All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 5 2016 // A federal lawsuit has been filed by five former high school football players and two parents against various employees of a western Ohio school district.The Lima News reported the suit alleges that two coaches at St. Marys...
Jun 24 2016 // An Ohio insurer trade groups says a bill introduced into the General Assembly would help rein in the predatory practices of some towing business operators in the state.The primary focus of House Bill 341, introduced by...
Jun 22 2016 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor has revoked the license of insurance agent Brian Willms, of Dublin, for misrepresenting life insurance policies as an investment. The misrepresentations contributed to two clients...
Jun 22 2016 // Authorities say an estimated $1 million in inventory was lost in a bookstore fire that broke out twice within a few hours and injured three people in southwestern Ohio. Firefighters say a firefighter and two people inside...
Jun 20 2016 // Health care advocates and a U.S. senator are raising concerns that nearly 22,000 Ohioans could end up paying much more for health care as their struggling insurer winds down its operations.Republican Sen. Rob Portman has...
Jun 13 2016 // Lt. Governor Mary Taylor has named two to key posts at the Ohio Department of Insurance.Allison Conklin will serve as assistant director of Legislative Affairs and Amanda Baird is the new general counsel. Baird supervises...
Jun 13 2016 // Oswald Companies, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, has acquired The Hoffman Group, an Ohio insurance firm founded in 1919.Hoffman’s employees are now employee-owners of Oswald and will operate out of offices in...
Jun 10 2016 // When a 400-pound gorilla grabbed a 3-year-old boy at the Cincinnati Zoo, the sharpshooter who killed the ape wasn’t from the police. Instead, the shooter was a specially trained zoo staffer on one of the many...
Jun 7 2016 // The Ohio Insurance Institute (OII) reported that 11 of the 15 Ohio metro areas (MSAs) in the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s (NICB) Hot Spots report show a decline in auto thefts between 2014 and 2015, based on...
Jun 6 2016 // The Farmers National Bank of Canfield (Farmers), based in Canfield, Ohio, has acquired the Bowers Insurance Agency Inc. (Bowers Group). The transaction closed on June 1, 2016 and is expected to be accretive to earnings...
Jun 3 2016 // A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges an Ohio woman died because she ate salad processed at a Dole plant linked to a listeria outbreak.The Springfield News-Sun reports the lawsuit says a 79-year-old Franklin County woman...
Jun 1 2016 // One of more than 3,500 lawsuits alleging links between people’s illnesses and DuPont discharging C8 into drinking water and the Ohio River is headed to trial in federal court.The lawsuits are part of a multidistrict...
May 31 2016 // Federal safety and health investigators say employees of an Ohio gun shop may face life-long health damage because their employer continues to expose them to lead hazards and has failed to establish a respiratory...
May 30 2016 // The state’s insurance department is taking over a company that provides health insurance to nearly 22,000 residents, mainly in central Ohio.The move affects those holding InHealth Mutual policies from Coordinated...
May 26 2016 // A proposal to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio has squeaked through a critical Senate panel over opposition of some Republicans and Democrats. The Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee’s 7-to-5 vote...
May 25 2016 // The state hasn’t tracked insurance companies’ payments of death benefits to Ohio residents to see if they are getting what they are owed since a national probe revealed large insurers were holding onto billions...
May 24 2016 // The state attorney general is suing a Cincinnati roofing company over more than a dozen complaints that the company took insurance checks but the work was either never finished or was done improperly.Attorney General Mike...
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May 23 2016 // The Ohio Insurance Institute reports that preliminary estimates of an April storm outbreak caused insured property losses of up to $57.8 million in Ohio alone. Several other states, including Illinois and Indiana, were...
May 19 2016 // Gov. John Kasich has appointed the chief legal officer to Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers as the agency’s new leader. Sarah Morrison takes over as administrator and CEO of the Ohio Bureau of...