All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 5 2014 // Medical malpractice claims in Ohio hit a new low in 2012, according to a new report.The annual Ohio Medical Professional Liability Closed Claim Report from the Ohio Department of Insurance showed 2,733 claims in 2012, the...
May 5 2014 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) staff has proposed a 6.3 percent reduction to base rates for private employers beginning July 1.If approved by the BWC board, it would mark the eighth consecutive year...
May 5 2014 // An Ohio woman was ordered to repay more than $32,000 in connection with working while collecting workplace injury benefits.Laura Brown pleaded guilty April 9 in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to workers’...
May 4 2014 // More than a dozen coal companies, including a unit of Patriot Coal Corp., challenged a new federal mine-safety regulation aimed at reducing black lung disease, with some arguing the objectives are unattainable.The...
Apr 30 2014 // The federal government says Republic Steel has agreed to pay $2.4 million in a settlement and address alleged health and safety violations at three Ohio facilities and one in Blasdell, N.Y. A statement from the...
Apr 28 2014 // Ohio’s watchdog released his much-anticipated investigative report on the investment scandal that engulfed the state in 2005, concluding the worker’s compensation insurance organization where it started has...
Apr 25 2014 // Ohio employers will have an opportunity to select a new managed care organization (MCO) to manage health-care services for workers injured on the job beginning April 28.The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC)...
Apr 24 2014 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that Cleveland resident John Deskins was sentenced to two years of probation in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court for theft in an...
Apr 23 2014 // An Ohio woman was ordered to repay more than $32,000 in connection with working while collecting workplace injury benefits.Laura Brown pleaded guilty April 9 in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to workers’...
Apr 23 2014 // Ohio private employers and local governments will soon receive a credit on their workers’ compensation bills totaling $1.2 billion, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced.The credit approved...
Apr 17 2014 // Ohio is warning drivers considering work with a ridesharing service such as Uber or Lyft to understand the insurance implications. Rideshare companies operating in Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland use smartphone apps to...
Apr 17 2014 // A U.S. Coast Guard station that watches over western Lake Erie led the nation in drunken boating arrests last year.The Coast Guard says officers with Marblehead, Ohio, station charged 67 people with boating under the...
Apr 15 2014 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor ordered an unlicensed insurance entity, My Community Care LLC, and its owner Tannile Ortiz to stop selling what the insurance department says is an...
Apr 11 2014 // A couple who sued to try to stop shale gas drilling around a state-owned lake in eastern Ohio won an early victory this week as a judge ruled their lawsuit can proceed.The Franklin County judge ruled that the Guernsey...
Apr 9 2014 // An Ohio jury has awarded $39 million to the family of a construction inspector killed during a highway repaving project.An attorney for the family of victim Randy Roginski described the working conditions in the...
Apr 8 2014 // Riding a bicycle on Ohio roads seems to be getting safer, according to state statistics.The Ohio Department of Public Safety statistics show that fewer bicyclists were injured or killed while riding in the state last year...
Apr 7 2014 // Van Wert, Ohio-based Central Insurance Companies announced several promotions in March.Todd Simpson was promoted to assistant vice president of claims. A graduate of the Indiana University School of Law, Simpson has been...
Apr 7 2014 // An insurance industry trade association says homeowner and auto insurance costs for most Ohioans remain below the U.S. average. The Ohio Insurance Institute released a report saying Ohio has the sixth lowest average...
Mar 31 2014 // Several U.S. states are banding together to combat the mounting risks of earthquakes tied to the disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.Regulators from Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Ohio met for the...
Mar 27 2014 // Russ Durst has joined SIA of Northern Ohio (SIANO) as regional vice president. Durst’s primary duty in this role will be to identify and appoint growing independent agencies in the northern Ohio area. SIANO is a...