All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 19 2004 // Property/casualty guaranty funds were created by state statutes beginning in the late 1960s to protect the public against financial losses to policyholders and claimants as a result of property and casualty insurance...
Jul 6 2004 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) today applauded the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s unanimous decision affirming the constitutionality of non-economic damage caps in wrongful death medical malpractice...
Jun 21 2004 // The high point of Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin’s (IIAW) annual convention in May was a lengthy speech from Jorge Gomez, the state’s new insurance commissioner.A February 2003 appointee of...
Jun 21 2004 // West Bend is far from the only Wisconsin-based regional mutual insurer making a mark. The CEO of Appleton, Wis.-based SECURA Insurance Cos., John Bykowski, took some time recently to talk with IJ during the Independent...
Jun 21 2004 // Ron Harder, president and CEO of Neenah, Wis.-based Jewelers Mutual Insurance Co., announced a management restructuring, effective June 1. Harder explained that he has been evaluating the company’s management...
Jun 18 2004 // The CEO of Appleton, Wis.-based SECURA Insurance Cos., John Bykowski, took some time recently to talk with IJ during the Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin’s annual convention. SECURA has total assets of $406...
Jun 9 2004 // Governor Jim Doyle has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to conduct a preliminary damage assessment in cooperation with Wisconsin Emergency Management and local officials as a first step to determine if...
Apr 19 2004 // Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Jorge Gomez and other state insurance regulators will be the featured attractions at a May 13 meeting of the Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals’ Great Lakes chapter....
Mar 18 2004 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice Molasky-Arman has approved the request of Physicians Insurance Company of Wisconsin Inc. (PIC) for a 15 percent increase for medical malpractice insurance. In addition to the 15 percent...
Mar 11 2004 // Policymakers and others interested in comparing workers compensation systems among states have a new tool from the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute, based in Cambridge, Mass.CompScope is a new tool that...
Mar 8 2004 // The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2000 census estimated the Wisconsin’s population at 5,363,675. About 85 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 22 percent had earned a bachelor’s...
Jan 12 2004 // The workers’ compensation segment in Midwestern states is not immune to the broad trends in the line nationally — including poor combined ratios, escalating medical costs and severe underreserving — but no...
Dec 9 2003 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has presented its most prestigious individual award to Rosanne Mead, Assistant Iowa Insurance Commissioner, and Fred Nepple, General Counsel in the Wisconsin...
Dec 1 2003 // At first blush, the Strategic Independent Agents Alliance may look like just one more short-term solution to the increasing shift in the balance of power toward insurance carriers away from independent agents. Commissions...
Dec 1 2003 // At first blush, the Strategic Independent Agents Alliance may look like just one more short-term solution to the increasing shift in the balance of power toward insurance carriers away from independent agents. ommissions...
Oct 29 2003 // A Wisconsin Assembly bill that would prohibit insurers from using credit information in rating or underwriting auto or homeowners insurance would undermine the state’s stable insurance market and could increase...
Sep 29 2003 // The Wisconsin General Assembly continues to hold hearings on insurance-related bills on a variety of issues including mandatory private passenger automobile insurance coverage, liability for dog bites, and product...
Sep 22 2003 // As insurers are confronted with increased pressures from claims involving asbestos, mold, and directors and officers’ policies, little attention is paid to the decreasing number of traditional environmental claims.In...
Aug 28 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance, Gregory V. Serio, announced the arrests of Dorothy Johnson and Twila McKee, both of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on charges of insurance fraud and attempted theft by fraud for...
Jul 30 2003 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently issued a decision rejecting “crystal clarity” as the standard for assessing whether an insurance policy is ambiguous to policyholders.“The most recent ruling comes...