All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 11 2014 // The Hoover District site will soon become the new location for the area’s Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Service Office.The office, located at 339 E. Maple Street in North Canton, will house...
Jun 5 2014 // Insurance broker Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, appointed Andrew Gunnas managing partner of Willis’ Cleveland, Ohio, operations.Willis of Ohio Inc. serves over 3,000 national and local clients...
Jun 2 2014 // The director of Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers said he’s disappointed with an unusually pointed appeals court decision that says the fund overcharged employers by hundreds of millions of...
May 30 2014 // Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor says the passage of reforms to Ohio’s insurance law will help maintain the strength and competitiveness of Ohio’s insurance marketplace while...
May 22 2014 // Ohio private employers will again benefit from lower overall workers’ compensation base-rates with a 6.3 percent reduction that will take effect July 1, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC)...
May 19 2014 // The director of the state insurance fund for injured workers said Friday that he’s disappointed with an unusually pointed appeals court decision that says the fund overcharged employers by hundreds of millions of...
May 19 2014 // Medical malpractice claims in Ohio hit a new low in 2012, according to the Ohio Department of Insurance’s Ohio Medical Professional Liability Closed Claim Report. There were 2,733 claims in 2012, the last year for...
May 16 2014 // Flood watches were in effect across much of eastern and northern Ohio as communities recovered from several days of heavy rain and storms.The National Weather Service predicted an end to the precipitation and some falling...
May 15 2014 // Crews at Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) Valley National Park in northeastern Ohio are cleaning up from a storm that washed out trails and damaged the tracks that carry the park’s scenic railroad. Storms on Monday...
May 12 2014 // Ohio-based Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. has agreed to buy the stock of Consumers Insurance USA based in Murfreesboro, Tenn.Consumers Insurance will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorists Mutual under the agreement...
May 9 2014 // Ohio continues to lead the nation in metal thefts, with 1,446 insurance claims made last year, according to a new report.A National Insurance Crime Bureau report said the state reported more than 4,000 claims from 2011...
May 9 2014 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh LLC, has acquired Kinker-Eveleigh Insurance Agency, a $3.5 million revenue agency located in Cincinnati, Ohio.Terms of the transaction were not...
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...