Illinois eyes revived state-backed workers' comp plan

Illinois would set up a non-profit workers' compensation
insurer under a revived measure similar to a bill vetoed last year
by Republican Governor Bruce Rauner.
The bill, HB 4595, moved a step closer to consideration by the
full House of Representatives earlier this week when the
chamber's Labor and Commerce Committee moved it forward.
Proposed by state Representative Laura Fine, a Democrat who
entered the state legislature in 2012 vowing "to take on the
powerful insurance industry", the measure