All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 22 2010 // Internal pressure was mounting for months ahead of the February firings of the staff of an agency charged with protecting the well-being of Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers.Public records obtained by The...
Mar 17 2010 // A state House of Representatives committee will review a council created to protect Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers in the wake of the firing of the council’s three-member staff.House Insurance...
Mar 10 2010 // Internal pressure was mounting for months ahead of the February firings of the staff of an agency charged with protecting the well-being of Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers.Public records obtained by The...
Mar 10 2010 // Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, has introduced its comprehensive online Agent Learning Center for its appointed agencies.Ohio Casualty appointed agents can now register for classroom...
Mar 7 2010 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray says he is encouraged by a recent federal court ruling granting class certification in a securities litigation against American International Group Inc. (AIG). The Feb. 22 ruling in...
Mar 5 2010 // The staff of a board created to monitor legislation affecting Ohio’s massive injured worker insurance fund after a rare coin investment scandal has been fired, plunging its oversight role into chaos.The three fired...
Feb 25 2010 // The owner of a business that compiled medical reports for law firms representing injured workers has been sentenced to four years in prison for workers’ compensation fraud in Ohio, according to the Ohio Bureau of...
Feb 25 2010 // An Ohio man is charged with setting fire to a western Pennsylvania mobile home he used to rent after police say heavy snows kept him from driving away. Thirty-three-year-old Robert Lee Armstrong, of Warren, Ohio, is...
Feb 24 2010 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray announced he is encouraged by a recent federal court ruling granting class certification in the securities litigation against American International Group Inc. (AIG).The ruling in the...
Feb 3 2010 // In its fourth annual Ohio Medical Professional Liability Closed Claim Report the Ohio Insurance Department shows a total of 3,080 medical professional liability claims were closed in 2008. The amount of compensation paid...
Jan 25 2010 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) is expanding a deductible program put in place last year. The large deductible program will offer deductible levels between $25,000 and $200,000 and is intended to give...
Jan 25 2010 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has hired Affordable Language Services to provide translation services, Director Mary Jo Hudson announced. The company will be able to answer questions from consumers in more than 150...
Jan 24 2010 // Steve Crawford has been named president and chief executive officer at Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co., located in Grinnell, Iowa. For the past two years, Crawford has served as the company’s chief operating...
Jan 14 2010 // A committee has partially upheld the state’s decision that a former top aide to fallen Attorney General Marc Dann improperly classified workers at his private construction company when determining his workers’...
Jan 13 2010 // Grange Insurance, based in Columbus, Ohio, named Robert V. James, 55, as president and CEO effective Jan. 18. Retiring president and CEO Phil Urban will serve in an advisory capacity until Feb. 26 to ensure a seamless...
Jan 10 2010 // Global insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh appointed Philip Gawthorpe as Multinational Client Service Practice leader for the Midwest Zone.Gawthorpe, who has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience, will be...
Jan 10 2010 // The Ohio Department of Insurance reports that auto insurance rates in that state declined for the third consecutive year but homeowners rates have risen slightly.The department based its assessments on data released by the...
Jan 7 2010 // WRM America, a New York-based specialty insurance and alternative risk management company, reports that Jeffrey S. Johnson has joined WRM America Indemnity Company (WRMAI) as regional marketing officer for the Midwest...
Jan 7 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson has suspended the business of Chesapeake Life Insurance Company (Chesapeake) in Ohio for failure to file premium rates and forms for open enrollment coverage in...
Dec 30 2009 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that on average Ohioans paid slightly more for homeowners insurance in 2007 than in 2006, according to a report issued by the National Association of Insurance...