All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2012 // Pete G. McPartland has been named chief executive officer at Sentry Insurance, a Mutual Company in Stevens Point, Wis. Dale R. Schuh, who previously held the title, will continue to serve as chairman of the board of...
Mar 16 2012 // Ohio’s high court has held that home builders have a duty imposed by law to construct a home “in a workmanlike manner using ordinary care,” despite the wording of any warranty document.The Supreme Court...
Mar 13 2012 // The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation, based in Columbus, Ohio, has awarded $31,700 in scholarships to 26 students at seven colleges and universities. The scholarships support students studying risk management,...
Mar 5 2012 // Dr. Stephen T. Woods, M.D. has been named medical director at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Woods will be responsible for providing direction in the development of medical policy and oversight for...
Mar 3 2012 // Across the South and Midwest, survivors emerged Saturday to find blue sky and splinters where homes once stood, cars flung into buildings and communications crippled after dozens of tornadoes chainsawed through a region of...
Feb 27 2012 // Misconduct complaints against Ohio nurses have skyrocketed in recent years, leading to a backlog of investigations for the state nursing board’s disciplinary system, a newspaper investigation has found.The Dayton...
Feb 21 2012 // The U.S. should expect an active severe weather season with above-normal tornadoes in 2012.That’s after a near-record number of tornadoes in 2011, according to forecasters at AccuWeather.com in State College, Penn....
Feb 20 2012 // Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said U.S. District Court Judge Deborah A. Batts’ approval of a $725 million securities class action settlement against American International Group Inc (AIG) and certain individual...
Feb 15 2012 // A doctor convicted in the overdose deaths of four patients and implicated in eight more deaths faces has been sentenced to in federal court in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Feb. 14 to four life terms in prison, the U.S. Drug...
Feb 14 2012 // Ohio petroleum producers are pushing back against a call by the state attorney general to increase environmental penalties and chemical reporting requirements on the drilling industry.Republican Attorney General Mike...
Feb 9 2012 // Republican legislative leaders say they took away from Gov. John Kasich’s State of the State speech a renewed focus on bolstering training programs for Ohio workers, answering the governor’s call to find ways...
Feb 6 2012 // Some Ohio businesses are opposing a bill backed by the attorney general that would create tougher penalties on fraud and give whistle-blowers a slice of the damages or repayments. The proposed legislation, known as the...
Feb 3 2012 // Insurance regulators saved or recovered $11.6 million for Ohioans in 2011, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced. The department said it received 5,336 consumer complaints, the majority of which dealt with the denial...
Jan 31 2012 // Ohio insurance regulators opened 233 insurance fraud cases last year, handled 1,678 agent misconduct cases, took administrative action against 240 individuals and entities and referred 72 individuals for prosecution, the...
Jan 30 2012 // Some Ohio businesses are opposing a bill backed by the attorney general that would create tougher penalties on fraud and give whistle-blowers a slice of the damages or repayments.The proposed legislation, known as the Ohio...
Jan 24 2012 // AssuredPartners, a portfolio company of the Chicago, Ill-based equity firm GTCR, has acquired the Dawson Companies. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, and with offices in Florida and Virginia, Dawson markets property/casualty,...
Jan 23 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has withdrawn the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of Harleysville-Atlantic Insurance Company, which is based in Atlanta, and...
Jan 20 2012 // The Columbus Insurance Market has opened a new agency location in Columbus, Ohio. This new location will serve the Columbus metropolitan area along with all adjacent suburbs, the agency said. The Columbus Insurance Market...
Jan 20 2012 // Ohio’s relatively low rates for property insurance are expected to rise in 2012 due to the damaging storms of recent years.An insurance agent in Middletown in southwest Ohio says Mother Nature has had her way with...
Jan 19 2012 // Christopher Carlson has been appointed as chief actuarial officer of the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Carlson will be responsible for directing the activities of BWC’s actuarial division, setting...