All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 12 2012 // Illinois State Toll Highway Authority officials say the number of cars using the state’s toll roads dipped by 4.5 percent since fees for users nearly doubled on Jan. 1. Spokeswoman Wendy Abrams says the decrease was...
Jan 11 2012 // The number of traffic stops across Illinois has dropped by nearly 6 percent and the number of ticketed motorists has dipped about 11 percent, according to a published report.The Chicago Tribune analyzed state data on...
Jan 11 2012 // Illinois is getting more than $7.7 million to help cover the costs of repairing roads and bridges damaged by last year’s flooding and windstorms. Gov. Pat Quinn and Sen. Dick Durbin announced that the money will be...
Jan 11 2012 // States without fee schedules have higher hospital outpatient costs for common surgeries compared to states with fee schedules, according to a workers’ compensation study.The study found that significant variations in...
Jan 5 2012 // Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed a new acting director of the Illinois Department of Insurance.Robert Wagner has been with the department 11 years and is its general counsel. He is the department’s third acting director...
Dec 19 2011 // The chief executive of a company allegedly selling fraudulent health insurance says he is fully cooperating with the Illinois Department of Insurance to resolve the matter.Donald Chew, president and CEO of ReAssurance...
Dec 16 2011 // A judge who was assigned to hear all of the asbestos cases in her southwestern Illinois county was stripped of those cases after it was revealed her campaign committee received $30,000 in contributions from area law firms...
Dec 7 2011 // Risk Sciences Group, a provider of risk management information systems (RMIS) and related analytics services, has named Kathy Longueil national sales executive in its Schaumberg, Ill., office. Longueil brings with her 17...
Dec 5 2011 // AIPSO, a management organization and service provider for various insurance industry groups responsible for administering the residual market, announced that the central region is closing its East Wacker Drive office in...
Dec 5 2011 // Workers filing on-the-job injury claims at just a dozen state institutions clustered in southern Illinois collected nearly one-third of the total $127 million awarded in recent years for permanent impairment under...
Nov 23 2011 // The Illinois council of the International Association of Insurance Professionals (IAIP), formerly known as NAIW, has installed new officers. They are: Council Director Elect Penny Irwin with Horace Mann in...
Nov 16 2011 // If you live in Texas, Illinois or Ohio, you’re more likely to experience a cooking fire on Thanksgiving Day than those in other states.That’s according to claims data from Illinois-based State Farm Insurance....
Oct 31 2011 // Associated Risk Managers (ARM) of Illinois has added Rochelle Community Consolidated School District #231 into the Prairie State Insurance Cooperative (PSIC) as its 100th member.PSIC is an exclusive ARM of Illinois program...
Oct 27 2011 // A judge in Missouri has declared a mistrial in a $700 million lawsuit against Philip Morris USA, after jurors failed to reach agreement on whether Missouri smokers were misled into believing that light cigarettes were...
Oct 17 2011 // Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has appointed 29 arbitrators in Illinois’ workers’ compensation system.Arbitrators rule on claims filed under the state’s Workers Compensation Act. The appointments are part of...
Oct 3 2011 // Indiana insurance regulators announced that the non-resident producer license fee is increasing to $250 for Illinois resident producers. The Indiana Department of Insurance noted that it is required to impose fees on...
Sep 30 2011 // The Illinois Supreme Court has cleared the way for plaintiffs’ attorneys to push that a $10.1 billion verdict against cigarette-maker Philip Morris be revived, sending the matter back to the trial court for more...
Sep 23 2011 // Milwaukee, Wis.-based Roundy’s Supermarkets Inc. is recalling about 360 pounds of breaded chicken breast that may have been undercooked.The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the products were sold after Sept. 13 at...
Sep 22 2011 // Indiana insurance regulators announced that the non-resident producer license fee is increasing to $250 for Illinois resident producers.The Indiana Department of Insurance noted that it is required to impose fees on...
Sep 21 2011 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) presented the Federal Legislator of the Year Award to U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., at its annual convention in Indianapolis.‘Rep. Biggert is a...