All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 18 2023 // A Wisconsin company that supplies malt barley to major craft breweries, home breweries, and other spirit and food production in the Midwest has again been found exposing employees to dangerous workplace hazards by federal...
Jan 11 2023 // The Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) announced appointments to the agency leadership and senior management team.Governor Tony Evers has reappointed Nathan Houdek as commissioner of insurance....
Jan 9 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Republican lawmakers who control the Wisconsin Legislature are moving closer to supporting the legalization of medical marijuana, after years of fighting efforts to loosen the state’s laws, the...
Jan 9 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The state Department of Natural Resource is helping local government workers clean up after a fire flooded a dairy plant with butter.The fire broke out in a butter storage room at the Associated Milk...
Jan 6 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Federal regulators have determined that a lack of safeguards during a maintenance shutdown led to a 2018 explosion at an oil refinery in Superior.The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released a final...
Dec 13 2022 // Federal safety inspectors have determined that a falling load from a below-the-hook magnet crushed the leg of an employee at a Kewaunee heavy fabrication manufacturing company on June 7, 2022.In response to a...
Dec 8 2022 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) of Badger Mutual Insurance...
Nov 16 2022 // PCF Insurance Services has acquired Milwaukee-based Milz Health Group, a full-service health insurance agency providing coverage to Wisconsin Medicare-eligible individuals and coverage through the Affordable Care Act.Milz...
Oct 24 2022 // HARTLAND, Wis. (AP) – Seven people died in an apartment fire early Friday, Oct. 21 in the southern Wisconsin village of Hartland, the police chief said. “This is an active criminal investigation by the Hartland...
Oct 19 2022 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The father of a 5-year-old girl who died in a car crash involving Democratic Senate Minority Leader Janet Bewley has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the lawmaker.The lawsuit was filed Friday...
Oct 19 2022 // TOWN OF MAPLE GROVE, Wis. (AP) — Authorities investigating a bonfire explosion over the weekend in eastern Wisconsin said Monday that as many as 40 people might have been injured in the blaze, including some who were...
Oct 3 2022 // A 20-year-old Madison man should be awarded $1.1 million in a settlement agreement after surveillance video showed police repeatedly punching him in the head during a mental health crisis at a foster home in 2019, his...
Aug 16 2022 // The widow if a man who died at a Wisconsin veterans nursing home is suing the state as well as some of the facility’s employees who she said failed to properly care for her husband.Luane Krall, in her lawsuit, said...
Aug 9 2022 // Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Nathan Houdek announced last week that the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) has partnered with their exam vendor to offer insurance agent licensing exams in Spanish and...
Aug 1 2022 // Despite the potentially deadly consequences of its actions, an Appleton, Wisconsin contractor allowed three roofers to work at heights up to 18 feet without anchoring their fall protection, making it useless in preventing...
Jul 26 2022 // Wisconsin companies will pay 8.47% less in worker’s compensation insurance rates starting Oct. 1, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development reported.The lower rates reportedly reflect continued worker safety...
Jul 21 2022 // Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force nearly 20 companies that he alleges contaminated the environment with chemicals known as PFAS to reimburse the state for investigations and...
Jul 7 2022 // Hub International Limited acquired the assets of Compass Insurance Services, Inc. (Compass Insurance Services). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Kronenwetter, Wisconsin with seven additional...
Jun 20 2022 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited two more Dollar General stores for endangering the safety of their employees, continuing the company’s long history of...
Jun 17 2022 // Powerful storms that included at least one tornado took down power lines and trees, damaged structures, toppled semis on the interstate and left tens of thousands without electricity in parts of Wisconsin.In western...