Latest Illinois Headlines
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County Chairman in Illinois Accused of Defrauding State Farm
Jan 7 2016 // Federal prosecutors in Chicago have indicted the chairman of the McLean County Board for defrauding State Farm and a consulting firm of more than $400,000 in unearned consulting fees. Matt Sorensen and co-defendant Navdeep...
Mississippi Floodwaters Head South; Officials Weigh Options
Jan 6 2016 // As floodwaters move south along the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers is weighing steps it could take to prevent widespread flooding from southern Missouri down to the Gulf Coast. In Louisiana, the Corps...
Cleanup Begins in Illinois, Missouri after Massive Flooding
Jan 4 2016 // The Mississippi River and many of its tributaries on Jan. 3 continued their retreat from historic and deadly winter flooding, leaving amid the silt a massive cleanup and recovery effort likely to take weeks if not...
Deadly Floods Disrupting Agriculture, Commercial Operations in U.S. Midwest
Jan 3 2016 // Deadly flooding across the U.S. Midwest is disrupting everything from oil to agriculture, forcing pipelines, terminals and grain elevators to close. The floods have killed at least 30 people and shut hundreds of roads...
Texas Tornadoes, Midwest Flooding Leave at Least 24 Dead
Dec 29 2015 // At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in strong tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area and caused substantial damage this weekend, while 13 people died in flooding in the Midwest. It was the latest of a...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires The Hawk Agency in Illinois
Dec 22 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired The Hawk Agency Inc. in Peoria, Ill. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Thomas D. Fliege and his associates at The Hawk Agency will continue to operate in their current...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Brown Hobbs & McMurray in Illinois
Dec 21 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Brown Hobbs & McMurray Insurance in Urbana, Ill. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Thomas Brown, Paul Hobbs, William Hobbs, Dick and Rich McMurray, and their associates...
Best, Worst States for Insurance Regulation
Dec 21 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry. The...
Illinois’ The Rockwood Company Joins Keystone Insurers Group
Dec 17 2015 // Keystone Insurers Group announced its newest franchise partner in Illinois: The Rockwood Company, based in downtown Chicago. The firm, with four offices outside the city, completes Keystone’s network of agents in...
J.M. Wilson Adds Henderson-Paul as Asst. Underwriter in Illinois
Dec 15 2015 // J.M. Wilson has hired Cassie Henderson-Paul as assistant property/casualty underwriter in its Arlington Heights, Ill., office. Henderson-Paul assists the property casualty underwriting department with setting up and...
Illinois DOT: Back-Seat Passengers more Likely Unbuckled
Dec 8 2015 // Illinois law has required back-seat passengers to wear seat belts since 2012. An Illinois Department of Transportation survey shows nearly 85 percent of the state’s back-seat passengers are buckling up, an increase...
Hub International Acquires Illinois-Based Forest Financial Group Assets
Dec 2 2015 // Chicago-based global insurance broker, Hub International Limited (Hub), has acquired the assets of Forest Financial Group Inc. (FFG). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Lake Forest, Ill., FFG specializes...
Illinois Judge: State Must Pay Home Health Workers’ Insurance
Dec 2 2015 // A judge has ordered Illinois to pay more than $13 million to cover the cost of health insurance for home healthcare workers. SEIU Healthcare Illinois took legal action against Gov. Bruce Rauner and Comptroller Leslie...
Best, Worst States for Insurance Regulation
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry. The...
Illinois Supreme Court Voids $10.1B Philip Morris ‘Light’ Verdict
Nov 16 2015 // The Illinois Supreme Court on Nov. 4 threw out a $10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris USA in a long-running lawsuit accusing the Altria Group Inc. unit of misleading smokers about the health risks of...
Illinois Department of Insurance Reports ‘Inadvertent Data Release’
Nov 15 2015 // The Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI) reported that it mistakenly allowed the Social Security numbers of some health care providers to be posted publicly. The DOI said it learned on Nov. 9 of an inadvertent data...
Illinois Budget Mess Leaves Families’ Flood Buyouts in Limbo
Nov 15 2015 // After the Mississippi River flooded four years ago, more than 100 Illinois families agreed — some reluctantly — to sell their homes to the government for demolition so they could move to higher ground. With the...
Illinois Company to Pay $1.7M to Settle Disability Discrimination Charge
Nov 11 2015 // Pactiv LLC, an Illinois-based provider of advanced packing solutions to customers around the world, will pay $1,700,000 to settle disability discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Risk Strategies Acquires Illinois-Based M.G. Welbel & Associates
Nov 11 2015 // Risk Strategies Co. has acquired M.G. Welbel & Associates (MGW), a Northbrook, Ill.-based professional liability insurance specialty broker. Terms of the deal were not made public. MGW’S focus is on lawyers and...
Illinois Health Officials: 70 Suspected Ill from Apple Cider
Nov 8 2015 // Health officials in two western Illinois counties say the count of people with suspected illness linked to apple cider has risen to 70. The Quincy Herald-Whig reports that’s the updated tally from the health...
