All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2021 // A lawsuit filed by a Chicago astronomer who alleged the Wisconsin-based maker of American Girl dolls stole her likeness and name to create an astronaut doll has been dismissed after the two sides resolved the case.The...
Apr 30 2021 // Madison, Wisconsin-based M3 Insurance (M3), an insurance broker and risk management firm with seven locations throughout Wisconsin and Illinois, has launched M3 Elevate (Elevate), a new division that encourages small...
Apr 28 2021 // Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bipartisan bill that makes it easier for emergency responders suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder to file workers’ compensation claims.Right now, police and...
Apr 28 2021 // Peter Earle has been fighting for child victims of lead paint poisoning for more than 20 years and he and his fellow lawyers for the cause are not about to let another legal setback affecting three cases keep him from...
Apr 27 2021 // Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has reached a $242,000 settlement with a factory farm and a manure applicator to resolve pollution violations stemming from manure spills several years ago.Kaul announced the...
Apr 23 2021 // Dozens of vehicles crashed in near whiteout conditions on a Washington County, Wisconsin, interstate, killing one person and seriously injuring six people, according to sheriff’s officials.At least 48 vehicles,...
Apr 21 2021 // J.M. Wilson, a managing general agency headquartered in Portage, Michigan, with eight offices in the United States, has acquired Transcom General Agency, based in Madison, Wisconsin.The transaction was effective April 1....
Apr 20 2021 // A food plant employee is suing his Walworth County, Wisconsin, employer alleging he contracted the coronavirus at work and infected his wife who died from the disease.Rigoberto Ruiz, of Beloit, says ConAgra Foods...
Apr 16 2021 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that Gov. Tony Evers’ administration does not have the authority to issue capacity limits on bars, restaurants and other businesses without the Legislature’s approval, a...
Mar 29 2021 // Federal workplace safety officials have cited a food packaging company after a worker was seriously injured by a forklift; proposed penalties total $177,490.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...
Mar 22 2021 // Wisconsin authorities are warning residents about weather conditions after more than 30 wildfires were reported throughout the state on March 20.Much of the state is under a burn ban due to forecasts of low relative...
Mar 18 2021 // Wisconsin-based Society Insurance has plans to launch its insurance programs for the hospitality industry in Texas this year.In business for more than 100 years, Society Insurance offers property/casualty coverages,...
Mar 8 2021 // Fifty people are suing a Wisconsin city over the way it handled protests last fall after authorities announced that a police officer would face no charges for the fatal shooting of a Black teenager.Protesters demonstrated...
Mar 8 2021 // The city of La Crosse, Wisconsin, has filed a lawsuit against a host of chemical manufacturers that produced firefighting foam linked to groundwater contamination around the city’s airport.Tests have revealed at...
Feb 11 2021 // Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has proposed legalizing marijuana and regulating and taxing it like the state does alcohol.Evers made the proposal in his 2021-23 biennial budget, which estimates that legal marijuana would...
Feb 3 2021 // Investigators believe a fire that burned six school buses at a Racine County, Wisconsin, depot was ignited by an electrical problem and was not suspicious in nature.The fire at the Thomas Bus Service lot in the Town of...
Feb 2 2021 // Openly, based in Boston, is now offering its homeowners insurance products and services in Wisconsin.More than 500 independent agents across the state can now access Openly’s technology that simplifies the homeowners...
Feb 2 2021 // Understory, a Madison, Wisconsin-based provider of insurance products and services focused on climate change, has appointed Neil Irwin as chief strategy officer.Irwin will help drive the company’s strategic planning...
Feb 1 2021 // The Consumer Affairs department at the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) recovered $3,987,247 for Wisconsinites through their complaint process last year, Insurance Commissioner Mark Afable says.In 2020, the...
Jan 28 2021 // Companies looking to mine copper, gold and silver in Wisconsin will face dramatically higher costs and have to work around an extensive list of off-limit areas under new rules the state Department of Natural Resources...