All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jan 19 2021 // Dozens of La Crosse, Wis.-area wells are contaminated with forever chemicals known as PFAS, tests revealed.At least 40 wells that provide private drinking water on French Island are contaminated with PFAS levels above...
Jan 15 2021 // A state board has suspended the license of a Wisconsin pharmacist accused of ruining more than 500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine because he thought it was unsafe.Steven Brandenburg was working at Advocate Aurora Health in...
Jan 14 2021 // Church Mutual Insurance Co., based in Merrill, Wis., has promoted Bruce Carter to assistant vice president – Diversity & Inclusion and John Tribble to vice president – Customer Relationship and Business...
Jan 13 2021 // A 73-year-old Green Bay, Wisconsin, man has been charged with his 18th drunken driving offense, after a crash on Jan. 8 that took out power lines and caused an outage.Wallace Bowers had 17 prior operating while intoxicated...
Jan 8 2021 // Policyholders of Neena, Wisc.-based Secura Insurance, a mutual company, have voted to approve the company’s plan to restructure to a mutual holding company.The conversion to a mutual holding company, previously...
Jan 6 2021 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Wisconsin (PIAW) has hired Natalie White as the association’s new communications director.White joins PIAW after several years of working in the Wisconsin Legislature. In addition...
Jan 6 2021 // Charles Taylor, a technology products and services to the global insurance market, has acquired Aegis Corp. (Aegis), a Wisconsin-based provider of mutual management and third party claims administration.Aegis provides risk...
Dec 29 2020 // Yearly convictions for drunken driving and other related offenses dropped by nearly 18,000 in Wisconsin between 2004 and 2018, according to a report from the state Legislative Reference Bureau.Alcohol-related fatal crashes...
Dec 28 2020 // A Wisconsin appeals court has upheld a $5.5 million judgment against a driver who killed a 23-year-old bicyclist in Madison.Brian Hodgson was driving on the city’s west side in June 2015 when he crashed into Emilly...
Dec 21 2020 // A Wisconsin dentist is accused of damaging his patients’ teeth so that he could bill insurance companies for crown procedures.Scott Charmoli, 60, of Grafton, has been charged in federal court with eight counts of...
Dec 10 2020 // The man who died in a corn silo at a mill in Columbia County, Wis., was a 52-year-old employee, sheriff’s officials said.Deputies were called to Didion Milling in Cambria on Dec. 8 where an employee was reported...
Dec 2 2020 // Auto fatalities are up in Wisconsin despite there being fewer people on the road due to the coronavirus pandemic, a report released on Dec. 1 by the Wisconsin Policy Forum found.The report examined state crash data from...
Nov 23 2020 // SECURA Insurance, based in Neenah, Wis., has promoted five company leaders: Amy DeHart, senior vice president and chief actuary; Dan Ferris, chief legal officer; Tripp Humston, regional vice president–Sales; Tim...