All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 17 2009 // Michigan’s insurance regulator has ordered a Wisconsin-based managing general insurance agency, Vanguard Insurance Placement Inc., to immediately stop doing business in Michigan.According to the Michigan Office of...
Mar 11 2009 // State emergency officials want homeowners to get flood insurance.Flooding in August 2007 caused $112.4 million in damage to property and crops. Another round of floods in June 2008 caused more than $765 million. Wisconsin...
Mar 9 2009 // A proposal in Wisconsin Gov Jim Doyle’s budget to increase mandatory auto insurance limits would drive up costs for many drivers as much as 40 percent, according to the insurance industry.The governor would raise the...
Mar 9 2009 // GAO compared the number of NFIP policies in a given area, as of September 2006, with the total number of county flood declarations from January 1980 to June 2008, cumulative flood claims payments from January 1978 to April...
Mar 6 2009 // Dodge County’s sheriff is cautioning Wisconsin property owners with financial trouble not to resort to arson to solve their problems. Sheriff Todd Nehls says he’s noticed a disturbing trend. Cars, houses or...
Feb 27 2009 // Duped home buyers could sue the sellers for fraud under a bill approved by the Wisconsin Senate.The bill would reverse a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision last year that barred civil fraud lawsuits stemming from residential...
Feb 27 2009 // A northern Wisconsin excavating company purposely risked workers to potential trench cave-ins and was cited for safety violations that carry nearly $700,000 in fines, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Feb 22 2009 // Even in a good economy, mutual insurers face challenges trying to raise the capital they need to grow since they don’t have any stock to sell. But one insurer has figured out a way to overcome this...
Feb 20 2009 // A proposal in Wisconsin Gov Jim Doyle’s budget would increase mandatory auto insurance limits and drive up costs for many drivers as much as 40 percent, according to the insurance industry.The governor would raise...
Feb 11 2009 // Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Sean Dilweg announced improvements to the state’s complaint and agent licensing processes intended to simplify access to agency services for consumers and insurance...
Feb 8 2009 // Even in a good economy, mutual insurers face challenges trying to raise the capital they need to grow since they don’t have any stock to sell. But one insurer has figured out a way to overcome this...
Feb 8 2009 // There are a number of communities across the country where more flood insurance policies should be sold given their populations and flood risk. They include dozens of counties that have had multiple flood disasters but are...
Jan 30 2009 // An insurance company might have to pay big money to people claiming asbestos-related injuries under a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling. The court ruled in a dispute between Plastics Engineering Co. and its insurer, Liberty...
Jan 28 2009 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the insurance company in a closely-watched case involving a farmer’s business auto policy and whether its underinsured motorists endorsement applies to a family...
Jan 28 2009 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court says a former high school cheerleader cannot sue a teammate who dropped her while practicing a stunt in a case closely watched in the cheerleading world.Brittany Noffke was a cheerleader at...
Jan 26 2009 // A jury verdict that nine insurance companies are liable for costs of cleaning up PCB pollution of the lower Fox River in Wisconsin has been upheld by a Brown County judge.The jury had found that the insurance firms were...
Jan 16 2009 // Consumer representatives to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) presented Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Sean Dilweg with their Excellence in Consumer Advocacy Award at recently.The NAIC Consumer...
Dec 22 2008 // Gov. Jim Doyle and the Legislature legally used $200 million from Wisconsin’s medical malpractice fund to help balance the state budget, a judge has ruled.The decision, if it stands, spares the state from immediately...
Dec 3 2008 // Martha Lester-Mittenzwei recently joined the Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin (IIAW) as its new director of Education and Membership.Mittenzwei began her insurance career in the agency ranks, working her way from...
Nov 19 2008 // Wisconsin lawmakers would submit secret lists of emergency successors under a bill a state disaster committee adopted Wednesday.The Legislative Council Special Committee on Emergency Management and Continuity of Government...