All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 4 2016 // Affirmative Insurance Company (Affirmative or AIC) was ordered into liquidation in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, on March 24.Acting Illinois Insurance Director Anne Melissa Dowling filed a Complaint for...
Apr 3 2016 // A state lawmaker says Illinois should pull state-owned vehicles off the road during its budget stalemate unless money is appropriated to self-insure them.Republican state Rep. Bill Mitchell of Forysth says one of his...
Mar 28 2016 // Three people from Wisconsin or Illinois who are charged with operating a car insurance fraud ring can be prosecuted in Iowa, even though they never set foot in the state, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled.Police say the trio...
Mar 24 2016 // Larry Goss Insurance in Mt. Vernon, Ill., has joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a network of 100 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Southern Illinois. Larry Goss Insurance is a full-service...
Mar 22 2016 // On March 1, 2016, Affirmative Insurance Co. was declared insolvent by at least $31 million by Acting Illinois Insurance Director Anne Melissa Dowling, who filed with the Illinois Supervising Court a Complaint for...
Mar 18 2016 // The National Weather Service confirmed that on tornadoes touched down this week in parts of eastern Iowa that also endured heavy rain and hail as large as golf balls. Tornadoes also touched down at least five times in...
Mar 11 2016 // Itasca, Ill.-based insurance broker, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has acquired Vincent L. Braband Insurance Inc. in Arlington Heights, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1930, Vincent L....
Mar 9 2016 // Federal auditors should examine a program that has allowed leading coal companies to lower cleanup insurance costs and could leave taxpayers on the hook if the miners declare bankruptcy, Democratic lawmakers said on...
Feb 29 2016 // A security camera inside a suburban Chicago home recorded a hoverboard catching fire shortly after a child left the house, which was extensively damaged by the blaze.Homeowner Dan Perper says the video shows his...
Feb 22 2016 // A northern Illinois county purchasing director allegedly spent more than $60,000 on personal items, according to a draft of an insurance claim Winnebago County plans to file. The Rockford Register Star reports the claim...
Feb 17 2016 // Ohio-based Demotech Inc. recently affirmed the financial stability ratings (FSRs) assigned to six self-funded public entity pools in the Midwest.Demotech reviews and rates more than 415 insurers, writing every line of...
Feb 16 2016 // A Midwestern environmental group has followed through on its promise to formally challenge Peabody Energy’s ability to guarantee it has enough money for future cleanup of its Illinois and Indiana coal mines.The...
Feb 11 2016 // Failed safety oversight was partly to blame for a deadly crash near Chicago in which a truck driver for a company already flagged as high-risk fell asleep and plowed into emergency vehicles, a federal accident...
Feb 9 2016 // A northern Illinois county purchasing director allegedly spent more than $60,000 on personal items, according to a draft of an insurance claim Winnebago County plans to file. The Rockford Register Star reports the claim...
Feb 5 2016 // The Insurance House, located in Marion, Ill., has hired Meagan Edwards as a customer service representative. Edwards has been a licensed insurance agent for nearly 10 years.Founded in 1936, The Insurance House handles a...
Feb 2 2016 // Insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired operations assets of the Columbian Agency (Columbian), based in New Lenox, Ill. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Columbian operations specialize...
Jan 26 2016 // Madison, Wis.-based American Family Insurance is introducing DreamKeep Rewards in Illinois, an insurance loyalty program designed to recognize and reward members every day for making smart decisions that protect their...
Jan 25 2016 // In mid-January, the Missouri Department of Insurance issued a bulletin to insurers reminding them that the rating practice generally known as “price optimization” is prohibited in the state.“Price...
Jan 25 2016 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, IHC RiskSwiss Re Corporate Solutions has agreed to buy IHC Risk Solutions and its direct employer stop loss (ESL) business from Independence Holding Co. for $152.5 million in cash. The...
Jan 14 2016 // The in central Illinois has resigned in the wake of his indictment on federal fraud charges.Republican Matt Sorensen submitted a resignation letter to an executive committee meeting, The Pantagraph in Bloomington reported....