The Ohio Department of Insurance has created an on-line toolkit to help Ohioans, including retirees, who have lost their health and life insurance benefits due to company lay-offs or cost-cutting measures determine other insurance coverage options, Director Mary Jo Hudson announced.

The toolkit, available at www.insurance.ohio.gov, contains coverage options tips on how to find insurance, consumer publications and links to health insurance, life insurance, employer bankruptcy and job loss material. The site also includes contact and outreach information for the Department, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

Those with questions about their coverage options are urged to call the Ohio Department of Insurance consumer hotline at 1-800-686-1526.