Latest Illinois Headlines
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New Markets
Mar 10 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com. Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...
New Markets
Mar 10 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com. Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...
Ill. Mayor Headed to Washington to Seek Aid
Mar 6 2008 // Pontiac Mayor Scott McCoy is heading for Washington D.C. to answer questions, describe the situation and see if there is anything else he or the city can do in order to receive a federal disaster declaration. McCoy met...
Ill. Appeals Federal Decision to Deny Disaster Aid to Flooded Areas
Feb 26 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reviewing an appeal of a decision that floods last month in two eastern Illinois counties weren’t severe enough to merit disaster-area status. FEMA spokesman Aric Schmidt...
Ill. Officials Accuse FEMA of Miscounting Flooded Homes
Feb 13 2008 // Federal officials were mired in political favoritism and miscounted the number of damaged homes in rejecting two Illinois counties’ applications for disaster relief, local Illinios officials said this week. Leaders...
New Markets
Feb 10 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com. Private and Parochial Schools Nuts &...
Ty Fights Recall of Lead-Tainted Toys
Jan 23 2008 // Ty Inc., in a challenge of Illinois’ law governing lead in toys, is refusing to pull a popular, but tainted, doll from store shelves across the state. Illinois authorities thought they had agreed last December with...
Delays Plaque Ill. Studies of Hospital Safety; Obama Champion of Law
Jan 7 2008 // When state lawmakers passed two pioneering laws aimed at providing hospital safety information to patients, health care experts said Illinois was a national model. Four years and many missed deadlines later, that’s...
Top Insurance Stories in 2007 in Midwest
Dec 31 2007 // From storms that flooded the Midwest destroying homes and business in the summer to a court ruling that could have a significantly negative impact on the medical malpractice insurance market in the state of Illinois, 2007...
New Ill. Law Requires Background Check on Carnival Ride Workers
Dec 31 2007 // A new Illinois law requires background checks on workers who operate amusement park and carnival rides. Governor Rod Blagojevich says the law is designed to protect children by preventing registered sex offenders and other...
Liberty Mutual Gives Top Coach Award to Zook at Illinois, 3 Midwest Coaches
Dec 31 2007 // Their teams amassed 43 wins this year against a mere eight setbacks; their student-athletes displayed exceptional discipline on the field, integrity off the field, and excellence in the classroom; and they exercised their...
From Med Mal Caps to RICO Violations, No Headline Shortage in 2007
Dec 23 2007 // Severe summer storms that ransacked the Midwest, a court ruling that could negatively impact the medical malpractice insurance market in Illinois and RICO allegations in Minnesota were just a few of the news stories that...
Illinois’ Madison County Dropped from Judicial Hellhole List
Dec 19 2007 // Ann Callis knows Madison County’s court system has taken mighty public knocks, from President Bush branding it an example of medical malpractice litigation run amok to a special-interest group calling the venue a...
Parents of Brain Damaged Boy Settle with Ill. Hospital for $11.5 Million
Dec 10 2007 // Parents who sued Northwestern Memorial Hospital and a doctor after their child suffered brain damage from what they said was a botched delivery have agreed to accept a $11.5 million settlement, their attorney said. The...
Proponents Ring Alarm After Court Ruling Strikes Down Ill. Tort Reform Law
Dec 2 2007 // A Cook County, Ill., Circuit Court ruling in late November struck down the state’s much touted 2005 medical liability reform law, calling the caps on non-economic damages for medical malpractice lawsuits...
Illinois Tort Reform Efforts Struck Down
Dec 2 2007 // If anyone is betting on what organization is running the show in Illinois, my money is on the Illinois Trial Bar Association. Put a check mark in the “win” column recently for the Trial Bar as the 2005 tort...
Court Rejection of Award Caps Creates Uneasiness Again For Ill. Physicians
Nov 19 2007 // Dr. Kostantinos Psihramis says he wanted to make a difference when he relocated from Virginia to the southern Illinois town of Belleville in late 2005, filling one of two holes created when specialists left the area. The...
Circuit Court Ruling Strikes Down Illinois’ Medical Liability Reform Law
Nov 14 2007 // A Cook County, Ill., Circuit Court ruling yesterday that strikes down the state’s 2005 medical liability reform law by calling the caps on non-economic damages for medical malpractice lawsuits unconstitutional is...
Ill. American Service Insurance Offers New Auto Product
Oct 12 2007 // Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based American Service Insurance (ASI) recently released its new public auto product in the states of Indiana and Missouri. The auto product provides coverage for non-emergency paratransit,...
Ill. Family of Dead Teen Sues Couple Where Drinking Was Allowed
Oct 11 2007 // The family of a teenager killed in a car crash last year has sued a suburban Chicago family, claiming it was negligent in allowing the victim to drink alcohol at a house party. In a lawsuit filed Monday, Oct. 8th in Lake...
