All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 5 2019 // An Ohio construction company owner has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter after a worker lacking safety equipment fell to his death from the roof of a three-story apartment complex.Owner James Coon, of Akron, also...
Jul 31 2019 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker, J.M. Wilson, has added Molly Boyer as transportation underwriter in its Westerville, Ohio, office. Boyer is responsible for underwriting new and renewal non-fleet...
Jul 31 2019 // An automotive glass manufacturer has been cited by federal workplace safety officials for exposing employees to multiple safety and health hazards at its production plant in Moraine, Ohio.Fuyao Glass America Inc. faces...
Jul 26 2019 // More former football players and other ex-athletes are suing Ohio State University over allegations that they were sexual assaulted by a university doctor during exams decades ago.Like at least a six other pending federal...
Jul 25 2019 // In siding with a law firm in a case involving access to workers’ compensation claimant information and the use of that information for solicitation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has declared...
Jul 23 2019 // A shipping business in Ohio says two workers died after they were trapped in a silo filled with grain.The workers became trapped Friday morning inside the silo operated by The Andersons in Toledo. A Toledo fire department...
Jul 22 2019 // An Ohio drug wholesale distributor and two former executives on Thursday were charged with profiting from the U.S. opioid epidemic by selling millions of pills despite signs the addictive drugs were being misused.Federal...
Jul 22 2019 // Florida survives on tourism, but a decade ago thousands of visitors made frequent trips to the state not to visit its theme parks or beaches. Instead, they came for cheap and easy prescription painkillers sold at...
Jul 19 2019 // Lawmakers have approved a two-year budget for Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers after missing the initial deadline at the end of June and covering the gap with a temporary budget. The nearly $645 million...
Jul 12 2019 // Officials in Ohio have opened a $45 million testing ground for self-driving vehicles.The Transportation Research Center Inc. unveiled its 540-acre (218.5-hectare) SMARTCenter on Wednesday. The state-of-the-art automated...
Jul 11 2019 // Cleveland, Ohio-based managing general agent and wholesale insurance broker for the cannabis and hemp industries, Cannasure Insurance Services (Cannasure), has hired Joe Foley as chief financial officer.Foley has more than...
Jul 10 2019 // Bourbon that leaked from a fire that destroyed a Jim Beam barrel warehouse in Kentucky is making its way to the Ohio River.State environmental officials say they’re assessing wildlife impacts and doing fish kill...
Jul 9 2019 // About 65% of active natural gas storage (UGS) wells in the United States are located in suburban residential areas and not in more sparsely populated commercial, industrial, or even rural areas like many new unconventional...
Jun 26 2019 // Former Dayton, Ohio-area insurance agent and investment adviser has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of insurance fraud and conducting a “Ponzi” scheme targeting elderly...
Jun 21 2019 // Grange Insurance, based in Columbus, Ohio, has appointed Jill Wagner Kelly executive vice president, chief distribution and affiliate officer.As president of Grange affiliate, Integrity Insurance, headquartered in...
Jun 21 2019 // Farmers who have been unable to plant their soybeans and corn because of this spring’s never-ending rains told Ohio’s governor that it will take years to recover their losses.They also said the impact will be...
Jun 20 2019 // An Ohio hospital system has reached nearly $4.5 million in settlements so far over the deaths of patients who allegedly received excessive painkiller doses ordered by a doctor now charged with murder.At least 29...
Jun 17 2019 // Two people who say they contracted Legionnaires’ disease at a newly opened Ohio hospital have sued the facility and its health system.Martin and Rebecca Brown, from Orient, sued Mount Carmel Grove City in Franklin...
Jun 17 2019 // An Ohio college ordered to pay $44 million in damages to the owners of a market who said the school ruined their business by branding them as racists said the jury awards are “not the final outcome.”“We...
Jun 17 2019 // Federal and state emergency management teams on June 5 began assessing damage in areas in the 10 Ohio counties impacted by late-May tornadoes.The Ohio Emergency Management Agency (Ohio EMA) joined the Federal Emergency...