All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 28 2014 // Eight former bar owners in Racine, Wis., filed a lawsuit accusing the mayor and other city officials of racially discriminating against them and forcing their businesses to close.The federal lawsuit filed against Mayor...
Feb 24 2014 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled against State Farm Insurance Co. in a case in which a policyholder who was in an accident in 2010 tried to apply uninsured motorist coverage from another vehicle they owned to collect more...
Feb 20 2014 // Farmers wouldn’t be financially liable for the death of someone participating in an agricultural tourism activity under a bill up for a vote in the Wisconsin state Assembly. Agricultural tourism is growing in...
Feb 17 2014 // A Wausau, Wis., bank and a Fitchburg man have filed a class-action lawsuit against Target Corp. over last year’s massive security breach.Similar lawsuits have been filed in other states, but this is the first of its...
Feb 11 2014 // The Institutes have partnered with the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to offer a leadership development program designed for managers and supervisors in the property/casualty insurance...
Feb 10 2014 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled against State Farm Insurance Co. in a case that deals with tapping uninsured motorists coverage on up to three vehicles to collect more in claims. The unanimous court upheld a 2013...
Feb 7 2014 // Police say they have recovered a violin that could be the rare Stradivarius stolen from a concertmaster following a performance last month at a Milwaukee, Wis., college.Milwaukee Police Lt. Jeffrey Norman said experts will...
Feb 6 2014 // Merrill, Wis.-based Church Mutual Insurance Co., an insurer of religious organizations, announced that Bob Buckley is the new vice president — underwriting and policyholder services and Cheryl Kryshak is the new vice...
Feb 2 2014 // Wisconsin’s Unity health insurance says a portable hard drive containing health information for about 41,000 people has been missing for seven weeks.The insurance company said it was offering identity theft...
Jan 29 2014 // A bill that would prohibit drivers from talking on their cellphones while in a construction zone is moving forward in the Wisconsin state Legislature.The Republican-sponsored measure cleared a Senate committee earlier this...
Jan 17 2014 // Traffic deaths in Wisconsin fell 12 percent last year, a drop that state transportation officials partly credit to safety and awareness programs that resonate with younger drivers.There were 530 road fatalities last year,...
Jan 5 2014 // Independent insurance agencies AVID Risk Solutions of Madison, Wis., and Kellenberger-Landsee & Associates LLC of Brookfield, Wis., have merged effective Jan. 1, 2014.The two property/casualty agencies will remain in...
Jan 2 2014 // Waukesha, Wis.-based R&R Insurance Services Inc. has welcomed Josh Timm as account executive. Timm has more than 10 years of insurance industry experience.He has held multiple sales, marketing and service positions...
Dec 30 2013 // A Wisconsin appeals court says a case brought on behalf of a worker who died as a result of asbestos exposure was wrongly dismissed.The 1st District Court of Appeals on Friday ordered a trial in the case, saying the...
Dec 17 2013 // A Sheboygan insurance company is exempt from having to pay after a man accidentally killed his friend in Oconto County three years ago, a Wisconsin appeals court has ruled.The 3rd District Court of Appeals decided that...
Dec 13 2013 // States once again show the way to management and reform of public systems by having affected interests sit down together to work out a plan. In Wisconsin, the nation’s oldest workers’ compensation program...
Dec 13 2013 // The number of Wisconsin workers killed on the job increased 28 percent last year, in part because of an increase in workplace shootings, according to federal statistics released on Dec. 11.A report from the Bureau of Labor...
Dec 12 2013 // A Wisconsin appeals court says manure isn’t a pollutant as defined in an insurance policy.The case began in 2011 when the state Department of Natural Resources notified West Bend dairy farmer Robert Falk that manure...
Dec 10 2013 // Drivers would be barred from talking on their cell phones while in a construction zone under a bill being circulated in the Wisconsin state Legislature.Republican Sen. Jerry Petrowski, of Marathon, emailed the bill on Dec....
Nov 27 2013 // A jury has found manufacturer Advance Cast Stone mainly responsible for the collapse of a Milwaukee, Wis., parking garage panel that killed a teenager and injured two others in 2010 and awarded $39 million in damages.The...