Latest Ohio Headlines
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Former Ohio Agent Convicted on Theft Charges
Aug 27 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson has announced that former insurance agent Jamie Smith of Bowling Green, Ohio, has been convicted on one count of felony theft in the Lucas County Court of Common...
Employee-Owned Insurance Brokerage Opens Akron Office
Aug 19 2010 // Ohio’s oldest independent and largest employee-owned risk management and insurance brokerage firm has opened an office in Akron. Oswald Companies serves more than 50 clients collectively in Akron and...
Ohio Highway Patrol: ID Theft Increase ‘Alarming’
Aug 16 2010 // Ohio Highway Patrol troopers say they’re seeing an “alarming” increase in cases of identity theft. The patrol says it has investigated 248 cases so far this year, compared to 114 by this time in 2009. The...
Keystone Insurers Group Adds Miller & Miller as 23rd Ohio Partner
Aug 9 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group’s newest Ohio partner, Miller & Miller Inc., of Dover, has become the group’s 23rd agency in Ohio and one of 212 independent agencies in six states that comprise and own...
Former Ohio Insurance Agent Indicted on Theft Charges
Aug 6 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that Michael Cox of Powell, Ohio, has been indicted by a Franklin County grand jury on ten counts of felony theft. A department investigation revealed Cox had...
Ohio Insurance Department Recovered $11.4M for Consumers in 2009
Aug 2 2010 // Claim denials were the number one complaint of Ohio insurance consumers in 2009, according to statistics released by the Ohio Department of Insurance. Nearly one-third of the 5,453 consumer complaints received by the...
Neace Lukens Opens Dayton, Ohio, Office; Grows Construction Group
Jul 29 2010 // Louisville, Ky.-based insurance broker Neace Lukens has opened a new office in Dayton, Ohio. The new office consists of two full-time employees. Michael Ward joins as vice president of its construction insurance services...
Ohio Auto, Homeowners Insurance Rates Increase Slightly in 2009
Jul 20 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that the average rates for the state’s top 10 private passenger auto insurers increased 2.8 percent in 2009. The average rates for the state’s top...
AIG to Pay $725M to Settle Securities Fraud Lawsuit
Jul 19 2010 // American International Group Inc. agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running securities fraud lawsuit led by three Ohio public pension funds, in one of the largest class action settlements in U.S. history. AIG,...
Ohio Tornadoes Cost Home, Business Owners $22M
Jul 16 2010 // The insurance industry says a storm and tornadoes that ripped through northwest Ohio in early June caused at least $22.1 million in damage for homeowners and business owners. The totals by the Ohio Insurance Institute...
Conviction of Adviser Upheld in Fraud of Ohio Work Comp Agency
Jul 16 2010 // A federal appeals court has refused to allow a new trial for an investment adviser serving 12 years in the loss of $216 million at the state agency for injured workers. The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court...
Willis Appoints McKain Head of Columbus, Ohio, Office
Jul 14 2010 // Willis, the global insurance broker, has named Frank E. McKain managing partner of its Columbus, Ohio office, effective July 14. He succeeds Kim Sparks, who as interim managing partner successfully navigated the operation...
Ohio Storm Victims Get 60-Day Leeway on Insurance Payments
Jul 5 2010 // Ohioans affected by the tornados that ripped through Wood, Fulton, and Ottawa Counties in early June will be getting some relief when it comes to deadlines for paying their insurance premiums, Ohio Department of Insurance...
Business Moves
Jul 5 2010 // Arthur J. Gallagher, Joseph James & Associates Illinois-based insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has acquired Joseph James & Associates of Dublin, Ohio. Terms of...
People
Jul 5 2010 // Donald D. Larson has been named president and chief operating officer of the Great American Property and Casualty Group and Great American Insurance Co. Larson is the 16th president in Great American’s history. He...
Ohio Orders Health Insurer to Refund $6M to Policyholders
Jun 30 2010 // More than 45,000 Ohioans will receive a refund or credit from Community Insurance Co., also known as Anthem, according to Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson. The Ohio Department of Insurance alleges that Anthem has been...
Ohio Selects Medical Mutual to Operate Temporary High Risk Pool
Jun 25 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that a non profit entity, Medical Mutual of Ohio, has been selected to operate the state’s temporary high risk pool program, created through the federal...
Ohio BWC Modifies Public Employer Ratemaking Guidelines
Jun 22 2010 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Board of Directors has voted to modify two tables that impact experience-based rate adjustments for Public Employer Taxing Districts (PEC), effective Jan. 1, 2011. The...
Ohio: Temporary Disability Compensation Can Include Concurrent Wages
Jun 21 2010 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that wages from a second job may be used to calculate an injured worker’s average and full weekly wages in determining temporary total disability compensation for an injury he...
May 7- 8 Northern Ohio Storms Losses Top $31M
Jun 16 2010 // A series of storms on May 7 and 8 centered across the top half of the state caused at least $31.4 million in damages, according to preliminary insured loss estimates released by the Ohio Insurance Institute...
