Latest Ohio Headlines
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22,000 Chickens Die in Barn Fire at Ohio Poultry Operation
Nov 16 2016 // More than 22,000 chickens are dead after a fire at a barn in north-central Ohio. The smoke was visible for miles as the fire burned Nov. 14 at a Mennonite poultry operation in Nova Township, north of Ashland. It took hours...
Bryant Named President at Ohio-Based Britton Gallagher
Nov 16 2016 // Britton Gallagher, a Cleveland based employee benefits and commercial insurance broker, has appointed Jeremy Bryant president. Bryant has been with Britton Gallagher since 2012, most recently serving as one of the...
Columbus, Ohio, to Pay Homeowners $37K for Damage from 2015 Blast
Nov 9 2016 // Columbus, Ohio, has agreed to pay more than $37,000 to the owners of one of more than two dozen homes damaged last year when a home exploded after a gas leak. The Columbus Dispatch reports City Council members approved the...
Ohio Manufacturer Faces Nearly $215K in Fines Over Workplace Hazards
Nov 3 2016 // Federal safety officials have alleged that for at least two years, an Ohio manufacturer of thermoplastic lining systems for truck bodies and trailers exposed workers to the risk of amputation and other serious injury by...
Ohio’s Authority to Regulate Injection Wells Goes Before Judge
Nov 2 2016 // A judge in Columbus is preparing to hear arguments in a dispute over Ohio’s authority to regulate oil andgas operations, including wells disposing of fracking wastewater. Attorneys for the Ohio Department of Natural...
Midwest World Series Inspires Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Fundraiser
Oct 31 2016 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s (IICF) Midwest Division has launched a World Series-related fundraising effort benefitting regional Community Grants Programs. With World Series excitement mounting...
BrickStreet Mutual, Motorists Mutual Pursue Joint Venture
Oct 28 2016 // BrickStreet Mutual Insurance and Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. announced they have begun to formalize an affiliation agreement between the two companies. If approved by state regulators and closed as anticipated in July...
USI Makes 3 Appointments, 2 Promotions in Ohio
Oct 25 2016 // Insurance brokerage USI Insurance Services (USI) has added Brianna Berry, Nick Giancola and Kim Patrick in the USI Independence, Ohio, office. In addition, Heidi King has been promoted to consultant and Brian Muldoon has...
NTSB Blames Ohio Jet Crash That Killed 9 on Pilot Error
Oct 19 2016 // The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded the pilot in control of a corporate jet as it approached an Ohio airport improperly set the aircraft’s flaps and failed to maintain a proper speed, causing the...
Cogan Appointed Chief Legal Counsel at Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau
Oct 18 2016 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Sarah Morrison has appointed Kevin Cogan as the bureau’s chief legal counsel. Cogan will be a member of BWC’s executive staff, responsible for...
Federal Safety Board: Pilots Ignored Procedures in Fatal 2015 Ohio Crash
Oct 18 2016 // The pilots of a charter flight that crashed last year in Akron, Ohio, killing seven employees of a Florida real estate development company, ignored multiple routine procedures and their company was lax in its oversight, an...
Ohio Woman Hit by Electric Grocery Cart Awarded $1.2 Million
Oct 10 2016 // A woman injured when she was struck by a motorized shopping cart in a suburban Cleveland grocery store has been awarded $1.2 million by a jury. Cleveland.com reported Barbara Rieger was struck in 2012 by a customer who...
Ohio Home, Auto Insurance Rates Up Slightly but Still Among Nation’s Lowest
Oct 10 2016 // The Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI) reports that average premiums for auto and home insurance in the state rose in 2015 but not by much. The average rate changes in 2015 for Ohio’s top 10 homeowners and private...
New Ohio Workers’ Comp Opioid Prescription Rule now in Effect
Oct 4 2016 // A new rule governing the prescribing of opioids to treat Ohioans injured on the job took effect on Oct. 1, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) reported. The changes target the prevention of opioid...
Ohio State Law Aims to Reduce ‘Zombie’ Vacant Properties
Sep 29 2016 // A new Ohio law is being viewed as a national model for eliminating zombies — zombie properties, that is. The measure that took effect on Sept. 28 speeds up foreclosures on vacant and abandoned properties, called zombies...
Ohio State Sen. Hackett Named NAMIC’s 2016 State Legislator of the Year
Sep 29 2016 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies announced today that Ohio state Sen. Bob Hackett has been named the association’s State Legislator of the Year. Hackett was tapped as the top state legislator...
Ohio Restaurant, Management Firm to Pay $1.4M to Settle Sexual Harassment Suit
Sep 22 2016 // The owner/operator and management company for a Columbus Texas Roadhouse restaurant will pay $1.4 million and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a class sexual harassment suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Ohio Etching Plant Fined $256K for Workplace Safety Violations
Sep 19 2016 // Federal safety inspectors are recommending that a Cleveland, Ohio, etching company face $256,000 in penalties for safety and health violations. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration posted an imminent danger...
Pain Care Lobby Gave $3.5M in Ohio Political Donations as Opioid Deaths Climbed
Sep 19 2016 // As Ohio’s overdose epidemic has climbed toward a record high, an army of lobbyists representing makers of prescription painkillers and their allies poured more than $3.5 million into Ohio political...
Ohio Ex-Inmate Wins $3M after State Failed to File Answer to Lawsuit
Sep 19 2016 // A former inmate has won $3 million in a lawsuit against an Ohio prison after the state failed to file an answer for several years. John Henricks, 59, of Fulton County, had sued now-retired Dr. Ida Gonzalez and the Pickaway...
