All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 5 2005 // As a producer, keeping abreast of the surplus lines laws and regulations in your own state is often a difficult task. When one wanders across state borders, the challenge becomes even more daunting, sometimes requiring an...
Sep 5 2005 // Employment Practices Liability ProgramNuts & Bolts: Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc.’s professional liability division launched an employment practices liability insurance program for small- and...
Sep 5 2005 // A federal jury ruled last month that former commodities firm executive Marc E. Thompson set his home ablaze and burned his elderly mother alive to collect insurance money that he later hid during bankruptcy proceedings,...
Sep 5 2005 // Gone are the days when the Midwest’s surplus lines market saw all sorts of business, from high-liability risks to garden variety commercial property coverage. For the region’s surplus lines business, the...
Sep 5 2005 // Summer may be winding down here in the Midwestern states – in Chicago, temperatures are finally back in the 70s, we’ve gotten a smattering of rain, and school is back in session (thank God!) – but...
Sep 5 2005 // As a producer, keeping abreast of the surplus lines laws and regulations in your own state is often a difficult task. When one wanders across state borders, the challenge becomes even more daunting, sometimes requiring an...
Sep 5 2005 // Critics of national class action suits were among those cheering the loudest after the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed a $1.06 billion judgment against State Farm Insurance involving the use of generic auto repair...
Sep 2 2005 // Experts say the path of destruction left by Hurricane Katrina likely will lead to higher insurance rates in the metro-east and across the country, although it is unclear how much and how soon rates will rise.Although...
Aug 25 2005 // Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Thursday signed into law a medical malpractice bill that will establish caps on noneconomic damages and institute other reforms to the state’s troubled med-mal system.But while...
Aug 24 2005 // Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich recently signed legislation to help ensure that people do not get trapped in stairwells of new hotels, schools and other high-rise public assembly buildings during fires. The legislation is in...
Aug 22 2005 // Farmers in Midwestern states like Kansas have more than doubled the acres they insure and tripled their dollar amount of coverage since 1989, according to recent statistics. It’s a trend that could mitigate financial...
Aug 18 2005 // Today, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed a prior state court’s $1.06 billion judgment in a class action against State Farm Insurance over the use of so-called aftermarket auto parts for repairs.The high court...
Aug 17 2005 // Insurance regulators in Kentucky and Nebraska are investigating an Illinois-based insurance company for allegedly defrauding amusement industry operators in Kentucky and Nebraska.Richard A. Brooks & Associates Ltd.,...
Aug 11 2005 // Geo. F. Brown & Sons, Inc. (GFB) has reached an exclusive agreement with the AM Best “A”-rated carriers of the RSUI Group Inc. to expand its Illinois liquor liability program to a multi-state program.The...
Aug 8 2005 // Auto injury claimants from four states seek different types of medical treatment, even though they report similar injuries, according to a study of insurance claims by the Insurance Research Council. The study examined...
Jul 20 2005 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) has called Illinois’ new workers’ compensation law an assortment of benefit increases and unproven reforms that may ultimately only inflate costs.“The few...
Jul 18 2005 // Beginning this week, 15 insurance agents are returning to Normal, Ill., to do an unusual thing in the world of insurance training: talk with each other about what’s worked and what hasn’t. It’s the third...
Jul 18 2005 // New Program Teaches a Consultative Approach to Insurance SalesBeginning this week, 15 insurance agents are returning to Normal, Ill., to do an unusual thing in the world of insurance training: talk with each other about...
Jul 14 2005 // The ’80s really are back. At least they will be in Bloomington, Ill., in September when a group of current and former Progressive employees who were part of the 1980-1985 workforce gather for cocktails. The party...
Jul 11 2005 // Auto injury claimants from four states seek different types of medical treatment, even though they report similar injuries. A new study of insurance claims by the Insurance Research Council (IRC) examined auto injury...