Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio to Cut Private Employer Workers’ Comp Rates by 6%
Mar 4 2025 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation board of directors announced a 6% rate cut for private employees effective July 1, 2025. The reduction follows a 7% rate cut for private employers last year. Ohio’s...
Norfolk Southern Wins Dismissal of Bondholder Lawsuit Over Ohio Train Drailment
Feb 27 2025 // A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Norfolk Southern NSC.N of causing hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for bondholders by concealing safety risks prior to the February 2023 derailment in East...
Ohio Ex-Police Officer Sentenced for Starting 26 Arson Fires in Wayne National Forest
Feb 21 2025 // A former Ohio fire department administrator and police officer was sentenced in federal court here to 18 months in prison for starting dozens of arson fires in Wayne National Forest. James A. Bartels, 52, of Rio Grande,...
Former Ohio Insurance Agent Sentenced to Probation for $1.4M Theft
Feb 19 2025 // A former Ohio insurance agent was sentenced this month to five years of probation for thefts exceeding $1.4 million. Rhonda Chandler, of the Columbus area, stole and misappropriated funds, including premiums for pre-need...
Lawsuit Blames Deaths on Ohio Train Derailment
Feb 5 2025 // A lawsuit alleging for the first time that people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment was announced on Monday’s second anniversary of the toxic crash near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border...
King Risk Partners Acquires Ohio’s Barker, Beck, Collins & Kronauge Agency
Feb 4 2025 // King Risk Partners announced the acquisition of Barker, Beck, Collins & Kronauge Agency (BBC&K), an independent insurance firm in Dayton, Ohio. BBC&K was founded in founded in 1923. Over the decades, the agency...
Norfolk Southern Says Insurance to Cover At Least $750M of Ohio Derailment Costs
Jan 31 2025 // Norfolk Southern’s solid fourth quarter — combined with the optimism the railroad is hearing from their customers and support they’re getting from Washington D.C. — has the CEO feeling optimistic about...
Ohio Residents Push Back Against $850K Bond to Appeal Derailment Settlement
Jan 27 2025 // Residents challenging Norfolk Southern’s $600 million settlement for the disastrous East Palestinetrain crash have asked a court to reject a judge’s order requiring them to put up an $850,000 bond to continue...
Ohio Pastor Found Guilty for Violating City Fire Code by Sheltering Homeless
Jan 23 2025 // A judge in northwestern Ohio found a pastor guilty on criminal charges Tuesday for failing to comply with the city fire code after he opened his church to let homeless people and others stay inside overnight to escape the...
Ohio Bill Seeks to Prohibit Mandating Firearm Liability Insurance
Dec 13 2024 // A bill making its way through the Ohio General Assembly would prohibit requiring firearm liability insurance. Senate Bill 58 passed the House by a 61-27 vote and now heads to the Ohio Senate, where legislators in the...
Public Nuisance Claims Denied by Ohio Supreme Court in Opioid Case
Dec 13 2024 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the state’s product liability law prohibits counties from bringing public nuisance claims against national pharmaceutical chains as they did as...
Ohio Manufacturer Faces $182K Fine for Workers’ Amputations
Dec 9 2024 // U.S. Department of Labor inspectors found a Cleveland, Ohio bakeware manufacturer failed to prevent two workers from suffering injuries that resulted in amputations, incidents that could have been avoided with proper...
Ohio Manufacturer Faces $255K Fine After Worker Suffers Partial Amputation
Dec 3 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor has cited a Portsmouth, Ohio hardwood floor manufacturer with a long history of federal safety violations after the company reported a 23-year-old worker suffered a partial arm amputation while...
Ohio Man Sentenced in $229K Insurance Fraud Scheme
Nov 26 2024 // An Ohio man was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay restitution for filing 24 fraudulent claims with multiple insurance companies, totaling more than $229,000, the Ohio Department of Insurance...
Ohio Outpatient Facility to Pay $16K Settlement After Patient Stabbed Nurse
Nov 25 2024 // An Ohio outpatient mental health treatment facility has agreed to pay a $16,000 settlement and take numerous steps to improve workplace safety after a patient attacked a nurse practitioner violently in April...
Risk Strategies Acquires Ohio’s Cornerstone
Nov 21 2024 // Risk Strategies announced it has acquired the assets of Ohio-based employee benefits specialty organization Cornerstone Broker Insurance Services Agency, Inc., an Ohio-based national provider of employee benefits...
Fire Closes Ohio River Bridge Near Cincinnati and Damges its Steel Structure
Nov 4 2024 // CINCINNATI (AP) — A massive fire underneath a bridge spanning the Ohio River closed a heavily traveled route between Cincinnati and northern Kentucky on Friday and damaged part of the steel structure. No injuries were...
Data Centers Will Have to Make Minimum Power Payments in Ohio
Nov 1 2024 // Big data centers in Ohio will have to pay a minimum of 85% of the energy they need to cover the costs of grid improvements under a settlement submitted Wednesday by one of the state’s largest utilities. The pact was...
Family of Black Man Killed by Ohio Police Agree to Settlement
Oct 18 2024 // AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A family is settling a wrongful death lawsuit against Ohio police who fired 94 bullets at a Black man during a chase two years ago. Jayland Walker’s family and the city of Akron reached an...
Five Dead, One Critically Injured in Tragic Ohio Car Crash
Oct 8 2024 // GOSHEN, Ohio (AP) — An early morning crash involving two cars on an Ohio road killed five people and critically injured another person, authorities said. The Ohio State Highway Patrol said a car heading northeast on...
