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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...
Ohio Injured Workers Fund Battling Painkillers
Jul 30 2012 // Nearly a third of the prescriptions the state’s insurance fund for injured workers paid for last year were for powerful narcotics, part of a 37 percent increase in the use of such drugs — mainly addictive...
Violent Storms Kill 2, Leave Thousands Without Power in Mid-Atlantic, Midwest
Jul 27 2012 // Violent thunderstorms barreled through the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic regions of the eastern United States late on Thursday, killing two people and cutting power to more than 130,000 homes and businesses in New York,...
Ohio Health System Fighting Pill Fraud with Fingerprints
Jul 27 2012 // A southeastern Ohio health system is hoping a fingerprint collection program will help it cut down on prescription painkiller abuse. Brent Saunders, board chairman at Holzer Health Systems in Gallipolis says painkiller...
Why Some Types of Multitasking Are More Dangerous Than Others
Jul 27 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...
Davies Named CEO of Ohio-based SafeAuto Insurance
Jul 24 2012 // Columbus, Ohio-based insurer, SafeAuto, announced that Ron Davies, former senior vice president with Allstate Insurance Co., will take over as chief executive officer of the company on Aug. 13. This is the first time...
Ohio Supreme Court: Corporation Must Advance Defense Costs for Director
Jul 24 2012 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a corporation can’t avoid paying the legal defense expenses of a corporate director who is sued in his or her capacity as a director by claiming that the director’s...
People – Midwest
Jul 23 2012 // Ohio-based Norman-Spencer Agency Inc. has appointed Christopher Norman, an attorney with broad insurance industry experience, as general counsel. Most recently, Norman represented national and state carriers in matters of...
