National Financial Partners Corp. subsidiary, NFP Property and Casualty Services Inc. (NFP P&C), acquired Illinois-based Ameribonds Surety & Insurance Services (Ameribonds Surety), effective April 2, 2012, the company announced. Ameribonds Surety is a surety and insurance services business headquartered in …
Southern Illinois property owners trying to rebuild after tornadoes and storms that hit in March would get a tax break under a bill passed by the Illinois House. The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reports that the bill passed March 30 would …
Federal safety regulators have begun investigating buses made by Motor Coach Industries Inc. over the past 20 years because the drive shafts can fall out and cause drivers to lose control. The problem has led to two crashes that killed …
Harrisburg Fire Chief Bill Summers says his southern Illinois town will recover from last month’s deadly tornado with or without FEMA help. Summers says he’s not surprised that FEMA has denied the state’s appeal for disaster assistance. The agency turned …
In their efforts to vet job applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person’s social networking profiles and instead are asking to log in as the user to have a look around. “It’s akin …
Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission Chairman Mitch Weisz has made two new appointments to the Illinois Self-Insurers Advisory Board: David Henwood of CCMSI, a risk management company in Danville, and Deborah Stafford, of Archer Daniels Midland in Decatur. Weisz also renewed …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has given Illinois more time to recalculate the tornado damage to southern parts of the state to bolster its push to reverse the denial of aid, Sen. Dick Durbin said. FEMA administrator Craig Fugate made …
Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Human Resource Management Systems LLC in Naperville, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1997, Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) is an employee benefit insurance broker that offers …
Looking at the destruction in his southern Illinois town, Harrisburg Mayor Eric Gregg couldn’t understand why federal officials turned down a plea to financially help local homeowners. Nearly a hundred homes are now piles of debris, destroyed by last month’s …
A new audit finds serious problems with the way Illinois awarded $7 billion in contracts last year for state employees’ health insurance. Auditor General William Holland said in a recently released report that Illinois awarded Blue Cross Blue Shield contracts …
