All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 5 2017 // A new report published by ProPublica accuses the auto insurance industry of pricing discrimination against minorities.The report, titled Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas with the...
Apr 3 2017 // Decatur, Ill.-based company King-Lar will pay $325,000 to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).In its lawsuit, the EEOC accused King-Lar, which provides...
Apr 3 2017 // A legal battle between two insurance brokerages over whether a former employee violated noncompete agreements and poached numerous employees is not over yet, but the brokerage bringing the charges has scored key early...
Apr 3 2017 // The Illinois Department of Insurance has placed Public Service Insurance Co. (Public Service) and its parent corporation, Public Service Mutual Holding Co., into rehabilitation.Policies will continue in force and claims...
Mar 30 2017 // A national trade association representing property/casualty insurers has come out against a proposed bill in Illinois that will create what group says are “burdensome and duplicative workers’ compensation...
Mar 29 2017 // A.M. Besthas assigned a long-term issuer credit rating (Long-Term ICR) of “bb” to ICC Holdings Inc.(ICC Holdings) in Rock Island, Ill., a recently formed publicly traded holding company for the demutualization...
Mar 22 2017 // The Illinois Department of Insurance reported that Public Service Insurance Co. (Public Service) and its parent corporation Public Service Mutual Holding Co. have been placed into rehabilitation.Policies will continue in...
Mar 22 2017 // A legal battle between two insurance brokerages over whether a former employee violated non-compete agreements and poached numerous employees is not over yet but the brokerage bringing the charges has scored key early...
Mar 20 2017 // What does the Trump Administration have in store for the development of autonomous vehicles and smart roads?With the administration’s ambitious infrastructure plan still far from finalized, Hilary Rowen, a partner in...
Mar 20 2017 // The owner of a Rockford, Illinois-based managing general agency that last year had its license revoked or non-renewed by at least three separate state insurance departments has been indicted by a federal grand jury for...
Mar 13 2017 // A federal safety official called on the rail industry to move faster to upgrade aging rail tankers following a fiery train derailment in rural Iowa that spilled ethanol into a creek and was still burning nearly two days...
Mar 8 2017 // What does the Trump Administration have in store for the development of autonomous vehicles and smart roads?With the administration’s ambitious infrastructure plan still far from finalized, Hilary Rowen, a partner in...
Mar 2 2017 // A spring-like storm system that killed at least three people as it spawned tornadoes and damaged dozens of homes in the central U.S. rumbled eastward on March 1, putting about 95 million people in its path, forecasters...
Mar 2 2017 // The owner of a Rockford, Illinois-based managing general agency that last year had its license revoked or non-renewed by two separate state insurance departments has been indicted by a federal grand jury for mail and...
Feb 22 2017 // Should injured pro athletes be allowed to earn workers’ compensation benefits until they are 67 years old, like other workers, even if their athletic careers normally would have ended more than 30 years earlier?That...
Feb 15 2017 // Chicago, Ill.-area students with attention deficit disorder are getting special attention when they learn to drive.The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reported a Chicago-based group called Behind the Wheel with ADHD is...
Feb 10 2017 // Small communities throughout Illinois are having trouble recruiting and retaining volunteer firefighters.Seventy percent of the state’s fire departments are volunteer, The State Journal-Register reported. Springfield...
Feb 3 2017 // Illinois has become the 17th state to reach a settlement with a California-based human resources software startup for alleged insurance code violations. Illinois Department of Insurance investigators found the startup...
Jan 31 2017 // Bailey Family Insurance in Springfield, Ill., recently joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a network of 100 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois. Owned by Mark and Christine Bailey, Bailey...
Jan 30 2017 // A group of affiliated coal mining companies will pay $4.25 million to settle two lawsuits that allege women were denied jobs at the firms because of their gender, federal officials said.The U.S. Equal Employment...