All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 13 2015 // A.M. Best has revised the outlook to stable from negative for the financial strength rating (FSR) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of Illinois Casualty Co. (Illinois Casualty) in Rock Island, Ill., while affirming the FSR of...
Feb 5 2015 // Specialty insurer, RLI Corp., based in Peoria, Ill., has promoted several leaders within the claim department.Don Driscoll, vice president, claim, has been promoted to vice president, chief claim officer. Driscoll will...
Feb 2 2015 // Authorities in southern Illinois are investigating half a dozen recent fires in the village of Marissa, including one that destroyed a local landmark serving as a museum to the area’s coal mining history.The blaze...
Jan 12 2015 // Keystone Insurers Group announced its newest franchise partner in Illinois: Joseph M. Wiedemann & Sons, based in Arlington Heights.The firm, which has three offices in the Chicago-East Central Illinois area, is the...
Jan 12 2015 // The St. Louis, Mo., office of independent insurance broker, Lockton, has promoted Diane Fischer to vice president, unit manager of risk management.Fischer joined Lockton in 2007, with more than 20 years of national account...
Jan 6 2015 // DSP Insurance Services, based in the Chicago area, announced the purchase of certain assets of Willis of Illinois’ Schaumburg office. The acquisition was finalized Dec. 31, 2014. John Adams, Bob Mielke, Jerry Olson...
Dec 29 2014 // A new app could help reduce the number of fatal grain bin entrapments that occur in Illinois. The Illinois Corn Marketing Board and the Grain and Feed Association of Illinois teamed up to create an app that will locate the...
Dec 18 2014 // The city of Rockford, Ill., has reached a $1.1 million settlement with the estate of an unarmed black man who was fatally shot inside a church-run day care by two white police officers in 2009, according to officials.In a...
Dec 18 2014 // A Cicero, Ill., landlord has been sentenced to life in prison for the deaths of seven people during a Valentine’s Day 2010 apartment fire that prosecutors say was set for insurance money. Cook County prosecutors say...
Dec 11 2014 // A national business group has begun a campaign to shine a spotlight on what it calls “systemic lawsuit abuse” in the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis.The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform unveiled its...
Dec 8 2014 // Peoria, Ill.-based specialty insurer, RLI Corp., announced three leadership promotionsTodd Bryant, vice president, controller, has been promoted to vice president, finance and controller. In this expanded role, Bryant will...
Dec 5 2014 // The Illinois Legislature has passed legislation regulating drivers in the emerging ridesharing industry.Both the House and Senate approved legislation creating statewide regulations for drivers working for ridesharing...
Dec 5 2014 // Ronald A. Rascia has been appointed acting chairman of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC).Rascia first joined the commission in 2011 as general counsel, and later added the duties of commission...
Dec 4 2014 // The Illinois House has approved a bill allowing more time to file a lawsuit over asbestos-related disease.The initiative was adopted 70-43 Tuesday and moves to the Senate. Rep. Elaine Nekritz is a Northbrook Democrat. Her...
Dec 3 2014 // The Cook County state’s attorney’s office in Illinois has filed a federal Fair Housing Act lawsuit against Wells Fargo & Co. for alleged predatory and discriminatory mortgage lending. In announcing the...
Dec 1 2014 // Illinois’ most populous county is accusing Wells Fargo & Co. in a lawsuit of subjecting minority and female borrowers to discriminatory and predatory lending.Cook County’s 152-page lawsuit filed last week...
Dec 1 2014 // A former high school quarterback followed in the steps of one-time pro and college players Saturday by suing a sports governing body – in this case the Illinois High School Association – saying it didn’t do...
Dec 1 2014 // The 1,200-pound steel cylinder in James Trudeau’s driveway certainly struck his Bourbonnais, Ill., neighborhood as odd, at least at first.Even Kankakee County’s planning department wasn’t sure what to...
Dec 1 2014 // Erie Insurance announced it has launched auto insurance coverage to protect drivers who use ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft in two Midwestern states.Erie’s new coverage, currently available in Indiana and...
Dec 1 2014 // Two subsidiaries of the American International Group – Granite State Insurance Co. and New Hampshire Insurance Co. — recently filed for approval a plan of redomestication that would change their state of domicile...