Latest Ohio Headlines
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Ohio Insurance Director Revokes Agent’s License
Feb 13 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington revoked the insurance license of George J. Fiorini II of Cincinnati and the Fiorini Agency. Covington took the action after finding that Fiorini had allegedly committed...
Ohio Casualty Insurance, Summit Insurance Join Trusted Choice
Feb 11 2002 // The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company and Summit Insurance Company (Rhode Island) are the newest partners in the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s (IIAA) Trusted ChoiceSM branding initiative, which is set to...
Ohio Suspends Highlands Insurance Group’s Authority
Feb 6 2002 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington suspended the authority to transact business of five Ohio licensed companies of Highlands Insurance Group on Jan. 30, after determining that further business transactions...
Sky Financial Group to Acquire Celaris Group
Jan 31 2002 // Sky Financial Group Inc. of Bowling Green, Ohio, has announced it will acquire the Celaris Group, Inc., a full-service insurance agency specializing in commercial and personal insurance services, financial services and...
Crawford and Company’s The Garden City Group Expands Midwest Regional Headquarters
Jan 22 2002 // The Garden City Group Inc. (GCG), a division of Crawford & Company, an independent provider of diversified services to insurance companies, self-insured corporations, and governmental entities, announced the expansion...
Ohio Agency Joins SIAA
Jan 17 2002 // The Strategic Independent Agents Alliance (SIAA), a national insurance agency distribution network, announced that the DiStefano Insurance Agency Inc. of Canal Fulton, Ohio, has established United Independent Agency...
Tort Reform, Credit, Producer Licensing on Agenda for 2002 Ohio Legislative Session
Jan 16 2002 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), Ohio insurers are poised to actively participate in the 2002 Ohio Legislative session, during which insurance issues such as tort reform, credit and...
Ohio Department of Insurance Hosting Fraud Seminar
Jan 11 2002 // Ohio’s Department of Insurance will host the 2002 Insurance Fraud Seminar on Wednesday, March 6. The seminar will feature presentations by several fraud enforcement experts on topics such as “Crimes Against...
Ohio Court Ruling a Victory for London Insurers
Jan 8 2002 // Lord, Bissell & Brook, a legal firm representing London Market Insurers in a lawsuit filed against the insurers by The B.F. Goodrich Company, announced that a Summit County, Ohio court has granted summary judgment and...
Ohio Business Groups Urge Supreme Court to Uphold Validity of Private Contracts
Jan 4 2002 // Three Ohio business groups are asking the state Supreme Court to affirm that the policy provisions and intent of two parties entering into a contract should not be usurped by judicial decisions rendered years after the...
Ohio Agents Have Licenses Revoked
Dec 24 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington has signed the second of two orders revoking the insurance licenses of Matthew J. Bower and Abigail Bower, both formerly of Toledo and former agents of the Baron...
Welcome to the 3rd Annual “Top Ten Stories of the Year”
Dec 24 2001 // In what became one of the most significant, traumatic and challenging years in U.S. history, the insurance industry, along with the rest of the nation, has had to come to terms with the terrorist attacks perpetrated...
Top 10 Stories of 2001
Dec 17 2001 // Recollections and Renewal: Looking Back at 2001 with an Eye to the Future This is the year that was. It is one that many people will be glad to see come to an end because the new year always brings hope—for a rebirth,...
Ohio Director Files Action to Intervene in Class Action Lawsuits
Nov 16 2001 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington filed court actions Nov. 13 to intervene in four class action lawsuits that could cost Ohio insurance residents hundreds of millions of dollars. Covington filed the motions to...
Ohio Agent Candidates Can Go Online to Register
Nov 15 2001 // Adding to the list of technology enhancements developed over the past two years, Lee Covington, Director of the Ohio Department of Insurance, announced a new online service that will make it easier for insurance agent...
Ohio Director Sues New York-Based Company
Nov 8 2001 // Ohio Director of Insurance Lee Covington, acting in his capacity as liquidator of property and casualty insurer Credit General Insurance Company (CGIC), sued New York-based AmTrust Financial Group and its subsidiaries...
Ohio Department Issues Order Against Agent
Nov 6 2001 // The Ohio Department of Insurance issued a Cease and Desist order and a Notice of Hearing to William T. Snapp, of Milford (Clermont County), ordering the agent to stop engaging in the business of insurance by soliciting and...
Ohio Director Sues Chicago-Based Company
Nov 5 2001 // Ohio Director of Insurance Lee Covington, acting in his capacity as liquidator of property and casualty insurer Credit General Insurance Company, sued Chicago-based Grant Thornton LLP, certified public accounts and auditor...
Ohio Insurance Director Sues Credit General Auditor
Nov 2 2001 // Lee Covington, Ohio Director of Insurance and liquidator of property and casualty insurer Credit General Insurance Company, sued Chicago-based Grant Thornton LLP, Credit General’s auditor. The suit alleges that Grant...
Ohio Insurance Dept. Appeals Court Ruling on Failed Companies
Oct 29 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI) filed an appeal with the Ohio Supreme Court requesting a hearing on the department’s appeal of the Tenth District Ohio Court of Appeals’ ruling on the distribution of assets...
