All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 19 2011 // A Fairfield, Ohio, chiropractor who pled guilty in July to felony workers’ compensation fraud has been ordered to repay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) more than $200,000.Bruce E. Holaday, owner...
Sep 13 2011 // Ohio’s high-risk health insurance pool that began a year ago as part of the federal health care overhaul is facing higher-than-expected costs, which are limiting enrollment.Nearly 1,800 people are enrolled in the...
Sep 8 2011 // Dennis A. Vanek has been appointed as chief of the internal audit division at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC).Vanek most recently served as director of global audit services for Expedia, Inc. in...
Sep 6 2011 // A Fairfield, Ohio, chiropractor who pled guilty in July to felony workers’ compensation fraud has been ordered to repay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) more than $200,000.Bruce E. Holaday, owner...
Sep 6 2011 // As the peculiar yellow vehicle moved into the Short North neighborhood north of downtown Columbus, Ohio, bewildered pedestrians stopped in their tracks, fumbling for their cellphone cameras.Drivers honked car horns and...
Sep 5 2011 // While fee recovery by fire departments is nothing new, an increasing number of local municipalities have begun to charge for first responder, primarily fire department, services. Though the types of fees and rates vary...
Sep 5 2011 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has proposed an economic development initiative that would offer workers’ compensation premium discounts to new employers in the state. With the goal of creating jobs,...
Sep 2 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has revoked the resident insurance agent license of Sheri Lyn Sharp, of Burlington, Ky., for violations of Ohio insurance law.Sharp wrote...
Aug 30 2011 // A West Virginia jury has awarded $7 million in damages to the family of a worker killed in a 2007 explosion at an American Electric Power plant in Ohio.A Marshall County jury found AEP and subsidiary Ohio Power Co....
Aug 29 2011 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has proposed an economic development initiative with the goal of creating jobs in that state. Under the proposal, BWC could offer new employers in Ohio a 50 percent or higher...
Aug 25 2011 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that when read in context with other policy language, a provision in a homeowner’s insurance policy requiring that “any action” against the insurer “must be...
Aug 25 2011 // Lee Stacey has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Britton-Gallagher & Associates Inc., one of Ohio’s largest privately owned insurance brokers. He assumes many of the current duties of Bruce...
Aug 24 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has named Jillian Froment the department’s deputy director. Froment previously served as assistant director/chief administrative officer and...
Aug 17 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor says Ohio’s average auto and homeowners insurance rates are among the most competitive in the United States.The department annually compiles...
Aug 15 2011 // 5 Insurers Become 1Five well-known Midwest property/casualty insurers have agreed to merge into one that the public is sure to forget. Lackawanna Casualty, Wawanesa Mutual, West Wawanosh Mutual, Lanark Mutual and Mutual of...
Aug 12 2011 // While fee recovery by fire departments is nothing new, an increasing number of local municipalities have begun to charge for first responder, primarily fire department, services.Though the types of fees and rates vary...
Aug 9 2011 // Hosket & Ulen Insurance Agency of Dublin became Keystone Insurers Group’s 27th franchise partner in Ohio. The announcement was made jointly by Bill Hosket, the agency’s co-owner, and Keystone Ohio Vice...
Aug 9 2011 // Mittelstadt Agency of Nebraska and Nelson Insurance of Ohio joined the Iroquois Group. The agency was founded in June of 2000 and recently went independent after 11 years of being affiliated with Farmers Insurance...
Aug 4 2011 // An insurance industry group says a very specific Chrysler minivan is Ohio’s most stolen vehicle for the third year in a row.Once again, the 2000 model Dodge Caravan tops the annual report from the Ohio Insurance...
Aug 1 2011 // Five storms in Ohio this year have caused an estimated 125,000 claims and losses of $537 million or more, and more than half that came when a series of tornadoes struck in May. The claims and damage estimates are expected...