S​irens blared in downtown Chicago as tornadoes roared through the area Wednesday evening, damaging homes and cars and sending passengers at O’Hare International Airport into tunnels for shelter.
Indiana and Illinois have recently joined the growing number of states enacting legislation aimed at reforming public adjuster practices. These measures are designed to enhance consumer protection, increase transparency, and regulate the activities of public adjusters within the insurance industry.
Illinois State Representative Will Guzzardi is leading efforts to introduce new regulations that would require auto insurance companies to obtain state approval before implementing rate hikes. Additionally, he aims to implement a ban on excessive rate increases and prevent insurers from using occupation, gender, homeowner status or credit score as factors in calculating premiums.
A blinding dust storm in south-central Illinois caused a catastrophic multi-vehicle pileup that claimed the lives of at least six people and injured dozens more, according to reports from local officials.
Seventeen state attorneys general have called on the federal government to recall millions of Kia and Hyundai cars due to their susceptibility to theft, which has been amplified by a viral social media challenge.
The recent outbreak of severe weather that crossed a large swath of the country reaching from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico on April 4 was responsible for more than 200 tornado reports, large hail, and hurricane force winds.
Honda is recalling 563,711 older-model CR-Vs in 22 cold-weather states and Washington, D.C., because an accumulation of road salt can cause the vehicle’s rear trailing arm to corrode and detach, which could lead to a crash.
Parts of the Midwest and South devastated by catastrophic tornadoes will have almost no time to recover before another round of dangerous storms takes aim at hard-hit areas.
The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA), the Illinois Insurance Association (IIA), and National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) have together issued a statement decrying a newly announced Illinois bill which would limit the number of non-driving factors auto insurance companies can use in setting the rates of consumers.
The Illinois Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated opinion in Tims v. Black Horse Carriers, Inc., 2023 IL 127801 on February 2, 2023. Tims settles -- once and for all -- the burning question of which statute of limitations applies to claims advanced under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (‘BIPA’).
A federal district court in New York has refused to dismiss a putative class-action lawsuit filed under Illinois’ Biometric Privacy Act against fashion designer Louis Vuitton in connection with its website’s eyeglass ‘Virtual Try-On’ feature.
An 18-year-old man is charged after the vehicle he was test driving veered off the road and slammed into an Elmhurst home on Monday, according to police.
Illinois’ first jury verdict in a biometric privacy class action will likely encourage more litigation in the state and place pressure on businesses to settle those claims long before they reach trial, attorneys say.
State Farm has released an update to a previous report it has made regarding recent trends in auto insurance claims having to do with catalytic converter thefts. The trend, though already bad in the last report, has only managed to worsen across the country.
