All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 20 2016 // Recent court and regulatory actions across the country with regard to environmental pollution exclusions in insurance policies have shown the need among farm owners and other agricultural risks for true environmental...
Jun 17 2016 // American Family Mutual Insurance Co., headquartered in Madison, Wis., announced the filing of a plan to create a mutual holding company that it says would provide more flexibility to pursue customer-driven initiatives...
Jun 15 2016 // Prosecutors can’t change drunken driving charges once they’re filed without a judge’s permission, a state appeals court ruled in upholding a judge’s decision to order a felony charge against a...
Jun 14 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired The Buchholz Planning Corp. (BPC), located in Madison, Wis. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1968, BPC provides employee benefits consulting and brokerage...
Jun 10 2016 // Wisconsin insurance industry leaders are worried a potential state move toward self-insurance is already on its way to a done deal.At a Wisconsin Health News panel, panelists and audience members critiqued the possible...
Jun 10 2016 // Wisconsin-based Ashley Furniture has agreed to pay $1.75 million to settle alleged safety violations at four of its plants, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said.Ashley Furniture entered into a...
Jun 8 2016 // Wisconsin Commissioner of Insurance Ted Nickel has appointed J.P. Wieske as deputy commissioner.He previously served as legislative liaison and public information officer for the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance...
Jun 6 2016 // Recent court and regulatory actions across the country with regard to environmental pollution exclusions in insurance policies have shown the need among farm owners and other agricultural risks for true environmental...
Jun 1 2016 // At the 2016 Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin (IIAW) annual conference, several leaders at Robertson Ryan & Associates (RRA) were recognized for their insurance industry achievements.Jason Bott was recognized...
May 19 2016 // Vintners in southern Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota are reeling from a weekend cold snap that ruined huge swaths of their grapes.Temperatures dipped below freezing in much of those areas late Saturday and early...
May 17 2016 // A former Wisconsin insurance agent has been ordered to pay more than $516,000 in restitution and a forfeiture of over $1 million for allegedly of misappropriating funds, making misrepresentations about insurance policies,...
May 13 2016 // A woman can’t sue a state worker for allegedly injuring her in a car accident because she had her claim hand-delivered to the attorney general’s office instead of sending it by certified mail, the Wisconsin...
May 12 2016 // A Wisconsin state appeals court says police can release full accident reports without violating federal law but must black out information taken directly from driver records in incident reports. The decision stems from a...
May 9 2016 // A second lawsuit is set for trial against a U.S. gun shop after a jury in October found the store negligently sold a gun used to injure two Milwaukee police officers.The new case involves two different injured officers who...
Apr 18 2016 // A jury in Wisconsin has awarded medical software company Epic Systems $940 million in damages in a trade secret lawsuit against Indian information technology provider Tata Consultancies, believed to one of the largest...
Apr 7 2016 // A federal agency has ordered a Wisconsin limousine service involved in a fatal crash in Illinois last month to shut down immediately.The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Edgerton-based Lyons Limousine to...
Mar 21 2016 // The national youth football organization, Pennsylvania-based Pop Warner, has settled a lawsuit filed in Wisconsin by the mother of a man who committed suicide, allegedly as a result of suffering numerous head injuries as...
Mar 21 2016 // Andreas Kleiner has been named president and chief executive officer of American Modern Insurance Group, a subsidiary of Munich Re, effective May 1.Kleiner has served as a member of the board of management for ERGO...
Mar 15 2016 // The number of traffic crashes associated with distracted driving is on the rise in Wisconsin, including the number of fatal accidents.More than 24,000 crashes involving a distracted driver occurred in 2015, compared with...
Mar 9 2016 // The youth football organization, Pennsylvania-based Pop Warner, has settled a lawsuit filed in Wisconsin by the mother of a man who committed suicide, allegedly as a result of suffering numerous head injuries as child...