Republican Gov. Bob Taft announced the appointment of Tina Kielmeyer as the interim administrator of the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation and appointed a panel of top bureaucrats to review the bureau’s investment portfolio and find a permanent administrator. Previous administrator James Conrad resigned amid a scandal over $10 million in missing rare coins the bureau had purchased as an investment. Kielmeyer, a 23-year veteran of the BWC, has been serving as the bureau’s assistant administrator and chief operating officer since April 2004.
Prior to being named assistant administrator and COO, Kielmeyer served as chief of the BWC’s Injury Management Services Division and was instrumental in developing and implementing the BWC’s managed care Health Partnership Program. Kielmeyer has dedicated her career at BWC in the operational functions of workers’ compensation insurance and is a recognized industry expert in the areas of claims processing, injury management and risk management.
Taft also announced the creation of a management review team to assist interim administrator Kielmeyer with transition issues and to help manage a thorough review of the BWC’s investment portfolio. Taft charged Kielmeyer and the team to do the following and make an initial report to him within 45 days:
Was this article valuable?
Here are more articles you may enjoy.
Record-Low Danube Water Levels Leave Boats Beached, Reveal Decades-Old Shipwrecks 
FTC Sues Hims & Hers for Sending User Health Info to Meta, Snap 
Why El Niño’s Promise of Quieter Hurricane Season May Not Be Good News for Insurers 
Viewpoint: Who Gets Credit for Successful Renewal During Soft Reinsurance Market? From This Issue
