Latest Ohio Headlines
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Millions of Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Pose Environmental, Health Risks
Jun 23 2020 // In May 2012, Hanson and Michael Rowe noticed an overpowering smell, like rotten eggs, seeping from an abandoned gas well on their land in Kentucky. The fumes made the retired couple feel nauseous, dizzy, and short of...
Colleges Asking Returning Athletes to Sign COVID-19 Risk Forms
Jun 22 2020 // Ohio State calls it the Buckeye Acknowledgment and Pledge, a two-page document the school asked its athletes to sign before they could begin using team facilities during the pandemic. The document SMU is requiring its...
Ohio May Force GM to Repay $60M in Incentives after Plant Shut Down
Jun 19 2020 // Ohio officials are considering forcing General Motors to repay $60 million in public incentives because of its decision to close a massive assembly plant near Youngstown. At issue is an economic development deal from more...
Bold Penguin Partners with Ohio’s State Auto on Commercial Insurance
Jun 19 2020 // Bold Penguin, a commercial insurance technology provider, has added Columbus, Ohio-based State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. (State Auto) to its platform, expanding its commercial auto insurance offering launched in...
Branch Launches Personal Lines Insurance Discount Program in Missouri
Jun 18 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based technology-based personal lines insurance provider, Branch, has launched its My Community Discount program in Missouri. Through the program, clients can “save on their insurance premiums by...
Ohio’s Root Insurance Now Offering Homeowners Coverage
Jun 3 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based insurtech, Root Insurance, has launched Root Home, a homeowners insurance program that is available in 13 states. Root Insurance customers who bundle with new or existing auto policies will save 10% on...
Judge: Ohio Hospital, Insurer Need Not Fund Doc’s Murder Case Defense
May 22 2020 // A Michigan-based health system and its insurer don’t have to cover the costs of an Ohio doctor’s defense against murder charges in the deaths of 25 hospital patients, a federal judge ruled. William Husel is...
Safety Probe Cites ‘Poor Safety Culture’ for Fatal Air Ambulance Crash
May 21 2020 // A lax safety culture at an air ambulance company led to the crash of a medical helicopter last year in snowy weather in Ohio that killed three people, federal investigators said Tuesday. Survival Flight’s...
States Sharing of COVID-19 Patients’ Data With First Responders Sparks Privacy Concern
May 21 2020 // More than 11 million people have been tested in the U.S. for COVID-19, all with the assurance that their private medical information would remain protected and undisclosed. Yet, public officials in at least two-thirds of...
Ohio’s Encova Insurance Begins Virtual Internship Program
May 11 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based Encova Insurance is moving forward with its summer internship program in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, West Virginia, with virtual training and onboarding of 22 interns. Currently, about 90% of...
Ohio Worker Dies After Becoming Trapped in Gravel Hopper
May 4 2020 // A worker at an industrial site in Ohio died after becoming trapped in a gravel hopper, authorities said. The man, who was in his 60s, was working at Enon Sand and Gravel in Bethel Township, Clark County, the Springfield...
Insurtech Branch Now Offering Auto, Homeowners Insurance in Texas
May 1 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based insurtech, Branch, has opened operations in Texas, the company’s fifth statewide expansion since launching in Ohio in August 2019. Branch says it is shaking up the insurance industry providing a...
Caffeine Bought Online Killed Ohio Teen. Is Amazon at Fault?
Apr 29 2020 // Logan Stiner was just days from high school graduation when his brother found him unresponsive in their family’s home southwest of Cleveland, Ohio, in May 2014. Stiner, 18, died of cardiac arrhythmia and seizure from...
Berkley Program Specialists Partners with Ohio’s IEPM
Apr 28 2020 // Berkley Program Specialists, a Berkley Company dedicated exclusively to program business, has entered into a partnership with Beachwood, Ohio-based International Excess Program Managers (IEPM), a division of One80...
Don Gillie, PE, SE, Joins American Structurepoint’s Ohio Investigative Group
Apr 27 2020 // Columbus, OH, April 27, 2020 —American Structurepoint is pleased to announce that Don Gillie, PE, SE, will join our Ohio Investigative team as of May 4 to meet the needs of clients throughout Ohio. Don brings several...
Firm ‘Devastated’ by Fire at Large Ohio Egg Farm, Official Says
Apr 23 2020 // Authorities say a fast-moving fire at a large egg farm in Ohio destroyed one large building and also killed hens in other buildings. The blaze reported shortly before 3:30 a.m. at the Trillium Farms facility in Croton sent...
More States Making Plans to Lift Coronavirus Restrictions
Apr 23 2020 // More states in the U.S. South and Midwest signaled readiness on Wednesday to reopen their economies in hopes the worst of the coronavirus pandemic had passed, but California’s governor held firm to sweeping...
Georgia Gambles on Reopening Business Amid Pandemic
Apr 23 2020 // A handful of mostly southern U.S. states will begin loosening economic restrictions this week in the midst of a still virulent pandemic, providing a live-fire test of whether America’s communities can start to reopen...
More Midwest Insurers Offering Auto Premium Relief to Insureds
Apr 20 2020 // More Midwest-based insurers are offering premium payment relief to their auto insurance customers as a result of the COVID-19 health crisis. Branch Insurance, Grange Insurance, Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, Ohio Mutual...
Ohio’s Encova Insurance Issuing 15% Personal Auto Policy Credit
Apr 15 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based Encova Insurance plans to issue a 15% policy credit to more than 80,000 personal auto policyholders for the months of April and May. Data has continued to show that as fewer vehicles are on the road...
