Latest Ohio Headlines
All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Insurance Dept. Announces Malpractice Premiums Going Down
Jan 23 2006 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently announced that years of escalating premiums for medical malpractice insurance for the state’s doctors may be ending. For the first time in six years, an insurer is lowering...
Ohio Insurance Deptartment amends financial regulation-related rules
Jan 22 2006 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently filed revisions to several rules that could impact property and casualty insurance companies. The rules deal with solvency surveillance, acquisition or mergers, reinsurance terms...
Ohio Business Groups Push for Workers’ Comp Reforms
Jan 19 2006 // Business groups in Ohio are pushing lawmakers to enact reforms to the state insurance fund for injured workers that were agreed upon before a scandal broke over the fund’s investments, according to a recent account...
Ohio Man Buries Defunct BMW to Collect Insurance
Jan 18 2006 // Matthew Muller, 35, a resident of Akron, Ohio was sentenced to a year in prison for insurance fraud for burying his dead BMW and collecting $20,000 for the car he reported stolen. The car had been buried by Muller in...
Ohio Congressman Out as Chair of House Administration Committee
Jan 16 2006 // Ohio Republican Representative Bob Ney said Sunday that he will temporarily step down as chairman of the House Administration Committee. Ney has been implicated in the lobbying corruption investigation and scandel centered...
Ohio Insurance Dept. Amends Financial Regulation-Related Rules
Jan 11 2006 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently filed revisions to several rules that could impact property and casualty insurance companies. The rules deal with solvency surveillance, acquisition or mergers, reinsurance terms...
Ohio Comp Bureau Issues Report Over Concerns of Private Investors
Jan 9 2006 // A controversial report regarding private equity funds managed for the Ohio state insurance fund for injured workers was released on Friday. The report was made public despite objections by some of the private fund managers...
Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Comp Expected to Reach Decision on Report
Jan 4 2006 // The Ohio state insurance fund for injured workers is expected to make a decision soon regarding the release of a report on the value of its private fund investments that investors have argued should be kept private. Some...
Hero Cat Saves Life of Ohio Resident
Jan 3 2006 // Move over canines, the felines have joined the rescue scene. Police aren’t sure how it could have happened, but when an officer in Columbus, Ohio walked into an apartment recently to answer a 911 call, an...
Former Kansas City cop pleads guilty in insurance fraud scheme
Jan 1 2006 // Todd Graves, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, reported that a former Kansas City, Mo., police officer pleaded guilty in federal court recently to a scheme to collect insurance on a fraudulent stolen car...
Meadowbrook to Offer Malpractice Insurance in Ohio
Dec 19 2005 // Michigan-based Meadowbrook Insurance Group recently announced the availability of a medical malpractice liability insurance product for preferred physicians in Ohio. Insurance policies will be issued through...
People & Places
Dec 19 2005 // Dan Carmichael Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire on Dec. 31, 2005....
People & Places
Dec 19 2005 // Dan Carmichael Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire on Dec. 31, 2005....
People
Dec 18 2005 // Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire on Dec. 31, 2005. Carmichael...
Dan Carmichael
Dec 18 2005 // William Granato Brandon Hickey Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire...
Assurant Specialty Adding 200 Jobs at Ohio Service Center
Dec 6 2005 // Assurant Specialty Property, a provider of lender-placed hazard insurance and outsourcing services to the U.S. mortgage industry, announced plans to create 200 new jobs at its Ohio Service Center in Springfield over the...
Ohio Casualty Renews CEO Carmichael Pact for 5 Years
Dec 6 2005 // Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current President and Chief Executive Officer, Dan R. Carmichael, effective immediately.The prior contract with Carmichael was due to expire on...
Meadowbrook Introduces Med-Mal Product for Preferred Physicians in Ohio
Dec 1 2005 // Meadowbrook Insurance Group has launched a medical malpractice liability insurance product for preferred physicians in Ohio. Meadowbrook President and CEO Robert S. Cubbin said that the company has been successful in this...
Taxes Bump Off Insurance Costs as Chief Concern of Ohio Small Business
Dec 1 2005 // Taxes replaced the cost of insurance as the most frequently cited single most important problem faced by small business, according to the latest Ohio Small-Business Conditions report. The data, which was released by the...
Ohio’s Gay Marriage Ban Inviting Lawsuits Over Pre-Existing Contracts
Nov 28 2005 // A year ago, the attorney who wrote Ohio’s ban on civil unions said it wouldn’t affect the few public universities already offering health insurance to employees’ same-sex partners. Now he’s suing to...
