All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 30 2022 // Relation Insurance Services, Inc. announced it acquired the assets of Wisconsin-based Woller-Anger & Company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Woller-Anger & Company is a full-service retail insurance...
Mar 15 2022 // Wisconsin Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit March 14 against Johnson Controls and Tyco Fire Products over PFAS pollution in northeastern Wisconsin.The lawsuit, filed in Marinette County Circuit Court,...
Mar 14 2022 // Despite the serious consequences of its actions, an Appleton, Wisconsin-based contractor was again cited for exposing workers to deadly fall hazards after a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health...
Mar 2 2022 // Pensec, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation which operates nine McDonald’s fast food restaurants, will pay $31,137 and furnish other relief to resolve a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Feb 24 2022 // The Wisconsin Assembly passed a Republican-authored bill that would limit gun and ammunition manufacturers’ legal liability, a move that could protect them from big payouts following a mass shooting.Under the bill,...
Feb 22 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Old Republic Surety.Do you want to build a book of surety business at your agency, but you’re not sure how to get started? Have you been selling surety bonds, but want to...
Feb 18 2022 // Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Nathan Houdek announced this week that the Consumer Affairs section, in conjunction with the legal liaisons and the legal department, at the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI)...
Feb 17 2022 // An auto insurer is not required to pay underinsured motorist benefits to the son of man who was killed in an auto crash because the father was not insured by its policy, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in an...
Jan 31 2022 // Verona Area School District, which serves Verona and parts of Fitchburg and Madison, Wisconsin, violated federal law when it paid female special education teachers and a school psychologist lower wages than male employees...
Jan 20 2022 // An advocacy group working to end clergy abuse in Wisconsin has delivered thousands of documents from Wisconsin’s five Catholic dioceses to the state attorney general, documents it says show a systemic coverup of...
Jan 20 2022 // Three people have died as a result of a fire at a senior apartment building in southeastern Wisconsin that also injured several others, officials said.Kenosha Fire Chief Christopher Bigley said in a statement Tuesday the...
Dec 28 2021 // The National Weather Service has confirmed a rare December wind storm spawned eight tornadoes across west-central Wisconsin..The Dec. 15 storm swept across multiple states. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the...
Dec 13 2021 // Residents of a Waukesha condominium that could collapse are rushing to move their belongings out.Police and firefighters cleared the six-story, 48-unit Horizon West Condominiums on Dec. 2 after an engineering report found...
Dec 7 2021 // A six-story condominium building that was the subject of resident complaints dating back to June 2020 has been evacuated in a Milwaukee suburb after engineers found the structure was in imminent danger of collapsing.Police...
Nov 29 2021 // Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Mark Afable is stepping down next month, Gov. Tony Evers said. Evers appointed Afable to the post in December 2018. Afable had previously worked for American Family Insurance and served as...
Nov 22 2021 // A recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute found that medical payments per claim with more than seven days of lost time in Wisconsin were among the highest of 18 states studied and changed little from...
Nov 10 2021 // Recent federal safety inspections of a northern Wisconsin foundry determined workplace safety failures caused two workers to suffer severe injuries. The business faces a proposed $200,895 in penalties.In May, a worker at...
Oct 21 2021 // The Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) has charged former insurance agent Richard Freeland with a number of violations of insurance law related to the sale of an unsuitable life insurance policy and...
Oct 19 2021 // Brown & Brown, Inc. has acquired all of the stock of Remedy Analytics. Founded in 2011 by current chief executive officer, Scott L. Martin, Remedy Analytics uses its proprietary PharmaLogic® data-based medication...
Oct 13 2021 // The city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has shut down almost half its wells due to PFAS contamination.Wisconsin Public Radio reported that the city announced in July that it had shut down four of its 16 wells after tests found...