Latest Ohio Headlines
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One80 Intermediaries Acquires Ohio’s International Excess Program Managers
Apr 14 2020 // One80 Intermediaries (One80), a national wholesale insurance broker and program manager headquartered in Boston, has acquired Beachwood, Ohio-based International Excess Program Managers (IEPM), a wholesale insurance...
Bearley Promoted at Great American Insurance Group in Ohio
Apr 8 2020 // Great American Insurance Group, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, has promoted Kenneth (Ken) R. Bearley to divisional executive vice president within its Bond Division. Bearley joined Great American in 1994 as an...
Ohio Insurance Department Extends Licensing, Continuing Education Expiration Dates
Mar 31 2020 // The Ohio Department of Insurance announced the extension of license renewal dates during the state of emergency declared by Gov. Mike DeWine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The department said if a license expires...
Massachusetts Joins Ohio, N.J. in Proposing COVID-19 Business Interruption Bill
Mar 31 2020 // Massachusetts is one of the latest states to propose legislation that would mandate insurers cover COVID-19 related business interruption claims despite virus exclusions in many policies. This comes as Insurance Journal...
Ohio County Reaches $3.5M Settlement in Woman’s Dog Mauling Death
Mar 30 2020 // The estate of an Ohio woman fatally mauled by her neighbors’ dogs will receive $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit against a county and its dog warden, a newspaper reported. The lawsuit was filed after Klonda Richey,...
Reavis Named Chief People Officer at Ohio Insurtech Root
Mar 30 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based Root Inc., the parent company of online insurer Root Insurance, has appointed Annette Reavis as its first chief people officer. Reavis has more than 20 years of human resource and business experience....
Ohio Bill Would Expand Business Interruption Coverage During COVID-19 Emergency
Mar 30 2020 // Two Democratic state representatives in Ohio have filed a bill in the General Assembly that would require insurers that provide business interruption insurance to cover losses that arise from viruses and pandemics,...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Insurance Provider OKs Deferred Premium Payments
Mar 27 2020 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC), the exclusive provider of workers’ compensation insurance in the state, is allowing insurance premium installment payments due for March, April, and May to be...
Home Health Providers at ‘Breaking Point’ as Coronavirus Ups Demand, Saps Supplies
Mar 27 2020 // Home healthcare providers, the lifelines to 12 million vulnerable Americans, are scrambling to decide how to serve patients who show symptoms of coronavirus — and how to ensure that the providers themselves neither...
Ohio Commercial Insurance Insurtech, Coterie, Raises $8.5M in Financing
Mar 25 2020 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based insurtech Coterie, which specializes in commercial insurance, has closed an oversubscribed Series A financing round totaling $8.5 million from RPM Ventures, Allos Ventures, and others. The company...
The Hilb Group Acquires Ohio’s Healthcare Liability Consultants Agency
Mar 24 2020 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Healthcare Liability Consultants Agency Inc., and hired owner and medical malpractice insurance specialist, Julie Paton, as a producer. Paton is based in Cleveland, Ohio. The...
Cost Unclear as Ohio State Settles Suits Over Doc Abuse
Mar 9 2020 // Ohio State reached an unspecified settlement with nearly half of the roughly 350 men who say they were sexually abused decades ago by a team doctor who was jokingly known among some athletes by nicknames like “Dr....
Ohio Hospital Fined $400K over Painkiller Doses for Patients Who Died
Mar 6 2020 // The hospital system where an intensive care doctor was accused of ordering excessive painkiller doses for dozens of patients who died will be fined $400,000 for violating Ohio pharmacy law under a settlement announced on...
America’s Farmers Brace for Another Season of Costly River Flooding
Mar 3 2020 // For the second year in a row, much of the U.S. is primed to suffer multi-billion dollar flood losses, with farmers already steeling themselves for planting delays. Relentless storms that have marched across the Midwest and...
Self-Driving EasyMile Shuttles Suspended After Passenger Injury in Ohio
Feb 26 2020 // U.S. vehicle safety regulators on Feb. 25 said they had ordered a suspension of passenger operations for 16 autonomous shuttles operated by France-based EasyMile after a passenger was injured in an unexplained braking...
Ohio Bill Would Lift Pain-and-Suffering Caps in Rape Cases
Feb 26 2020 // Proposed legislation in the Ohio House would lift caps on pain-and-suffering awards in lawsuits brought by rape victims. The bill introduced this month by two Democratic lawmakers stems from a 2016 Ohio Supreme Court...
Grange Insurance’s Hammonds Adds Community Relations to AVP Role
Feb 26 2020 // Grange Insurance in Columbus, Ohio, has named Priscilla Hammonds as assistant vice president, Diversity & Inclusion and Community Relations. Hammonds has served as assistant vice president, Diversity & Inclusion...
2 Workers Dead in Ohio After Being Overcome by Tanker Fumes
Feb 25 2020 // A woman who was overcome by fumes while cleaning out a tanker at a Cleveland, Ohio, trucking company and a man who came to her rescue both died after being taken to a hospital, fire officials said. The woman was overcome...
State Auto Financial in Ohio Reports 4Q Net Income of $32.7M
Feb 21 2020 // State Auto Financial Corp. reported fourth-quarter net income of $32.7 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. The Columbus, Ohio-based company said it had net income of 72 cents per share....
Ohio Megachurch Ex-Pastor Settles Lawsuit Alleging Sex Abuse
Feb 21 2020 // A confidential settlement was reached in a former Ohio megachurch pastor’s lawsuit alleging televangelist Ernest Angley sexually abused and harassed him over a decade, starting in 2004. The allegations by Brock...
