House Falls Just Short of Overriding Mutual Insurer Bill Veto

Illinois' Democrat-controlled House failed to override Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto on a bill that would have created a state-chartered mutual insurance company to compete against private carriers. Rauner said in August that the bill did "nothing to address the actual cost drivers and broken aspects of our workers' compensation system," and amounted to "government interference due to an unfounded belief that the current competitive system is broken." A three-fifths majority was required to override Rauner’s veto of HB 2622. Democrats no longer...