All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2021 // Health officials are warning consumers in Illinois that they may have bought beef tainted with E. coli bacteria that was produced at a Nebraska plant last month.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and...
Feb 3 2021 // AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” to Pekin Select Insurance Co. (PSIC), headquartered in Pekin, Ill., a subsidiary of Pekin...
Jan 29 2021 // The Illinois General Assembly has passed a bill that includes prejudgment interest in the recovery of damages in personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits.HB 3360 specifies “that in all actions brought to recover...
Jan 27 2021 // Automobile insurance provider, Bluefire Insurance, has expanded its presence into Illinois.With the addition of Illinois, Bluefire, an Irving, Texas-based managing general agency, now offers coverage in eight states, with...
Jan 12 2021 // Pinnacle Actuarial Resources Inc. (Pinnacle), a Bloomington, Ill.-based actuarial consulting firm, has named Aaron Hillebrandt a principal and consulting actuary.Hillebrandt is one of the firm’s leaders in the...
Jan 7 2021 // Dana Popish Severinghaus, formerly Legislative and Regulatory Counsel at Allstate Insurance Co., has been named director of the Illinois Department of Insurance.Popish Severinghaus has extensive legal, policy, government...
Dec 22 2020 // Three companies operating a now-closed Harley-Davidson dealership in Glenview, Ill., have agreed to pay a former employee $193,750 and furnish other relief under a consent decree to settle a federal sex harassment and...
Dec 21 2020 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker J.M. Wilson has added Scott Cella as assistant property/casualty underwriter and Ryan Tokarz as assistant transportation underwriter in its Arlington Heights, Ill.,...
Dec 8 2020 // Two people have sued a suburban Chicago funeral home after discovering that one of them was given the ashes of an elderly woman in a mix-up instead of those of a four-month-old girl.The lawsuit filed in November alleges...
Dec 7 2020 // More than two dozen migrant workers from Texas allege they were sprayed with toxic pesticides while working in Illinois cornfields, according to a federal lawsuit.The workers, including teenagers, senior citizens and a...
Dec 7 2020 // Illinois Department of Insurance Director Robert Muriel is leaving his post on Dec. 11, 2020, the department reported. IDOI’s Chief Deputy Director of Product Lines Shannon Whalen will fill in as interim acting...
Dec 3 2020 // New Jersey-based World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired Insurance Solution Network LLC (ISN) of Villa Park, Ill.Terms of the Nov. 1 transaction were not disclosed. ISN, led by President Daniel Berlin, has been...
Nov 23 2020 // Specialty insurer, Kemper Corp., has agreed to acquire American Access Casualty Co, and its related captive insurance agency, Newins Insurance Agency Holdings LLC, and its subsidiaries (collectively “AAC”). AAC...
Nov 19 2020 // Homeowners of America Insurance Co. (HOAIC), an Irving, Texas-based property/casualty insurance provider, is now offering its insurance products in the state of Illinois.HOAIC President and CEO Spencer Tucker said the move...
Nov 18 2020 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Corp. says Craig W. Kliethermes, current RLI Insurance Co. president and chief operating officer, will succeed Jonathan E. Michael as RLI’s chief executive officer, upon Michael’s...
Nov 18 2020 // Two former Berkshire Hathaway companies have been hit with a $250,000 fine by Illinois regulators for selling unapproved workers’ compensation policies to small businesses.The Illinois Department of Insurance says...
Nov 10 2020 // Naperville, Ill.-based insurance software provider, Instec, has promoted Kevin Mason chief strategy officer, a newly created position.He will be responsible for shaping and executing business and product strategies,...
Nov 3 2020 // A Chicago-area sports fashion chain will pay $420,000 to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit, federal officials say.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said City Sports has more...
Oct 30 2020 // An Illinois-based staffing agency will pay $25,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging it refused to hire qualified females as receiving associates.LTI Services LLC in Burbank, Ill., also has agreed to other conditions to...
Oct 29 2020 // Surging COVID-19 cases in Chicago has prompted Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to ban indoor dining and bar services and limit the number of people gathering in one place.However, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she...