International insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro Insurance Brokers has hired Jeremy Gillespie, who joins the firm’s management risk practice as assistant vice president in the Chicago office. Gillespie brings considerable management liability and cyber insurance experience. For the …
The Chicago Department of Transportation is announcing the first 12 automated speed enforcement sites as part of the city’s “Children’s Safety Zones.” Cameras will monitor speed and revenue from violations will go toward afterschool programs, anti-violence and jobs programs, crossing …
Two people injured when a century-old water tank fell from a Chicago condominium building are suing the building’s owner. The complaint filed in Cook County court seeks unspecified damages. In a statement, attorney Richard F. Burke Jr. says 27-year-old Lauren …
Federal prosecutors in Chicago have announced Northwestern University has agreed to pay nearly $3 million to settle a whistleblower’s lawsuit involving alleged cancer research fraud. The lawsuit claimed the university allowed researcher Dr. Charles L. Bennett to submit false claims …
Zurich North America will relocate its Chicago office to a LEED-certified building in a location that accommodates its downtown-based employees, the company announced on Wednesday. Its new Chicago office space at 300 South Riverside Plaza on the 20th and 21st …
Three new professionals have joined Lockton in Chicago, adding a range of property/casualty and employee benefits expertise to the insurance broker’s client services. Robert Wierema has joined as a producer. He brings six years of experience in the insurance industry …
Chicago-based wholesale insurance brokerage and managing general agency, Worldwide Facilities Inc., announced it is expanding and has added James F. Langan as vice president. He will be responsible for promoting the casualty products available from Worldwide Facilities’ many markets. Langan …
Chicago-based Kemper Corp. announced that Andrea James has been named president, Kemper Preferred, the business focused on selling packaged private passenger auto and home policies through independent agents. Prior to this role, James joined Kemper Preferred as senior vice president, …
The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA) announced that Chicago-based managing general agent Donald Gaddis Co. Inc. has joined the Trusted Choice consumer branding program for independent insurance agents and brokers. Donald Gaddis Co. Inc. is an independent, …
Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, has added Max West as senior vice president in its Chicago office West will leverage his more than 15 years of experience as an underwriter and broker of environmental …
