Latest Illinois Headlines
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Keystone Insurers Group Adds Brennan & Stuart Inc. as Partner in Illinois
Jan 2 2014 // Brennan & Stuart Inc. of La Salle, Ill., is Keystone Insurers Group’s newest franchise partner in Illinois. Harold Brennan started Brennan & Stuart Inc. (BSI) as a family business in 1956. CEO Jerry Stuart...
Esser Hayes Insurance Group Awards Scholarship to Illinois Student
Dec 31 2013 // William H. Hayes, of Esser Hayes Insurance in Naperville, Ill., in partnership with Westfield Insurance, awarded a Westfield Agents Association Trustee Scholarship to Brianna Gatto. The Westfield Agents Association Trustee...
California Tops ‘Judicial Hellhole’ List
Dec 17 2013 // California isn’t just a warm place to live, which is often the case even in winter, but it turns out the state is considered a “judicial hellhole.” The American Tort Reform Foundation issued its annual...
Illinois Company Faces Proposed $117K Fine for Unsafe Working Conditions
Dec 16 2013 // Arlington Metals Corp. in Franklin Park, Ill., has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 38 safety and health violations, which carry proposed penalties of...
Illinois Gets $1M in Federal Grants After Tornadoes
Dec 13 2013 // Gov. Pat Quinn’s office says federal aid for Illinois tornado victims has topped $1 million. The governor’s office says that federal grants following the fatal Nov. 17 twisters have reached $1.06 million. The...
Keystone Insurers Group Adds Konen Insurance and Dasco Insurance in Illinois
Dec 12 2013 // Konen Insurance of Aurora, Ill., and Dasco Insurance Agency of Northbrook are now partners in Keystone Insurers Group. The addition of the two agencies increases to four the number of Keystone partners in the state since...
Interest in Renters Insurance Climbs after Illinois Storms
Dec 11 2013 // An insurance agent in central Illinois says he’s noticing an increase in the number of inquiries about renters’ insurance following the deadly November tornadoes. The (Peoria) Journal-Star reports one of the...
Improvements Needed in Illinois’ Disaster Response: Review
Dec 6 2013 // A review has found several shortfalls in Illinois’ readiness to respond to disasters and emergencies. The review concluded that there could be better coordination with local communities on things like identifying and...
Illinois Central Railroad Faces Fines of $110,500 for Lead Exposure
Dec 5 2013 // Illinois Central Railroad Co. has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for one willful and six serious safety violations for exposing workers to lead hazards....
50-Plus Tornadoes Pummel Midwest in Late Season Outbreak
Dec 2 2013 // In a rare late season outbreak, more than 50 tornadoes blasted across Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. on Nov. 17. Preliminary estimates by the catastrophe modeling firm RMS put insured losses from the...
Illinois AG Investigating Tornado Relief Scam
Dec 2 2013 // Illinois’ Attorney General has opened an investigation into a potential fundraising scam tied to tornado relief efforts in Washington, Ill., and other downstate Illinois communities. Lisa Madigan said the Charitable...
Illinois Roofing Company Fined $158K for Safety Hazards
Nov 25 2013 // Affordable Roofing and Exteriors Inc. in Trenton, Ill., has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for five safety violations, carrying proposed penalties of...
$15 Million Awarded in Illinois Childbirth Death Lawsuit
Nov 25 2013 // Jurors have awarded a $15 million settlement to the husband of a suburban Chicago high school teacher who died while giving birth. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the wrongful death lawsuit accused two doctors and...
Count of Storm-Damaged Homes in Illinois Expected to Grow
Nov 22 2013 // State officials now say that at least 900 homes in Illinois were either destroyed or badly damaged by the tornado outbreak on Nov. 17. And that figure is likely to grow. Patti Thompson is a spokeswoman for the Illinois...
New Assessment: At Least 15 Tornadoes Hit Illinois
Nov 21 2013 // New damage assessments from the National Weather Service show that at least 15 tornadoes hit Illinois during the outbreak of violent storms on Nov. 17. Central parts of the state had the most with seven twisters, including...
Illinois Employer to Pay $10K Penalty for Lack of Workers’ Comp Insurance
Nov 21 2013 // An uninsured employer in Illinois has pled guilty to a Class 4 felony for refusing to obtain workers’ compensation insurance, the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission announced. John Linek, individually...
Illinois Independent Agency, Williams-Manny, Joins Keystone Insurers Group
Nov 20 2013 // Keystone Insurers Group announced that Williams-Manny Inc. of Rockford, Ill., has become its second franchise partner in Illinois. Keystone, with partner agencies in nine states, is pursuing a strategy of rapid expansion...
Claims Filing Begins Following Midwest Storms
Nov 20 2013 // Two Illinois-based insurers say they’ve received about 6,000 claims so far from Sunday’s tornadoes and they expect that figure to climb. State Farm officials told The (Bloomington) Pantagraph they’ve...
Hundreds of Homes Destroyed by Midwest Tornado Outbreak: AIR
Nov 19 2013 // Hundreds of homes were flattened by the outbreak of intense late-season thunderstorms accompanied by high winds, quarter-to-baseball sized hail, and dozens of tornadoes that swept across the Midwest on Nov. 17, according...
Forecasters: Illinois Twister Had Winds of Up to 190 mph
Nov 19 2013 // National Weather Service said a tornado that struck the central Illinois community of Washington had winds between 170 and 190 miles per hour. The meteorologists said that the storm had a preliminary rating of an EF-4. The...
