Latest Illinois Headlines
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APCIA: Illinois Bill Significantly Would Have Detrimental Impact
May 16 2023 // An Illinois bill allowing punitive damages in wrongful death cases will increase already high litigation costs, the American Property Casualty Insurance Association and the Illinois Insurance Association say. The groups...
More States Adopting Professional Standards for Public Adjusters
May 16 2023 // A movement to establish professional standards for public adjusters gained ground this year, with lawmakers in five states passing bills that impose new controls over a trade that already requires a license in 46...
More States Adopted Professional Standards for Public Adjusters This Year
May 16 2023 // A movement to establish professional standards for public adjusters gained ground this year, with lawmakers in five states passing bills that impose new controls over a trade that already requires a license in 46...
Illinois Governor Signs Law Giving Benefits to Chicago First Responders Disabled by COVID
May 12 2023 // Gov. J.B. Pritzker this week signed a law providing full disability benefits to Chicago police officers and firefighters struck by COVID-19 before vaccines were available, presiding over an emotional statehouse ceremony...
ICW Group Launches Commercial Package Offering in Illinois
May 9 2023 // ICW Group Insurance Companies, a group of property and casualty carriers, announced the launch of its new commercial package insurance offering in Illinois with plans to expand throughout the U.S. The introduction of...
7th Circuit: D&O Insurer Must Pay Settlement for Drugmaker’s Kickback Case
May 9 2023 // Federal Insurance Co. must pay the $10 million policy limit in a directors and officers policy issued to Astellas Pharma, despite the carrier’s assertion that Illinois public policy forbids it from reimbursing the...
On Illinois Highway, Blinding Dust, Then ‘Crash After Crash’
May 4 2023 // DIVERNON, Ill. (AP) – Winds stirred up a wall of dust from farm fields that engulfed a stretch of busy interstate highway in a matter of minutes. The brown cloud’s intensity caked even the insides of vehicles...
Dust Storm Causes Crashes in Illinois, Leaving at Least 6 Dead
May 3 2023 // DIVERNON, Ill. (AP) – A windstorm in central Illinois kicked up dangerous clouds of blinding dust off farm fields Monday, causing numerous crashes that killed at least six people on Interstate 55, police said. The...
150 Years Later, Dixon, Illinois Bridge Collapse Among Nation’s Worst
May 2 2023 // DIXON, Ill. (AP) – Gertie Wadsworth was in the arms of her grandmother that bright day when sunshine dissolved distasteful memories of a long, brutal winter. Christan Goble held the 3 1/2-year-old girl in a crowd of...
Mississippi River Continues to Rise in Iowa, Illinois
May 1 2023 // DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – People living along the Mississippi River watched warily Sunday as water levels rose in southeast Iowa and northwest Illinois, awaiting spring crests as floodwaters began to slowly recede and...
Illinois Supreme Court: Union Workers Can’t Sue Under Biometric Law
Apr 17 2023 // Illinois’ top court said U.S. labor law bars unionized workers from suing their employers for violations of the state’s biometric privacy law, which can expose companies to massive penalties. The Illinois...
Illinois Nursing Facility to Pay $400K in Pregnancy Discrimination Case
Apr 13 2023 // Symphony Deerbrook, LLC will pay $400,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over conduct at its Symphony of Joliet...
Wright Flood Expands Private Flood Insurance Offering in Illinois
Apr 6 2023 // Wright National Flood Insurance Services has announced its entrance into Illinois by introducing an admitted, stand-alone private flood insurance product as the next state in the continued expansion of the company’s...
Illinois Supreme Court: Union Workers Can’t Sue Under Biometric Law
Mar 24 2023 // Illinois’ top court on Thursday said U.S. labor law bars unionized workers from suing their employers for violations of the state’s biometric privacy law, which can expose companies to massive penalties. The...
NFP Acquires Illinois’ David Marcus
Mar 21 2023 // NFP, a property and casualty broker, benefits consultant, wealth manager and retirement advisor, announced it has acquired David A. Marcus & Associates, Inc. and Deerfield Financial Group, LLC (David Marcus). Based in...
Illinois Considers Slaughtering the Golden Goose of Competition
Mar 7 2023 // How it is that Illinois, a jurisdiction not typically associated with a strong commitment to free-market principles, came to be the first state in the nation to allow its insurance rates to be regulated entirely by open...
Illinois Supreme Court: BIPA Claims Accrue With Each Scan
Feb 17 2023 // The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday that a separate claim accrues each time a business unlawfully scans or transmits an individual’s biometric identifier or information, a decision that could drive up class...
Illinois Grain Co-Op Fined $629K After 27-Year-Old Worker Suffers Partial Amputation
Feb 14 2023 // An Illinois grain cooperatives’ failure to make sure they followed required safety procedures contributed to how a 27-year-old worker suffered a partial amputation of his right leg when a paddle conveyor was left...
Illinois Man Reaches $91M Settlement in 7-Eleven Crash Suit
Feb 13 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – A suburban Chicago man whose legs were amputated in 2017 after a car lurched forward into a parking space, pinning him against the front of a 7-Eleven store, reached a $91 million settlement on Monday with...
Illinois Truck Parts Company to Settle $200K Sexual Harassment Suit
Feb 10 2023 // CHICAGO – Monro, Inc., owner and operator of more than 1,000 auto care locations across the country, will pay $200,000 and provide other relief to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
