All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 18 2015 // A female firefighter was subjected to equipment tampering, clothing destruction and gender-related slurs at a central Ohio fire department, according to a federal discrimination lawsuit alleging a pattern of sexual...
Dec 17 2015 // A woman sexually assaulted by an Ohio pastor when she was 15 years old is asking the state Supreme Court to boost the amount of damages paid by the church where the minister worked.Attorneys for the woman and her father...
Dec 15 2015 // Ohio’s Transportation Network Company (TNC) bill, Sub. HB 237, is headed to Gov. John Kasich for his signature, according to the Ohio Insurance Institute.The insurance industry trade group sent a letter to the...
Dec 11 2015 // State legislators in Ohio and Florida are moving ahead with regulations governing Uber and other ride services that would designate all drivers as independent contractors, bolstering a critical but much-disputed aspect of...
Dec 11 2015 // A central Ohio wire manufacturer where two workers were injured in separate accidents has been cited for 25 safety violations by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.OSHA cited Columbus-based ITC...
Dec 8 2015 // Risk management and insurance services firm, Schauer Group Inc., based in Canton, Ohio, has opened a new office in the Cleveland area.The opening of the new Broadview Heights office strategically expands the...
Dec 1 2015 // Cintas Corp., an Ohio-based uniform manufacturer and supplier, will pay $1,500,000 to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).According to a lawsuit filed by...
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Dec 1 2015 // The state fire marshal’s office says 108 people have been killed in fires around Ohio so far this year.Last year, the office said Ohio had 115 fire fatalities. Fire Marshal Larry Flowers says it’s important...
Nov 18 2015 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Insurance Director Mary Taylor is urging Ohioans who are members of the military — both actively serving and veterans — to consider a career in insurance. The state is offering free...
Nov 12 2015 // The Westfield Insurance Foundation is creating the James R. Clay Scholarship to honor its outgoing chairman and CEO.The Ohio Farmers Insurance Co. (OFIC) board of directors authorized the transfer of $100,000 to the...
Nov 12 2015 // A crane’s safety latch failed and 1,000 pounds of equipment fell on a man below and injured him as he worked at a TimkenSteel Corp. Ohio factory, according to federal safety officials.For the second time in a year,...
Nov 2 2015 // Former U.S. Senator Ben Nelson will step down as chief executive officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), when his current term ends on Jan. 31, 2016. He began his tenure at NAIC in January...
Oct 30 2015 // Superstorm Sandy in late October 2013 was Ohio’s sixth costliest natural disaster in recent history from an insured loss standpoint, an insurance trade group says.Moving inland after devastating parts of the East...
Oct 26 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Sigma II Insurance Agency in Independence, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1988, Sigma II Insurance Agency (Sigma II) is an employee benefits...
Oct 20 2015 // Hylant, one of the nation’s largest privately owned insurance brokerage firms, announced that Kim Riley has accepted the role of president of its Cleveland, Ohio, office.With over 30 years of insurance, risk...
Oct 19 2015 // Great American Insurance Group based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has named James (Jim) R. Niehaus senior vice president and chief information officer of its Property and Casualty Group.Niehaus joined the Great American in 2007 as...
Oct 15 2015 // Lawyers for a central Ohio megachurch and its former insurance company are squaring off in the Ohio Supreme Court over payment of $3.1 million settlement in a lawsuit over the alleged beating of a toddler at the...
Oct 14 2015 // Data from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration show Ohio with the second-highest number of workers killed on the job in the agency’s Midwest region this past fiscal year, behind Illinois.A previous...
Oct 9 2015 // An Ohio woman has been awarded $1.6 million in the trial of a lawsuit that alleged a chemical from a DuPont Co. plant contaminated drinking water and contributed to her contracting kidney cancer.A jury awarded the damages...