Latest Wisconsin Headlines
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Forklift Accident at Wisconsin Food Plant Leads to $177K in Proposed Penalties
Mar 29 2021 // Federal workplace safety officials have cited a food packaging company after a worker was seriously injured by a forklift; proposed penalties total $177,490. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...
Wisconsin Issues Wildfire Warning After 30-Plus Weekend Blazes
Mar 22 2021 // Wisconsin authorities are warning residents about weather conditions after more than 30 wildfires were reported throughout the state on March 20. Much of the state is under a burn ban due to forecasts of low relative...
Wisconsin’s Society Insurance to Enter Texas Hospitality Market
Mar 18 2021 // Wisconsin-based Society Insurance has plans to launch its insurance programs for the hospitality industry in Texas this year. In business for more than 100 years, Society Insurance offers property/casualty coverages,...
50 People Sue City in Wisconsin Over Protest Response
Mar 8 2021 // Fifty people are suing a Wisconsin city over the way it handled protests last fall after authorities announced that a police officer would face no charges for the fatal shooting of a Black teenager. Protesters demonstrated...
PFAS Manufacturers Sued by Wisconsin City Over Pollution
Mar 8 2021 // The city of La Crosse, Wisconsin, has filed a lawsuit against a host of chemical manufacturers that produced firefighting foam linked to groundwater contamination around the city’s airport. Tests have revealed at...
Wisconsin Gov. Proposes Legalized Marijuana — Recreational and Medical
Feb 11 2021 // Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has proposed legalizing marijuana and regulating and taxing it like the state does alcohol. Evers made the proposal in his 2021-23 biennial budget, which estimates that legal marijuana would...
Fire Damage to Wisconsin School Buses Estimated at $525K
Feb 3 2021 // Investigators believe a fire that burned six school buses at a Racine County, Wisconsin, depot was ignited by an electrical problem and was not suspicious in nature. The fire at the Thomas Bus Service lot in the Town of...
Homeowners Insurer, Openly, Expands Into Wisconsin
Feb 2 2021 // Openly, based in Boston, is now offering its homeowners insurance products and services in Wisconsin. More than 500 independent agents across the state can now access Openly’s technology that simplifies the...
Irwin Named Chief Strategy Officer at Wisconsin’s Understory
Feb 2 2021 // Understory, a Madison, Wisconsin-based provider of insurance products and services focused on climate change, has appointed Neil Irwin as chief strategy officer. Irwin will help drive the company’s strategic planning...
$4M Recovered for Wisconsin Insurance Consumers in 2020
Feb 1 2021 // The Consumer Affairs department at the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) recovered $3,987,247 for Wisconsinites through their complaint process last year, Insurance Commissioner Mark Afable says. In 2020, the...
Companies to Face Tougher Mining Regulations, Costs in Wisconsin
Jan 28 2021 // Companies looking to mine copper, gold and silver in Wisconsin will face dramatically higher costs and have to work around an extensive list of off-limit areas under new rules the state Department of Natural Resources...
40 La Crosse, Wisconsin, Wells Contaminated with PFAs, Tests Show
Jan 19 2021 // Dozens of La Crosse, Wis.-area wells are contaminated with forever chemicals known as PFAS, tests revealed. At least 40 wells that provide private drinking water on French Island are contaminated with PFAS levels above...
Wisconsin Suspends License of Pharmacist Accused of Spoiling Vaccine
Jan 15 2021 // A state board has suspended the license of a Wisconsin pharmacist accused of ruining more than 500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine because he thought it was unsafe. Steven Brandenburg was working at Advocate Aurora Health in...
Church Mutual in Wisconsin Promotes Carter, Tribble
Jan 14 2021 // Church Mutual Insurance Co., based in Merrill, Wis., has promoted Bruce Carter to assistant vice president – Diversity & Inclusion and John Tribble to vice president – Customer Relationship and Business...
Wisconsin Man Charged with 18th Drunk Driving Offense
Jan 13 2021 // A 73-year-old Green Bay, Wisconsin, man has been charged with his 18th drunken driving offense, after a crash on Jan. 8 that took out power lines and caused an outage. Wallace Bowers had 17 prior operating while...
Wisconsin’s SECURA Insurance Converts to Mutual Holding Company
Jan 8 2021 // Policyholders of Neena, Wisc.-based Secura Insurance, a mutual company, have voted to approve the company’s plan to restructure to a mutual holding company. The conversion to a mutual holding company, previously...
White Named Communications Director for Wisconsin Insurance Agents Group
Jan 6 2021 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Wisconsin (PIAW) has hired Natalie White as the association’s new communications director. White joins PIAW after several years of working in the Wisconsin Legislature. In...
Charles Taylor Acquires Wisconsin TPA, Insurance Management Firm Aegis
Jan 6 2021 // Charles Taylor, a technology products and services to the global insurance market, has acquired Aegis Corp. (Aegis), a Wisconsin-based provider of mutual management and third party claims administration. Aegis provides...
Drunk Driving Convictions, Related Offenses Down in Wisconsin
Dec 29 2020 // Yearly convictions for drunken driving and other related offenses dropped by nearly 18,000 in Wisconsin between 2004 and 2018, according to a report from the state Legislative Reference Bureau. Alcohol-related fatal...
Wisconsin Appeals Court Upholds $5.5M Award in Fatal Bike Crash
Dec 28 2020 // A Wisconsin appeals court has upheld a $5.5 million judgment against a driver who killed a 23-year-old bicyclist in Madison. Brian Hodgson was driving on the city’s west side in June 2015 when he crashed into Emilly...
