All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 13 2007 // State insurance regulators recently approved the merger of Cuna Mutual Insurance Co of Waverly, Iowa with Cuna Mutual Insurance Society of Madison, Wis.The merger is expected to be complete by Dec. 31. The company’s...
Sep 11 2007 // The State Auto Insurance Company’s top independent agencies will be honored at its annual Inner Circle Conference to be held Sept. 16-19 at The American Club in Kohler, Wis.Fifteen of the 114 agencies who qualified...
Sep 7 2007 // Appleton, Wis.-based SECURA Insurance recently named Jenny Haas as its new director-Research & Development. Previously, she served the company as commercial lines manager-Training and Product Development. In her new...
Sep 3 2007 // With $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets becomes the largest regional independent agency forceBoston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now the largest regional provider of property and...
Sep 3 2007 // With $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets now largest regional independent agency.Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now the largest regional provider of property and casualty insurance...
Sep 3 2007 // Ohio Casualty officially joins the Liberty Mutual agency familyWith $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets now largest regional independent agency Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now...
Aug 30 2007 // Dane County, Wis. has suffered more than $3 million in damage to public and private properties as a result of heavy rains and flooding, its top official said earlier this week.Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk said 798...
Aug 27 2007 // Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group finalized its acquisition of Ohio Casualty Corp. on Friday, Aug. 24, 2007 and immediately announced a realignment of its $5.9 billion net premium regional agency company organization to...
Aug 23 2007 // Waukesha, Wis.-based Markel American Insurance Co. today announced the completion of the custom board track racer style motorcycle built by Markel American Associates through its “Markel Builds Fun” project to...
Aug 15 2007 // Wisconsin’s commissioner of insurance has announced a 2.47 percent decrease in the overall worker’s compensation rate for the upcoming year, effective October 1.“A rate decrease for worker’s...
Aug 13 2007 // Falk Corp.’s parent company said the mining equipment maker will return by September to production levels it reached before the December blast that killed three workers.Milwaukee-based Rexnord Corp. made the comments...
Aug 8 2007 // With large health insurance companies lined up to fight it, Gov. Jim Doyle and Senate Democrats are pushing a requirement that health insurance include autism treatment.Seventeen other states already have such a law, but...
Aug 1 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that its ‘BBB-‘ counterparty credit rating on Ohio Casualty Corp. and its ‘A-‘ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on the...
Jul 31 2007 // A.M. Best Co. announced it has upgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to “A-” (Excellent) from “B++” (Good) and assigned an issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-” to Wisconsin Mutual...
Jul 24 2007 // As Milwaukee, Wis.-based Northwestern Mutual rings in its 150th year of business, the company’s Sesquicentennial is highlighted by its national Community Service Award program, which donates $265,000 to 25 non-profit...
Jul 20 2007 // SECURA Insurance recently announced that the company has been named to Ward’s 50 group of top performing property and casualty insurance companies for 2007, marking the fourth consecutive year SECURA has been...
Jul 13 2007 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court refused on Thursday to reopen a class-action lawsuit that accuses Harley-Davidson Inc. of failing to disclose a defect in two engine types sold in 1999 and 2000.In a 4-3 vote, the court upheld a...
Jul 11 2007 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) today urged Wisconsin legislators to reject two bills that would make it illegal for insurers to provide their customers valuable information after a car accident.“These bills...
Jun 13 2007 // A judge sentenced a homeless man to 15 years in prison this week for burning down the city’s historic Catholic church, saying the mentally ill man was a danger to the public.Dane County Judge Steven Ebert sentenced...
Jun 4 2007 // Agency Name 2006 Personal Personal Total 2006 Main Office Main Office Web siteLines Lines P/C Premiums City State Premium Revenue Written1 Keystone Insurers Group $316.0 million $39.5 million $790.0...