All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 20 2003 // Laws mandating that consumers buy auto insurance do not reduce the number of uninsured motorists, are virtually impossible to enforce and a bill to implement such a program in Wisconsin will not help the insurance market,...
May 14 2003 // The Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) has taken the following administrative actions. In many of these cases the respondent denied the allegations but consented to the action taken.OCI is responsible...
Apr 24 2003 // The Wisconsin Assembly is considering a bill that would prohibit insurers from using credit scoring information to issue or renew auto or property insurance policies. Assembly Bill 278, authored by Rep. Gregg Underheim...
Feb 3 2003 // U.S. Olympic speedskater Casey FitzRandolph has a gold medal for his 500-meter win in Salt Lake City last winter, and now he has a new corporate sponsor in Wisconsin’s Wausau Insurance. FitzRandolph, 28, is a native...
Jan 9 2003 // Wisconsin’s Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) announced the launch of a new Web page for small employers, designed “to help Wisconsinites with small businesses search for insurance.”“The...
Dec 18 2002 // Randy Blumer, Wisconsin’s Deputy Comissioner of Insurance, recently received the highest individual honor given by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the Robert Dineen Award, at its winter meeting...
Dec 4 2002 // Wisconsin’s Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) issued a warning that motorists are at increased risk from collisions with deer this winter. Concerns about Chronic Wasting Disease “may have reduced...
Sep 5 2002 // A tornado that ripped through the town of Ladysmith in Wisconsin’s Rusk County on Labor Day caused an estimated $20 million in damages. According to a report from the Associated Press local authorities estimated the...
Jul 3 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), in conjunction with insurers and OSHA, is hosting a series of workshops in Wisconsin focusing on workplace safety for small businesses.Safety at Work I: Risk...
Jul 1 2002 // The Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) announced the publication of yearly data concerning complaints against insurance companies, disciplinary actions taken against insurance companies and agents, and...
Apr 16 2002 // A new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) shows that the average medical payment paid to injured workers in Wisconsin under the state’s workers’ compensation system rose consistently in...
Apr 15 2002 // Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies It’s your misfortune, and none of my own.Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies, For you know Wyoming will be your new home. That trail song, used by historian Walter...
Apr 15 2002 // Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies It’s your misfortune, and none of my own.Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies, For you know Wyoming will be your new home. That trail song, used by historian Walter...
Apr 3 2002 // A study by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) found that Wisconsin has the lowest prices for homeowners insurance in the U.S.Wisconsin insurance commissioner Connie O’Connell expects these...
Mar 20 2002 // The Wisconsin State Assembly passed the Budget Reform Act early March 15, minus a proposed prohibition on insurers’ use of credit-based insurance scores.The passage of the budget bill, combined with the demise of a...
Jan 17 2002 // The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries has ordered a 43-year-old Wisconsin woman to repay the state $52,182 after an investigation showed she continued to collect workers’ compensation widow’s...
Dec 31 2001 // Parker Services L.L.C., Stevens Point, a member of the Sentry Insurance Group, and the Wisconsin Council of Safety, Madison, are offering OSHA and DOT-related safety seminars for businesses in January.“Confined Space...
Dec 10 2001 // Just months after Erie Insurance began writing insurance in Wisconsin, the property/casualty insurer announced its intention to expand operations even further into Minnesota by September 2004. This is the 12th state that...
Sep 5 2001 // Following four consecutive years of decreasing overall premium rates, Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Connie L. O’Connell announced the approval by her office of a 4-percent increase of the overall average...
Aug 8 2001 // The insurance industry wants Wisconsin Gov. Scott McCallum to veto a telemarketer “do-not-call” list that would be created by the state budget, according to a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.Bob Jartz,...