Latest Ohio Headlines

All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Ohio State Auto Elects New Officers

Mar 22 2007 // Lester Brue and Chris Johnson have been elected assistant vice presidents by the board of directors of Columbus, 0hio-based State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. Brue, State Auto’s director of acquisition...

Ohio Grange Realigns Personal Lines Division, Adds Staff

Mar 16 2007 // Grange Insurance recently announced that it has realigned its personal lines division by naming two regional personal lines presidents. Barry Hunlock has been named regional personal lines president for Illinois, Michigan,...

Ohio Hosts Insurance Fraud Seminar March 15

Mar 14 2007 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has announced that the 2007 Insurance Fraud Seminar will be conducted Thursday, March 15 at Quest Conference Centers, 8405 Pulsar Place, Columbus, Ohio. Co-hosts are the Ohio Chapter of the...

People

Mar 12 2007 // Three members of the Kansas Insurance Department, Ted Clark, Anti-Fraud director, Larry Bruning, chief actuary, and Neil Woerman, director of Information Technology, have been appointed to leadership positions within the...

Ohio Motorists Insurance Group Names Iowa Executive to Senior Post

Mar 8 2007 // Susan E. Haack, president of Iowa Mutual Insurance Co. in DeWitt, Iowa, has been chosen to succeed Thomas C. Ogg, as secretary of the companies of The Motorists Insurance Group headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Ogg...

Ohio Legislators Challenge Governor’s Veto on Limits for Fraud Damages

Mar 2 2007 // Republican lawmakers had no legal authority to ask the Ohio Supreme Court to throw out a veto Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland carried out on his first day in office, the state’s top lawyer said this week. Attorney...

Ohio Attorney General Asks Judge to Order Marsh to Submit Documents

Mar 1 2007 // Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann has asked a judge to order New-York based Marsh and McLennan to turn over documents Dann says the state is owed as part of an antitrust investigation. Dann says the company has impeded the...

Ohio Best Hoovier McTeague Merges with SeibertKeck

Mar 1 2007 // SeibertKeck, a northeast Ohio independent insurance agency has announced its recent merger with Best Hoovler McTeague Insurance Services (BHM), an independent property and casualty insurance agency headquartered in...

Safer Schools Seminar Coming to Tenn. on March 7

Feb 28 2007 // Indiana Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, will host its second of four free, day-long Safer Schools Seminars on March 7 at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. School violence and sexual...

Ohio Ward Group Conducts Study of Insurance Company Benefits

Feb 27 2007 // Cincinnati-based Ward Group, a provider of benchmarking and best practices consulting services, is conducting an in-depth study of employee benefits at insurance companies. The study will provide extensive information...

Hylant Group Adds Executive, Administrative Services

Feb 27 2007 // Toledo, Ohio-based Hylant Group, a full-service business insurance agency, has hired James Rowan to serve as the regional representative for the Ohio School Plan (OSP) Southwest Ohio territory for Hylant Administrative...

Ohio auto and homeowners rates decrease in 2006

Feb 26 2007 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently announced that the average rates for the state’s top 10 auto and homeowners insurers — which represent 72 percent of both markets — decreased 1.2 percent and 0.8...

Ohio auto and homeowners rates decrease in 2006

Feb 25 2007 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently an-nounced that the average rates for the state’s top 10 auto and homeowners insurers — which represent 72 percent of both markets — decreased 1.2 percent and 0.8...

Ohio KeyCorp Settles Leased Cars Case for $279 Million

Feb 23 2007 // Cleveland, Ohio-based KeyCorp Bank will receive $279 million from a Swiss insurance company to settle a six-year-old lawsuit over losses it claimed in its car leasing business. The settlement, disclosed this week in a...

Ohio Schedules 2007 Insurance Fraud Seminar

Feb 20 2007 // The 2007 Ohio Insurance Fraud Seminar will be conducted Thursday, March 15 at Quest Conference Centers, located at 8405 Pulsar Place in Columbus. The hosts are the Ohio Department of Insurance, the Ohio Chapter of the...

Ohio Auto and Homeowners’ Rates Decrease in 2006

Feb 15 2007 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently announced that the average rates for the state’s top 10 auto and homeowners insurers – which represent 72 percent of both markets – decreased 1.2 percent and 0.8...

People and Places

Feb 12 2007 // Chicago-based The Park Group, a wholesale insurance brokerage has announced the promotion of Peter Upjohn to the position of manager of the newly established Professional Liability Brokerage Department. Upjohn is...

New Markets

Feb 12 2007 // Trucking Nuts & Bolts: AIX Group, Inc., a specialty insurance holding company, has formed a program to provide automobile physical damage coverage to commercial trucking operations. This program will be targeting...

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