Results tagged “insurance”

A DuPage County woman has been accused of attempting to defraud her employer of $25,000 by claiming her daughter and husband had died, the Daily Herald reports.

So we know these videos are old, but they still make us laugh, especially when we need it. And this week, we needed the laugh around the Chicagoist office. This ad campaign, by Virginia's Trigon Blue Cross/Blue Shield, hits just the right combination of cute and funny for our tastes. Our favorite is below and there are two more after the jump.

Cleveland Tyson of Buffalo Grove was awarded $56.25 million this week for his role as a whistleblower. Tyson used to work for Amerigroup, a Medicaid provider, and his testimony revealed Amerigroup was not insuring pregnant women and sick people—even though the government was paying them to do so. The government sued the company for over $300 million, and this week Amerigroup settled the suit for $225 million.