All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 8 2022 // Mercury Insurance announced that the company has made its usage-based insurance app, MercuryGO, available to drivers in Illinois to help improve driving skills and traffic safety.Mercury says the app acts as a virtual...
Apr 8 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with JTR Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. in Monee, Illinois, to resolve alleged violations of Clean Air Act stratospheric ozone regulations.EPA’s...
Apr 5 2022 // The U.S. House Oversight Committee is opening an investigation into Amazon.com’s labor practices during extreme weather events, following the death of six workers during a swarm of tornados last year. In a letter...
Mar 30 2022 // An insurer must defend an information technology company facing a pair of Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) lawsuits, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said in a March 30 ruling.In...
Mar 30 2022 // Rockford, IL., March 29, 2022 – Insurance King has been actively enforcing the trademarks registration numbers 4628341 and 4628343 for several years.“It all started with a person that walked in to our office and...
Mar 17 2022 // Long John Silver’s will pay $200,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced.The EEOC charged...
Mar 15 2022 // First Chicago Insurance Company announced it recently launched its augmented commercial auto insurance program in Illinois and Indiana. The program covers owned or leased Vehicles, hired autos, non-owned, temporary...
Mar 9 2022 // An Illinois federal judge said a policy exclusion for employment-related practices does not protect State Automobile Insurance Co. from defending a grocery chain accused of violating the Illinois Biometric Information...
Mar 7 2022 // Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of Kuhl Insurance Agency, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Morton, Illinois, Kuhl Insurance is an independent agency providing commercial and...
Mar 1 2022 // Illinois is expected to receive $760 million as part of a settlement with pharmaceutical distributors sued for their role in the opioid crisis, the state attorney general announced Feb. 25.Attorney General Kwame...
Feb 24 2022 // Verisk, the global data analytics provider, has acquired Infutor, a provider of identity resolution and consumer intelligence data.Verisk plans to integrate Infutor with Jornaya, which it acquired in 2020, to form Verisk...
Feb 4 2022 // The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act (IWCA) does not bar claims for statutory damages under the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled in a Feb. 3...
Jan 25 2022 // A chemical explosion on Jan. 21 at a northern Illinois manufacturing plant killed one person and left another critically injured, authorities said.The incident occurred about 10:45 a.m. when two employees at the W. R....
Jan 25 2022 // An Illinois pizza manufacturer could be forced to pay $145,000 in penalties after a worker suffered a fatal injury while cleaning a machine in July 2021.A U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health...
Jan 19 2022 // The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the central Illinois Amazon facility where he worked filed a wrongful deathlawsuitMonday in Madison County.The action on behalf of Austin McEwen,...
Jan 14 2022 // CHICAGO HEIGHTS and DECATUR, Ill., Jan. 14, 2022 – Insurance King has announced the rebranding of the two insurance agencies they have purchased in Illinois.Vic Bernardi Insurance Agency located in Chicago Heights,...
Jan 13 2022 // Chicago-based investor Agman has announced the launch of Aurenity, a new tech-enabled Managing General Agent (MGA) targeting the Excess and Surplus (E&S) market.Aurenity will deploy underwriting analytics to determine...
Jan 12 2022 // Inszone Insurance Services, a national provider of benefits, personal and commercial lines insurance, has acquired Illinois-based Lamb, Little & Co. This acquisition will broaden Inszone’s U.S. presence to...
Jan 10 2022 // The Illinois attorney general is accusing a coal mine operator of polluting the area with toxic foam to try to stop an underground fire.“Exposure to such chemicals can cause long-lasting damage to the environment and...
Jan 4 2022 // The Illinois Office of the Special Deputy Receiver (OSD) was hit by a cyberattack last summer, resulting in millions of dollars in losses to two auto insurance agencies under liquidation, the Illinois Department of...