Latest Illinois Headlines

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Illinois Court: Homeowner Suit Against Flood Determination Firm May Proceed

Aug 19 2011 // A flood determination company may be sued by Illinois homeowners for failing to determine the couple’s home was in a flood plain, a state appeals court has found.The Illinois Court of Appeals for the Third District...

New Workers’ Comp Reform Linked to Illinois Trooper Crash

Aug 16 2011 // A new law inspired by a former Illinois State Police trooper’s high-speed freeway wreck that killed two sisters bars state employees injured while committing crimes from getting workers’ compensation.The...

Ill. Governor Declares 3 Counties Disaster Areas

Aug 12 2011 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn declared three counties disaster areas due to flooding last month that caused severe damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure. Quinn said Wednesday the flash floods in northwest Illinois on...

Man Gets $6.3 Million in Illinois Priest Abuse Case

Aug 12 2011 // A nine-year legal fight by a man sexually abused by a priest in the 1970s is over, now that a southern Illinois diocese and its insurer have handed over $6.3 million to resolve a jury award in the man’s...

Illinois Bars Workers’ Compensation for State Employees Involved in Crimes

Aug 11 2011 // A new law inspired by a former Illinois State Police trooper’s high-speed freeway wreck that killed two sisters bars state employees injured while committing crimes from getting workers’ compensation.The...

Dad of Girl Electrocuted on Monsanto-Farm in Ill. Files Suit

Aug 8 2011 // The father of a northwestern Illinois girl who was electrocuted while removing tassels from corn filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company that hired his daughter.Brian Kendall’s lawsuit against St....

Judge Tosses Suit Challenging FEMA Flood Mapping in Illinois

Aug 4 2011 // A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit three southwestern Illinois counties filed to block the U.S. government from declaring the region’s levees functionally useless. U.S. District Judge J. Phil Gilbert called the...

Home of Illinois Official Jailed in Insurance Scheme on Auction Block

Jul 27 2011 // For sale: House in sleepy-looking Chicago suburb steeped in mob history since the days of Al Capone where a mayor lived before moving into a federal prison for her role in a mob-related insurance scam. Lunch included.The...

Oklahoma Governor Touts Tort, Work Comp Reforms to Chicago Businesses

Jul 25 2011 // Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said she is pitching her state’s business climate and work force in an attempt to lure some Illinois-based companies to the Sooner State.Fallin visited Chicago on July 21, meeting with...

Council OKs Southwestern Illinois Levee Upgrades

Jul 22 2011 // The people who oversee 64 miles of aging Mississippi River levees in southwestern Illinois have signed off on a $151 million plan to upgrade the barriers perhaps by 2014.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the Southwestern...

Illinois Governor Appoints 12 to Workers’ Comp Advisory Board

Jul 20 2011 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed 12 new members to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Advisory Board as part of the implementation of recently passed workers’ compensation reform legislation. The...

8.8% Reduction in Voluntary Advisory Rates Filed in Illinois

Jul 19 2011 // In response to the recent enactment of the Illinois workers’ compensation reform measure, House Bill 1698, workers’ compensation insurance database manager National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. filed...

Federal Bill Offers Break for Properties in Certain Flood Zones

Jul 15 2011 // Overseers of levees in southwestern Illinois welcomed the advance of a federal measure that could give thousands of property owners up to a five-year reprieve in having to buy costly flood insurance in areas with...

Illinois Lawyer Targeted in Trooper Worker’s Comp Investigation

Jul 14 2011 // Illinois’ Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission has filed a complaint against a lawyer who represented a state trooper injured in a wreck he caused that killed two sisters.The commission contends attorney...

Illinois Doctors Plead Guilty to Work Comp Fraud in Ohio

Jul 4 2011 // A pair of Illinois brothers who traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to practice psychiatry were sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud after an investigation showed they were conducting inadequate examinations of injured...

Illinois Governor Signs Workers’ Compensation Reform

Jun 30 2011 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said companies should see their workers’ compensation premiums drop because of a new law he signed June 28 overhauling the system that takes care of employees injured on the...

Illinois Doctors Plead Guilty to Work Comp Fraud in Ohio

Jun 24 2011 // A pair of Illinois brothers who traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to practice psychiatry were sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud after an investigation showed they were conducting inadequate examinations of injured...

Digital Insurance Acquires Agencies in Illinois and Arizona

Jun 20 2011 // Digital Insurance Inc., an employee benefits agency specializing in insurance for small businesses and mid-sized companies, has acquired Employee Benefits by Design in Chicago and Strategic Benefits Consultants (SBC) in...

Illinois AG: Workers’ Comp Bill Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Jun 20 2011 // Illinois’ attorney general has praised parts of the recently approved workers’ compensation overhaul, but she says it would be a “gross overstatement” to call the system reformed.Lisa Madigan said...

Illinois Seeking Applications for Workers’ Comp Arbitrators

Jun 20 2011 // Recently passed Illinois House Bill 1698 provides that the governor will appoint all arbitrator positions for the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. The governor has not yet signed the bill, but the...