Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Bill Would Expand Business Interruption Coverage During COVID-19 Emergency
Mar 30 2020 // Two Democratic state representatives in Ohio have filed a bill in the General Assembly that would require insurers that provide business interruption insurance to cover losses that arise from viruses and pandemics,...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Insurance Provider OKs Deferred Premium Payments
Mar 27 2020 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC), the exclusive provider of workers’ compensation insurance in the state, is allowing insurance premium installment payments due for March, April, and May to be...
Home Health Providers at ‘Breaking Point’ as Coronavirus Ups Demand, Saps Supplies
Mar 27 2020 // Home healthcare providers, the lifelines to 12 million vulnerable Americans, are scrambling to decide how to serve patients who show symptoms of coronavirus — and how to ensure that the providers themselves neither...
Ohio Commercial Insurance Insurtech, Coterie, Raises $8.5M in Financing
Mar 25 2020 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based insurtech Coterie, which specializes in commercial insurance, has closed an oversubscribed Series A financing round totaling $8.5 million from RPM Ventures, Allos Ventures, and others. The company...
The Hilb Group Acquires Ohio’s Healthcare Liability Consultants Agency
Mar 24 2020 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Healthcare Liability Consultants Agency Inc., and hired owner and medical malpractice insurance specialist, Julie Paton, as a producer. Paton is based in Cleveland, Ohio. The...
Cost Unclear as Ohio State Settles Suits Over Doc Abuse
Mar 9 2020 // Ohio State reached an unspecified settlement with nearly half of the roughly 350 men who say they were sexually abused decades ago by a team doctor who was jokingly known among some athletes by nicknames like “Dr....
Ohio Hospital Fined $400K over Painkiller Doses for Patients Who Died
Mar 6 2020 // The hospital system where an intensive care doctor was accused of ordering excessive painkiller doses for dozens of patients who died will be fined $400,000 for violating Ohio pharmacy law under a settlement announced on...
America’s Farmers Brace for Another Season of Costly River Flooding
Mar 3 2020 // For the second year in a row, much of the U.S. is primed to suffer multi-billion dollar flood losses, with farmers already steeling themselves for planting delays. Relentless storms that have marched across the Midwest and...
Self-Driving EasyMile Shuttles Suspended After Passenger Injury in Ohio
Feb 26 2020 // U.S. vehicle safety regulators on Feb. 25 said they had ordered a suspension of passenger operations for 16 autonomous shuttles operated by France-based EasyMile after a passenger was injured in an unexplained braking...
Ohio Bill Would Lift Pain-and-Suffering Caps in Rape Cases
Feb 26 2020 // Proposed legislation in the Ohio House would lift caps on pain-and-suffering awards in lawsuits brought by rape victims. The bill introduced this month by two Democratic lawmakers stems from a 2016 Ohio Supreme Court...
Grange Insurance’s Hammonds Adds Community Relations to AVP Role
Feb 26 2020 // Grange Insurance in Columbus, Ohio, has named Priscilla Hammonds as assistant vice president, Diversity & Inclusion and Community Relations. Hammonds has served as assistant vice president, Diversity & Inclusion...
2 Workers Dead in Ohio After Being Overcome by Tanker Fumes
Feb 25 2020 // A woman who was overcome by fumes while cleaning out a tanker at a Cleveland, Ohio, trucking company and a man who came to her rescue both died after being taken to a hospital, fire officials said. The woman was overcome...
State Auto Financial in Ohio Reports 4Q Net Income of $32.7M
Feb 21 2020 // State Auto Financial Corp. reported fourth-quarter net income of $32.7 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. The Columbus, Ohio-based company said it had net income of 72 cents per share....
Ohio Megachurch Ex-Pastor Settles Lawsuit Alleging Sex Abuse
Feb 21 2020 // A confidential settlement was reached in a former Ohio megachurch pastor’s lawsuit alleging televangelist Ernest Angley sexually abused and harassed him over a decade, starting in 2004. The allegations by Brock...
Ohio Bill Would Make Using Hand-Held Device While Driving a Primary Offense
Feb 19 2020 // A new bill introduced in Ohio would strengthen Ohio’s laws regarding the use of wireless devices, including smartphones, while driving. The Hands-Free Ohio bill, sponsored by Sen. Stephanie Kunze (R-Hilliard) and...
Soaking Rains Cause Rock Slide in West Virginia, Prompt Flood Warning Along Ohio River
Feb 14 2020 // Soaking rains caused part of a hillside to collapse in southern West Virginia and prompted a flood warning along the Ohio River. Highways officials said high water forced road closings in multiple counties Thursday. Near...
Ohio House Approves PTSD Coverage for Emergency Responders, Again
Feb 14 2020 // The Ohio House has once again approved a measure covering post-traumatic stress disorder for emergency responders who haven’t suffered a physical injury. Police and firefighters have been pushing for the coverage...
Ohio’s McGowan, Allied Specialty Partner on Amusement/Entertainment Insurance
Feb 13 2020 // Fairview Park, Ohio-based The McGowan Companies has entered into a joint venture with Allied Specialty Insurance Inc., a subsidiary of AXA’s property/casualty and specialty risk division, AXA XL, forming McGowan...
Ohio’s Oswald Companies Appoints Klonk as Chairman, CEO
Feb 11 2020 // Robert J. Klonk has been appointed chairman and chief executive officer of the Cleveland, Ohio-based independent risk management and insurance brokerage firm, Oswald Companies. Klonk has served as CEO since January 2013...
Driver Dies, Passengers Injured in Ohio Church Bus Crash
Feb 4 2020 // A church bus and an SUV crashed on Feb. 2 in Ohio, and the bus driver died, the State Highway Patrol said. The patrol’s Lebanon post reported the crash occurred around 9:30 a.m. on Dixie Highway in Warren...
