Mealey's (November 24, 2020, 1:24 PM EST) -- SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Supreme Court on Nov. 19 affirmed an appeals court’s ruling that the trustee of a bankruptcy estate for a woman who worked for an optometrist’s office that allegedly submitted fraudulent bills to a private insurer can pursue a claim under the state’s insurance fraud act, holding that the appeals panel did not err when finding that the woman is an “interested person” under the act and that the state could assign its claim to the bankruptcy estate because the state suffered an “injury in fact” to its sovereignty as a result of the office’s alleged conduct....