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.

Keystone Insurers Group, a Northumberland, Pa.-based insurance broker, announced its 11th franchise partner in Tennessee, increasing Keystone’s growth rate to 10% in the state, according to the firm.

A Newark, Ohio, man who operated his business for more than a decade without proper workers’ compensation insurance, was sentenced to 90 days in jail, which was suspended, and ordered to pay $205,000 in restitution.

The U.S. government filed a federal suit against a benefit plan administrator and its president, seeking to restore $436,322 to two benefit plans of Columbus, Ohio-based Clark Graphics.

Seven Republican congress members introduced a bill (H.R. 3127) that would prohibit the payment of death gratuities to the surviving heirs of deceased members of Congress.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) granted a second round of awards totaling $109 million to 28 states and Washington, D.C., to further implement federal health reform.