Latest Ohio Headlines
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Review of Ride Safety Urged in Ohio After Fatal Fair Accident
Jan 8 2018 // A state advisory board has agreed to form a new committee to review the amusement ride inspection process in an effort to improve the public’s perceptions about ride safety after a deadly accident last summer at the...
To Be Humble or Not
Jan 8 2018 // Maintaining a level of humility is generally considered to be a good trait. After all we teach our children to be humble to a certain degree in sports, in school, in life. No one likes a person who gloats. But is it always...
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Jan 8 2018 // Grinnell, Iowa-based property and casualty insurer/reinsurer, Grinnell Mutual, named Dave Wingert, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to serve as acting president. Larry Jansen retired on Dec. 15, 2017,...
Ohio Highway Patrol: Fewer End-of-Year Holiday Traffic Deaths in 2017
Jan 4 2018 // The Ohio State Highway Patrol says traffic deaths were down compared to last year during the just-concluded extended holiday weekends. The patrol says preliminary statistics show five deaths from five crashes in the state...
Niess Joins Ohio Insurance Agents Assoc. as Business Planning, Valuations Manager
Jan 4 2018 // Ohio Insurance Agents Association (OIA) has added Craig Niess as business planning and valuation manager. Growing OIA’s vision to be a “change agent for agent change,” Niess will lead the...
I Heard There Might Be Opportunity “In-Land”
Jan 4 2018 // “According to CoreLogic, a leading source for flood and disaster risk data, approximately 70 percent of the flood damage from Hurricane Harvey was uninsured….” states Clearsurance in their recently...
Ohio’s Commissioner Froment to Lead National Insurance Compact
Jan 3 2018 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Jillian Froment has been selected by state insurance regulators to serve as chair of the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission, also referred to as the Insurance...
Central Ohio Counties to Get 911 Texting Capability
Jan 2 2018 // Central Ohio residents with emergencies will soon have the option to text 911 in addition to placing a call. Local governments in Delaware and Franklin counties plan to test technology in the first three months of 2018...
Top Insurance Journal Midwest Stories of 2017
Dec 29 2017 // A bad broker, classic cars that got destroyed in a fire and insurer rating downgrades were among the most widely read news stories in Insurance Journal’s Midwest region in 2017. Broker Gone Bad One story that...
Issuer Credit Rating of Ohio’s Affinity Mutual Insurance Co. Downgraded
Dec 15 2017 // A.M. Best announced it has has downgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “bbb” from “bbb+” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B++ (Good) of Affinity Mutual...
5 Sentenced in Ohio for Insurance Fraud
Dec 12 2017 // The Ohio Department of Insurance reported that five people were recently sentenced for insurance-related crimes following investigations by the department. Clermont County/Shandell Thomas and Aaron Thomas In October,...
Attempt to Kill Bed Bugs Starts Blaze in Ohio; 3 Hurt, Building Heavily Damaged
Dec 11 2017 // Authorities say that three people have been injured and 10 people left homeless after a woman accidentally started a fire while trying to kill bed bugs with rubbing alcohol at a multi-family home in Cincinnati. WXIX-TV...
When Humility in a Boss Pays Off and When It Doesn’t
Dec 11 2017 // It’s good for a boss to be humble – as long as that’s what the firm’s employees expect. Some workplace teams showed more creativity if the employees rated their bosses as showing more humility, Ohio...
Ohio InsurTech Startup Root Insurance Adds Allison as General Counsel
Dec 8 2017 // Columbus, Ohio-based auto insurance startup, Root Insurance, has hired Jon Allison as its first general counsel. Prior to joining Root, Allison served on the senior management team of CareSource, a regional non-profit...
New York’s The Iroquois Group Announces Regional Realignment
Dec 7 2017 // The Iroquois Group, an Allegany, N.Y.-based service provider for independent property and casualty insurance agencies, has announced changes to its regional structure to better align Iroquois regions with those of their...
MAPFRE USA to Exit 5, Focus on 11 States; Sell New York and Life Units in Reorganization
Dec 5 2017 // Insurer MAPFRE USA, which now writes in 19 states, is narrowing its focus by concentrating on 11 key states, exiting five states including selling its New York subsidiary, and selling its life insurance unit. MAPFRE USA...
Trump Nominates Life Industry’s Workman to Replace Woodall on Financial Stability Panel
Dec 1 2017 // President Donald Trump wants Thomas E. Workman, an attorney and former life insurer trade group leader, to be the independent insurance industry’s voting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) for...
Ex-Ohio State Star Spielman Widens Lawsuit over Commercial Use of Image
Nov 30 2017 // A former Ohio State and NFL star is asking a judge to let him expand a class-action lawsuit over allegations that marketing campaigns for dozens of big-time colleges and universities improperly used the images of thousands...
Index Shows Where People Are Moving in Next Few Months
Nov 30 2017 // It’s possible to know where in the country more homebuyers will be moving over the next 30 to 90 days, thanks to what’s called a “pre-mover” index. It turns out that the U.S. markets with the...
Crashes, Fatalities Jumped After Ohio Went to 70 Mph: Highway Patrol
Nov 20 2017 // The state highway patrol says crashes and fatalities jumped after Ohio adopted a 70 mph speed limit on many roads and highways. A patrol report released on Nov. 16 found a 24 percent increase in crashes on 70 mph roads,...
