Latest Ohio Headlines

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Ohio Freight Hauler Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud, Must Repay $144K

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...

20 Ohio Counties Eligible for Federal Aid After Storms

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...

J.M. Wilson Adds Lloyd as Assistant Transportation Underwriter in Ohio

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...

Ohio Company Charged with Obstruction over Accident That Killed Worker

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...

Ohio Company Faces $1.3M in OSHA Penalties for Workplace Hazards

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...

Ohio Judge Sides with Dum-Dum Makers in Lollipop Lawsuit

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...

Ohio Sues Pharmacy Benefit Manager over $16M in Alleged Drug Overcharges

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...

Ohio Hospital Reports 48 Nurses, Pharmacists Over Dosages, Deaths

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...

Workers Sue UPS, Alleging Racism, Discrimination at Ohio Hub

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...

Plane Crashes into Ohio Home, Killing Pilot, Fire Chief Says

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...

Report: Ohio Sees Drop in Opioid Prescribing

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...

Luketic Named Director of Government Relations at Root Insurance

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...

Mississippi, Ohio River Communities, Businesses Brace for Spring Floods

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...

Landslides in Cincinnati Area Likely to Become More Common

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...

Ohio Insurance Commissioner: Crop Insurance Deadline Is March 15

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...

Ohio Gas Company Fined $400K for Gas Line Rupture That Caused Home Fire

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,...

Ohio Insurance Department Recovered $42M for Consumers in 2018

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...

Ohio DOT Seeks OK for Conditions-Based Variable Speed Limits

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...

State Farm’s Ohio Auto Insurance Customers to See Rate Cuts

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...

NTSB: Ohio Medical Helicopter Made ‘Sharp Left Turn’ Before Fatal Crash

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...