All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 21 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Brown Hobbs & McMurray Insurance in Urbana, Ill.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Thomas Brown, Paul Hobbs, William Hobbs, Dick and Rich McMurray, and their associates...
Dec 21 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Dec 17 2015 // Keystone Insurers Group announced its newest franchise partner in Illinois: The Rockwood Company, based in downtown Chicago.The firm, with four offices outside the city, completes Keystone’s network of agents in...
Dec 15 2015 // J.M. Wilson has hired Cassie Henderson-Paul as assistant property/casualty underwriter in its Arlington Heights, Ill., office.Henderson-Paul assists the property casualty underwriting department with setting up and binding...
Dec 8 2015 // Illinois law has required back-seat passengers to wear seat belts since 2012.An Illinois Department of Transportation survey shows nearly 85 percent of the state’s back-seat passengers are buckling up, an increase of...
Dec 2 2015 // Chicago-based global insurance broker, Hub International Limited (Hub), has acquired the assets of Forest Financial Group Inc. (FFG). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Lake Forest, Ill., FFG specializes...
Dec 2 2015 // A judge has ordered Illinois to pay more than $13 million to cover the cost of health insurance for home healthcare workers.SEIU Healthcare Illinois took legal action against Gov. Bruce Rauner and Comptroller Leslie Munger...
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Nov 16 2015 // The Illinois Supreme Court on Nov. 4 threw out a $10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris USA in a long-running lawsuit accusing the Altria Group Inc. unit of misleading smokers about the health risks of...
Nov 15 2015 // The Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI) reported that it mistakenly allowed the Social Security numbers of some health care providers to be posted publicly.The DOI said it learned on Nov. 9 of an inadvertent data...
Nov 15 2015 // After the Mississippi River flooded four years ago, more than 100 Illinois families agreed — some reluctantly — to sell their homes to the government for demolition so they could move to higher ground.With the...
Nov 11 2015 // Pactiv LLC, an Illinois-based provider of advanced packing solutions to customers around the world, will pay $1,700,000 to settle disability discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Nov 11 2015 // Risk Strategies Co. has acquired M.G. Welbel & Associates (MGW), a Northbrook, Ill.-based professional liability insurance specialty broker.Terms of the deal were not made public. MGW’S focus is on lawyers and...
Nov 8 2015 // Health officials in two western Illinois counties say the count of people with suspected illness linked to apple cider has risen to 70. The Quincy Herald-Whig reports that’s the updated tally from the health...
Nov 5 2015 // The Illinois Supreme Court on Nov. 4 threw out a $10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris USA in a long-running lawsuit accusing the Altria Group Inc. unit of misleading smokers about the health risks of...
Nov 3 2015 // Three insurers have sued Illinois Treasurer Mike Frerichs over an attempt to seek records on life insurance policies.Frerichs said an audit was sought to find unpaid death benefits because returning unclaimed property is...
Nov 3 2015 // A southwestern Illinois school district that paid $5.6 million to settle four lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of students by a former superintendent says its insurers are denying coverage for a fifth complaint.The Freeburg...
Oct 30 2015 // An Illinois judge has dismissed the nation’s first class-action concussions lawsuit against a prep sports governing body, saying the Illinois High School Association has taken steps to make football safer and that...
Oct 28 2015 // A federal jury in Peoria, Ill., has awarded $240,000 to two Somalian-American Muslims who were fired from their jobs as truck drivers at Star Transport, an over-the-road trucking company, when they refused to transport...
Oct 28 2015 // U.S.-based small and medium sized businesses face an almost 12 percent chance that they it will be hit with an employment claim, with their chances much higher in certain states.A new study of employee charge trends by...