Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dole Recalls Salad Mix in Latest E. Coli Scare
Sep 20 2007 // A package of Dole salad mix that tested positive for E. coli has triggered a recall in at least nine states, prompting new produce fears almost exactly a year after a nationwide spinach scare. The tainted bag of...
Ohio Casualty Honored by PIA with National Company Award of Excellence
Sep 19 2007 // Ohio Casualty Group, now operating as Ohio Casualty, a regional company within Liberty Mutual Agency Markets, was honored recently with the 2007 National Company Award of Excellence by the National Association of...
Former Ohio Workers’ Comp Executive Charged with Ethics Violation
Sep 6 2007 // Ohio investigators have charged the former chief investment officer for the state insurance fund for injured workers with failing to report gifts from a company doing business with the fund. The complaint filed with the...
State Auto Mutual Elects Jacobs Assistant Vice President
Sep 5 2007 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. recently announced that Lewis Center resident Rubesh Jacobs has been been elected assistant vice president by the board of directors. Jacobs recently joined State...
Ohio Casualty officially joins the Liberty Mutual agency family
Sep 3 2007 // With $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets becomes the largest regional independent agency force Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now the largest regional provider of property and...
What’s ahead for Liberty Mutual, Ohio Casualty independent agents?
Sep 3 2007 // For agents, the Liberty Mutual Agency Markets acquisition of Ohio Casualty promises to be a matter of addition, not subtraction. For the most part, Ohio Casualty’s 3,400 agents will join with and not replace or be...
Severe Midwestern weather may have some evoking ‘higher power’
Sep 3 2007 // Years ago in the late ’60s after Chicago had received in excess of 27 inches of snow, bringing the city to a quiet halt, then NBC-TV Tonight talk show host Johnny Carson in his opening monologue said, “I...
It Figures
Sep 3 2007 // 1,000 More than 1,000 people were flooded out of their homes after heavy rain that swamped communities across the American Midwest sent Ohio’s rivers spilling over their banks, the governor said. The storm’s...
Ohio sues Marsh, AIG, Ace, Chubb, Hartford for anti-trust violations
Sep 3 2007 // Following a three year long investigation by his office and the Ohio Department of Insurance, Attorney General Marc Dann has filed suit against the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh & McLennan and four of...
Ohio court ruling could impact auto damage claims
Sep 3 2007 // An Ohio couple whose vehicle was wrecked are entitled to more than just the money it will cost to repair it, according to a state appeals court ruling that found the couple also should be compensated because the accident...
Ohio Casualty officially joins the Liberty Mutual agency family
Sep 3 2007 // With $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets now largest regional independent agency. Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now the largest regional provider of property and casualty insurance...
News Currents
Sep 3 2007 // Ohio sues Marsh, AIG, Ace, Chubb, Hartford for anti-trust violations Following a three year long investigation by his office and the Ohio Department of Insurance, Attorney General Marc Dann has filed suit against the...
Editor’s Note: Severe Midwestern weather may have some evoking ‘higher power’
Sep 3 2007 // Years ago in the late ’60s after Chicago had received in excess of 27 inches of snow, bringing the city to a quiet halt, then NBC-TV Tonight talk show host Johnny Carson in his opening monologue said, “I...
Figures
Sep 3 2007 // 1,000 More than 1,000 people were flooded out of their homes after heavy rain that swamped communities across the American Midwest sent Ohio’s rivers spilling over their banks, the governor said. The storm’s...
News Currents
Sep 3 2007 // Ohio Casualty officially joins the Liberty Mutual agency family With $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets now largest regional independent agency Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now...
Ohio Proctor & Gamble Sues Kraft Foods for Patent Infringement
Aug 29 2007 // Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co. has sued Kraft Foods Inc., charging that a new plastic container for Kraft’s Maxwell House coffee brand infringes on patents for P&G’s Folgers coffee...
Ohio Sues Marsh, AIG, Ace, Chubb, Hartford for Anti-trust Violations
Aug 28 2007 // Following a three year long investigation by his office and the Ohio Department of Insurance, Attorney General Marc Dann has filed suit against the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh & McLennan, and four of...
Ohio Court Ruling Could Impact Auto Damage Claims
Aug 27 2007 // An Ohio couple whose vehicle was wrecked are entitled to more than just the money it will cost to repair it, according to a state appeals court ruling that found the couple also should be compensated because the accident...
Liberty Mutual Realigns Agency Companies to Welcome Ohio Casualty
Aug 27 2007 // Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group finalized its acquisition of Ohio Casualty Corp. on Friday, Aug. 24, 2007 and immediately announced a realignment of its $5.9 billion net premium regional agency company organization to...
Storms Force 1,000 From Ohio Homes; Damage Continues in Midwest
Aug 24 2007 // More than 1,000 people were flooded out of their homes after heavy rain that swamped communities across the American Midwest sent Ohio’s rivers spilling over their banks, the governor said. The storm’s death...
