Insurer COUNTRY Financial, headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, has named Jim Jacobs as its next chief executive officer (CEO), effective early...
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Kurt Bock will retire as chief executive officer of Illinois-based Country Financial effective January 31, 2019, after serving in the...
Andrea Thorpe, of Bloomington, Illinois, has been named vice president of Commercial/Agribusiness Underwriting at COUNTRY Financial. She replaces Sheri Bane...

Larry Martin in Illinois says he’s never seen anything like it in his 35 years of farming. Arkansas soybean grower...
When Dennis Roberts’ car insurance started getting a bit too expensive, he did what a lot of consumers do and...
Barb Baurer, chief operating officer for Bloomington, Ill.-based COUNTRY Financial, announced she will retire in January 2015. Baurer has been...

An insurance agent in central Illinois says he’s noticing an increase in the number of inquiries about renters’ insurance following...
Two Illinois-based insurers say they’ve received about 6,000 claims so far from Sunday’s tornadoes and they expect that figure to...

The number of laborers and others killed in accidents on Illinois farms is falling. The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports that the...