Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Accidents Prompt Ohio State Safety Awareness Blitz
Sep 14 2012 // Ohio State University has enlisted an army of volunteers to raise awareness of traffic safety on campus after a rash of crashes involving pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists. The Columbus Dispatch reports that 200...
Court: Ohio Prison Nurse Can Be Sued in Death
Sep 11 2012 // A prison nurse isn’t immune from being sued over an inmate’s 2009 death following a violent seizure from alcohol withdrawals, a federal appeals court panel ruled. Nurse Jennifer McCune had sought immunity as a...
People – Midwest
Sep 10 2012 // Hastings Mutual Insurance Co., a regional property/casualty insurer based in Hastings, Mich., has welcomed new President, CEO and Chairman Joseph J. Babiak Jr. Babiak joined Hastings Mutual in 2001 as the chief financial...
Ohio Auto, Homeowners Rates Still Competitive
Sep 10 2012 // Ohio’s 2011 average auto and homeowners insurance rates were again among the most competitive in the United States, according to state insurance regulators. The Ohio Department of Insurance reported that Ohio has the...
BP Gas Recall Now 4.7M Gallons; Ohio, Southern Indiana Affected
Aug 31 2012 // BP says the size of its gasoline recall is now more than twice as large than previously reported at 4.7 million gallons distributed as far as southwestern Ohio and southern Indiana. BP spokesman Scott Dean said on Aug. 29...
Pennsylvania Hospital, Ohio Parents Settle Organ Donor Suit
Aug 30 2012 // An Ohio couple has settled their lawsuit against a northwestern Pennsylvania hospital they accused of killing their son to harvest his organs for transplant. The parents of 18-year-old Gregory Jacobs had claimed Hamot...
Ohio’s Norman-Spencer Agency Acquires N.Y.-Based Keenan Marine Agency
Aug 29 2012 // Dayton, Ohio-based Norman-Spencer Agency Inc. has acquired New York-based Keenan Marine Insurance Agency LLC. Keenan Marine is a national specialty yacht insurance agency and has provided comprehensive solutions to yacht...
Ohio Doctor Can Be Sued in Inmate’s Suicide: Update
Aug 29 2012 // A psychiatrist is not immune from being sued for damages by the family of a teenage inmate who killed himself in prison, a federal appeals court has ruled. Psychiatrist Kenneth Tepe had argued that he should be immune from...
Ohio Manufacturer Fined for Safety Violations, Amputation Hazards
Aug 14 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Hebco Products Inc. in Bucyrus, Ohio, with 14 safety violations, including two repeat violations for failing to guard machines to...
June, July Ohio Storm Losses Rise to More than $400M
Aug 13 2012 // Insured losses from a round of summer storms in late June and early July have risen to more than $400 million, a state-based insurance information group reported. Property casualty insurers are reporting losses of at least...
Ohio Weather Officials Confirm Weekend Tornado
Aug 8 2012 // Weather officials have confirmed what many residents of a northeastern Ohio town suspected: A tornado touched down there over the weekend. The National Weather Service said severe weather that caused damage to a section of...
Why Some Types of Multitasking Are More Dangerous Than Others
Aug 6 2012 // People are better at juggling some types of multitasking than they are at others, according to a new study that has implications for distracted drivers. Trying to do two visual tasks at once hurt performance in both tasks...
Early Storm Damage Tally for Ohio Reaches $29M
Jul 31 2012 // Early reports tallying damage from June storms in Ohio at $29 million have several Ohio cities anxiously hoping for federal disaster relief. The estimated costs reported in the state from the storms total more than half of...