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Details: Insurance. Insurance. That $4 billion Zurich-MetLife deal is going forward. Insurance. Allstate steers into Progressive's lane. Health Care. Illinois Department of Insurance director stepping down.
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Health Insurance | Crain's Chicago Business
Details: The old health insurance model that's making a comeback. John Pletz On Technology. GoHealth aims to raise $750 million in IPO. Health Care. State's biggest Medicaid insurer snaps up shuttered plan
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Pritzker taps Allstater to regulate insurance industry
Details: She is the first leader of the state Department of Insurance to come directly from Allstate or Bloomington-based State Farm in memory, according to insurance industry observers.
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Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher sues Alliant Insurance
Details: The lawsuit by Arthur J. Gallagher alleges California-based Alliant Insurance has a growth strategy predicated mainly on inducing competitors' workers to violate non-solicitation pacts.
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State Farm on pace to lose car-insurance crown
Details: State Farm, for decades the top dog of U.S. auto insurance, is on track to lose that status within just a few years unless trends favoring online insurers abate.
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Illinois Department of Insurance Director stepping down
Details: Prior to joining the state Department of Insurance, Muriel was a civil and commercial lawyer, primarily representing small businesses with a focus on insurance coverage and bad faith claims
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Health care | Crain's Chicago Business
Details: The newly public price information could shake the industry, equipping insurers and large employers to drive harder bargains with hospitals. Savings eventually could filter down to patients
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State Farm loses policyholders after steep price hikes
Details: State Farm is cutting auto insurance rates in virtually every U.S. state this year, and a deep look at the company's filings reveals why: Drivers are reacting to 2016 and 2017 rate hikes by
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People on the move listing | Crain's Chicago Business
Details: An accomplished defense attorney with 20 years of insurance coverage expertise, Ms. Tumialán represents insurers in complex coverage disputes relating to personal and commercial lines, third
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Allstate agents angered over sudden pay cut on policy renewals
Details: Allstate is cutting costs, and it's reaching for where the money is: the people who generate the revenue. The Northbrook-based insurance giant has informed its nationwide army of agents that it's
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Allstate | Crain's Chicago Business
Details: Insurance. Citigroup sues Allstate for pocketing some cash in a $900M fiasco. Load More; Get our newsletters. Staying current is easy with Crain's news delivered straight to your inbox, free of
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Chicago's largest insurance brokers | Chicago Business
Details: FirmHead of Chicago officeChicago employeesU.S. revenues (millions)BrokerageCompensationOffices 199919981999ChangeRetailWholesaleServicesOtherCommissionFeesChicagoU.S
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Aon considers buying Willis Towers Watson
Details: Aon, a business insurance brokerage and consultancy with operations in 120 countries, moved its corporate headquarters to London from Chicago in 2012, taking many of its senior executives abroad.
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Allstate announces $600 million in rebates to auto
Details: The Northbrook-based insurance giant is calling the payments a “shelter-in-place payback” and says they will total $600 million over the two months. On average, policyholders will see 15
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State Farm providing $2 billion in credits to auto
Details: Insurance; April 09, 2020 06:34 PM. State Farm providing $2 billion in credits to auto policyholders. The nation's largest car insurer followed—and one-upped—archrival Allstate's move as stay
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Aon girds for pandemic fallout with 20% cut in most
Details: The commercial insurance brokerage and corporate consultant will suspend its share-buyback program. But it will preserve its dividend. “Paying a regular dividend is consistent with maintaining
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Allstate Direct selling same auto coverage for 7 percent
Details: A car-insurance price war may be in the offing, triggered by Bloomington-based State Farm’s recent moves to cut policy rates by 11 percent on average nationwide. If State Farm’s
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Mergers reduce competition in Illinois' Medicaid managed
Details: A dwindling roster of insurers threatens the benefits Illinois hoped to realize by enlisting private companies to run its managed care program for Medicaid, the joint state and federal health
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COVID coronavirus business interruption lawsuit filed by
Details: A judge in Michigan this month handed a preliminary victory to the insurance industry, ruling in a case involving a restaurant that “some tangible alteration to a property is required to trigger
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Allstate agents' opinion of the insurer takes dramatic drop
Details: The auto insurance industry appears to be entering a period of more intense price competition, Shields said. That puts a premium on cost reduction, and compensating agents is a major expense for
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Property insurance not meant to cover COVID business
Details: The American Property Casualty Insurance Association estimates there could be as many as 30 million claims from small businesses related to COVID-19 losses if legislatures mandate coverage nationwide.
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Press pause on car-insurance price war in Illinois?
Details: Maybe tap the brakes on that auto insurance price war. Progressive, the third-largest car insurer in Illinois, is modestly increasing rates, just months after slicing them by about 10 percent
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SEE HOW STATE FARM AND ALLSTATE ARE MARKETING REFUNDS
Details: Insurance experts say the move to be proactive—by issuing refunds ahead of any regulator mandates—is a smart one as it will help brands deepen connections with their customers and avoid
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State Farm acquires Gainsco
Details: The $400 million purchase of low-profile Gainsco has the insurance giant getting into the business of offering bare-bones auto policies to high-risk drivers.
