All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jun 20 2011 // Bob Devereaux has joined the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission as Fraud Prevention and Efficiency Controller. He comes to the Commission from the private sector where he has held a variety of positions in...
Jun 20 2011 // Prices for workers’ compensation insurance are inching up after decreasing and then flat-lining for the past few years, according to Towers Watson. The global professional services firm’s most recent Commercial...
Jun 20 2011 // Iowa-based United Fire & Casualty Co. announced new executive appointments and the election of four new directors for full terms on its 12-member board.Denver Regional Office Underwriting Manager Jolene Grow was...
Jun 20 2011 // A newspaper’s ongoing investigation has found an expert report, commissioned by the state of Illinois, showed that locking and unlocking prison cells didn’t cause repetitive trauma injuries in guards.The...
Jun 20 2011 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn plans to sign a major overhaul of Illinois workers’ compensation system that he said will mean “significant savings” for the state, but at least one insurance carrier trade group...
Jun 20 2011 // Prices for workers’ compensation insurance are inching up after decreasing and then flat-lining for the past few years, according to Towers Watson. The global professional services firm’s most recent Commercial...
Jun 17 2011 // The agency tasked with improving Mississippi River levees in southwestern Illinois says it has a five-year, $161 million plan to get the job done.The Southwestern Illinois Flood Prevention District Council revealed the...
Jun 15 2011 // A southwestern Illinois chiropractor already sentenced to federal prison for health-care fraud and money laundering has been ordered to pay nearly $1.9 million in restitution. Forty-one-year-old John Hardimon of Shiloh...
Jun 14 2011 // New workers’ compensation claims have continued to pile up this year at Menard Correctional Center in Illinois despite ongoing probes by federal authorities, a newspaper reported on June 12.According to the...
Jun 10 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor revoked the resident insurance agent license of Jeffrey Hum, of Toledo, Ohio, for violations of Ohio insurance law.A department review revealed that...
Jun 8 2011 // A newspaper’s ongoing investigation has found an expert report, commissioned by the state of Illinois, showed that locking and unlocking prison cells didn’t cause repetitive trauma injuries in guards.The...
Jun 7 2011 // Everyone on the Illinois House floor was watching the vote climb.56…57… In the waning hours of the legislative session, lawmakers were considering a huge overhaul of the state’s unwieldy workers’...