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Illinois Gets $1M for Consumer Insurance Help
Sep 3 2012 // Illinois has received a $1 million federal grant to improve how it helps consumers who have complaints about insurance industry practices. Illinois Department of Insurance Director Andrew Boron announced the award on Aug....
School Bus Liability Insurance Bill Signed by Illinois Governor
Aug 27 2012 // A bill that updates and clarifies liability insurance standards for operators of buses by schools and other organizations has been signed by the Illinois governor. Gov. Pat Quinn on Aug. 24 signed SB 2524, which details...
Business Moves
Aug 20 2012 // Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 20, 2012. The content in this issue is not real and is not to be taken seriously. It’s supposed to be humorous....
3 Lawsuits Filed After Deadly Illinois Megabus Accident
Aug 16 2012 // Three lawsuits have been filed on behalf of passengers injured when a Megabus slammed into a bridge pillar along a southern Illinois freeway. Clifford Law Offices filed a lawsuit Monday in Cook County on behalf of...
Illinois Regulators: Agent Conducting Business on Revoked License
Aug 16 2012 // The Illinois Department of Insurance is alerting consumers that David Griffith Morrow of Morrow Insurance of Decatur is continuing to act as an insurance producer although his license was revoked effective June 8,...
Drought Spurs Emergency Burn Ban In Mclean County, Ill.
Aug 3 2012 // Hot, dry conditions have prompted officials in central Illinois to issue a ban on all outdoor fires in McLean County. The McLean County Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday announced a temporary outdoor burning ban on...
Illinois’ Millers First Insurance Co. Agrees to Rehabilitation
Aug 2 2012 // Illinois insurance regulators reported that Millers First Insurance Co. (Millers First) has agreed to be placed into rehabilitation. While the Alton, Ill.-based company is in rehabilitation, Illinois Department of...
Storm Caused $375,000 in Damage to Illinois Prison
Jul 12 2012 // Late June storms caused more than $375,000 in damage to the Dixon Correctional Center in northern Illinois. The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reported that records show officials are replacing roofs on numerous buildings at the...
Illinois Agency Launches Traffic Safety Campaign
Jul 10 2012 // Illinois transportation officials are working to curb the number of roadway fatalities with the help of message boards. Illinois Transportation Secretary Ann Schneider is launching a statewide digital message board...
Corn Belt Fears Large Crop Loss from Heat Wave, Drought Conditions
Jul 9 2012 // Fears are rising that grain crops in the core of the U.S. Corn Belt – the top corn-producing region in the world – will suffer big losses that are already causing farmers to plow up fields in other regions of...
Illinois Places 2 Mutual Insurers into Rehabilitation
Jul 5 2012 // Illinois insurance regulators announced that Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. (Lumbermens) and American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Co. (American Manufacturers) have agreed to being placed into rehabilitation. The...
Ratings Recap: Conifer/White Pine, Millers First
Jul 2 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘B++’ (Good) and downgraded the issuer credit rating to “bbb” from “bbb+” of Conifer Insurance Company. Best also...
Health Insurers to Pay $62M in Rebates in Illinois
Jul 2 2012 // The Obama administration announced that 300,000 Illinoisans will benefit from nearly $62 million in rebates from insurance companies because of the federal health law that critics have labeled “Obamacare.” The...
Drought Brings Back Memories of 1988 Crop Losses
Jun 29 2012 // Just one year ago Jeff Scates saw the worst flooding on his southern Illinois farmland since 1937. Today, Scates is watching his corn fields shrivel from the driest season in 24 years. “We’ve gone from one...
Health Insurers to Pay $62M in Rebates in Illinois
Jun 22 2012 // The Obama administration has announced that 300,000 Illinoisans will benefit from nearly $62 million in rebates from insurance companies because of the federal health law that critics have labeled...
Illinois’ Insurance Program Managers Group Named a Best Place to Work
Jun 15 2012 // Insurance Program Managers Group (IPMG) of St. Charles, Ill., has been recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work in Illinois” for 2012. This is the sixth year that IPMG has earned a spot on the “Best...
Illinois Gun Works Fined $111K for Exposing Workers to Hazards
Jun 13 2012 // Federal officials have fined an Illinois gun sales business, a shooting range and gun safety training company for allegedly exposing workers to hazards, including lead. Proposed fines total $111,000. The U.S. Department of...
Jury: $181M to 3 Hurt in Illinois Grain Elevator Blast
Jun 4 2012 // A federal jury has sided against ConAgra Foods Inc. and a subcontractor in awarding roughly $181 million in damages to three workers severely injured in a 2010 explosion at a southern Illinois grain elevator. Omaha,...
Appeals Court Upholds Mississippi Fraud Verdict Against Asbestos Lawyers
May 31 2012 // A federal appeals court panel has upheld a $420,000 verdict against two Mississippi lawyers accused by a railroad company of committing fraud during an asbestos lawsuit they filed in 2001. McComb attorneys William Guy and...
Panel to Hear Illinois Trooper’s Workers’ Comp Appeal
May 25 2012 // A former Illinois State Police trooper whose high-speed crash killed two sisters is asking again for workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he received in the wreck. The Belleville News-Democrat reported the...