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CNA hit with class-action suit for denying business
Details: Insurance industry representatives argue that business-interruption insurance was never meant for such a broad set of damages as that caused by the coronavirus and could lead to insurers going
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Allstate call-center plan angers agents
Details: The Northbrook-based insurance giant is building three large call centers in the U.S. designed to handle routine customer inquiries currently addressed by the company's army of agents. The cost to
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State Farm's banking exit puts nearly 1,000 Bloomington
Details: Insurance; March 06, 2020 05:34 PM. State Farm's banking exit puts nearly 1,000 Illinois jobs at risk. State Farm is getting out of the banking business after 21 years and transferring accounts to
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Allstate scrapping Esurance brand
Details: “Insurance affordability will be improved by combining the Allstate, Esurance, Encompass and Answer Financial organizations into one business model,” the company said. “This will lower costs
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Local restaurants want small insurer to pay big COVID
Details: An insurance policy is a contract, and judges are tasked with determining what the contract means. Wording is critical. "Society Insurance's wholesale, cursory coverage denials are arbitrary and
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Aon trims salaries by 19.9 percent amid COVID pandemic
Details: More broadly, he said Marsh, the world's largest insurance brokerage, wouldn't cut worker pay for this simple reason: "Solving the (potential revenue or liquidity) issue by reducing pay is an
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Billy Goat sues its insurer to pay up in pandemic
Details: But Society Insurance, a mutual insurer that traces its roots back to 1915, is the defendant in the suit. The complaint acknowledged that most insurance policies of its type bar claims of this sort.
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Zurich Insurance Group buying MetLife U.S. property and
Details: Last month, RSA Insurance Group Plc accepted a takeover offer of $9.6 billion from Canada’s Intact Financial Corp. and Danish Insurer Tryg A/S in what was the highest premium offered in a
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State Farm suspending federal campaign donations after
Details: The insurance giant, along with rival Allstate, is among the largest local corporate givers to lawmakers, including many who voted against certifying Biden's win.
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Allstate preparing job cuts numbering in the thousands
Details: Allstate is preparing a significant cost-cutting initiative that will result in the layoff of thousands, according to a report out of Northern Ireland, where Allstate is a major employer.
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State Farm auto premiums fall for first time in years
Details: The insurance giant cut vehicle rates last year to slow a marked erosion in market share at the expense of lower-cost insurers like Geico. But it didn’t add enough customers to keep revenue from
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Aon subpoenaed over Trump Organization insurance
Details: (Bloomberg) — New York’s insurance regulator issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization’s primary insurance broker, a person familiar with the matter said.
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State Farm's bid to nix business COVID suit rejected by judge
Details: A federal judge in Norfolk, Va., on Dec. 9 rejected the Bloomington-based insurance giant’s motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit by a spa in Virginia Beach that asserted State Farm
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Esurance co-founder takes aim at trucking
Details: The insurance industry has seen a surge in startups that see an opportunity to use data, as well as internet and mobile technologies, to create cost advantages that will allow them to poach
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Marsh buys local insurance broker Assurance
Details: Marsh & McLennan is the largest insurance broker in the world, although it’s set to be eclipsed if and when London-based Aon completes its purchase of the third-largest brokerage, Willis Towers
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Allstate looks to make homeowners pay more for roof
Details: Homeowners insurance has been a difficult issue for Allstate and other insurers, as an increase in violent weather over the past several years has led to higher claims costs. Allstate has raised
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University of Illinois insurance decline in Chinese enrollment
Details: At UIUC, which is also structuring the new Discovery Partners Institute research center in Chicago around international exchanges, the insurance contract is an experimental, and expensive, tool
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State Farm suffers worst car insurance losses ever
Details: State Farm Insurance lost more money insuring cars last year than it ever has in its 95-year history. The Bloomington-based giant, by far the largest U.S. auto insurer, incurred $35.8 billion in
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Chicago auto insurance startup Clearcover expanding to
Details: Clearcover is a technology-based auto insurance startup founded in 2016. The company is backed by investments from American Family Insurance Co., Cox Enterprises Inc. and OMERS Ventures, the multi
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Price hikes have Allstate customers tapping the brakes
Details: Bloomington-based State Farm Insurance, the largest auto insurer in the U.S. and also reliant on an army of agents, raised rates a little over 4 percent through the first nine months of 2016 and 3
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Sears reaches $3 million life-insurance settlement with
Details: Sears will create a $3 million life insurance compensation fund for the beneficiaries of retired workers who died, following a dispute with workers over the bankrupt retailer's decision to
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Clearcover in Chicago is disrupting the auto insurance
Details: While big insurance companies collectively pour billions into advertising, Clearcover spends only a fraction of that on digital marketing. The savings are passed on to customers in the form of
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CVS-Aetna merger leaves Walgreens on different path
Details: The nation's No. 2 has agreed to shell out $69 billion to buy Aetna, one of the country's largest insurers, to create an unprecedented company with operations in pharmacy, retail, insurance and an
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