All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 4 2012 // No Guns at Polls“Wisconsin’s concealed carry law … permits municipalities to prohibit concealed firearms at polling places during elections, whether or not the polling place is located on municipal...
May 23 2012 // United Heartland, a national workers’ compensation insurance company based in New Berlin, Wis., announced it has been selected as one of the Top 100 Workplaces in Southeastern Wisconsin by the Milwaukee Journal...
May 23 2012 // An Outagamie County, Wis., jury has awarded two brothers $700,000 in a fraud trial against the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay.The civil jury found the diocese responsible for concealing a former priest’s history of...
May 15 2012 // Local governments can ban concealed weapons at all manner of polling sites, from city halls to assisted living facilities, state election officials have concluded.Elections appear to qualify as special events under...
May 4 2012 // A River Falls, Wis. company is facing $137,000 in potential fines following a trench collapse last year that killed a 19-year-old worker.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration Five issued five citations this...
Apr 24 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced it has cited Duraframe Dipnet with 20 safety violations — including three repeat — at the net manufacturer’s Viola,...
Apr 9 2012 // Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that prohibits workers from collecting damages in employment discrimination cases.The legislation eliminates compensatory and punitive damages for acts of employment...
Mar 20 2012 // Despite a contentious legislative session, Wisconsin lawmakers successfully passed many bills that will help consumers and improve the state’s business climate, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association...
Mar 7 2012 // An insurance company president has pleaded no contest to flying a plane while intoxicated in Fond du Lac County in Wisconsin, even though he was driving a Mercedes-Benz when he was pulled over. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue...
Feb 23 2012 // The Wisconsin State Assembly has passed a bill that would put an end to punitive and compensatory damages for workplace discrimination. Currently, workers can file discrimination complaints with the state Department of...
Feb 22 2012 // A Wisconsin business owner is charged in federal court with torching his business and offering to kill someone’s wife in payment for helping set the fire.Prosecutors accuse 32-year-old Mathew Lemberger of Denmark of...
Feb 21 2012 // The federal government has rejected Wisconsin’s request to phase in a requirement that health insurers spent 80 cents of every dollar in premiums on medical care, one of the provisions of the Obama...
Feb 15 2012 // To reach his office in Galveston National Laboratory, where scientists study deadly pathogens such as the Ebola and Marburg viruses, director James Le Duc swipes his key card at the building’s single entrance, which...
Dec 9 2011 // Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill designed to limit attorneys’ fees after a well-known lemon law lawyer collected more than $150,000 in an auto-repair dispute.The measure, part of Walker’s special...
Dec 7 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to ‘B+’ (Good) from ‘B++’ (Good) and issuer credit ratings to “bbb-” from “bbb” of Wisconsin Reinsurance...
Dec 5 2011 // An appeals court has dealt a setback to three state doctors who are fighting a malpractice suit by arguing their patient sent a claim notice to the Minnesota Justice Department’s headquarters in Madison. The doctors...
Dec 5 2011 // In 2010, Wisconsin’s workers’ compensation system was the costliest for non-hospital services in a study of 25 study states. Prices in Wisconsin were more than twice that of the 25-state median, and nearly 50...
Nov 21 2011 // The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature has passed a bill that would reduce property owners’ liability for a trespasser’s injuries or death. The Assembly passed the measure 80-15 on Nov. 3. The state...
Nov 16 2011 // In 2010, Wisconsin’s workers’ compensation system was the costliest for non-hospital services in a study of 25 study states.Prices in Wisconsin for non-hospital services were more than twice that of the...
Nov 8 2011 // Partners Mutual Insurance Co. (Partners Mutual), headquartered in Waukesha, Wis., and Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Co., (Penn National Insurance), have entered into an affiliation agreement.Under the...