Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Schiff, Kreidler-Shell Insurance and Risk Services, a retail insurance broker based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

A Mansfield, Ohio, insurance agent pleaded guilty to willfully failing to file an income tax return with the IRS for 10 years, the agency and the U.S. Justice Department reported.

The Pennsylvania Insurance Department approved the merger of Harleysville Mutual and Nationwide Mutual insurance companies with conditions designed to protect the Harleysville brand and its Pennsylvania operations for several years.

A Tampa, Fla.-based managed care services provider will pay $137.5 million to the federal government and nine states to settle four lawsuits accusing the company of violating the federal False Claims Act.

Two former Ohio insurance agents and a resident agent were accused Feb. 3 in Brown County Court of Common Pleas of misleading their stop-loss insurance clients and pilfering more than $405,000 from them.

A series of earthquakes in Youngstown, Ohio, potentially related to brine-injection wells, caused the city’s mayor to buy earthquake insurance for his home and initiate a moratorium on injection wells near the city.

An Austintown, Ohio, man must repay more than $27,000 in workers’ compensation payments he received illegally.

A Cleveland, Ohio-based business services provider bought the employee benefits and retirement section from Advantage Benefit Planning (ABP), based in Pleasantville, N.J.

A Northumberland, Pa.-based company with more than 230 independent insurance agency franchise partners in seven states, intends to add partners in Georgia in the second quarter.

The defined benefit actuarial consulting operations of PSA Insurance & Financial Services have been sold to a Cleveland-based professional services company.