All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 25 2022 // Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on March 25 announced an $80 million settlement with the Monsanto Co. that forces the company to pay for environmental damage it caused in Ohio with its toxic products.“Ohio has been...
Mar 17 2022 // Unison Risk Advisors (URA) announced a strategic investment partnership with Peloton Capital Management (PCM), a Canadian private equity firm based in Toronto. This deal is expected to close March 31.Ohio-based URA was...
Mar 17 2022 // Austin Powder Company, owner and operator of the Red Diamond explosives manufacturing plant located near McArthur, Ohio, has agreed to implement significant upgrades to that facility’s wastewater treatment operations...
Feb 28 2022 // A Hartsville, Ohio contractor has been cited for the sixth time since 2018 for exposing workers to deadly fall hazards on two separate Ohio job sites.Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Feb 28 2022 // An Ohio business says its insurance company must compensate it for financial losses suffered during a pandemic-related shutdown. The insurance company refused to pay, saying its policy didn’t cover such losses. The...
Feb 15 2022 // Akron, Ohio-based First Energy announced it has settled a series of shareholder lawsuits seeking corporate reforms in the wake of a bribery and corruption scandal.FirstEnergy in a statement said provisions of the...
Feb 9 2022 // Corrections and medical officials at an Ohio jail mishandled an inmate with diabetes and their indifference led to his death last year, according to a federal lawsuit.At issue is care received by Chavis Martinez at...
Feb 8 2022 // A blocked fresh-air intake at a hotel pool equipment room may have been to blame for a carbon monoxide buildup that sent more than a dozen people to hospitals more than a week ago, authorities said.A report by the Ohio...
Feb 7 2022 // The inappropriate behavior of a long-dead Ohio State team doctor went unrecognized as sexual abuse until only recently and hence a deadline for suing the university over the abuse has not passed, a group of survivors argue...
Feb 3 2022 // An explosion early Jan. 31 at a northeastern Ohio granite business left one man dead and two women injured, authorities said. The blast at Korkan Granite in Tallmadge was reported shortly before 8:40 a.m. Fire officials...
Feb 2 2022 // Great American Insurance Group announced that David L. Thompson Jr. has been named president and chief operating officer of Great American’s Property & Casualty Group.Thompson will become the 18th president in...
Feb 1 2022 // Wallace & Turner, Inc. has acquired Guarantee Insurance Agency, effective January 1, 2022. Founded in 1907, Guarantee Insurance Agency has been operated by Jim and Gaylee Ross for over 25 years, offering personal,...
Jan 31 2022 // Seven people were hospitalized in critical condition Jan. 29 after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning at a Hampton Inn in Ohio, officials said.A total of nine people were taken to local hospitals, according to The...
Jan 28 2022 // Tesla has expanded its own brand of auto insurance into Ohio, using real-time driving behavior for Model S, Model 3, Model X and Model Y owners.Ohio joins Texas, Arizona, Illinois and California as states where Tesla...
Jan 26 2022 // Ohio has settled an environmental lawsuit with Volkswagen over the company’s 2015 emissions scandal for $3.5 million, state Attorney General Dave Yost announced.As that scandal unfolded, the automaker was found to...
Jan 24 2022 // Volkswagen AG agreed to a $3.5 million settlement with Ohio over claims the German automaker violated state laws by manipulating vehicle computer software in its vehicles to mask carbon dioxide emissions, the state...
Jan 21 2022 // Columbus, Ohio-based Insurtech battleface has added vacation rental damage to its benefit options. The new product provides insured travelers with protection against covered losses while staying in a vacation...
Jan 3 2022 // An Ohio high school football player who says coaches forced him to eat a pizza covered with pepperoni grease in violation of his religious beliefs is suing his former district and the ousted coaches.The former Canton...
Dec 21 2021 // Davis Automotive Group, Inc., doing business as BMW Cleveland, an automobile dealership located in Solon, Ohio, will pay $390,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by...
Nov 24 2021 // A Cleveland jury concluded Walmart Inc., CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. helped create a public-health crisis by failing to properly monitor opioid prescriptions, the drug industry’s latest loss in...