All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 8 2017 // Columbus, Ohio-based auto insurance startup, Root Insurance, has hired Jon Allison as its first general counsel.Prior to joining Root, Allison served on the senior management team of CareSource, a regional non-profit...
Dec 7 2017 // The Iroquois Group, an Allegany, N.Y.-based service provider for independent property and casualty insurance agencies, has announced changes to its regional structure to better align Iroquois regions with those of their...
Dec 5 2017 // Insurer MAPFRE USA, which now writes in 19 states, is narrowing its focus by concentrating on 11 key states, exiting five states including selling its New York subsidiary, and selling its life insurance unit.MAPFRE USA has...
Dec 1 2017 // President Donald Trump wants Thomas E. Workman, an attorney and former life insurer trade group leader, to be the independent insurance industry’s voting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) for...
Nov 30 2017 // A former Ohio State and NFL star is asking a judge to let him expand a class-action lawsuit over allegations that marketing campaigns for dozens of big-time colleges and universities improperly used the images of thousands...
Nov 30 2017 // It’s possible to know where in the country more homebuyers will be moving over the next 30 to 90 days, thanks to what’s called a “pre-mover” index.It turns out that the U.S. markets with the highest...
Nov 20 2017 // The state highway patrol says crashes and fatalities jumped after Ohio adopted a 70 mph speed limit on many roads and highways.A patrol report released on Nov. 16 found a 24 percent increase in crashes on 70 mph roads,...
Nov 16 2017 // An Ohio corporation has paid the U.S. government a record $75 million to settle lawsuits stemming from alleged false claims about hospice patients.The U.S. Department of Justice says that between 2002 and 2013 Chemed...
Nov 7 2017 // At least eight people have been injured after a possible tornado hit a small Ohio city.Mercer County officials say six people were hurt when a restaurant in Celina was damaged during Sunday’s storms. One person was...
Nov 6 2017 // Ohio is suing the company building a $4.2 billion natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Michigan over what it says are numerous water pollution violations during construction.The lawsuit says work on the Rover...
Nov 6 2017 // Crop insurer, Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Iowa (FMH), announced that James A. Brost, retiring senior vice president with Holborn Corp., will join the FMH board of directors on Jan. 1, 2018.Brost began his...
Oct 30 2017 // County officials in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County are suing several large prescription drug companies saying they intentionally misled the public about the dangers of opioids.The lawsuit filed by Cuyahoga County says the...
Oct 23 2017 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker J.M. Wilson has promoted Seth Mahaffey to transportation underwriter in its Westerville, Ohio, office. Mahaffey is responsible for quoting new and renewal accounts for a...
Oct 18 2017 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Jillian Froment says that the average rates in 2016 for the top 10 homeowners and private passenger auto insurance groups in Ohio increased 1.9 percent and 3.1 percent,...
Oct 18 2017 // Officials are planning a new system of travel alert information for part of the Ohio Turnpike near Cleveland with an eye toward a day when autonomous vehicles might regularly cruise the roadway.The Turnpike Commission will...
Oct 12 2017 // A man arrested and acquitted of a felony for creating a fake Facebook page that parodied a suburban Cleveland, Ohio, police department is suing the city, saying it violated his right to free speech.Anthony Novak filed suit...
Oct 6 2017 // Insurance brokerage and consulting firm, USI Insurance Services (USI), has added Michael Cunningham and Brent Hyer in its Independence, Ohio, office.Cunningham joins USI as an employee benefits consultant. Previously, he...
Oct 5 2017 // American Fraternal Alliance has honored Ohio Insurance Director Jillian Froment with its Outstanding Policymaker Award in recognition of her leadership in implementing reforms that provide additional consumer protections...
Oct 2 2017 // A dispute over a multi-million-dollar insurance claim for a suburban Cincinnati mansion that burned down in 2014 has settled weeks before a trial was scheduled to start.A federal court filing says attorneys for Jeffrey and...
Oct 2 2017 // The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that an apology by a medical provider that includes an admission of liability can’t be used in a later lawsuit against the provider.At issue in the court’s Sept. 12 decision was...