Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Casualty Reorganizes
Jun 12 2001 // Ohio Casualty Corp., the parent company of a collection of auto, home and business insurers, is planning to offer early retirement to more than 300 staff–approximately 10 percent of its workforce. Ohio Casualty is...
Ohio Courses Available for Agents
May 21 2001 // The State of Ohio has given the go-ahead for a set of MindLeaders interactive online training courses which will allow insurance agents in the state to earn continuing education credits. MindLeaders, with more than 600...
Ohio Casualty Ratings Lowered
May 9 2001 // Standard & Poor’s (S&P) lowered its “BBB+” counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on American Fire & Casualty Co., Ohio Casualty Insurance Co., Ohio Security Insurance Co., and...
Ohio to Invest Millions in Railroad Improvement
May 3 2001 // The Ohio Rail Development Commission announced that the state of Ohio plans to invest approximately $350 million over the next 10 years in railroad safety. According to The Ohio Insurance Forum, the invested money will...
Ohio Casualty Names New Chairman
Apr 19 2001 // Ohio Casualty Corporation, the holding company of the Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, appointed Stanley Pontius to replace its retiring chairman, William Woodall. Pontius, a director of Ohio Casualty for over six years,...
Former Ohio Agent Sentenced to Two Years
Apr 9 2001 // The U.S. Federal Northern District Court has sentenced former insurance agent Richard S. Zureich of Cleveland to two years in prison and ordered him to pay $560,000 in restitution and approximately $250,000 to settle all...
Ohio DOI to Revoke Agent’s License
Apr 3 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington has issued a notice of opportunity for hearing to Harry D. Houser Sr., of Beverly, Ohio, informing Houser of his intent to revoke his license as an insurance agent. The...
Boyer Joins Ohio DOI as Communications Director
Apr 2 2001 // Todd Boyer has joined the Ohio Department of Insurance as Director of Communications. Boyer comes to the department from Attorney General Betty Montgomery’s office, where he most recently served as communications...
Acceleration National Placed into Liquidation by Ohio DOI
Mar 2 2001 // Ohio Director of Insurance Lee Covington today announced that the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas granted an order on Feb. 28 placing Acceleration National Insurance Company, an Ohio domiciled property and casualty...
Insurer Chooses Agents Over Web
Feb 23 2001 // Ohio Casualty Corp. of Fairfield, Ohio, is abandoning its web-based Avomark brand direct personal lines auto marketing in favor of an independent agent sales force. Dan R. Carmichael, Ohio Casualty’s new president...
New Westfield Bank Opens For Business
Feb 21 2001 // Westfield Group, one of Northeast Ohio’s largest insurance firms, has opened Westfield Bank, headquartered in Westfield Center, Ohio. The bank offers traditional and e-banking services via its network of independent...
Ohio DOI Unveils Top 10 Fraud Violations of 2000
Feb 15 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington released a list of the Top 10 Insurance Fraud violations for 2000. During 2000, the Department opened 144 fraud cases. At the Insurance Department, the Enforcement...
CREDIT GENERAL TO LIQUIDATE
Feb 12 2001 // The Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio granted a request for liquidation order filed by the Ohio Department of Insurance with respect to Credit General Insurance Co., which was placed in rehabilitation on Nov....
Ohio DOI Creates New, More Decorative Agent License Certificate
Feb 7 2001 // Ohio Insurance Department Director Lee Covington announced that the department has designed a new license certificate for Ohio insurance agents and other licensees that can be used for display purposes. The new...
Ohio DOI Places Credit General Into Liquidation
Jan 8 2001 // The Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio has granted an order placing property casualty insurer Credit General Insurance Co. into liquidation. The Ohio Department of Insurance placed the company in rehabilitation...
Former Ohio Agent Indicted
Jan 4 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington announced that the Department’s Enforcement Division recently completed an investigation that led to the indictment of former insurance agent Larry C. Braun,...
Ohio DOI Places Proliance Into Rehabilitation
Jan 3 2001 // An Ohio court has ordered Proliance Insurance Co. be placed into rehabilitation based on a request by the Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington. Proliance is a Columbus, Ohio, domiciled property and casualty...
Claim-Coding Mistakes Found, Confirmed by Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation
Dec 14 2000 // As many as 23,000 workers’ comp claims filed in 1999 were miscoded or lacked a code that helps determine the premiums paid by businesses. So found a study released Monday by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’...
Ohio DOI Places Acceleration National Into Rehabilitation
Dec 1 2000 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington filed a complaint Wednesday in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas requesting that Acceleration National Insurance Company, an Ohio domiciled property and casualty...
Ohio Workers’ Comp System Looking Better, WCRI Study Says
Nov 28 2000 // Significant changes in Ohio have enhanced the performance of the state’s workers’ comp system, particularly in speeding the payments of benefits to injured workers, but there are opportunities for further...
