Latest Ohio Headlines
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Ohio Manufacturing Facility Cited for Unsafe Conditions; Fined $119K
Apr 1 2021 // A Ohio manufacturer of power distribution products has been cited for 11 serious workplace safety violations and faces $119,000 in penalties, federal workplace safety officials said. In response to a January 2021...
Midwest People Moves: The Horton Group; Ohio Mutual; MJ Insurance; Lockton
Apr 1 2021 // The Horton Group The Horton Group in Chicago has hired Casey Warnecke as chief growth officer. Warnecke will be responsible for maximizing efforts around new business growth and the retention of existing clients,...
Ohio Entertainment Firm to Pay $40K in Discrimination/Retaliation Case
Mar 25 2021 // An entertainment and dining establishment in Avon, Ohio, will pay $40,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle a federal disability discrimination and retaliation charge. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Canada’s Constellation Insurance to Acquire Ohio National for $1 Billion
Mar 24 2021 // Canada’s Constellation Insurance Holdings, Inc. has agreed to acquire Cincinnati-based life and disability insurer Ohio National Mutual Holdings, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Ohio National Financial Services,...
Ohio to Farmers: March 15 Is Insurance Deadline for Spring Crops
Mar 10 2021 // In a media release, Ohio Department of Insurance Director Judith L. French has reminded Ohio farmers that March 15 is the final date to purchase or modify federal crop insurance coverage on 2021 spring-planted...
Los Promoted to Executive VP at Ohio’s National Interstate Insurance
Mar 10 2021 // National Interstate Insurance Co. (National Interstate), based in Richfield, Ohio, has promoted Shawn Los to executive vice president. Los will assume responsibility for National Interstate’s Truck, Passenger...
Ohio Food Production Plant Faces $136.5K in Penalties for Safety Violations
Mar 5 2021 // A Lima, Ohio-based food production facility has been hit with citations and $136,532 in proposed penalties after worker suffers partial arm amputation. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Patriot Enters Ohio with Addition of Strategic Benefits of Cincinnati
Mar 5 2021 // Patriot Growth Insurance Services LLC (Patriot) has added Strategic Benefits of Cincinnati (SBC) to the Patriot platform. SBC is a full-service employee benefits insurance agency based in Loveland, Ohio. Led by Partners...
Hub Acquires Assets of Ohio’s Benefit Strategies Agency
Mar 4 2021 // Chicago-based global insurance brokerage, Hub International Limited (Hub), has acquired the assets of Benefit Strategies Agency LLC and Financial Strategies Agency LLC (collectively, Benefit Strategies Agency),...
Ohio Contractor Cited After 14-Year-Old Badly Injured in Fall from Roof
Mar 3 2021 // An Ohio roofing contractor has been cited by federal workplace safety officials after a 14-year-old boy who was working on the roof of a Berea, Ohio, townhome without required fall protection suffered critical injuries...
Nearly $37M Recovered for Ohio Insurance Consumers in 2020
Mar 2 2021 // Nearly $37 million was saved or recovered for Ohio insurance consumers in 2020, the state insurance department announced. Ohio Department of Insurance services staff resolved insurance coverage and claim disputes, outlined...
Ohio Roofing Contractor Cited for Safety Violations, Fined $117.5K
Mar 1 2021 // An Ohio roofing contractor has been cited for the sixth time since 2012 by federal workplace safety regulators for failing to ensure workers used required fall protection equipment. The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Joseph Schauer Named President, CEO at Ohio Agency, Schauer Group
Feb 25 2021 // Joseph D. Schauer has been named president and chief executive officer at Schauer Group Inc., a Canton, Ohio-based risk management, business insurance and human capital services firm. Schauer represents the fourth...
Kotch Joins Core Specialty Insurance in Ohio as Chief Information Officer
Feb 12 2021 // Core Specialty Insurance Holdings Inc. (Core Specialty), based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has appointed Mary Kotch as chief information officer and member of the company’s executive committee. Kotch has more than 20...
French to Serve as Director of Ohio Insurance Department
Feb 3 2021 // Former Ohio Supreme Court justice Judith L. French has been appointed as the next director of the Ohio Department of Insurance, Interim Director Tynesia Dorsey announced. French’s appointment is effective Feb. 8. In...
Lawsuit Alleges Negligence in Deadly Ohio Medical Helicopter Crash
Jan 28 2021 // A wrongful-death lawsuit has been filed against an air ambulance company over a medical helicopter crash in snowy weather that killed the three central Ohioans on board. The suit alleges Survival Flight and operator Viking...
Ratings of Ohio’s Wayne Mutual Insurance Upgraded
Jan 26 2021 // AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a” from “a-” of Wayne Mutual Insurance Co. (Wayne Mutual) in...
Wow! Another COVID Decision in Ohio Favoring the Insured
Jan 25 2021 // Something must be in Ohio’s air. Another Ohio court recorded a pro-insured COVID decision on January 19, 2021. In Henderson Road Restaurant Systems, Inc v. Zurich American Insurance Company, the United States...
Ohio Suspends Pharmacy After 890 Vaccine Doses Wasted
Jan 21 2021 // A pharmacy responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine to Ohio nursing homes failed to document storage temperatures for leftover shots, resulting in 890 doses being wasted, the state Health Department said. The...
Body of Second Worker Recovered After Ohio Power Plant Collapse
Jan 11 2021 // The body of a second worker killed in a power plant collapse in southern Ohio has been recovered, his employer said on Jan. 9. Relatives of 47-year-old Jamie Fitzgerald of Boyd County, Kentucky, had been notified of the...
