All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 29 2019 // Surplus lines broker and managing general agent J.M. Wilson has added Ken Sherman as branch manager in its Madison, Wisconsin, office.He will plan the day-to-day operations of the Madison office, coordinate the staff, and...
Oct 21 2019 // A new law aimed at helping Wisconsin patients access important prescription medications will go into effect on Nov. 1, 2019, the state’s insurance regulators say.Called the Step Therapy Law, Wisconsin Act 12...
Oct 21 2019 // Workers’ compensation medical costs vary widely among the states both in terms of price and how often services are used. The differences appear to relate closely to which cost-drivers each state legislature tried to...
Oct 17 2019 // Neenah, Wisconsin-based SECURA Insurance has moved its home office to a new location at 1500 Mutual Way in the Village of Fox Crossing in Neenah.The 300,000-square foot building gives the company room to grow with space...
Oct 17 2019 // A jury in Wisconsin has awarded $450,000 to the father of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting after he filed a defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorist writers who claimed the massacre never...
Oct 14 2019 // Wisconsin legislators have passed a bill that would extend health insurance for immediate survivors of police officers and emergency medical workers killed in the line of duty. The Assembly unanimously passed the measure...
Oct 11 2019 // Wisconsin insurance officials say state residents will have more health insurance options this year as open enrollment approaches.The state Office of the Commissioner of Insurance says 61 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties...
Oct 7 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a bid by the University of Wisconsin’s patent licensing arm to reinstate its legal victory against Apple Inc. in a fight over computer processor technology that the school...
Oct 3 2019 // A sheriff’s deputy in Perry, Ga., filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against the county where she works over its refusal to allow her health insurance plan to cover her gender-affirmation surgery.Sgt. Anna...
Oct 2 2019 // Husky Energy says it’s been given approval to rebuild its oil refinery in Superior, Wisconsin, after an explosion and a series of fires last year injured 36 people and required much of the city to evacuate.Husky,...
Oct 1 2019 // American Family Insurance Mutual Holding Co. (American Family Insurance) has completed its purchase of Wisconsin-based property/casualty insurer, Ameriprise Auto & Home (AAH).American Family Insurance is based in...
Sep 16 2019 // “We have a lot more work that we need to get done. Despite Florida’s history of hurricanes, people are slow to make changes to improve their situation.”Lisa Lindsay, president of the Private Risk...
Sep 13 2019 // Policyholders of Neenah, Wisconsin-based Jewelers Mutual Insurance Co. have approved the company’s plan to convert its corporate structure to a mutual holding company.Policyholders voted Sept. 12 to approve the...
Aug 29 2019 // A Wisconsin man who spent three years lobbying Minnesota lawmakers to ban the use of cellphones or other electronic devices while driving said he wants his home state to adopt similar legislation.Thomas Goeltz lost his...
Aug 7 2019 // Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is crediting a reinsurance program adopted by his Republican predecessor Scott Walker for leading to lower health insurance rates in 2020.Evers on Friday announced that rates will...
Jul 26 2019 // Keystone Insurers Group (Keystone) has added McDonald Insurance Agency of Hudson to its list of Wisconsin partners. McDonald Insurance Agency has been serving Wisconsin and Minnesota since 1977, and is licensed in multiple...
Jul 24 2019 // The University of Wisconsin System will pay a former student $325,000 to settle claims that a professor sexually harassed her.The former student, identified as A.R. in court documents, sued in October saying UW-Oshkosh...
Jul 23 2019 // Wisconsin’s chief insurance regulator has approved an overall 8.84% decrease in workers’ compensation premium rates.The new rates approved by Commissioner of Insurance Mark Afable are effective Oct. 1, 2019,...
Jul 17 2019 // City leaders in Duluth, Minnesota, are taking steps to ensure that residents will be safe following the upcoming reconstruction of a refinery that exploded in neighboring Superior, Wisconsin.The Husky Energy oil refinery...
Jul 15 2019 // Wisconsin insurance officials will soon consider a proposal to lower insurance rates for workers’ compensation in the state.The Wisconsin Compensation Rating Bureau has proposed decreasing workers’ compensation...