Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
CIGNA HealthCare Names S.E. Region V.P.
Jun 12 2006 // Bloomfield, Conn.-based CIGNA HealthCare has appointed Michael Muchnicki as regional vice president for the Southeast region. Muchnicki will be based in CIGNA’s offices in Fort Lauderdale and Atlanta. Muchnicki will...
Hylant Group Adds New Client Executive in Financial Services
Jun 12 2006 // Ohio-based Hylant Group has hired Nathan Cherry as client executive in the company’s Financial Services area. Cherry will join the investment team of Paul Abendroth and John Ostrosky to enhance the wealth management...
Former Ohio Worker’s Comp Fund Official Expected to Enter Guilty Plea
Jun 8 2006 // Prosecutors say Terrence Gasper, the former chief financial officer at Ohio’s $15 billion insurance fund for injured workers, exchanged investment opportunities for money, his son’s college tuition and stays at...
Hylant Partners with ACE Medical, Offers Liability Coverage in Ohio, Mich.
Jun 7 2006 // Hylant Group and ACE Medical Risk jointly announced today an agreement for Hylant Group to be the distributor of comprehensive physician medical liability coverage in both Ohio and Michigan. The healthcare professional...
People and Places
Jun 5 2006 // Zurich announced that Oliver Ade has been named regional executive for the company’s North Central Region. Ade will be responsible for all business operations within the region, including profit-and-loss objectives,...
People
Jun 5 2006 // Zurich announced that Oliver Ade has been named regional executive for the company’s North Central Region. Ade will be responsible for all business operations within the region, including profit-and-loss objectives,...
Ohio State Law Backs Health Insurance Groups’ Silence on Probe, Settlement
May 31 2006 // Details about allegations that two of Ohio’s largest health insurers paid independent agents to steer government entities to their plans cannot legally be released even though the companies have paid settlements to...
Ohio-based International Excess Acquires WSIB Motorsports Insurance
May 31 2006 // Cleveland, Ohio-based International Excess Companies has announced the acquisition of WSIB Motorsports Insurance of Indianapolis, Ind., effective March 1, 2006. With offices in Indianapolis, as well as in the states of...
Ohio Teens Convicted in Murder Plot to Collect Insurance Money
May 25 2006 // A Toledo, Ohio girl and her boyfriend, secretly living in her family’s house, were convicted of a plot to kill the girl’s mother in what the she said was an effort to collect the insurance money and inherit the...
ACORD Presents Ohio-based Westfield Insurance with Leadership Award
May 25 2006 // Ohio-based Westfield Insurance has been awarded the Industry Leadership for Improved Commercial Lines Download award from ACORD. This award recognizes insurance companies who offer extensive commercial download based on...
Ohio-based National Interstate Announces Dividend, New Director
May 24 2006 // Ohio-based National Interstate Corp. recently announced that its Board of Directors approved a $0.04 per share dividend at its May 19, 2006 meeting. The cash dividend will be payable on June 16, 2006 to shareholders of...
Auto theft declines for second straight year
May 22 2006 // Des Plaines, Ill.-based National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that preliminary FBI data shows a 2.1 percent decrease in motor vehicle thefts during January to June 2005 when compared with the same period in 2004....
NAMIC believes such fees are a form of double taxation applied only to those responsible drivers carrying auto insurance
May 22 2006 // Ominous Trend: Growth of municipal accident response fees Across the country and in most Midwestern states, insurance companies are facing the growing phenomenon of cash-strapped municipalities billing insurers for police...
Hylant Group Adds Jason Chapman as State Sales Manager
May 19 2006 // Toledo, Ohio-based the Hylant Group recently announced the addition of Jason Chapman as state sales manager for Hylant Administrative Services. Chapman began employment with Hylant Administrative Services in May of 2006 as...
Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Comp Looking to Sell Investments Worth $393 Million
May 18 2006 // Ohio’s embattled insurance program for on-the-job injuries is looking for a banker to sell investments worth about $393 million so it can put the money in less risky ventures. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’...
Insurance Department Deputy Director Honored by Ohio University
May 10 2006 // Ohio Department of Insurance Deputy Director Holly Saelens recently was recognized at the Ohio University (OU) State Government Alumni Luncheon at The Athletic Club of Columbus for her outstanding achievements in public...
Speed to Market Legislation Headed to Ohio Governor’s Desk
May 10 2006 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin announced that legislation that will more quickly provide consumers with access to new life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability income insurance, and...
Commercial lines insurers’ capital, M&A activity silent in first quarter
May 8 2006 // Stock Prices: Shares of commercial lines insurers were down 2 percent in the first quarter of 2006, with the exception of Ohio Casualty Corporation, whose stock traded up 12 percent. In February, Ohio Casualty announced...
Business Moves
May 8 2006 // CBIZ, Burnham, Colman, Kaelin, & Walker CBIZ Inc. announced it has acquired Burnham, Colman, Kaelin & Walker of St. Joseph, Mo., effective April 1, 2006. Originally founded in 1899 and with offices in St. Joseph...
Business Moves
May 8 2006 // Barlocker Insurance Services, The Leavitt Group Barlocker Insurance Services will become part of the Leavitt Group in early June. A definitive letter of intent was signed on April 6, followed by inter-company...
