All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 18 2012 // Don Engler has joined Wisconsin-based wholesale insurance firm Scobie Group as vice president of Branch Operations in the Eau Claire, Wis., office, the company announced.During the past 20-plus years Engler has been in...
Jul 17 2012 // Jeff Kohlmann appointed as the insurance program manager of the Wisconsin Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund (Fund).Kohlmann has been with the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) since 1983. He...
Jul 11 2012 // A Milwaukee heating and air conditioning company’s insurance provider must defend the business against allegations it sent out an unsolicited “junk” fax in violation of federal law, a state appeals court...
Jun 25 2012 // Britton Gallagher, based in Cleveland, Ohio, has acquired Beckman Insurance Agency of Wisconsin. The acquisition is part of the firm’s strategic growth plan in the amusement industry, the company said. Mike Beckman...
Jun 22 2012 // A federal grand jury has indicted the president of a Wausau insurance company on 24 counts of fraud. According to an indictment, J.N. Manson Agency President Timothy Mathwich forged insurance premium finance notes for...
Jun 19 2012 // A defense contractor that’s one of northern Wisconsin’s largest employers is struggling to recruit recent high school graduates for some of the region’s best-paying jobs.Marinette Marine Corp. says it is...
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...