All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jul 26 2011 // A handful of major storms that damaged parts of Ohio this year have caused more than a half-billion dollars in insured losses, and that number is expected to increase.Five storms have led to an estimated 125,000 claims and...
Jul 20 2011 // In an overview of his first six months on the job, Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Administrator/CEO Stephen Buehrer said he has identified three primary areas improvement: reducing medical and indemnity costs...
Jul 18 2011 // Barbara Zito has been named senior vice president of Marketing at Founders Insurance Co. in Des Plaines, Ill. Founders is a member company of the Utica National Insurance Group of New Hartford, N.Y.Zito is responsible for...
Jul 14 2011 // Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA), a national alliance of independent insurance agents, announced it added 40 new member agencies in June, seven of which are located in the Midwest.Of SIAA total new members, 28...
Jul 14 2011 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has appointed two veteran workers’ compensation and insurance industry professionals to leadership roles. Dale Hamilton will serve as chief operating officer and Kevin...
Jul 13 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has revoked the insurance licenses of several resident and non-resident agents. The following revocations became effective on June 27: The resident...
Jul 8 2011 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) has reduced its rates for marine industry employers by 20 percent, effective July 1, the BWC said. The change lowers the rates for employers conducting business on Ohio...
Jul 6 2011 // The only earthen levee along the troublesome Blanchard River in the northwest Ohio city of Findlay is no longer recognized as viable for flood control.The Courier newspaper reports the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Jul 5 2011 // Élise Spriggs, a 20-year veteran of Ohio’s legislative and legal communities, has joined Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Companies as director of Government Relations. Since January 2011, Spriggs had...
Jul 4 2011 // A pair of Illinois brothers who traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to practice psychiatry were sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud after an investigation showed they were conducting inadequate examinations of injured...
Jul 1 2011 // In the first ruling by a federal appeals court on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, a panel in Cincinnati affirmed that Congress can require Americans to have minimum insurance coverage.A conservative...
Jul 1 2011 // Ohio is reporting the nation’s largest decline in new applications for unemployment benefits, while the government says the number of claims nationwide is mostly unchanged.That’s seen as evidence that the...
Jun 30 2011 // American Hardware Mutual Insurance Co. has been renamed Motorists Commercial Mutual Insurance Co. after receiving approval from policyholders, the Ohio secretary of state and the Ohio Department of Insurance.Changing the...
Jun 28 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that former insurance agent Alexis Prokup, of Perrysburg, Ohio, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to theft.Department of Insurance...