All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 30 2009 // In a filing of financial results for the second quarter 2009, Itasca, Ill.-based insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reported that amended settlement agreements with the Illinois Attorney General and the...
Jul 22 2009 // Illinois small business owners are being crushed by rising health care costs, and feel left out of the current health care debate in Washington, according to a report recently released by Illinois Public Interest Research...
Jul 20 2009 // Illinois Governor Pat Quinn named Michael McRaith director of the newly created Department of Insurance (DOI), which separated from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) on June 1,...
Jul 10 2009 // San Diego, Calif.-based ICW Group Insurance Companies is now offering workers’ compensation insurance in Illinois.The ICW’s Illinois workers’ compensation office is led by Suzanne Lysak. Lysak has more...
Jul 9 2009 // Leaders in southwestern Illinois hope the state’s senior U.S. senator gets the region another delay in the publication of newly drawn Mississippi River flood maps.Once completed, the new Federal Emergency Management...
Jul 8 2009 // Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has named Michael McRaith as the director of the newly created Department of Insurance. As a result of Governor Quinn’s Executive Order 4, the Department of Insurance (DOI) separated from...
Jul 6 2009 // New York-based Tower Group Inc. has agreed to purchase Specialty Underwriters’ Alliance Inc., headquartered in Chicago, in a transaction valued at approximately $107 million.SUA said the deal will enable it to better...
Jun 30 2009 // The Illinois Department of Insurance reported that a licensed insurance agent, Larry Chouinard of Kankakee, has been arrested for allegedly defrauding 13 businesses of nearly $370,000.Bradley, Ill., police arrested...
Jun 25 2009 // Zion, Ill., resident Reuben Collier Jr. has pleaded guilty to four Class 3 felony charges in Lake County Court, the Illinois Department of Insurance announced. Collier, an insurance agent licensed by the Department,...
Jun 22 2009 // Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation designed to make health insurance coverage for workers laid off from small businesses more affordable. Under federal legislation, people who formerly worked at firms of 20 employees or...
Jun 22 2009 // New York-based Tower Group, Inc. has agreed to purchase Illinois-based specialty insurer Specialty Underwriters’ Alliance, Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $107 million.Under the terms of that agreement,...
Jun 18 2009 // A suburban Chicago, Ill., man accused of posing as a doctor to buy vials of deadly puffer fish toxin has been charged with planning to use the poison to kill his wife and collect $20 million in life insurance.Edward F....
Jun 17 2009 // Tinley Park, Ill.-based insurance broker BF&S Insurance (Boyle, Flagg & Seaman) has been named the exclusive marketing agent for the Illinois Public Risk Fund (IPRF). Thomas P. English, president of BF&S,...
Jun 15 2009 // The Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI) is once again an independent division of state government, a position it held for more than a century prior to its consolidation with several other state agencies in 2004. Gov....
Jun 11 2009 // The state of Illinois has filed a lawsuit against a Chicago suburb for allegedly drawing drinking water from a contaminated well for decades, then lying about it to residents and environmental authorities.The 58-page...
Jun 9 2009 // Associated Agencies Inc., a full-service insurance brokerage firm based in Rolling Meadows, Ill., reports that the company is growing and that it recently added a number of new staff members.Craig A. Kanter has been hired...
Jun 5 2009 // For the first time, an Illinois business has been closed down for failure to obtain workers¹ compensation insurance. The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission and the City of Evanston shut down All Good Dogs Pet...
Jun 4 2009 // The Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI) on June 1 resumed its status as an independent department of state government, a position it held for more than a century prior to its consolidation with several other state...
May 26 2009 // Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed an objection to the terms of Chrysler’s pending sale to Fiat in federal bankruptcy court on behalf of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC) and the...
May 13 2009 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘A-‘ senior debt rating on Allstate Corp.’s (ALL) recently priced senior debt issue. S&P also affirmed its ‘A-‘ counterparty...