All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 26 2018 // Federal safety officials have cited an Illinois pallet manufacturer for machine safety violations after an employee was injured while conducting maintenance on equipment.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Jan 25 2018 // Preliminary test results show the possible presence of Legionella bacteria in the Illinois Capitol Complex’s hot water system and officials have removed aerators and shut off the showers to reduce the possibility of...
Jan 25 2018 // Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration cannot adequately account for more than $7 billion paid to Medicaid insurance providers in 2016, an audit released on Jan. 23 found.The critical review by Auditor General...
Jan 24 2018 // Prospect General Insurance Agency (Prospect General) has launched its admitted residential flood insurance product, Flood Guard, in Illinois.Written through Palomar Specialty Insurance Co., Flood Guard provides residential...
Jan 8 2018 // Grinnell, Iowa-based property and casualty insurer/reinsurer, Grinnell Mutual, named Dave Wingert, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to serve as acting president.Larry Jansen retired on Dec. 15, 2017,...
Dec 29 2017 // Chicago, Ill.-based Old Republic International Corp. has named Jeffrey Lange senior vice president in underwriting and distribution of the Old Republic General Insurance Group Inc. Concurrently, he will become a member of...
Dec 29 2017 // A bad broker, classic cars that got destroyed in a fire and insurer rating downgrades were among the most widely read news stories in Insurance Journal’s Midwest region in 2017.One story that generated much interest...
Dec 19 2017 // Deerfield, Illinois-based employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, Alera Group, has acquired Hallberg Commercial Insurers Inc. in Oakbrook, Illinois.Hallberg Commercial provides...
Dec 18 2017 // USI, Wells FargoUSI Insurance Services announced the closing on its acquisition of Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, formerly part of Wells Fargo & Co. This purchase includes the commercial insurance brokerage and...
Dec 14 2017 // Olsick & Company Insurance, located in Willowbrook, Illinois, has joined Keystone Insurers Group (Keystone), the companies announced. The agency is Keystone’s 18th partner in Illinois.The announcement was made...
Dec 13 2017 // A central Illinois jury has awarded $5.2 million to a nurse who claims she was fired from a nursing home after reporting alleged abuse.The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reports Katrina Wesemann worked as a licensed practical...
Dec 12 2017 // A former Tennessee lawmaker is suing an Illinois trucking company for injuries he received in a vehicle accident.The Kingsport Times News reports that former state Rep. Jason Mumpower, who is currently the Tennessee...
Dec 11 2017 // A suburban Chicago chiropractor has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for billing an insurance company more than $4 million for treatment that was unnecessary or never provided. Federal prosecutors said Thursday...
Dec 8 2017 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Illinois grew 3.1 percent per year on average from 2012 through 2015, according to a recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI).In all,...
Dec 6 2017 // Koetting Insurance and Resource Agency in Germantown, Ill., has joined St. Louis, Mo.-based Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a cohesive family of over 100 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and...
Dec 6 2017 // Andrea Thorpe, of Bloomington, Illinois, has been named vice president of Commercial/Agribusiness Underwriting at COUNTRY Financial. She replaces Sheri Bane who will retire in January 2018.Thorpe will lead the Agribusiness...
Dec 4 2017 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Wayne, Illinois-based Weiss Insurance Agencies Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1905, Weiss Insurance Agencies provides a full range of employee...
Dec 1 2017 // EH Nolkemper Insurance Agency in Columbia, Ill., led by Steven Straub, has merged with St. Louis, Missouri-based The Daniel & Henry Co.The EH Nolkemper team will join one of The Daniel & Henry Co.’s...
Nov 30 2017 // A third person has contracted Legionnaires’ disease at a western Illinois veterans home where two other cases were identified last month, state officials said.The Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs and...
Nov 30 2017 // It’s possible to know where in the country more homebuyers will be moving over the next 30 to 90 days, thanks to what’s called a “pre-mover” index.It turns out that the U.S. markets with the highest...