All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 23 2015 // Westfield, Ohio-based banking and insurance organization, Westfield Group, has selected Edward J. Largent III to succeed James R. Clay as company leader, president and CEO.The transition will occur July 1. Clay will remain...
Mar 20 2015 // Effective March 23, 2015, Ohio motorists will now be able to show proof of financial responsibility to traffic violations bureaus, courts, Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) and/or law enforcement through use of an electronic...
Mar 13 2015 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Insurance Director Mary Taylor has promoted three members of the Ohio Department of Insurance leadership team.Laura Miller, previously chief of the department’s Product Regulation and...
Mar 11 2015 // Westfield, Ohio-based banking and insurance organization, Westfield Group, has selected Edward J. Largent III to succeed James R. Clay as company leader, president and CEO.The transition will occur July 1, 2015. Clay will...
Mar 11 2015 // Ohio’s emergency responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder could be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits even if they don’t have physical injuries under proposed legislation a state...
Mar 10 2015 // A former Hylant Group Inc. official denied that he misappropriated trade secrets and tried to recruit Hylant employees to Chicago-based Wells Fargo Insurance Services Inc.Todd J. Belden, in a March 4 court filing, opposed...
Mar 6 2015 // Democratic lawmakers in Ohio want the state to consider creating its own health insurance exchange as the U.S. Supreme Court hears a challenge to President Barack Obama’s health care law.People can find health...
Mar 6 2015 // The Central Insurance Companies, headquartered in Van Wert, Ohio, has appointed John E. White to the board of directors for Central Mutual Insurance and All America Insurance Companies, and the Central Insurex Agency...
Mar 5 2015 // Five Cincinnati-area residents have been indicted on multiple counts of alleged insurance fraud for filing a significant number of false insurance claims in 2014 totaling approximately $85,000, the Ohio Department of...
Mar 2 2015 // BP Plc double dipped by taking a total of more than $33 million from an Ohio compensation fund and insurers to clean up leaks from underground storage tanks, according to the state’s attorney general.Attorney General...
Feb 27 2015 // The Ohio House has passed a bill that gives legal protection to certain volunteers who provide service and expertise during emergencies.The measure gives architects, engineers, surveyors and tradespersons immunity from...
Feb 25 2015 // Fires killed 15 children in Ohio last year and have claimed at least 11 young lives in just the first two months of 2015, according to the state fire marshal’s office.Many factors affect those statistics, but the...
Feb 24 2015 // A truck owner says the city of Dayton should compensate him for sinkhole damage that left his truck inoperable.The Dayton Daily News reports that 52-year-old Mike McDonald is infuriated that the city rejected his $10,000...
Feb 23 2015 // Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has warned insurance companies operating in Ohio against the use of price optimization that can result in unfair discrimination.On Jan. 29 Taylor issued...
Feb 22 2015 // Families whose children have been among dozens sickened in a northern Ohio cancer cluster have dropped their federal lawsuit linking the illnesses to Whirlpool Corp.’s washing machine factory.The families asked this...
Feb 18 2015 // Certain local zoning laws can’t be used to supersede Ohio’s state-level system for regulating oil and gas drilling, a fiercely divided Ohio Supreme Court has ruled.In a 4-3 decision with three written dissents,...
Feb 12 2015 // The parents of a worker killed when a highway overpass collapsed have sued Ohio’s Department of Transportation, charging negligence and carelessness.They sued on behalf of the estate and family members of Brandon...
Feb 11 2015 // Lieutenant Governor and Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced Ohio’s top fraud and enforcement cases for 2014 investigated by the Ohio Department of Insurance.During the calendar year, the department processed...
Feb 10 2015 // Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has warned Ohio insurers against the use of price optimization that can result in unfair discrimination.Taylor recently issued Bulletin 2015-01, dated...
Feb 9 2015 // Workplace fatalities have been rising in Ohio, and federal officials cite lack of attention to safe work practices and training and the existence of younger and newer manufacturing and construction workforces.There had...