All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 30 2006 // West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. says it plans to more than double the size of its corporate headquarters here in a $57 million expansion and to add about 200 employees within two years.The company said that those hired will...
May 26 2006 // The Midwest Young Agents Conference, hosted by the Young Agents Committees of Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, will take place June 15-17 at the Kalahari Resort and Conference Center, in the Wisconsin Dells.Full...
May 17 2006 // Wisconsin-based Capitol Insurance Companies recently announced significant enhancements to its umbrella product. According to a release issued by the company, minimum premiums have been reduced up to 40 percent along with...
May 12 2006 // A.M. Best recently announced that it has upgraded United Wisconsin Insurance Company (dba) United Heartland’s rating to a secure A (excellent) rating. This upgrade comes as part of a pooled rating with Accident Fund...
May 2 2006 // In a recent Insurance Journal Website story, it was reported that Wisconsin residents have collected more than $2 million in reimbursements in a multistate settlement with State Farm Insurance Co. over vehicle...
May 1 2006 // Wisconsin residents have collected more than $2 million in reimbursements in a multistate settlement with State Farm Insurance Co. over vehicle titles, Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager announced late on Friday, April...
Apr 24 2006 // Thirty-five students and teachers from a Madison, Wis. school that had to be ripped open and reconstructed to get rid of mold have agreed on a $650,000 settlement from the builder, attorneys say.The plaintiffs reported...
Apr 13 2006 // Two Wisconsin legislators, one Democrat and the other Republican, have worked with two health policy officials to generate interest in creating a Wisconsin Health Plan. With Massachusetts basking in the national spotlight...
Apr 10 2006 // A Wisconsin state law that makes drug dealers liable when their products kill can give families of the deceased a measure of redemption. But others critics are beginning to argue that the law holds one person responsible...
Mar 27 2006 // Insurance companies will be required to cover cancer patients who take part in clinical trials under a bill signed into law by Gov. Jim Doyle on Friday.Doyle said insurance companies will no longer be able to force cancer...
Mar 27 2006 // Wisconsin’s legal climate for businesses has gone downhill faster than that of any other state after a series of court rulings expanded the liability of companies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says in a new...
Mar 10 2006 // The American Insurance Association and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies are praising the recent actions of the Wisconsin Legislature in their passage of major tort reform legislation. The Legislature...
Mar 10 2006 // Two La Crosse, Wis. area registered nurses were convicted recently of filing fraudulent Medicaid insurance claims.Janice Corbett, 65, of Ontario, Wis., pleaded guilty in Dane County Circuit Court to one count of...
Mar 7 2006 // A controversial settlement between Milwaukee’s Miller Park stadium district and a construction contractor has left excessive and unjustified legal bills, according to insurance companies left on the hook for those...
Mar 6 2006 // The American Tort Reform Association recently urged Wisconsin legislators and the governor to restore limits on noneconomic damages for medical liability lawsuits in light of the Milwaukee Bar Association’s promotion...
Mar 3 2006 // The latest legislative attempt to correct last year’s Wisconsin Supreme Court rule invalidating non-economic damage caps and making other impacts on the state’s medical malpractice law, (AB 1071, 1072, 1073,...
Mar 1 2006 // An unlikely grouping of business and trade groups were the largest PAC contributers to state and federal legislators.Two insurance companies and a funeral directors trade group led Wisconsin businesses in political action...
Feb 23 2006 // Wisconsin lawmakers are taking tort reform to a new level with a proposal that would prevent people from suing restaurants and food distributors for making them fat.A proposal in the Wisconsin state Senate is designed to...
Feb 22 2006 // Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager reported that Creative Stepping Stones Inc., a Milwaukee County business that operated a community based residential facility called The Summit Place, 6526 West Bluemound Road,...
Feb 22 2006 // The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) recently urged Wisconsin legislators and the governor to restore limits on noneconomic damages for medical liability lawsuits in light of the Milwaukee Bar Association’s...