All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 18 2011 // The Wisconsin Legislature passed a bill that will reduce the mandatory minimum auto insurance liability limits in that state.The American Insurance Association (AIA) commended the Wisconsin State Senate for passing...
Apr 14 2011 // Gov. Scott Walker has signed into law a bill designed to lower car insurance rates by undoing higher coverage requirements approved by Democrats less than two years ago.Republicans successfully used the car insurance issue...
Apr 13 2011 // The sounds of chain saws filled the air on April 11 in several central Wisconsin towns as people cleared downed trees and other debris from streets and damaged homes after thunderstorms and at least four tornados hit the...
Apr 6 2011 // Insurers are praising the passage in Wisconsin of a bill that would reduce the mandatory minimum auto insurance liability limits in that state.The American Insurance Association (AIA) commended the Wisconsin State Senate...
Mar 30 2011 // Christian Rebello has joined Iroquois Group Great Lakes as the regional manager for Illinois and Wisconsin. Rebello comes to the Iroquois Group from a top 20 independent agency in the Chicago area where he was an...
Mar 22 2011 // A Milwaukee-area meatpacking plant that was hit hard by a 2009 fire is donating $50,000 to local firefighters for their “heroic efforts” in fighting the blaze.The donation is from the Patrick Cudahy plant and...
Mar 18 2011 // Patrick Cudahy’s parent company has reached a $208 million settlement with its insurance carriers over a fire that destroyed part of its meatpacking plant in a Milwaukee, Wis., suburb.An earnings report filed by...
Mar 15 2011 // Westfield Insurance, headquartered in Ohio, announced it has expanded its commercial operations into the state of Wisconsin, with commercial accounts to be serviced out of a new service office in Milwaukee.The...
Mar 9 2011 // The Bruce Gendelman Insurance Co. (BGI), an insurance advisory firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., has promoted Angela Engebretson to chief operating officer (COO) and Isabel Collazo to vice president of Commercial...
Mar 7 2011 // States as far flung as Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Wisconsin are considering, or have enacted, tort reform measures aimed at reducing the number of meritless lawsuits filed and lowering the cost of malpractice insurance....
Mar 7 2011 // States as far flung as Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Wisconsin are considering, or have enacted, tort reform measures aimed at reducing the number of meritless lawsuits filed and lowering the cost of malpractice insurance....
Feb 24 2011 // Capitol Insurance Cos. of Middleton, Wis., announced that Kevin A. Klestinski has been named vice president of Property & Casualty Underwriting, Richard F. Boettner has been promoted to director of Underwriting –...
Feb 21 2011 // The Wisconsin state Senate passed legislation that would lower minimum levels of auto insurance. Car insurance would still be required under the bill passed on a bipartisan 25-7 vote, but the levels of coverage required...
Feb 21 2011 // The Wisconsin state Senate passed legislation that would lower minimum levels of auto insurance. Car insurance would still be required under the bill passed on a bipartisan 25-7 vote, but the levels of coverage required...
Feb 14 2011 // When Dane County, Wis., highway worker James Porter was struck and killed on the job in June 2009, Joel Porter, his son, lost his best friend. Porter’s daughter, Jessica Johnson, lost a grandfather to her two little...
Feb 10 2011 // Hot Items“Thieves can steal these converters in less than a minute. …They also do a lot of damage to the car when they do steal it. Taking a few precautionary measures may deter thieves from attempting to steal...
Feb 10 2011 // The Wisconsin state Senate has passed legislation that would lower minimum levels of car insurance and make it more difficult to approve of sales and income tax increases.Car insurance would still be required under the...
Feb 8 2011 // Minimum levels of car insurance that were increased two years ago would drop back down again under a bill up for a vote in the state Senate.Trial lawyers fought for the changes approved by the Democratic-controlled...
Feb 7 2011 // A Republican-controlled Assembly committee approved a bill that would repeal minimum automobile coverage levels, sending the bill to the full chamber for a vote. The GOP-authored proposal would wipe out minimum coverage...
Feb 7 2011 // Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that will dramatically rewrite Wisconsin’s civil litigation rules. The bill makes it harder to sue businesses by setting new standards for expert testimony and burdens of...