All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 19 2005 // A Wisconsin Senate Committee has killed the “all sums” bill, a measure vehemently opposed by the insurance industry.A.B. 222 (Senate Bill 137), was defeated in the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Insurance...
Sep 9 2005 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a discrimination lawsuit against a central Wisconsin insurance company, claiming it fired an employee because she was pregnant.But Mount Morris Mutual Insurance...
Sep 6 2005 // The first health insurance cooperative in the state of Wisconsin is set to be introduced this month to help small businesses, nonprofits and individuals negotiate affordable insurance plans.Its mission is to organize the...
Sep 6 2005 // A Wisconsin Senate Committee late Friday killed the anti-business “all sums” bill, a measure vehemently opposed by the insurance industry. “The Senate is to be commended for taking a sound, principled...
Sep 6 2005 // American Physicians Capital Inc., a Michigan provider of malpractice insurance, has withdrawn its hostile bid to buy 24 percent of Physicians Insurance Co. of Wisconsin Inc. and opted to purchase a lesser share of the...
Sep 5 2005 // Insurance companies are totaling up the damage from more than two dozen tornadoes that struck south-central Wisconsin in mid-August. Statewide, the storms resulted in one death, 30 injuries, 20-25 destroyed homes, and 200...
Sep 5 2005 // Insurance companies are totaling up the damage from more than two dozen tornadoes that struck south-central Wisconsin in mid-August. Statewide, the storms resulted in one death, 30 injuries, 20-25 destroyed homes, and 200...
Sep 5 2005 // In the second of a series of articles, Insurance Journal profiles five universities that offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in insurance. More universities will be profiled in future editions of Insurance...
Aug 31 2005 // American Family Insurance of Madison has paid out $11 million in damage claims so far as a result of the Aug. 18 tornadoes that hit central Wisconsin.The insurer provided an update Wednesday on damage claims stemming from...
Aug 30 2005 // Average premiums for health care plans rose 7.2 percent in southeastern Wisconsin compared with a 9.6 percent increase nationally, according to a survey released by United Benefit Advisors, an employee benefits advisory...
Aug 22 2005 // ILLINOISCCC Settles Class Action Suit: Chicago-based claims software-maker CCCInformation Services Inc. and 15 of its customers signed a settlement agreement with the plaintiffs in various class-action suits pending in...
Aug 16 2005 // Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle yesterday signed a bill designed to allow farmers and others who lack health insurance to join a cooperative that will negotiate health insurance plans on their behalf.A.B. 5 expands access to...
Jul 15 2005 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down a law capping noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases at $350,000. The court voted 4-3, saying the cap was “unreasonable and arbitrary” and no...
Jul 14 2005 // The U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Wisconsin state agencies have launched an alliance aimed at preventing workplace hazards statewide, according to a statement from the...
Jul 4 2005 // If our product must be purchased, it should be affordable or bad things can happen in the public affairs arena. We’re finding that to be the case in Minnesota.Minnesota is one of the few remaining states that has...
Jul 4 2005 // If our product must be purchased, it should be affordable or bad things can happen in the public affairs arena. We’re finding that to be the case in Minnesota.Minnesota is one of the few remaining states that has...
Jun 29 2005 // A coalition of carriers that insured Wisconsin’s paper manufacturers thought they had successfully defeated a legislative effort to force them to pick up the estimated $500 million tab to clean up the polluted Fox...
Jun 24 2005 // Sheboygan, Wis.-based ACUITY welcomes Dan Gluch as its newest sales territory manager. Gluch will handle the insurer’s northwestern Wisconsin territory. A native of Loyal, Wis., Gluch began his insurance career as a...
Jun 20 2005 // A coalition of carriers that insured Wisconsin’s paper manufacturers have, for now, successfully defeated a legislative effort that would have forced them to pick up the estimated $500 million tab to clean up the...
Apr 29 2005 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Chris Schroeder Insurance Inc. of Milwaukee. Founded in 1888, Chris Schroeder Insurance Inc. is a property/casualty retail insurance broker offering risk...