Latest Illinois Headlines
All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Chicago Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty to Federal, State Tax Evasion
Sep 28 2018 // A Chicago insurance agent has pleaded guilty to failing to pay federal and state taxes on more than $4.7 million in income earned over a decade, according to federal prosecutors. The office of the United States Attorney...
Illinois’ Venhaus Insurance Joins Valley Insurance Agency Alliance
Sep 26 2018 // Venhaus Insurance Agency, in Columbia, Illinois, has joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a network of over 100 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois. Venhaus Insurance Agency owner Doug...
Residents Call for Changes to Prevent Flooding North Chicago Suburbs
Sep 24 2018 // Residents are pushing for Illinois officials to change how they run a dam to prevent flooding in several lakes that flow into the Fox River in Chicago’s northern suburbs. Property owners are petitioning the U.S. Army...
Jacobs Named Next CEO at Illinois’ COUNTRY Financial
Sep 20 2018 // Insurer COUNTRY Financial, headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, has named Jim Jacobs as its next chief executive officer (CEO), effective early next year. He succeeds Kurt Bock, who is retiring Jan. 31, 2019, after...
Kistler Joins Illinois’ Alera Group as Director of Business Development
Sep 19 2018 // Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, has appointed Matt Kistler as director of Business Development. Kistler will...
State Farm Settles, Avoids Racketeering Trial
Sep 17 2018 // Insurance giant State Farm on Sept.4 reached a $250 million preliminary settlement in a federal class-action lawsuit claiming the company funneled money to the campaign of an Illinois Supreme Court candidate. The lawsuit...
Exclusive Remedy: The Scope of Protection in Illinois Workers’ Comp
Sep 13 2018 // Section 5(a) of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act provides the damages an employer must pay for work-related injuries. It specifies a worker injured in the line of duty cannot sue her employer or its other...
Massey Joins Bell Insurance Solutions in Illinois
Sep 6 2018 // Bell Insurance Solutions in Collinsville, Illinois, has hired Larry Massey as its newest sales producer. In this position, Massey will generate leads and develop new business. He also will offer clients a variety of...
State Farm Agrees to Pay $250 Million, Avoids Racketeering Trial
Sep 4 2018 // State Farm agreed to pay $250 million on the brink of a trial to customers who claimed the company tried to rig the Illinois justice system to wipe out a $1 billion jury verdict from 19 years ago. The customers were...
New Jersey Investigating NRA-Sponsored Carry Guard Insurance
Sep 3 2018 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance is investigating the marketing and sale in New Jersey of insurance sponsored by the National Rifle Association for potential violations of state insurance laws. The...
Exclusive Remedy: The Scope of Protection in Illinois
Sep 3 2018 // Section 5(a) of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act provides the damages an employer must pay for work-related injuries. It specifies a worker injured in the line of duty cannot sue her employer or its other...
Former Illinois Insurance Broker Sentenced to Prison, Must Repay Nearly $1M
Sep 3 2018 // The former owner of multiple property/casualty insurance operations in northern Illinois has been sentenced to more than four years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1 million in restitution for insurance fraud. U.S....
RICO Case Against State Farm Set for Trial in Illinois Federal Court
Aug 31 2018 // A class action lawsuit against insurance giant, State Farm, alleging the company recruited a judge to run for an opening on the Illinois Supreme Court and funded, without disclosing it, his 2004 election campaign is set to...
Illinois Governor Sends Workers’ Comp Bill Back to Lawmakers
Aug 30 2018 // Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed, with recommended changes, a workers’ compensation measure that would have allowed for interest to be paid on delayed payment in disputes between insurers and medical service...
Home Depot to Pay $100K to Settle Illinois Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Aug 23 2018 // Home Depot, the large national home improvement retailer, has agreed to pay a former employee $100,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, according to the U.S. Equal Employment...
New Jersey Investigating NRA-Sponsored Carry Guard Insurance
Aug 22 2018 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance is investigating the marketing and sale in New Jersey of insurance sponsored by the National Rifle Association for potential violations of state insurance laws. The...
Former Illinois Insurance Broker Sentenced to Prison, Must Repay Nearly $1M
Aug 15 2018 // The former owner of multiple property/casualty insurance operations in northern Illinois has been sentenced to more than four years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1 million in restitution for insurance fraud. U.S....
Illinois’ Bell Insurance Solutions Adds Grothaus
Aug 8 2018 // Collinsville, Illinois-based Bell Insurance Solutions has hired Tricia Grothaus as its new client support representative. Grothaus has more than 15 years of experience as an agent who has primarily focused on health and...
Illinois Manufacturer Fined $587.5K for Health, Safety Violations
Aug 7 2018 // Federal safety officials have cited an Illinois manufacturing company for 18 health and safety violations and proposed penalties totaling $587,564. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Illinois Supreme Court Says Woman Can Sue City Over Sidewalk Fall
Aug 7 2018 // The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a woman who was injured after tripping on a poorly maintained sidewalk can move forward with a lawsuit against the city of Danville. The Champaign News-Gazette reports the...
