Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Auto, Homeowners Rates among the Lowest in Nation
Jul 30 2002 // Ohio automobile insurance consumers continue to fair well when compared to consumers in other states according to Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington. According to an annual survey and analysis of national automobile...
Ohio Issues C&D Order Against Former Agent
Jul 23 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington has issued a cease and desist order against former Sandusky County agent Deborah L. Frazier after an investigation revealed she had allegedly acted as an insurance agent...
Ohio Brewery Receives Workers’ Comp Award
Jul 15 2002 // Miller Brewing Co.’s Trenton, Ohio brewery was the only Governor’s Excellence in Workers’ Compensation Award winner for self-insuring employers who insure nearly 40 percent of Ohio’s workforce. The...
Ohio Department to Join National Task Force
Jul 12 2002 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has accepted an invitation to join NeighborWorks® National Insurance Task Force (NITF) as part of its mission to expand its role to increase accessibility and affordability of insurance...
Ohio Becomes First State to Launch Cooperative Resolution
Jul 10 2002 // Ohio has introduced ECHO (Expedited Complaint Handling Option), becoming the first state to launch a web-based application that allows the Department of Insurance to more effectively share consumer complaint information...
State National Specialty Authorized in Ohio
Jun 20 2002 // State National Specialty Insurance Company, a unit of Fort Worth, Texas-based State National Companies, received a certificate from the state of Ohio granting the company authority to write multiple insurance lines in that...
Dallas-Based Company Awarded Contract with Ohio’s BWC
Jun 18 2002 // ACS, a Dallas-based provider of business process and information technology outsourcing solutions, has been awarded a one-year contract with the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) to provide pharmacy benefit...
Ohio Department weighs In on Premium Payment Lawsuit
Jun 14 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington has filed a court action seeking to persuade a New Mexico court not to impose another state’s insurance laws and increased costs on Ohio insurance consumers. Covington filed the...
Ohio Director Weighs In on Premium Payment Lawsuit
Jun 13 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington filed a court action seeking to persuade a New Mexico court not to impose another state’s insurance laws and increased costs on Ohio insurance consumers. According to the Ohio...
Ohio Casualty Files Registration Statement on Outstanding Convertible Notes
May 22 2002 // Ohio Casualty Corporation filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Registration Statement on Form S-3 registering its currently outstanding 5.00 percent Convertible Notes and the common shares issuable upon...
Ohio’s Westfield Group Expands MarshBerry Partnership
May 16 2002 // Westfield Group of Westfield, Ohio, is offering its agencies a subsidized subscription to MarshBerry.com in order to help improve performance, measure agency value and develop an all-around growth plan. Westfield Group,...
OII Praises Ohio Highway Patrol for Auto Recovery Efforts
May 9 2002 // In a ceremony held recently in Columbus, the Ohio Insurance Institute (OII) recognized the state’s highway patrol for the recovery of over 37,600 vehicles worth more than $177 million since the inception of the law...
Ohio One of 6 States to Sign Innovative Cooperative Agreement for Market Conduct Exams
May 6 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington has signed a cooperative agreement that will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of market conduct examinations of insurance companies doing business in Ohio....
The Alpha Group and Britton-Gallagher Sign On as Suppliers to NEOSA
May 3 2002 // NEOSA, a member of Ohio’s IT Alliance and a representative of the more than 2,000 Information Technology companies, announced a partnership with the Ohio-based firms, The Alpha Group Agency and Britton-Gallagher...
Ohio Insurance Director Asks State Supreme Court to Uphold Homeowners Standard
Apr 23 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington weighed in on a case before the Ohio Supreme Court, asking it to uphold the state insurance department’s longstanding policy that homeowners policies do not cover automobile...
Ohio Casualty Elects New Directors
Apr 22 2002 // Property and casualty insurance holding company, Ohio Casualty Corporation, headquartered in Fairfield, Ohio, elected Philip G. Heasley, Ralph S. Michael III and Jan H. Suwinski to the corporation’s board of...
LMI and Highlands Sued by Ohio Insurance Director
Apr 19 2002 // Ohio Director of Insurance Lee Covington, acting in his capacity as liquidator of property and casualty insurer LMI Insurance Company, has sued LMI’s parent, Highlands Insurance Group and other affiliated companies...
Ohio Gov. Signs Agent Licensing Bill
Apr 17 2002 // The Ohio Department of Insurance announced that Governor Bob Taft signed Senate Bill 129, legislation crafted to streamline the insurance agent licensing process in Ohio. Sponsored by Senator Scott Nein (R-Middletown), ODI...
Celaris Group Acquires Value Added Benefits
Apr 10 2002 // Celaris Group Inc. a full-service insurance agency headquartered in Bowling Green, Ohio, has acquired Value Added Benefits Ltd., a wholesale insurance business headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Celaris, is a wholly-owned...
Assurex Global Adds Latin American, African, North American Partners
Apr 8 2002 // Ohio-based Assurex Global, a privately held risk management and commercial insurance brokerage group, has expanded its worldwide presence with the addition of international broker partners in Lima, Peru and Tunis, Tunisia,...
