All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 19 2010 // Ohio’s oldest independent and largest employee-owned risk management and insurance brokerage firm has opened an office in Akron. Oswald Companies serves more than 50 clients collectively in Akron and...
Aug 16 2010 // Ohio Highway Patrol troopers say they’re seeing an “alarming” increase in cases of identity theft. The patrol says it has investigated 248 cases so far this year, compared to 114 by this time in 2009. The...
Aug 9 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group’s newest Ohio partner, Miller & Miller Inc., of Dover, has become the group’s 23rd agency in Ohio and one of 212 independent agencies in six states that comprise and own...
Aug 6 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that Michael Cox of Powell, Ohio, has been indicted by a Franklin County grand jury on ten counts of felony theft.A department investigation revealed Cox had...
Aug 2 2010 // Claim denials were the number one complaint of Ohio insurance consumers in 2009, according to statistics released by the Ohio Department of Insurance.Nearly one-third of the 5,453 consumer complaints received by the...
Jul 29 2010 // Louisville, Ky.-based insurance broker Neace Lukens has opened a new office in Dayton, Ohio. The new office consists of two full-time employees. Michael Ward joins as vice president of its construction insurance services...
Jul 20 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that the average rates for the state’s top 10 private passenger auto insurers increased 2.8 percent in 2009. The average rates for the state’s top...
Jul 19 2010 // American International Group Inc. agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running securities fraud lawsuit led by three Ohio public pension funds, in one of the largest class action settlements in U.S. history.AIG,...
Jul 16 2010 // The insurance industry says a storm and tornadoes that ripped through northwest Ohio in early June caused at least $22.1 million in damage for homeowners and business owners.The totals by the Ohio Insurance Institute...
Jul 16 2010 // A federal appeals court has refused to allow a new trial for an investment adviser serving 12 years in the loss of $216 million at the state agency for injured workers.The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Jul 14 2010 // Willis, the global insurance broker, has named Frank E. McKain managing partner of its Columbus, Ohio office, effective July 14.He succeeds Kim Sparks, who as interim managing partner successfully navigated the operation...
Jul 5 2010 // Ohioans affected by the tornados that ripped through Wood, Fulton, and Ottawa Counties in early June will be getting some relief when it comes to deadlines for paying their insurance premiums, Ohio Department of Insurance...
Jul 5 2010 // Arthur J. Gallagher, Joseph James & AssociatesIllinois-based insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has acquired Joseph James & Associates of Dublin, Ohio. Terms of...
Jul 5 2010 // Donald D. Larson has been named president and chief operating officer of the Great American Property and Casualty Group and Great American Insurance Co.Larson is the 16th president in Great American’s history. He...
Jun 30 2010 // More than 45,000 Ohioans will receive a refund or credit from Community Insurance Co., also known as Anthem, according to Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson.The Ohio Department of Insurance alleges that Anthem has been...
Jun 25 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that a non profit entity, Medical Mutual of Ohio, has been selected to operate the state’s temporary high risk pool program, created through the federal...
Jun 22 2010 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Board of Directors has voted to modify two tables that impact experience-based rate adjustments for Public Employer Taxing Districts (PEC), effective Jan. 1, 2011.The...
Jun 21 2010 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that wages from a second job may be used to calculate an injured worker’s average and full weekly wages in determining temporary total disability compensation for an injury he...
Jun 16 2010 // A series of storms on May 7 and 8 centered across the top half of the state caused at least $31.4 million in damages, according to preliminary insured loss estimates released by the Ohio Insurance Institute...
Jun 16 2010 // Ohio-based Hylant Group hired industry veteran Scott Dillabaugh as senior vice president and employee benefits sales leader for its Cleveland, Ohio, office. In this role, he will be part of the employee benefits practice,...