All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 8 2016 // The state of Illinois has tried an unusual maneuver to save a health insurer with 49,000 Illinois policyholders from possible financial failure by blocking it from paying a $31.8 million bill to the federal...
Jul 5 2016 // A federal jury has awarded more than $27 million to four former Allstate employees who sued the insurer for defamation.The Chicago Tribune reported the employees worked for a now-defunct equity division of the Northbrook,...
Jun 28 2016 // The Illinois Department of Insurance has approved Aetna Inc.’s proposed $34 billion acquisition of Humana Inc. provided it is approved by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to an order dated June 23 posted on...
Jun 27 2016 // A struggling Illinois health insurance co-op is suing the federal government, claiming it is being shortchanged $72.8 million in promised payments under the Affordable Care Act.Chicago-based Land of Lincoln Health filed...
Jun 27 2016 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker, J.M. Wilson, has hired Chance Winke and Tim Frawley in underwriting positions in its Arlington Heights, Ill., office.Winke is an assistant in the transportation...
Jun 20 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court has left in place the top Illinois court’s ruling throwing out a huge $10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris USA, rejecting an appeal focusing on accusations that a judge in the case was...
Jun 9 2016 // Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired KRW Insurance Agency Inc. located in Crystal Lake, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Established in the 1940s, KRW Insurance Agency (KRW) is a...
Jun 6 2016 // Illinois lawmakers have convened a task force to investigate a spike in the theft of recyclable metals.There was a spike in thefts a few years ago when the price of copper and other recyclable metals rose. Copper wiring...
Jun 3 2016 // A company spokeswoman says UnitedHealthcare is pulling out of the Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace in Illinois.Maria Gordon Shydlo of UnitedHealthcare says the company will not offer individual exchange plans in...
May 27 2016 // It’s health insurers’ cardinal rule: disclose pre-existing conditions.Now comes a case in which that familiar decree involves not a patient, but rather a $1.5 million surgical robot known as the da Vinci...
May 20 2016 // Federal safety officials say an Illinois company has been ordered to pay $190,547 in back wages and damages to a safety manager in a whistleblower case stemming from a Lansing, Ill., facility.The U.S. Department of...
May 12 2016 // Bad weather moved into the Ohio River Valley on May 10 after a series of powerful storms hit the Plains, including tornadoes that destroyed homes and left two people dead in Oklahoma.National Weather Service meteorologist...
May 6 2016 // Facebook Inc. users who say the social network’s facial scanning flouts their privacy rights won the first round of a court fight.A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday rejected Facebook’s request to...
May 2 2016 // A big question looming is whether the federal government or state governments will play the primary role in setting standards for self-driving cars.Historically, the federal National Highway and Transportation Safety...
Apr 29 2016 // A 20-year-old northern Illinois volunteer firefighter accused of starting five fires allegedly tossed lit cigarettes to spark at least two of the blazes, according to court documents.Kenneth Grabow of Orangeville was...
Apr 29 2016 // Relatives of six people who perished five years ago in an apartment building fire in suburban Chicago have reached a $1 million legal settlement.Surviving family members sued the building owners, claiming they did not...
Apr 27 2016 // Mercury Insurance is now offering ride-hailing insurance to cover Uber, Lyft and other Transportation Network Company (TNC) drivers in Illinois. This new coverage will provide drivers with insurance that will bridge the...
Apr 19 2016 // ECC Insurance Brokers Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has added Stephen Sanford in Oak Brook, Ill., as vice president. Sanford joins ECC from Hiscox Insurance’s Executive Liability Group where he was...
Apr 14 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher& Co. has acquired Insurance Plans Agency Inc. in South Barrington, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Established in 1983, Insurance Plans Agency Inc. (IPA) is a retail insurance...
Apr 7 2016 // Federal officials are investigating two companies after a construction worker was killed and three others were injured in suburban Chicago.The accident happened early on April 5 when a 40-ton steel bridge beam fell on the...