All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 6 2009 // An Illinois prison inmate who killed his cellmate after apparently warning guards three times that’s what he planned to do must pay the dead inmate’s mother $13 million.A federal judge in Springfield ordered...
Jan 5 2009 // The owner of a now-demolished southern Illinois hotel has agreed to pay $30,000 as part of a settlement with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan over asbestos that she says was improperly removed.The Illinois...
Dec 15 2008 // The U.S. government wants a federal judge in Illinois to trim his $8.6 million judgement over a former Scott Air Force Base doctor’s failure to properly treat a woman’s case of flesh-eating bacteria.Federal...
Dec 8 2008 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recently announced that two state departments — the Illinois Division of Insurance within the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and the...
Dec 8 2008 // Changes to the medical fee schedule proposed rules were submitted to the Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR) on Dec. 1 and will be heard at the Jan. 13, 2009 JCAR hearing at 9 am in Springfield, Ill. in...
Nov 30 2008 // Interestingly enough, both Democrats and Republicans were on the receiving end of the industry contribution checks.With the 2008 election now behind us, it is interesting to see how the insurance industry divided up its...
Nov 30 2008 // Congressional candidates from the Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin pulled in big donations from a variety of insurance industry interests...
Nov 25 2008 // Air Force officials say more than a mile of steam piping covered in asbestos will be removed from a former base in east-central Illinois.Air Force officials announced on Nov. 20 that they have awarded a $150,000 contract...
Nov 24 2008 // Governor Blagojevich has named Amy J. Masters as acting chairman of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC), effective Nove. 21, 2008. Chairman Masters first joined the Commission in 2003. She has served...
Nov 24 2008 // Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is expected to sign a bill requiring insurers to cover autism treatment up to $36,000 a year until a patient turns 21.An estimated 4,500 Illinois families would benefit from the coverage....
Nov 17 2008 // A 2005 law limiting the amount of money juries may award in medical malpractice cases unfairly targets those most seriously injured who deserve the most compensation, lawyers told the Illinois Supreme Court on Nov....
Nov 17 2008 // A Presbyterian minister accused of having sex with a woman when she was a teenager kept working as a pastor and college administrator after the church’s insurance company paid the accuser $150,000.Rev. Ronald...
Nov 16 2008 // The former mayor of the Chicago northern suburb of Niles has pleaded guilty to taking more than $420,000 from an insurance agency in a kickback scheme. Nicholas Blase appeared before U.S. District Judge Wayne Andersen on...
Nov 12 2008 // Archer Daniels Midland Company announced on Nov. 11 that its wholly owned subsidiary, Agrinational Insurance Company, has acquired 50 percent of the shares of Agriserve Inc. (ASI).Agrinational has also acquired an option...
Nov 3 2008 // The former mayor of the Chicago northern suburb of Niles has pleaded guilty to taking more than $420,000 from an insurance agency in a kickback scheme.Nicholas Blase appeared before U.S. District Judge Wayne Andersen on...
Oct 31 2008 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against a crib distributor for allegedly ignoring a nationwide recall of bassinets that can cause babies to suffocate.Madigan criticized federal regulators...
Oct 22 2008 // An Illinois judge has tossed the confession of an East Peoria man accused of setting fire to a Peoria Heights house, ruling it was coerced by police who threatened him with charges of attempted murder. Monday’s...
Oct 21 2008 // An Illinois company connected to a bank involved in the lawsuit of the parent company of Brooke Corp. has taken control of 44.3 percent of Brooke’s stock.Trim Creek LLC of Crete, Ill., now owns 6.43 million shares of...
Oct 20 2008 // Overland Park, Kansas-based Brooke Corp. faces a lawsuit by a bank seeking $13 million plus interest and costs for breach of contract. The suit was filed the last week in September 2008 in federal court in Illinois by...
Oct 17 2008 // Four Illinois counties have gotten approval for federal assistance to help local governments deal with the severe flooding that hit the state in September 14 and 15 in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike The state of Illinois...