All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 25 2010 // The Ohio Department of Insurance is receiving a $1.1 million consumer assistance grant funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.The insurance...
Oct 22 2010 // A nationally-recognized study on the cost of workers’ compensation shows Ohio rates have improved dramatically over the past three years, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation reported.The Oregon Study is...
Oct 18 2010 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has settled an antitrust lawsuit against Marsh & McLennan Cos. for $4.75 million. Public entities throughout the state – including universities, schools, cities and counties...
Oct 13 2010 // The Ohio Insurance Institute is warning residents to beware of colliding with deer, as the state gears up for deer-breeding season and saw a 2.3 precent increasee in deer-vehicle crashes in 2009.According to the Ohio...
Oct 12 2010 // Miller Insurance Inc. of Middletown has become Keystone Insurers Group’s 25th franchise partner in Ohio. The new arrangement was announced jointly by Miller Insurance President Mike Miller and Keystone’s Ohio...
Oct 6 2010 // Progressive Insurance recently announced plans to add hundreds of new jobs in Colorado, Florida, Ohio and Texas by the end of January 2011.The additions include sales, service and claims positions. Progressive said it will...
Sep 29 2010 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has settled an antitrust lawsuit against Marsh & McLennan Cos. for $4.75 million. Public entities throughout the state — including universities, schools, cities and counties...
Sep 28 2010 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has issued an emergency rule to better protect children under age 19 with pre-existing medical conditions by establishing uniform open enrollment periods in Ohio’s individual market...
Sep 27 2010 // Liberty Mutual Agency Markets said that its agents can now use one of two commercial lines service centers to help with a range of services for policyholders.The centers – located in Ohio and Washington — will...
Sep 23 2010 // The Northwest Ohio ASCnet Users Group has been honored with the Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet) 2010 Chapter of the Year Award. ASCnet Chapters Committee chair Dianna George, manager of Corporate Training and...
Sep 16 2010 // Lawyers clashed this week before Ohio’s Supreme Court on whether a university’s insurers should be liable for a 2007 bus crash that killed seven people, including five student baseball players. An attorney for...
Sep 14 2010 // For some Ohioans, the memory of Hurricane Ike is only surpassed by the damage it caused last Sept. 14 as it made its way across the Buckeye State packing winds at speeds equal to a Category 1 hurricane (up to 74...
Sep 14 2010 // After her son was born, Denise Elliott looked forward to going back to work, but she also wanted to spend more time with her baby than just nights and weekends. So Elliott, a real estate manager at Progressive car...
Sep 13 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson has accepted the surrender of the resident insurance agent license of John Elder of Lancaster, Ohio, for alleged violations of Ohio insurance law. The department said an...
Sep 8 2010 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved one initial application and 15 renewals of the Certificates of Authority for companies to self-insure their workers’...
Sep 7 2010 // Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance has announced it will end its title sponsorship of the PGA Tour’s developmental circuit when the contract expires in two years.Instead, Nationwide will stay involved in golf starting...
Sep 3 2010 // Records show the Ohio man who owned a bear that recently mauled its caretaker to death had no workplace injury insurance to cover the man, an apparent violation of state law.Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation...
Aug 31 2010 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation board of directors has voted to maintain the current maximum discount and break even factors (BEF) for group-rated employers for the policy year beginning July 1, 2011.In...
Aug 30 2010 // Palmer Miller Nelson Insurance Agency Inc. (PMN) of Columbus, Ohio, has become Keystone Insurers Group’s 24th franchise partner in Ohio. The new arrangement was announced jointly by PMN President Steven Miller and...
Aug 27 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson has announced that former insurance agent Jamie Smith of Bowling Green, Ohio, has been convicted on one count of felony theft in the Lucas County Court of Common...