All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 10 2018 // Federal authorities say an Ohio-based food company is recalling more than 14,000 pounds of pulled barbeque beef products that could be contaminated with rubber.The U.S. agriculture department’s Food Safety and...
Apr 10 2018 // The Central Insurance Companies, headquartered in Van Wert, Ohio, has promoted Matt Korte to vice president of Information Technology for both Central Mutual Insurance Co. and All America Insurance Co.Korte succeeds John...
Apr 9 2018 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) has hired its first director of Inclusion & Diversity. Carolina Thatcher assumes the role following a similar stint with the Ohio Department of Job and Family...
Apr 6 2018 // National Weather Service survey teams have confirmed at least four tornadoes slammed through parts of Ohio. The NWS also confirmed that four tornadoes touched down in southern Illinois after a round a storms Tuesday.In...
Apr 6 2018 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Jillian Froment has issued a bulletin requiring heightened protections for Ohio consumers related to prescription drug prices.The bulletin requires insurers and pharmacy benefit...
Apr 2 2018 // An Ohio auto parts manufacturer has agreed to a settlement that includes a $1 million penalty resulting from workplace health and safety violations, federal safety officials said. The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Mar 31 2018 // As stories about nonconsensual or “predatory” practices proliferate, a number of states have begun to consider legislation to mitigate some of the abuses of the towing and vehicle-storage industry. However, we...
Mar 29 2018 // A proposed $1.27 million settlement has been announced with the family of an 18-year-old killed in an accident last year at the Ohio State Fair.Court documents show the parents of Tyler Jarrell would receive $870,000, and...
Mar 23 2018 // An Ohio auto parts manufacturer has agreed to a settlement that includes a $1 million penalty resulting from workplace health and safety violations, federal safety officials said.The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Mar 22 2018 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death of a forklift operator crushed between the machine and a 1-ton pallet of glass at an Ohio plant previously cited for safety violations.The Dayton...
Mar 21 2018 // A young woman critically injured in a deadly ride accident at the Ohio State Fair would get nearly $1.8 million in a proposed settlement of her claims against the ride operator and companies that had inspected it.A...
Mar 19 2018 // Jennifer Bussard has been promoted to commercial lines underwriter at the Ohio office of managing general agency and wholesale insurance broker Arlington/Roe. Bussard is a graduate of Franklin University and holds the...
Mar 15 2018 // Authorities say a blinding, late-afternoon snow squall caused an 81-vehicle pileup on a major highway in central Ohio, but no one was seriously hurt. The crashes left vehicles crunched, tipped over and scattered at odd...
Mar 13 2018 // An Ohio hospital where as many as 2,000 frozen eggs and embryos were damaged by a storage tank malfunction is being sued by a couple who lost two embryos.The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Amber and Elliott Ash. Lawyers...
Mar 9 2018 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group has hired Betty Shepherd as divisional senior vice president of Cyber Liability. She will oversee the company’s cyber initiatives and existing cyber underwriting...
Mar 9 2018 // A spokeswoman for a company whose natural gas well exploded and caught fire in Ohio last month says the well that had continued leaking methane has been capped.XTO Energy’s Karen Matusic says the well in Belmont...
Mar 7 2018 // Matthew C. Wilcox has been hired as executive vice president of personal lines at Columbus, Ohio-based Motorists Insurance Group.Wilcox has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience. He most recently served as a...
Mar 6 2018 // The CEO and managing partner of Solon, Ohio-based Loan Protector Insurance Services has purchased the company from insurance brokerage Willis Towers Watson. The buyout by Dennis Swit was financed by InsurBanc.The...
Mar 5 2018 // The owners of a parcel of less than a half-acre taken by Ohio’s turnpike commission for a construction project has won a $1 million judgment from a northeast Ohio jury for land the commission tried to acquire for...
Feb 27 2018 // Forecasters expect flooding to persist through the week in the Cincinnati region, and authorities said Monday that will hinder efforts to assess damage.The National Weather Service said the Ohio River crested Sunday at...