Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Officials Working to Get Exotic Pets Registered
Nov 26 2012 // State officials continue to work with owners of exotic animals to help them fully register their creatures with the Ohio Department of Agriculture, even though the state deadline for them to submit information was several...
Ohio High Court Says Skiers Assume Ordinary Risks
Nov 26 2012 // The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that skiers assume the sport’s ordinary risks and can only recover damages for collision injuries by proving the other skier was acting recklessly or intentionally. The court’s...
Ohio Justices Order Six-Month Suspension for Ex-AG
Nov 21 2012 // The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered Marc Dann, who resigned as the state’s attorney general in 2008 amid a sexual harassment scandal, to give up his law license for six months. The court’s decision was a blow to...
Holiday Red-Ribbon Campaign Promotes Ohio Road Safety
Nov 20 2012 // Law enforcers around Ohio plan more than 9,700 hours of enforcement during the holidays, including 23 sobriety checkpoints statewide. State crash statistics show 410 people were killed in 379 alcohol-related crashes last...
Some Midwest Incumbent State Court Justices Win, Others Lose
Nov 19 2012 // Voters around the country for the most part stood by incumbent state Supreme Court justices. In the Midwest, incumbents in Iowa and Michigan will return for another term; two incumbents on Ohio’s high court will...
Ohio Sidewalk Driver Does ‘Idiot’ Sign Time
Nov 16 2012 // An Ohio woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to pass a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children stood in the cold recently at an intersection holding a sign warning people about idiots. A Cleveland...
South Carolina Man Sentenced in Ohio for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 14 2012 // A South Carolina man has been ordered to repay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) more than $140,000 for holding several jobs and concealing earnings while receiving permanent disability benefits, BWC...
How Voters Voted on State Court Justices
Nov 8 2012 // Voters around the country for the most part stood by incumbent state Supreme Court justices, including where Republicans, business groups and others targeted the judges for defeat. However, two incumbents on Ohio’s...
Wells Fargo Insurance Announces New Regional Leadership in Midwest
Nov 7 2012 // Wells Fargo Insurance, part of Wells Fargo & Co., has named new regional leaders in the Midwest. Led by regional managing director John Meder, the team serves the Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,...
Morrison Appointed Chief Legal Officer at Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau
Nov 6 2012 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Steve Buehrer has appointed Sarah Morrison as chief legal counsel. Morrison will be a member of BWC’s executive staff responsible for coordinating...
Ohio Agent Tax Lien Program Nets $5.3 Million Since 2011
Nov 2 2012 // Ohio Lt. Governor and Dept. of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that an agent tax lien program that has collected more than $5.3 million in unpaid income tax, sales tax and workers compensation premium payments....
Ohio Farming’s New Cash Crop: Agritourism
Oct 29 2012 // If you’ve ever picked your own apples or bumped along on a hayride, you’ve taken part in agritourism. But the concept has grown up as more people want to learn about their food. That’s led to local-food...
Ohio Reduces Workers’ Comp Rate for Local Governments by 5%
Oct 26 2012 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Board of Directors has approved a proposed reduction in average rates for public employer taxing districts by 5 percent. This marks the fourth consecutive year in which public...
Critics Want Ohio Watchdog’s Workers’ Comp ‘Coingate’ Report
Oct 16 2012 // Ohio’s state watchdog hasn’t yet released an investigative report on state’s workers’ compensation fund investment scandal that engulfed Ohio in 2005 — and critics want to know why. With the...
Ohio Women’s Home Fighting Insurance Giant to Stay Put
Oct 12 2012 // As Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic battled for the title at the Western & Southern Open north of Cincinnati, Ohio, a small plane buzzed overhead, trailing a banner calling the sponsor a bunch of bullies. The public...
Insurer of Home Values Goes Under
Oct 8 2012 // An Ohio court has ordered Home Value Insurance Co. into rehabilitation for inadequate capital and surplus. The rehabilitation order said that HVIC failed to maintain the $5 million minimum capital and surplus that is...
Report: Ohio Nurse Didn’t Realize She Took Kidney
Sep 26 2012 // A nurse who accidentally disposed of a living donor’s kidney during a transplant said she didn’t realize it was in chilled, protective slush that she removed from an operating room, took down a hall to a dirty...
Ohio Insurance Agent Sentenced for $39K Theft
Sep 24 2012 // A Cincinnati, Ohio-area insurance agent has been sentenced for theft from Hamilton County residents, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced. Former Ohio insurance agent Cecil Young, of Cincinnati, was sentenced to four...
Ohio’s Home Value Insurance Co. Now in Rehabilitation
Sep 24 2012 // Home Value Insurance Co. was ordered into rehabilitation by an Ohio court on Aug. 31, and has been prohibited from selling insurance in the state due to its failure to maintain minimum capital and surplus. HVIC is...
Court Orders Rehabilitation for Home Value Insurance Co.
Sep 18 2012 // Home Value Insurance Co. was ordered into rehabilitation by an Ohio court on Aug. 31, 2012, and has been prohibited from selling insurance in the state due to its failure to maintain minimum capital and surplus. The...
