Latest Ohio Headlines
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Ohio Supreme Court Upholds 2005 Law Limiting Injured Worker Suits
Mar 24 2010 // In two separate decisions, the Supreme Court of Ohio upheld as constitutional a 2005 state law that limits the ability of workers who are injured on the job to sue their employers for a “workplace intentional...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Advisers Wanted Recommendation, Didn’t Get It
Mar 23 2010 // The director of an embattled legislative panel bucked the position held by panel advisers when she declined to make a recommendation on a bill with sweeping consequences for the nation’s largest state-run injured...
Clashes Led to Firings, Discrimination Claims at Ohio Work Comp Council
Mar 22 2010 // Internal pressure was mounting for months ahead of the February firings of the staff of an agency charged with protecting the well-being of Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers. Public records obtained by The...
Ohio House Review of Worker’s Comp Council Firings Begins March 24
Mar 17 2010 // A state House of Representatives committee will review a council created to protect Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers in the wake of the firing of the council’s three-member staff. House Insurance...
Clashes Led to Firings, Discrimination Claims at Ohio Work Comp Council
Mar 10 2010 // Internal pressure was mounting for months ahead of the February firings of the staff of an agency charged with protecting the well-being of Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers. Public records obtained by The...
Ohio Casualty Introduces New Learning Center for Appointed Agents
Mar 10 2010 // Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, has introduced its comprehensive online Agent Learning Center for its appointed agencies. Ohio Casualty appointed agents can now register for classroom...
Ohio AG: Ruling Clears Way for State to Take AIG to Trial
Mar 7 2010 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray says he is encouraged by a recent federal court ruling granting class certification in a securities litigation against American International Group Inc. (AIG). The Feb. 22 ruling in...
Fired Ohio Workers’ Compensation Board Employees Allege Religious Bias
Mar 5 2010 // The staff of a board created to monitor legislation affecting Ohio’s massive injured worker insurance fund after a rare coin investment scandal has been fired, plunging its oversight role into chaos. The three fired...
Ohio Medical Consultant Sentenced to Prison for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 25 2010 // The owner of a business that compiled medical reports for law firms representing injured workers has been sentenced to four years in prison for workers’ compensation fraud in Ohio, according to the Ohio Bureau of...
‘Snowed-In’ Ohio Man Charged in Western Pennsylvania Arson
Feb 25 2010 // An Ohio man is charged with setting fire to a western Pennsylvania mobile home he used to rent after police say heavy snows kept him from driving away. Thirty-three-year-old Robert Lee Armstrong, of Warren, Ohio, is...
Ohio AG: Ruling Clears Way for State to Take AIG to Trial
Feb 24 2010 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray announced he is encouraged by a recent federal court ruling granting class certification in the securities litigation against American International Group Inc. (AIG). The ruling in the...
Ohio: Average Payout Per Medical Professional Liability Claim Is $252.5K
Feb 3 2010 // In its fourth annual Ohio Medical Professional Liability Closed Claim Report the Ohio Insurance Department shows a total of 3,080 medical professional liability claims were closed in 2008. The amount of compensation paid...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Adds Options to Deductible Program
Jan 25 2010 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) is expanding a deductible program put in place last year. The large deductible program will offer deductible levels between $25,000 and $200,000 and is intended to give...
Ohio Insurance Department Expands Language Interpretation Service
Jan 25 2010 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has hired Affordable Language Services to provide translation services, Director Mary Jo Hudson announced. The company will be able to answer questions from consumers in more than 150...
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Jan 24 2010 // Steve Crawford has been named president and chief executive officer at Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co., located in Grinnell, Iowa. For the past two years, Crawford has served as the company’s chief operating...
Ohio Partially Upholds Workers’ Comp Ruling Against Former AG Aide
Jan 14 2010 // A committee has partially upheld the state’s decision that a former top aide to fallen Attorney General Marc Dann improperly classified workers at his private construction company when determining his workers’...
Grange Insurance Names James President, CEO
Jan 13 2010 // Grange Insurance, based in Columbus, Ohio, named Robert V. James, 55, as president and CEO effective Jan. 18. Retiring president and CEO Phil Urban will serve in an advisory capacity until Feb. 26 to ensure a seamless...
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Jan 10 2010 // Global insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh appointed Philip Gawthorpe as Multinational Client Service Practice leader for the Midwest Zone. Gawthorpe, who has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience, will...
Auto Premiums Decline in Ohio; Homeowners Rates Rise
Jan 10 2010 // The Ohio Department of Insurance reports that auto insurance rates in that state declined for the third consecutive year but homeowners rates have risen slightly. The department based its assessments on data released by...
Johnson Joins WRM America as Midwest Regional Marketing Officer
Jan 7 2010 // WRM America, a New York-based specialty insurance and alternative risk management company, reports that Jeffrey S. Johnson has joined WRM America Indemnity Company (WRMAI) as regional marketing officer for the Midwest...
