go-ahead for a set of MindLeaders interactive online training courses which will allow insurance agents in the state to earn continuing education credits. MindLeaders, with more than 600...
May 9 2001 // Standard & Poor’s (S&P) lowered its “BBB+” counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on American Fire & Casualty Co., Ohio Casualty Insurance Co., Ohio Security Insurance Co., and...
May 3 2001 // The Ohio Rail Development Commission announced that the state of Ohio plans to invest approximately $350 million over the next 10 years in railroad safety. According to The Ohio Insurance Forum, the invested money will...
Apr 19 2001 // Ohio Casualty Corporation, the holding company of the Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, appointed Stanley Pontius to replace its retiring chairman, William Woodall. Pontius, a director of Ohio Casualty for over six years,...
Apr 9 2001 // The U.S. Federal Northern District Court has sentenced former insurance agent Richard S. Zureich of Cleveland to two years in prison and ordered him to pay $560,000 in restitution and approximately $250,000 to settle all...
Apr 3 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington has issued a notice of opportunity for hearing to Harry D. Houser Sr., of Beverly, Ohio, informing Houser of his intent to revoke his license as an insurance agent.The...
Apr 2 2001 // Todd Boyer has joined the Ohio Department of Insurance as Director of Communications. Boyer comes to the department from Attorney General Betty Montgomery’s office, where he most recently served as communications...
Mar 2 2001 // Ohio Director of Insurance Lee Covington today announced that the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas granted an order on Feb. 28 placing Acceleration National Insurance Company, an Ohio domiciled property and casualty...
Feb 23 2001 // Ohio Casualty Corp. of Fairfield, Ohio, is abandoning its web-based Avomark brand direct personal lines auto marketing in favor of an independent agent sales force.Dan R. Carmichael, Ohio Casualty’s new president and...
Feb 21 2001 // Westfield Group, one of Northeast Ohio’s largest insurance firms, has opened Westfield Bank, headquartered in Westfield Center, Ohio. The bank offers traditional and e-banking services via its network of independent...
Feb 15 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington released a list of the Top 10 Insurance Fraud violations for 2000. During 2000, the Department opened 144 fraud cases.At the Insurance Department, the Enforcement...
Feb 12 2001 // The Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio granted a request for liquidation order filed by the Ohio Department of Insurance with respect to Credit General Insurance Co., which was placed in rehabilitation on Nov....
Feb 7 2001 // Ohio Insurance Department Director Lee Covington announced that the department has designed a new license certificate for Ohio insurance agents and other licensees that can be used for display purposes. The new...
Jan 8 2001 // The Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio has granted an order placing property casualty insurer Credit General Insurance Co. into liquidation. The Ohio Department of Insurance placed the company in rehabilitation...
Jan 4 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington announced that the Department’s Enforcement Division recently completed an investigation that led to the indictment of former insurance agent Larry C. Braun,...
Jan 3 2001 // An Ohio court has ordered Proliance Insurance Co. be placed into rehabilitation based on a request by the Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington. Proliance is a Columbus, Ohio, domiciled property and casualty...
Dec 14 2000 // As many as 23,000 workers’ comp claims filed in 1999 were miscoded or lacked a code that helps determine the premiums paid by businesses. So found a study released Monday by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’...