All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 2 2009 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has sued Columbus Fire Repair (Nation’s Construction LLC) alleging the company targeted and scammed Ohioans whose homes were recently damaged by fire. The lawsuit filed in the...
Nov 25 2009 // A Republican state senator in Ohio wants to prohibit the nation’s largest state-run injured worker insurance program from providing benefits to illegal immigrants, a change he said should lower business...
Nov 20 2009 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has filed a lawsuit against national securities and credit ratings agencies Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch over what the AG’s office called “false...
Nov 16 2009 // Insurance broker Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. will pay $400 million as part of a class action settlement filed five years ago by state pension plan administrators in New Jersey and Ohio in connection with a probe of the...
Nov 6 2009 // The 2009 Ohio Diversity and Leadership Conference announced recently that Gale King, executive vice president and chief human resources officer for Nationwide Insurance; and Kathy Mabe, president and chief operating...
Nov 3 2009 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) has lowered the discount available to employers who participate in a group-rating system. Beginning July 1, 2010, the maximum available discount for businesses in a...
Nov 3 2009 // Alleging collusion among members of the board of the Columbus Bar Association, two motions have been filed with the Ohio Supreme Court asking that it reconsider its decision in case number 2005-0422, in which two...
Oct 30 2009 // The state watchdog says the Ohio insurance fund for injured workers is out $20 million because of problems with its prescription drug program. Inspector General Tom Charles says the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation...
Oct 29 2009 // A spokeswoman for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland said the governor would not want Ohio to opt out of any new government-run health insurance program.A health care proposal offered by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would...
Oct 21 2009 // The county that includes Akron has become the latest area in Ohio to ban text messaging while driving.The measure approved by the Summit County Council carries $150 fines for violators caught reading or sending text...
Oct 19 2009 // After a protracted legal battle, Ohio has been awarded a $14.7 million judgment against four defendants stemming from a hazardous waste treatment facility that was not shut down properly.Attorney General Richard...
Oct 19 2009 // Holding Wall Street Accountable “This is part of a concerted and committed effort in the Ohio attorney general’s office to hold Wall Street accountable. … The amount of shareholder value affected...
Oct 19 2009 // Hiring Hit“The more qualified the individual was the less interest they expressed in the Hartford top job.” —Bob MacDonald, former CEO of Allianz Life of North America and self-described financial services...
Oct 15 2009 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has handed down a civil penalty of $6,387,990 against American Family Prepaid Legal Corporation and Heritage Marketing and Insurance Services Inc. and their co-owners, Jeffrey and Stanley Norman,...
Oct 13 2009 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents has named Ohio Mutual Insurance Group as the recipient of its 2009 Company Award of Excellence.The annual PIA National Company Award of Excellence honors companies...
Oct 5 2009 // Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be robbers, forgers, possibly even rapists.They got their producer licenses in states that did...
Oct 5 2009 // Beginning Jan. 1, 2010, workers’ compensation premiums for Ohio’s Public Employer Taxing Districts (PECs) will drop by an average of 17 percent. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Board of...
Oct 5 2009 // Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be robbers, forgers, possibly even rapists.They got their producer licenses in states that did...
Sep 29 2009 // Investors in a class-action lawsuit against Bank of America Corp. over the Merrill Lynch & Co. takeover are trying to collect “billions of dollars” in damages, Ohio’s attorney general said...
Sep 23 2009 // A former university student says in a lawsuit she was raped by a bus driver hired as part of Antioch University’s overseas study program.The student alleges in a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court that she...