All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 11 2021 // The body of a second worker killed in a power plant collapse in southern Ohio has been recovered, his employer said on Jan. 9.Relatives of 47-year-old Jamie Fitzgerald of Boyd County, Kentucky, had been notified of the...
Jan 8 2021 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based American Financial Group Inc. has promoted Robert (Bob) A. Dee to assistant vice president and controller.Dee joined AFG in 1985 and has held positions of increasing responsibility within the finance...
Jan 7 2021 // Trenton, N.J.-based NJM Insurance Group is making its personal lines insurance products available to Ohio residents for the first time in the company’s 107-year history.NJM, one of the largest and most tenured auto...
Jan 4 2021 // Brown & Brown of Ohio LLC, a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Berry Insurance Group, based in Ohio.Founded in 2002 by Mark Berry, Berry Insurance Group has grown to...
Dec 23 2020 // Managing general agency and surplus lines insurance broker J.M. Wilson has promoted Ryan Gibbons as senior transportation underwriter in its Westerville, Ohio. office. Gibbons is responsible for underwriting new and...
Dec 17 2020 // Alera Group, an employee benefits, property/casualty, retirement services and wealth management firm based in Deerfield, Ill., has acquired Todd Associates Inc. (Todd Associates), headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio.The...
Dec 14 2020 // Crews recovered the body of one of two workers missing since a power plant being demolished in southern Ohio collapsed early Dec. 9.The man was found dead in the rubble of the Killen Generating Station in Manchester on...
Dec 3 2020 // Cleveland, Ohio, has agreed to pay a man who was wrongfully convicted of killing an elderly woman and spent 11 years in prison $4.85 million to settle a lawsuit he first filed in 2012 against two city homicide...
Dec 3 2020 // Waymo plans to open a new testing site in Ohio for its driverless autonomous vehicles that will focus on dense, urban areas, the company has said.The new site being built at the Transportation Research Center near Columbus...
Nov 17 2020 // The city of Columbus, Ohio, plans to pay $1 million to the family of a woman killed by an undercover officer in August 2018, according to documents filed in Franklin County Probate Court.The payout would be the largest in...
Nov 13 2020 // Boston-based Openly is now selling homeowners insurance in Ohio.Ohio homeowners and independent agents can now buy Openly’s premium insurance, obtaining quotes in 15 seconds, according to the company’s media...
Nov 12 2020 // A fiery crash on a bridge linking Ohio and Kentucky could force the span to remain closed for days as officials tried to determine the amount of damage to the bridge that serves as a crucial link for interstate commerce,...
Oct 30 2020 // Ohio employers will receive a record $5 billion in repayments from the state insurance fund for injured workers to help with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Mike DeWine and the fund’s...
Oct 21 2020 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation will be sending more than $1.3 billion to Ohio employers over the next week to ease COVID-19’s impact on the state’s business community and economy.All told,...
Oct 19 2020 // FCCI Insurance Group will be paying its first-ever dividend – for the 2018 program year – based on favorable results for its Contractors Select program to the three Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) chapters of...
Oct 16 2020 // Ohio State University will pay $5.8 million to settle lawsuits by about two dozen more survivors over decades-old sexual abuse by a now-deceased team doctor, Richard Strauss — bringing the total settlements so far to...
Oct 15 2020 // An Ohio county council has voted to pay the estate of a man who killed himself at a troubled county jail $950,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit.Gregory Fox, 36, was one of nine inmates who died between June 2018 and...
Oct 14 2020 // A Cincinnati, Ohio-area restaurant group will pay $75,000 to a former employee and implement other relief to settle a federal lawsuit alleging sexual harassment.According to the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Oct 13 2020 // An Ohio man who pleaded guilty on Oct. 5 to workers’ compensation fraud charges has been ordered to repay $141,578 in restitution and spend six months in jail, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC)...
Oct 8 2020 // People struggling to pay rent, along with small businesses and nonprofits hurt by the pandemic and the weak economy, could have details by next week on an aid package to help them, Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said on...