Latest Illinois Headlines
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Workers’ Comp Rates Advisory Rates Decrease in Illinois
Sep 19 2011 // The Illinois Department of Insurance approved an 8.8 percent decrease in voluntary advisory workers’ compensation rates. The new rate, filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, became effective on...
30 Ousted Workers’ Comp Arbitrators Still on Job in Illinois
Sep 15 2011 // Thirty Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission arbitrators whose terms were ended by the governor in July are still on the job and are getting paid. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that the arbitrators are...
Illinois Lawmakers on Exchange Panel Get Insurance Funds
Sep 14 2011 // The insurance industry is handing out cash to lawmakers who will play pivotal roles in setting up Illinois’ health-benefits exchange. The exchange is supposed to make health insurance more affordable for consumers...
Illinois Claim Denials
Sep 5 2011 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation to beef up protections for consumers who want to appeal health insurance claim denials. The law brings state law into line with consumer protections required by the federal...
New Illinois Law Meant to Help Smokers Kick Habit
Aug 31 2011 // A new Illinois law requires insurance companies to offer coverage for services meant to get smokers to kick the habit. The American Lung Association in Illinois enthusiastically backs the law. It says the law could be a...
Law Helps Illinois Patients Denied Insurance Claims
Aug 29 2011 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation to beef up protections for consumers who want to appeal health insurance claim denials. The law, signed Aug. 26, brings state law into line with consumer protections required...
Illinois Granted $5.1M for Insurance Exchange
Aug 25 2011 // The Illinois Department of Insurance has been awarded a $5.1 million federal grant to develop and maintain a health insurance exchange where consumers can shop for coverage. The nation’s new health care law requires...
Illinois Court: Homeowner Suit Against Flood Determination Firm May Proceed
Aug 19 2011 // A flood determination company may be sued by Illinois homeowners for failing to determine the couple’s home was in a flood plain, a state appeals court has found. The Illinois Court of Appeals for the Third District...
New Workers’ Comp Reform Linked to Illinois Trooper Crash
Aug 16 2011 // A new law inspired by a former Illinois State Police trooper’s high-speed freeway wreck that killed two sisters bars state employees injured while committing crimes from getting workers’ compensation. The...
Ill. Governor Declares 3 Counties Disaster Areas
Aug 12 2011 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn declared three counties disaster areas due to flooding last month that caused severe damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure. Quinn said Wednesday the flash floods in northwest Illinois on...
Man Gets $6.3 Million in Illinois Priest Abuse Case
Aug 12 2011 // A nine-year legal fight by a man sexually abused by a priest in the 1970s is over, now that a southern Illinois diocese and its insurer have handed over $6.3 million to resolve a jury award in the man’s...
Illinois Bars Workers’ Compensation for State Employees Involved in Crimes
Aug 11 2011 // A new law inspired by a former Illinois State Police trooper’s high-speed freeway wreck that killed two sisters bars state employees injured while committing crimes from getting workers’ compensation. The...
Dad of Girl Electrocuted on Monsanto-Farm in Ill. Files Suit
Aug 8 2011 // The father of a northwestern Illinois girl who was electrocuted while removing tassels from corn filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company that hired his daughter. Brian Kendall’s lawsuit against St....
Judge Tosses Suit Challenging FEMA Flood Mapping in Illinois
Aug 4 2011 // A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit three southwestern Illinois counties filed to block the U.S. government from declaring the region’s levees functionally useless. U.S. District Judge J. Phil Gilbert called the...
Home of Illinois Official Jailed in Insurance Scheme on Auction Block
Jul 27 2011 // For sale: House in sleepy-looking Chicago suburb steeped in mob history since the days of Al Capone where a mayor lived before moving into a federal prison for her role in a mob-related insurance scam. Lunch included. The...
Oklahoma Governor Touts Tort, Work Comp Reforms to Chicago Businesses
Jul 25 2011 // Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said she is pitching her state’s business climate and work force in an attempt to lure some Illinois-based companies to the Sooner State. Fallin visited Chicago on July 21, meeting with...
Council OKs Southwestern Illinois Levee Upgrades
Jul 22 2011 // The people who oversee 64 miles of aging Mississippi River levees in southwestern Illinois have signed off on a $151 million plan to upgrade the barriers perhaps by 2014. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the...
Illinois Governor Appoints 12 to Workers’ Comp Advisory Board
Jul 20 2011 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed 12 new members to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Advisory Board as part of the implementation of recently passed workers’ compensation reform legislation. The...
8.8% Reduction in Voluntary Advisory Rates Filed in Illinois
Jul 19 2011 // In response to the recent enactment of the Illinois workers’ compensation reform measure, House Bill 1698, workers’ compensation insurance database manager National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. filed...
Federal Bill Offers Break for Properties in Certain Flood Zones
Jul 15 2011 // Overseers of levees in southwestern Illinois welcomed the advance of a federal measure that could give thousands of property owners up to a five-year reprieve in having to buy costly flood insurance in areas with...
