All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 30 2015 // For the fourth time in three years, a Bloomer, Wis., roofing contractor was found ignoring workplace safety laws, federal and state safety officials say.The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration said...
Nov 30 2015 // Wisconsin’s overall incidence rate of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses remained unchanged, at 4.0 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers in 2014, state workplace safety officials said.The Wisconsin...
Nov 24 2015 // Other officers elected are President-Elect: Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark; Vice President: Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel; and Secretary-Treasurer: Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Julie Mix...
Nov 24 2015 // Minnesota officials are targeting tractor rollovers as a way to improve safety on the farm.Key legislators and representatives of three state agencies met for the first time last week to gather information on how other...
Nov 23 2015 // The Wisconsin state fund that insures local governments’ property finished the last fiscal year nearly $6 million in the red, according to a report released on Nov. 20.The review from the Legislative Audit Bureau...
Nov 23 2015 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) have elected 2016 officers who will will assume their duties on Jan. 1, 2016. President: Missouri Insurance Director John M. Huff President-Elect:...
Nov 17 2015 // The Legislature’s budget-writing committee would have to approve any contract moving Wisconsin public workers into a self-insurance model under a bill up for approval in the state Assembly.The measure being debated...
Nov 12 2015 // Canadian Pacific on Nov. 11 said a broken rail caused a weekend freight train derailment in Wisconsin that resulted in an oil spill and a precautionary evacuation.No one was injured in the incident on Nov. 8, which caused...
Nov 10 2015 // A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying crude oil derailed on Nov. 9 prompting some evacuations in Wisconsin, the second day in a row a freight train derailed in the state.The eastbound CP train derailed about 2 p.m. in...
Oct 21 2015 // A federal safety agency has again cited Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. for alleged safety violations at one of its Wisconsin factories.The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration alleged that Arcadia-based...
Oct 19 2015 // A U.S. jury has ordered Apple Inc. to pay the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm more than $234 million in damages for incorporating its microchip technology into some of the company’s...
Oct 15 2015 // A jury has ordered a gun shop to pay nearly $6 million in a lawsuit filed by two Milwaukee, Wis., police officers who were seriously wounded when shot by a gun purchased at the store.Jurors ruled that Badger Guns was...
Oct 15 2015 // The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s licensing arm is seeking $400 million from Apple Inc. for infringing the school’s patent on microprocessor technology.The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is owed that...
Oct 14 2015 // Apple Inc. could be facing up to $862 million in damages after a U.S. jury on Oct. 13 found the iPhone maker used technology owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s licensing arm without permission in chips...
Oct 6 2015 // Itasca, Ill.-based insurance broker and risk management services provider, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has acquired Burkwald & Associates Inc. of Pewaukee, Wis. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded...
Oct 6 2015 // Irving, TX, October 6, 2015 – B2-USA, a leading insurance information and technology firm specializing in configurable policy administration applications, and Wipfli LLP, one of the leading consulting firms in the...
Oct 5 2015 // Wisconsin’s troubled job-creation agency handed out more awards last year but created fewer jobs, according to its annual report.The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation awarded nearly $90 million more in...
Oct 1 2015 // Stevens Point, Wis.-based Sentry Insurance has named Dewey Gantz vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer. Gantz joined Sentry in 2013 as assistant vice president, and chief accounting executive. He has 20...
Sep 24 2015 // Wisconsin’s troubled job-creation agency handed out more awards last year but created fewer jobs, according to its annual report.The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation awarded nearly $90 million more in...
Sep 22 2015 // Stack Bros. Mechanical Contractors Inc. of Superior, Wis., a heating and plumbing contractor in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota, will pay $140,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age discrimination and...