Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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,...
Assurex Adds Partners in Peru, Tunisia U.S.
Apr 4 2002 // Assurex Global Partners, the private organization of leading brokers and agencies, announced that it has expanded its worldwide presence with the addition of international broker Partners in Lima, Peru and Tunis, Tunisia,...
Ohio Casualty Proposes Private Offering of Convertible Notes
Mar 14 2002 // Ohio Casualty Corporation announced it is seeking to raise, subject to market and other conditions, $125 million through a private offering of convertible notes. The offering by the Fairfield, Ohio company will be made...
Bancinsurance Corp. Sees Improved Fourth Quarter
Mar 8 2002 // Bancinsurance Corporation, a specialty insurance holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio reported an 18.8 percent increase in net income for the three months ended Dec. 31, 2001, with net income rising to $845,473...
Wife of Convicted Former Ohio Agent told She Will Lose License
Mar 4 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington notified Connie Houser, wife of former insurance agent Harry D. Houser Sr. of Beverly, Ohio, that he intends to revoke her license as an insurance agent. According to the...
Ohio Insurance Director Files to Intervene in New Mexico Lawsuit
Feb 25 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington filed a petition to intervene in a New Mexico lawsuit that, according to the Ohio Department of Insurance, could impose another state’s insurance laws and increased costs on Ohio...
Ohio Director, AmTrust Financial Settle Dispute
Feb 15 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington, in his capacity as Liquidator of Credit General Insurance Company, announced a settlement with New York-based AmTrust Financial Group resolving all disputes that were...
Ohio One of First States to Eliminate Paper Filings for Insurers
Feb 14 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington announced that Ohio is among the first states to no longer require insurance companies to make paper financial statement filings to the Department of Insurance. The...
