All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Dec 27 2021 // A contractor working at a Caterpillar Inc. foundry in central Illinois fell to his death when he apparently stepped off a ladder at the plant, authorities said.The Peoria County coroner said Scott M. Adams, 50, of East...
Dec 15 2021 // A 61-year-old worker died after becoming trapped in machinery at a suburban Chicago steel polishing factory, authorities said Friday.Raymondo Escobar’s cause of death was due to “asphyxia due to machinery...
Dec 15 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has Chicago-based Tave Risk Management, LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2000, Tave Risk Management, LLC is a retail property/casualty broker and risk advisory firm...
Dec 14 2021 // EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — The U.S. workplace safety watchdog is investigating the circumstances around the collapse during Friday night’s storm of an Amazon.com Inc building in Illinois in which six workers died, an...
Dec 10 2021 // Volkswagen AG’s U.S. unit will pay $3.5 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Illinois against the German automaker for updates of emissions software arising from the 2015 diesel cheating scandal.Last month,...
Dec 1 2021 // The family of two close friends from suburban Chicago who were killed at the Astroworld concert in Houston this month have filed wrongful death lawsuits against rapper Travis Scott, the Live Nation entertainment company...
Nov 29 2021 // The former owner of West Suburban Medical Center, an Oak Park, Illinois hospital will pay $150,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal...
Nov 29 2021 // The Allstate Corp. announced it has reached an agreement to sell the property making up the majority of its campus in Northbrook, Illinois, to Dermody Properties for approximately $232 million.The sale is expected to close...