14 Trump Hotels Affected By Company’s Latest Hack Attack
Marking the third such breach in the last two years, Trump Hotels notified guests this week that 14 of its properties have been affected by a hack attack, exposing guests’ full names, emails, addresses, and credit card information, including expiration dates. Here’s what you need to know.
July 12, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Technology
District Of Columbia
Hawaii
Illinois
New York
Canadian Oil Train Derailment Spills Thousands Of Gallons Of Crude In Illinois
Cleanup efforts continued Saturday in Plainfield after a train carrying crude oil derailed early Friday evening. No one was injured in the derailment.
July 3, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Illinois
Life Insurance Companies Profit Billions From Uninformed Beneficiaries
Life insurance companies across the country are struggling with the issue of tracking down beneficiaries owed death benefits. While some states have very strict and specific laws about insurer practices in these situations, others make it possible for insurers to admittedly keep the owed money.
June 26, 2017
Legislation & Regulation
Life & Health
Illinois
Chicago Weather: Severe Storms Down Trees, Flood Streets
Severe storms downed trees and power lines and dumped heavy rain and hail on parts of the Chicago area Wednesday afternoon.
June 15, 2017
Property
Illinois
Gas Explosion Affects Dozens Of Homes In Illinois Neighborhood
Dozens of people have been displaced from their homes after a house explosion rocked a neighborhood in Marengo Sunday.
Families are scrambling to clean up and board up after a gas explosion rocked the neighborhood Sunday just before 5 a.m.
June 13, 2017
Property
Illinois
Families are scrambling to clean up and board up after a gas explosion rocked the neighborhood Sunday just before 5 a.m.
Woman Receives Four-Year-Sentence in $7 Million Fraud Case
A suburban Chicago woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding Illinois out of nearly $7 million in unemployment benefits. The U.S. attorney’s office says 54-year-old Letitia Garcia of Round Lake Beach helped hundreds of people prepare and file unemployment insurance claims that contained false information.
June 7, 2017
Fraud
Illinois
Hailstorms Left Their Mark In 2016
Everything is big in Texas, including hailstorms. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) said today that insurance claims for hail damage in Texas last year exceeded the previous two years combined.
June 2, 2017
Auto
Property
Colorado
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Minnesota
Illinois Farmer, Sentenced For Fraud, Overinsured & Burned Machinery
A Quincy man, convicted for his role in a fire that destroyed two pieces of farm equipment in 2014, has been sentenced to five months in federal prison.
May 24, 2017
Fraud
Illinois
Dust Storm Creates Blackout Conditions On Central Illinois Roadways
A Chatham man was killed, and Illinois State Police shut down eastbound Interstate 72 at the Morgan-Sangamon county line and eastbound Illinois 104 at Auburn Wednesday afternoon following numerous multi-vehicle accidents due to dirt from fields blowing across the roadway.
May 18, 2017
Auto
Liability
Illinois
NFLer’s Maserati Stolen In Bump-And-Run Scheme In Chicago
A luxury vehicle belonging to Chicago Bears receiver Kevin White was stolen during a fake accident scheme Thursday night in the West Town neighborhood.
May 15, 2017
Auto
Illinois
Thieves Steal 40 Firearms From Chicago Gun Range
Police in the south suburbs are looking for a group of thieves that hit a gun range early Friday morning, stealing dozens of guns. Officers were on the scene in about five minutes, but the thieves and guns were already long gone.
May 2, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Illinois
New WCRI Studies Examine Trends In Claim Costs And Impact Of Reforms In 18 State Workers’ Compensation Systems
The claim costs and other metrics of 18 state workers’ compensation systems are analyzed in depth in a new series of studies, CompScope™ Benchmarks, 17th Edition, released by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI).
April 19, 2017
Legislation & Regulation
Workers' Compensation
California
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
More Travelers Purchasing Insurance Against Terrorism Losses
Leading travel insurance trends aren’t just focused on hurricanes and illness anymore. A considerable number of traveler inquiries are now seeking to make certain that they are protected against losses from terrorism, too.
April 19, 2017
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Child Care Facility Heavily Damaged In Early-Morning Fire
Preliminary investigation into the fire that caused severe damage to the South Elgin KinderCare Wednesday morning shows the fire began on an outside wall, fire officials said. No one was injured in the blaze.
March 31, 2017
Property
Illinois
17.5 Tons Of Frozen Taquitos Recalled
When mass-producing packaged foods, one of the goals is to prevent pieces of the processing equipment out of the food. A plant that makes José Olé products came up short of that aspiration, resulting in a recall of 17.5 tons of taquitos that could contain pieces of plastic and rubber.
March 28, 2017
Subrogation
California
Florida
Illinois
Missouri
New York
