Illinois Department Of Financial And Professional Regualtion
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Recent News About Illinois Department Of Financial And Professional Regualtion
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Cannabis dispensary hopefuls say state's licensing program is unconstitutional
Women allege they weren't allowed to change application address like other businesses -
Appeals panel: State OK to fine attorney who acted as lawyer, real estate agent on same property sale
A state appeals court said a Lake County judge erred in overruling an Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation finding that a lawyer was wrong to act as both real estate agent and attorney in a single transaction. -
Choosing a hat: Proposal seeks to ease home closing costs by rewriting rules for IL lawyers who sell title insurance
A new legislative proposal would force real estate lawyers in Illinois who also serve as title insurance agents to 'choose which hat they will wear' in a home sale transaction, in a bid to reduce the typical closing costs paid by Illinois homeowners, and bring those costs more in line with the national average. But the proposal has drawn fire from lawyers and their associations, accusing supporters of the bill of unfairly 'scapegoating' lawyers for Illinois' relatively more expensive title insurance costs. -
Judge: IL state agency overreached in prosecuting property tax lawyers for using comps in tax appeals
State bureaucrats who regulate real estate appraisers in Illinois have no authority to prosecute property tax lawyers, a Cook County judge has ruled, finding regulators overreached in claiming lawyers violated state appraiser licensing rules by using comparable property values to argue for a lower tax assessment for thieir clients. -
IL Supreme Court: Government can't use change in law to deny info requests filed before law changed
The Illinois Supreme Court has overruled lower court judges who had decided an Illinois state agency could wait until after a law is changed to use the change in the law to deny a public information request submitted before the law changed. -
Appeals panel: 'Harsh' law forced state to yank nurse's license over 1975 'forcible felony' conviction
An Illinois appellate panel has refused to overturn the state's decision to retroactively revoke a Cook County man's nursing license, because of a 40-year-old attempted murder conviction which pre-dates his nursing career, saying a 2012 law clearly, if “harshly,” demands revocation. -
Bar Association lawsuit: Block IL regulators from going after property tax lawyers over 'appraisals'
The Illinois State Bar Association has asked a Cook County judge to order state regulators to back off of prosecutions against lawyers the state agency has accused of appraising real estate without a license, because the lawyers purportedly included real estate comps and other real estate value metrics in property tax appeals. -
State can deny FOIA'd documents under new law even though law changed after request filed: Panel
Illinois state regulators can use a state law shielding certain public records from disclosure to prevent a business owner from obtaining public records related to a regulatory complaint filed against his business, even though the state law was enacted after the business owner had tried, failed and then sued to force the regulators to give him the documents. -
New Illinois law allows convicted felons to get health care-related professional licenses
Felony convictions will no longer prevent someone in Illinois from acquiring a health care-related professional license thanks to a new law that amends the rules overseen by the state's Department of Professional Regulation. -
IL law forcing 'pregnancy resource centers' to refer women for abortions violates constitution: Lawsuit
Eighteen Illinois women’s health organizations have sued the state of Illinois and Gov. Bruce Rauner over a new law that forces pro-life doctors and pregnancy resource centers to discuss abortion benefits and to refer pregnant women for abortions despite the medical providers' opposition to the procedure. -
Doctor waited too long to sue IL, Cook County officials he said wrongly yanked his license over patient death, judge says
A doctor’s federal lawsuit against Cook County and state medical authorities, which contends they conspired to wrongly yank his medical license almost 20 years ago for allegedly killing a terminally ill patient, has been dismissed, because it was filed years too late and some of its claims belong in state court. -
Firearms auction site Gunbroker.com says IL agency's attempt to regulate its business unconstitutional, illegal
The Georgia-based operators of an online firearms auction site have challenged the authority of the state of Illinois to regulate their business, claiming a January decision by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to take aim at the business is unconstitutional and treats the business unfairly.