All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 16 2019 // The owner of a Mansfield, Ohio, freight hauling and trucking company convicted on four felony charges related to workers’ compensation fraud, has been ordered to pay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation...
Apr 11 2019 // Federal funding is being made available to help repair damage in Ohio from storms, flooding and landslides after severe weather in February. Local governments, state agencies and certain nonprofit organizations in 20...
Apr 4 2019 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker, J.M. Wilson, has hired Nicole Lloyd as assistant transportation underwriter in its Westerville, Ohio, office.Lloyd is responsible for assisting underwriters on a wide...
Apr 1 2019 // An aluminum manufacturing company in Ohio has been charged in federal court with misleading its parent company in Canada about a federal investigation into a workplace accident that killed one worker and seriously injured...
Mar 27 2019 // Federal safety officials have fined a metal heat treatment company based in Bowling Green, Ohio, $1,326,367 for exposing its employees to severe workplace hazards.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety...
Mar 21 2019 // A federal judge is siding with the makers of Dum-Dums lollipops in its lawsuit against a rival candy maker.A preliminary injunction handed down in Ohio says Tootsie Roll Industries must at least temporarily stop using its...
Mar 20 2019 // Ohio is suing a company that managed prescription benefits for the state Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, seeking to recover nearly $16 million in alleged overcharges for the fund for injured workers.Attorney General...
Mar 15 2019 // The Ohio hospital system where an intensive-care doctor is accused of ordering painkiller overdoses for dozens of patients has put more employees on leave and changed key leaders at the hospital where nearly all those...
Mar 15 2019 // UPS workers at a distribution hub in Ohio have sued the company, alleging discriminatory hiring decisions and a series of racist acts, including a noose and Confederate flags in the workplace.White employees in 2016...
Mar 14 2019 // A small plane crashed into a suburban Cincinnati house Tuesday afternoon, killing the pilot and sending dark smoke billowing from the backyard.Emergency responders said no one was in the home at the time of the crash, and...
Mar 13 2019 // The state’s prescription reporting system shows the number of prescription opioids dispensed to Ohioans declined for the sixth consecutive year in 2018. A recently released annual report from the State of Ohio Board...
Mar 13 2019 // Columbus, Ohio-based automobile insurance provider, Root Insurance, has named Dave Luketic director of Government Affairs for the company.Luketic will be responsible for the strategic direction and management of the...
Mar 12 2019 // High water on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers is snarling barges loaded with grain, chemicals and fuel, and forecasters are worried things will get worse once the snow starts to melt.The looming U.S. spring could bring a...
Mar 11 2019 // When Tom Gerrein left for Mass on Easter Sunday in 2010, he had a flat backyard.When he returned home, he did not. Tom and his wife, Kathy, walked behind their house in Bellevue, Kentucky, and there it was. A landslide had...
Mar 6 2019 // Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI) Director Jillian Froment is reminding farmers that the final date to purchase or modify federal crop insurance coverage on 2019 spring-planted crops is March 15.Crop insurance is sold and...
Mar 5 2019 // An Ohio gas company has been fined $400,000 by the state’s public utility commission after a contractor struck one of the company’s gas pipeline, an action that led to a fire that destroyed a home in Avon,...
Mar 4 2019 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Jillian Froment said the department helped insurance consumers in the state save or recover nearly $42 million in 2018.Froment’s announcement came in advance of National Consumer...
Feb 26 2019 // Ohio’s Department of Transportation is seeking permission to apply changes in speed limits anytime statewide.The department currently is allowed to impose variable speed limits based on road conditions on only a few...
Feb 19 2019 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. announced it is cutting its rates in Ohio for the second year in a row.The overall personal auto rate in the state is dropping by 3.7 percent, effective Feb. 18. The total...
Feb 14 2019 // An Ohio medical helicopter on its way to pick up a hospital patient made “a sharp left turn” before a crash that killed three people including the pilot last month, according to a preliminary federal report.The...