Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Fast Trains, Toxic Chemicals: Why Rail Safety Is Still a Problem
Feb 2 2024 // In the year since the derailment of a Norfolk Southern Inc. train brought national attention to US railroad safety, little has changed. Trains are still rolling through East Palestine, Ohio, at 50 miles per hour — the...
Highway Repairs Underway in Ohio Following Tanker Truck Crash and Fuel Spill
Jan 31 2024 // MACEDONIA, Ohio (AP) — Authorities have identified the tanker truck driver killed in a crash in Ohio that spilled thousands of gallons (liters) of diesel fuel over the weekend as repairs to the highway continue. The...
Norfolk Southern Says Total Costs of East Palestine Derailment Up to $1.1B
Jan 31 2024 // Norfolk Southern’s fourth-quarter profit fell 33% because of the ever growing costs of the cleanup of last year’s fiery derailment in eastern Ohio, but the railroad did deliver 3% more shipments during the...
Environmental Officials Working to Clean Up Fuel After Fiery Tanker Truck Crash in Ohio
Jan 30 2024 // MACEDONIA, Ohio (AP) — Environmental officials in Ohio were back on the scene Sunday of a fiery tanker truck crash, working to contain thousands of gallons (liters) of diesel fuel that spilled during the accident. The...
OSHA: Ohio Food Warehouse Exposed Workers to Ergonomic Hazards
Jan 26 2024 // Federal inspectors examining injury and illness records at a Fairfield food services warehouse found workers suffered severe injuries at nearly four times the average rate for their industry, with a high percentage of...
Five Companies Agree to $7.2 Million Settlement for Polluting Two Ohio Creeks
Jan 10 2024 // TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Five companies have agreed to pay the federal government more than $7.2 million overall to resolve claims stemming from longstanding pollution in two adjacent creeks in the Maumee River watershed in...
‘Severe Violator’ Ohio Contractor Agrees to $730K OSHA Settlement
Jan 3 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement to resolve litigation following a March 2022 investigation at a work site in Wheeling that resulted in a dozen citations issued against an Ohio-based...
Ohio Supreme Court Affirms 4-Year Deadline for Med Mal Wrongful Death Claims
Jan 2 2024 // A divided Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday drew a bright line around the state’s statute of repose for medical malpractice claims, ruling in separate cases that an absolute four-year deadline to bring an action applies...
Top Midwest Insurance Journal Stories of 2023
Dec 29 2023 // Insurance Journal Midwest readers in 2023 gravitated to stories on multi-million dollar rulings, policy language disputes and failing mutual insurance companies. Readers were also interested in the fallout of the East...
Ohio Manufacturer Assessed $389K in Penalties for Safety Violations
Dec 28 2023 // An Ohio industrial rubber hose manufacturer with a long history of federal workplace safety issues could have prevented a 25-year-old worker from suffering severe crushing injuries by following required safety measures,...
Biden Administration Launches Formal Evaluation of Vinyl Chloride Risks After Ohio Train Derailment
Dec 19 2023 // WASHINGTON (AP) – The Biden administration has initiated a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery train...
OneDigital Acquires Ohio’s RiskSOURCE
Dec 13 2023 // OneDigital, an insurance brokerage, financial services and HR consulting firm, has acquired RiskSOURCE Clark-Theders, a property & casualty firm based in Cincinnati, Ohio. RiskSOURCE, founded in 1977 and licensed in 46...
Ohio Meat Processing Plant Faces $277,000 in Proposed Penalties for Safety Violations
Dec 11 2023 // A federal investigation into how a 35-year-old worker suffered severe leg burns, degloving of their foot and other injuries after falling into corrosive chemicals in May 2023 has found that an Ohio meat processing...
Adults in Ohio Can Legally Possess and Grow Marijuana – But There’s Nowhere to Buy It
Dec 11 2023 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohioans woke up Thursday in a land of recreational marijuana limbo, in which adults can legally grow and possess cannabis at home, but cannot legally buy it. That combination of factors related to a...
Higginbotham Acquires Ohio’s Botson’s Insurance Group
Dec 7 2023 // Higginbotham has acquired Botson Insurance Group of Avon, Ohio. This move extends the Texas firm’s presence across Ohio, as Higginbotham formed a similar collaboration with western Ohio’s Community Insurance...
Business Moves
Dec 4 2023 // National Travelers, Corvus Insurance Holdings The Travelers Companies said it has agreed to buy cyber managing general underwriter Corvus Insurance Holdings Inc. for about $435 million for its middle-market excess and...
Ohio Business Owner Sues Norfolk Southern for $500 Million
Dec 4 2023 // A business owner with companies near where a Norfolk Southern train derailed and caught fire in February has sued the railroad for $500 million, saying most of his eastern Ohio companies have remained closed and he...
Ohio Settles Lawsuit With Chemical Companies For $110 Million Over PFAS Contamination
Dec 1 2023 // DOVER, Del. (AP) – The DuPont Co. and two spin-off firms will pay $110 million to the state of Ohio to settle a lawsuit over environmental threats from toxic chemicals used at a former DuPont facility in neighboring West...
Former Root Marketing Exec Pleads Guilty to Taking Over $10 Million From the Insurer
Dec 1 2023 // Brinson Caleb “BC” Silver, former chief marketing officer for insurtech Root, has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $10 million from his former employer and violating court orders. According to the U.S....
Five Killed in Ohio Mobile Home Fire on Thanksgiving
Nov 28 2023 // ATHENS, Ohio (AP) – Five people, including two children, were killed in a mobile home fire in Ohio on Thanksgiving morning, authorities said. The Ohio Department of Commerce said volunteer firefighters in Athens County...
