Latest Illinois Headlines
All the headlines from our Illinois Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People
Jan 8 2018 // Grinnell, Iowa-based property and casualty insurer/reinsurer, Grinnell Mutual, named Dave Wingert, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to serve as acting president. Larry Jansen retired on Dec. 15, 2017,...
Old Republic in Illinois Names Lange Senior Vice President
Dec 29 2017 // Chicago, Ill.-based Old Republic International Corp. has named Jeffrey Lange senior vice president in underwriting and distribution of the Old Republic General Insurance Group Inc. Concurrently, he will become a member of...
Top Insurance Journal Midwest Stories of 2017
Dec 29 2017 // A bad broker, classic cars that got destroyed in a fire and insurer rating downgrades were among the most widely read news stories in Insurance Journal’s Midwest region in 2017. Broker Gone Bad One story that...
Alera Group Acquires Illinois’ Hallberg Commercial Insurers
Dec 19 2017 // Deerfield, Illinois-based employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, Alera Group, has acquired Hallberg Commercial Insurers Inc. in Oakbrook, Illinois. Hallberg Commercial provides...
Business Moves
Dec 18 2017 // USI, Wells Fargo USI Insurance Services announced the closing on its acquisition of Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, formerly part of Wells Fargo & Co. This purchase includes the commercial insurance brokerage and...
Illinois’ Olsick & Company Insurance Agency Joins Keystone
Dec 14 2017 // Olsick & Company Insurance, located in Willowbrook, Illinois, has joined Keystone Insurers Group (Keystone), the companies announced. The agency is Keystone’s 18th partner in Illinois. The announcement was made...
Illinois Jury Awards $5M to Nurse Fired After Reporting Alleged Abuse
Dec 13 2017 // A central Illinois jury has awarded $5.2 million to a nurse who claims she was fired from a nursing home after reporting alleged abuse. The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reports Katrina Wesemann worked as a licensed practical...
Ex-Tennessee Lawmaker Sues Trucking Company for $1.5M Over Accident Injuries
Dec 12 2017 // A former Tennessee lawmaker is suing an Illinois trucking company for injuries he received in a vehicle accident. The Kingsport Times News reports that former state Rep. Jason Mumpower, who is currently the Tennessee...
Guilty of Insurance Fraud, Illinois Chiropractor Gets 20-Month Prison Term
Dec 11 2017 // A suburban Chicago chiropractor has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for billing an insurance company more than $4 million for treatment that was unnecessary or never provided. Federal prosecutors said Thursday...
Illinois Sees Growth in Medical Payments per Workers’ Compensation Claim
Dec 8 2017 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Illinois grew 3.1 percent per year on average from 2012 through 2015, according to a recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). In all,...
Illinois’ Koetting Insurance and Resource Agency Joins Insurance Alliance
Dec 6 2017 // Koetting Insurance and Resource Agency in Germantown, Ill., has joined St. Louis, Mo.-based Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a cohesive family of over 100 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and...
COUNTRY Financial Appoints Thorpe VP of Commercial/Agribusiness Underwriting
Dec 6 2017 // Andrea Thorpe, of Bloomington, Illinois, has been named vice president of Commercial/Agribusiness Underwriting at COUNTRY Financial. She replaces Sheri Bane who will retire in January 2018. Thorpe will lead the...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Illinois’ Weiss Insurance Agencies
Dec 4 2017 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Wayne, Illinois-based Weiss Insurance Agencies Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1905, Weiss Insurance Agencies provides a full range of employee...
Illinois’ EH Nolkemper Insurance and Missouri’s Daniel & Henry Co. Join Forces
Dec 1 2017 // EH Nolkemper Insurance Agency in Columbia, Ill., led by Steven Straub, has merged with St. Louis, Missouri-based The Daniel & Henry Co. The EH Nolkemper team will join one of The Daniel & Henry Co.’s...
Officials Report Third Case of Legionnaires Disease at Illinois Veterans Home
Nov 30 2017 // A third person has contracted Legionnaires’ disease at a western Illinois veterans home where two other cases were identified last month, state officials said. The Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs and...
Index Shows Where People Are Moving in Next Few Months
Nov 30 2017 // It’s possible to know where in the country more homebuyers will be moving over the next 30 to 90 days, thanks to what’s called a “pre-mover” index. It turns out that the U.S. markets with the...
Insurance Startup Berkley One Launches in Illinois
Nov 28 2017 // Startup insurance provider, Berkley One, has launched in Illinois, the first state of a planned national state-by-state rollout. Working with a select group of independent agents, Berkley One offers home, automobile, fine...
People
Nov 20 2017 // Deerfield, Illinois-based Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has appointed Bill Doucette as vice president of Human Resources and Organization...
Alera Group Acquires Illinois Professional Liability Broker, Flagship Healthcare
Nov 14 2017 // Deerfield, Illinois-based Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property and casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired Flagship Healthcare, a physician-owned insurance brokerage specializing...
J.M. Wilson Adds Gross as Assistant Transportation Underwriter in Illinois
Nov 3 2017 // Managing general agency and surplus lines underwriter, J.M. Wilson, has hired Kathy Gross as assistant transportation underwriter in its Arlington Heights, Illinois, office. Gross is responsible for assisting underwriters...
